ETSI AI and Data Conference 2026

The agenda of the ETSI AI and Data Conference 2026 will be available shortly mid December. 

• Markus Mueck, Programme Committee Chair, ETSI OCG-AI Chair, ETSI Board Chair, Intel Deutschland GmbH
• Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI Chair (Securing Artificial Intelligence), Cadzow Communications
• Ray Forbes, ETSI OCG-AI and ETSI TC DATA Vice Chair, ETSI ISG ENI Chair (Experiential Networked Intelligence), Forbes Ltd
• Simon Hicks, ETSI Board Member, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology UK (DSIT)
• Diego Lopez, ETSI TC DATA Chair,Telefónica
• Antoine Mouquet ETSI TC DATA Technical Officer, ETSI
• François Ortolan, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, ETSI Board Member, NEC Europe Ltd
• Tony Rutkowski, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, CIS
• Helene Schmidt, ETSI OCG-AI Support Coordinator, ETSI

The list of selected demos and posters available during the event will be available mid December.

Attendees will have the opportunity to visit demos and posters during the conference coffee and lunch breaks.

The topics of the call for posters and demos included:

• Latest technological advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data applied to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and digital systems.
• Disruptive technology trends and future applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data.
• Industrial usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data components in ICT systems including but not limited to wireless communications.
• Advances on Cybersecurity for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data and related current / future activities in ETSI.
• Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data for improved sustainability and ensuring Artificial Intelligence (AI) is sustainable.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data in the context of societal challenges.
• Regulation activities related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data (e.g., related to EU AI Act, Data Act, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Data in the machinery regulation, etc.).
• Approaches for test, validation and conformity assessment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data management requirements.
• Initiatives to support Standardisation activities related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data.
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data test beds and trials

Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC Securing AI Chair (TC SAI), Cadzow Communications Consulting - Member of the Programme Committee
Having been awarded an ETSI Fellowship in 2023 Scott Cadzow has used that as a springboard for further involvement in developing and promoting standards. Across a number of fields, often underpinned by the keyword of security, Scott has attempted across his career to make standards clear, concise and simple to understand and apply. In many cases this has been to deconstruct difficult problems to remove the difficulty and to address the key issues that make the standard and its products work. 

Jan Ellsberger, Director-General, ETSI
Jan Ellsberger is a globally recognised leader in the ICT industry with more than 30 years of experience with research and innovation, industry ecosystem development, standardisation, policy development & regulation, and strategy development in the telecommunications and automotive industries. From 2000-2012 he was leading Ericsson’s global standardisation operations. He has also served in leading positions in several industry associations such as 3GPP, 5GAA, ERTICO and the Horizon Europe CCAM Association.

Ray Forbes, ETSI TC DATA and OCG-AI (ETSI AI Coordination Group) Vice-Chair - Member of the Programme Committee
Educated at Loughborough University of Technology between 1977 and 1984, he joined Plessey Telecommunications where he worked on Software Engineering and Analysis. Since 1990 he has worked on network development in the area of Intelligent Networks and Standardisation. Working for many manufacturers. Currently, Ray is vice chair of ETSI TC Data and OCG-AI. He is also working for Huawei Technologies and leads and chairs the ETSI ISG ENI (Experiential Networked intelligence) and ETSI ISG PDL (Permissioned Distributed Ledger) as Acting Chairman.

Antoine Mouquet, ETSI Technical Officer of ETSI TC DATA - Member of the Programme Committee
Antoine Mouquet has been a Technical Officer in ETSI since 2018. He currently supports the ETSI Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA) and previously supported the ETSI Technical Committee on Securing AI (TC SAI) and the ETSI Operational Coordination Group on AI (OCG AI). Antoine holds a Master's Degree in Electronics Engineering with a specialisation in Telecommunications and Networks.

Markus Mueck, ETSI Board and ETSI OCG-AI Chair - Member of the Programme Committee
Dr. Markus Mueck received the Dipl.-Ing. and ing. dipl. degrees from the University of Stuttgart, Germany and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, France respectively in 1999. In 2006, he received the Doctorate degree of ENST in Communications. Dr. Mueck is a Principal Engineer with Intel Deutschland, Munich, Germany and an Engineering Director; he acts as Chair of the ETSI Board, he is Chair of ETSI OCG AI coordinating the overall effort of the organization on AI and Adj. Professor of University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. Dr. Mueck was leading the effort on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning of the European funded research Flagship Project Hexa-X preparing the design of 6th Generation Mobile Networks (6G).

Francois Ortolan, ETSI OCG AI Vice-chair, ETSI Board Member, NEC Labs Europe - Member of the Programme Committee
Francois Ortolan is a Senior Standardisation Engineer at NEC Labs Europe. He has over 15 years’ experience working with advanced mobile telecommunication and its industrial applications. He is a specialist in the interplay between AI and Telecommunication. He is currently Vice-chair of the ETSI AI coordination group (OCG AI) and an ETSI Board member.

Tony Rutkowski, OCG-AI vice chair, CIS - Member of the Programme Committee
Tony Rutkowski is an engineer-lawyer with an extremely diverse, sixty-year professional career spanning the telecommunication, mobile, internet, satellite, and broadcasting fields in the U.S. and Europe where he has shaped major technical and legal developments in senior governmental, company, and academic leadership positions at international, national, and local levels. Over the past two decades, his roles have been focused on significant international and global network security initiatives relating to cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, extraterritorial security law, A.I, and lawful interception for new networks and services. He is the rapporteur for the AI Global Ecosystem compendium and AI Common Incident Expression Framework in the ETSI AI Security Technical Committee.

Helene Schmidt, ETSI Board and OCG-AI Support - Member of the Programme Committee
Helene Schmidt graduated from Aalborg University in Denmark in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts in English and French with the specialization: Languages and Marketing. She joined the ETSI Secretariat in 1997 and has held several positions within OPS (Operations). Today Helene’s principle duty is support to the ETSI Board, the Operational Co-ordination Group (OCG) and its subgroups overviewing the ETSI activities on Artificial Intelligence (OCG AI) and Autonomous Networks (OCG AN). She provides support to TC ATTM and its working groups dealing with Access, Terminals, Transmission and Multiplexing. Helene is also very active in the OPS quality team in producing quality procedures and processes.

Event Venue:

ETSI
650 Route des Lucioles
06560 Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE

Tel.: +33 4 92 94 42 00 (Reception)

Information on how to get to ETSI, travel, visa, local accommodation and transports is available at www.etsi.org/about/find-us