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Event type: Conferences & Summits

Event Technology: Quality of Service

The ETSI STQ Conference: Communications for All - Supporting Diversity and Accessibility through Quality of End-to-end Network Transmission and Devices in Human-to-human and Human-to-machine Communication, took place in ETSI Premises, Sophia Antipolis, France on 13-14 May 2025. 

This face-to-face conference aimed at bringing together communities that have not been well-connected to standards development in speech and multimedia transmission until now. ETSI TC STQ recognizes the need to bring more inclusivity to technical standards on the quality of network transmission and devices on speech and multimedia in human-to-human and human-to-machine communication, to ensure that diverse groups have input into the work of STQ.  

Standardization of measurement and evaluation methods for speech and multimedia devices and networks is crucial to ensure that all users receive high quality of service and high quality of experience.  Previous work in ETSI TC STQ has focused on human perception of speech and audio, as well as network-enabled services.  However, with some exceptions, various aspects of accessibility still need to be addressed. 

In order to bridge this gap, this conference provided a venue for interested advocates and communities to present and discuss issues of relevance, that so far have not been at the centre of technical standards development. The Programme Committee encouraged a wide range of inputs and views to help inform and guide future work on diversity and accessibility.

The event was addressed to:

Event type: ETSI @ External Events

Event Technology: Artificial Intelligence

ETSI is pleased to actively support this year again FutureNet World 2025. FutureNet World 2025 is the premier event bringing the global telecoms industry together to explore and address the strategic and commercial priorities shaping today’s digital landscape. Taking place on 7-8 May 2025 at Novotel West, London, this event is the ultimate platform for decision-makers, thought leaders, and innovators to discuss the future of network transformation.

At the heart of FutureNet World is the focus on Network Automation and AI, two foundational pillars driving the next wave of telecom growth. With the explosion of cloud services and IoT, service providers face unprecedented data challenges, requiring networks to handle immense complexity and scale. AI and automation have emerged as critical enablers to ensure intelligent network operations, self-healing capabilities, and real-time decision-making, while reducing delays and errors.  

The agenda is designed to tackle the industry's most pressing questions, including:

Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director General, will give a keynote presentation on 8 May at 16h00 BST (UK time):  AI & Standardization: bridging innovation and trust through standards:

Through its market-leading events, webinars, and insights, FutureNet World is setting the agenda for a more agile, efficient, and intelligent telecoms future. Join us to shape the conversation, share your vision, and network with industry leaders as we redefine the role of technology in transforming global connectivity.

Check out the online agenda. Detailed event information including registration is available on the event web site.

Registration: ETSI Members benefit from a 25% discount when registering by using the code FNWSP25. To benefit from this, register here.

Event type: ETSI @ External Events

Following directly from an ETSI’s 6G Monday, 6G FORGE will bring together advocates and doubters from across the industry to make sure we can address two critical issues:

We’ve all heard the hype, and some of us are already in Gartner’s “trough of disillusionment”. It’s high time for real talk. Join experts from industry, government, R&D and end-users to determine the true value of 6G for stakeholders and how best to achieve it.

6G FORGE will be hosted by Eurecom on 15-16 April 2025, in Sophia Antipolis, France, only a mile or so away from ETSI’s HQ.

Find out more about 6G FORGE and register at www.telcoforge.com/6g-forge/ 

Event type: Conferences & Summits

Event Technology: 5G

ETSI is pleased to announce our exceptional one-day event, ETSI 6G Monday, taking place face-to-face in ETSI Headquarters on April 14, 2025. 

Join us for an intensive technology deep-dive and explore the key aspects of 6G technologies and the related standards. ETSI 6G Monday will showcase the latest advancements in technology research whilst highlighting ongoing (pre)-standards activities in ETSI and early developments and plans in 3GPP for the upcoming Release-20.  With a focus on the European 6G landscape, the programme will examine the status of key EC-funded projects that are successfully contributing to ETSI initiatives on standards and open source. 

The ETSI 6G Monday will be the perfect entry point for reviewing the European 6G landscape, research initiatives, and the standardization status before joining experts from the wider ecosystem for open debates on the future of 6G and its impact in the 6G FORGE event. 

ETSI 6G Monday precedes the 6G FORGE Event that will take place the following days (15 - 16 April 2025), nearby in Sophia Antipolis, hosted by Eurecom. 
6G FORGE will bring together advocates and sceptics to critically assess 6G’s real value, aligning its development with industry needs and growth opportunities beyond cost reduction.  

The event is of particular interest for:  

Event type: Conferences & Summits

Please note that the presentations and discussions during this conference were exceptionally conducted in French.

ETSI and the French Non-Governmental Organization eG4U (e-Green for users) organized the Sustainable Digital Multiservice Communities (SDMC) Conference on 10th April 2025 in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France. The day-long event focused on the challenges faced by communities and territories around the sustainable development of communication infrastructures, including roads, green spaces, energy supply, construction & renovation of buildings.

The event was part of the eG4U Conference series, dedicated to strengthening at European level the environmental, economic and societal sustainability of ICT, across towns and cities in France (Montrouge/Grand Paris, Labège/Toulouse).

In times of climate emergency, communication infrastructure technologies must be optimized in terms of sustainable development. The key technologies in question include IoT, AI & open data, Building information modeling (BIM) and digital twins. Much of this work is already addressed in ETSI.

Discussion were encouraged on how Smart city buildings & infrastructure are to communicate, to provide the vital data needed for automated resource optimization. Speakers also addressed how security, energy & waste management are becoming more efficient thanks to digital technologies.

Now is the time for the exchange of ideas on the pooling of resources, the convergence of applications through open connectivity, the reconditioning and reuse of materials to deliver a greener future. This discussion had to influence and guide ETSI to focus on providing even greater interoperability of equipment, through standardized interfaces and communication protocols.

The SDMC Conference provided a platform for the exchange of ideas on dealing with energy, lighting, water quality, intelligent buildings, video and wireless transmission systems, waste treatment and recycling… in a greener & connected way.

Main themes of the Conference:

Who could attend the event?

Event schedule

Event type: Interoperability Events

Event Technology: Safety

ETSI, with the support of the PowerEOC Alliance and the ETSI TC ATTM, organized the Video Surveillance Plugtests™ event, which was hosted at ETSI in Sophia Antipolis, France, from 07 to 09 April 2025. 

Event type: Webinars

3 April 15:00 CET (Paris Time) - on ETSI BRIGHTTALK CHANNEL

View all past and upcoming ETSI webinars on our webinar page.

Event type: Conferences & Summits

The event is at full capacity and registration is closed. If you'd like to join the waiting list, please email events@etsi.org

UCAAT 2025 will be hosted by CERTH, the Center for Research & Technology - Hellas, in Thessaloniki, Greece, on 1-3 April 2025.

Overview

The annual ETSI User Conference on Advanced Automated Testing (UCAAT) is the most important point in the calendar of ETSI’s Technical Committee Methods for Testing and Specification (TC MTS).

ETSI's UCAAT conference, now in its eleventh edition, is dedicated to all aspects of automated testing, including model-based testing, cloud and mobile testing, security testing, agile test methodologies, test management, and standardized test specification, by focusing on the practical challenges that are often faced in industry and standardization as dictated by relevant policies and regulations.

UCAAT 2025: Automated Testing in a Digital Transformation World

As the world goes digital, rapidly evolving technology, policy, and regulation landscapes drive transformation across all industries. To stay competitive, facilitate swift market delivery, and meet escalating customer demands, organizations should prioritize customer-centric digital transformation while leveraging technologies such as AI, Big Data, IoT, and robotic operations and ensuring compliance with relevant policies and regulations.

The need for seamless, robust, and user-centered digital solutions highlights the critical role of automated testing in shaping future digital business operations or public services and improving customer and citizen satisfaction respectively. It is essential to ensure that systems operate reliably and are sufficiently scalable, secure and easily configurable to meet specific user requirements, which places additional demands on suitable testing methods, tools, and processes. Usability testing is essential in this context, as it ensures that the product is intuitive to use, ultimately leading to higher user satisfaction and reduced maintenance costs.

Additionally, ensuring cybersecurity becomes critical, considering the digital nature of services and products offered through digital transformation and the ever-increasing number of users relying on these services. Customers demand trustworthy and resilient systems, whose properties can only be guaranteed through vigorous security testing, quality assurance, and cyber resilience assessment that align well with policies and regulations such as the EU Cyber Resilience Act.

Similarly, the uptake of technologies related to big data and Artificial Intelligence poses additional challenges to digital solutions and products. The probabilistic nature of AI makes it particularly hard to use this technology in a safety-critical context. New testing techniques are therefore urgently needed. On a regulatory basis, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act plays a crucial role.

Another significant element, especially for digital public services, but not limited to them, is interoperability testing of digital systems even across borders, which has recently come into play with the enforcement of the Interoperable Europe Act, envisioning mandatory interoperability assessments for all public sector bodies. This will guarantee improved user experiences within and beyond the country of residence.

UCAAT 2025 will delve into the crucial role of automated testing in driving successful digital transformation. It will explore innovative solutions and best practices that empower organizations to thrive in an increasingly digital world while ensuring that user-centric and personalized approaches are central to testing strategies.

Target audience

The event is of particular interest for:

Programme Committee

The independent Programme Committee includes representatives from the testing industry, users, academia, and standardization bodies across different domains and different regions nominated by the appointed Programme Committee Chair.
The Programme Committee determines the call for presentations and evaluates the received presentations, posters, and tutorial proposals to select the best ones for the conference programme.

Programme Committee Chair:

Marija Jankovic, CERTH, Greece

Programme Committee Members: 

Nenad Anicic, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Daniel Ardelean, Nokia, Romania
Sergio Borghese, Kalliope S.r.l., Italy
Michele Carignani, Autostrade per l’Italia, Italy
Rémi Caudwell, Sogeti, France
Theodore Chaikalis, Mysten Labs, Greece
Alexandros Chatzigeorgiou, University of Macedonia, Greece
Alexis Despeyroux, Testing Solutions and Services, France
Sascha Hackel, Fraunhofer Fokus, Germany
Dimosthenis Ioannidis, CERTH, Greece
Raquel Jimenez, MTP
Martti Käärik, Elvior, Estonia
Philip Makedonski, University of Göttingen, Germany
Sebastian Müller, ETSI, France
Maria-Olga Raimondo, Onelity, Greece
Stephan Schulz, Giesecke + Devrient, Germany
Pedrag Skokovic, Quality House, Serbia
Szilard Szell, Eficode Oy, Finland
Dirk Tepelmann, Gematik, Germany
Jan Tretmans TNO NL
Sofia Tsekeridou, Netcompany - Intrasoft, Greece
Andreas Ulrich, Siemens, Germany
Kyriaki Vadeska, GRTB/WeTest.Athens, Greece
Laurent Velez, ETSI, France

Important Dates

Event type: ETSI @ External Events

Event Technology: Artificial Intelligence

ETSI is pleased to support the 2025 edition of the MPLS & SRv6 AI Net World Congress, which will take place from March 25th to 27th at the Palais des Congrès in Paris.

About the 2025 Edition

This year, the main sessions of the congress will cover AI’s impact on networking and SRv6 deployments. Other sessions will address IP/optical networks, routing challenges, 5G/6G and the edge, latency, and security. For 25 years, the Congress has highlighted and explained the processes of softwarization, disaggregation, and cloudification.

Join ETSI SDG TeraFlow SDN

Waleed Akbar, ETSI SDG TFS contributor and researcher at Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), will be presenting opensource perspectives on Network Automation using ETSI TeraFlowSDN in the Automation track on 27 March 2025.

For more details about the event and the agenda, please visit https://www.uppersideconferences.com/mpls-sdn-nfv/

Event type: Conferences & Summits

Event Technology: Cybersecurity

The European Standardization Organizations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, are pleased to join forces with ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, to organize the

9th Cybersecurity Standardization Conference 
European standardization supporting new legislative cybersecurity landscape
NHow Hotel, Brussels / Online

The programme Committee, composed of recognized European Experts in the area of Cybersecurity standardization, is building a conference addressing the following questions: 

About the Event

The conference will be professionnally moderated and animated by Rogier Elshout from Moderating EU. 
The organizers are planning a hybrid event:
The physical capacity of the event has been reached, and now people can only attend online. The conference will offer regular live interactions possibilities, orchestrated by our moderator. 

Target Audience

The conference aims to foster dialogue among policymakers, industry, research and standardization organizations in view of an effective implementation of the EU cybersecurity legislation.

Join us also on social media and be part of the interactive debate with #Standards4Cyber!

For more information please visit the event website.