ETSI AI and Data Conference 2026

Stable agenda of the ETSI AI and Data Conference. Some timings may be subject to change.

The ETSI AI and Data Conference will start at 14:00 on Monday 9 February.

• Conference Day 1: Monday 9 February 2026
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  Conference Day 1

  13:00 Check-in and Welcome coffee

  14:00 Opening and Keynotes Session 

  • 14:00 Welcome Address:
    
    
    • Opening Speech
      Markus Mueck, Programme Committee Chair, ETSI Board and OCG-AI Chair
      
      
    • Welcome address
      Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General
      
      
  • 14:20 KEYNOTE Presentation
    
    
  • 14:50 KEYNOTE: Karine Perset, OECD
    
    

  15:20 - 16:20 SESSION 1: Setting the Scene – From users’ needs to policy and standardisation actions
  Chaired by Markus Mueck
  
  In this session, we will explore users’ needs related to latest technology developments in AI and Data. We will then discuss the related policy objectives and actions, as well as ETSI 's activities to support the implementation of European policy priorities and, to develop industry standards of global applicability.
  

  • 15:20 User needs and expectations for AI and data
    Isabella de Michelis, European DIGITAL SME Alliance
    
    
  • 15:35 EU Policy on AI and Data
    Jeroen Delfos, EU AI Office, European Commission
    
    
  • 15:50 ETSI’s role in shaping trustworthy AI and Data standards for Europe
    Martin Chatel, ETSI, Chief Policy Officer
    
    
  • 16:05 Questions and Answers
    
    

  16:20 Coffee break including Demos and Posters Visits
  

  16:50 - 18:10 SESSION 2: AI and Data ecosystem
  Chaired by Diego Lopez, ETSI TC Data Chair, Telefonica
  
  ETSI is a key stakeholder within the broader AI and Data ecosystem. Gain insights into related initiatives from other key organisations in this session.
  

  • 16:50 AI activities at ITU-T SG13 and associated expert groups
    Marco Carugi, ITU-T SG13
    
    
  • 17:05 Harmonised European standards on the finishing stretch - and what lies beyond
    Sebastian Hallensleben, CEN/CENELEC JTC21 & Sebastian Steinbuss, CEN/CENELEC JTC 25
    
    
  • 17:20 Status of ISO/IEC activities related to AI and Data
    
    
  • 17:35 The AI Standards Hub - Metrological approaches to trustworthy AI
     Paul Duncan, NPL UK (National Physical Laboratory)
    
    
  • 17:50 Questions & Answers
    
    

  18:10 - 19:15 Networking Event & end of day 1

• Conference Day 2: Tuesday 10 February 2026
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  Conference Day 2
  
  

  09:00 KEYNOTE: Kathrin Grosse, IBM Research Zurich
  From Practical Machine Learning Security to AI security Incident Reporting

  09:30 - 10:50 SESSION 3: Demos and Posters Overview
  Chaired by Francois Ortolan, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair
  
  Find out more about the demos and posters available in the ETSI lobby. The presenters of selected posters and demos will present their work and provide additional motivation to visit them during the coffee and lunch breaks.

  10:50 Coffee break including Demos and Posters Visits
  

  11:20 - 12:30 SESSION 4: How standards shape the future: Why standards matter and how to get involved?
  Chaired by Simon Hicks, ETSI Board Member
  
  This session is designed to help you understand the complexity of standardisation. From concept to reality, understand the complete journey and the various stakeholders involved to take innovative ideas to reality - with a spotlight on an AI related standardisation use case (ETSI Technical Committee Securing AI (TC SAI) and interoperability.
  

  • 11:20 Standardisation Education: empowering the next generation of technical talent
    Claire D'Esclercs and Howard Benn, ETSI
    
    
  • 11:40 SAI — from thought experiment to a standards body
    Scott Cadzow, ETSI Technical Commitee Securing AI (TC SAI) chair
    
    
  • 12:00 ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI) activities at a glance - How testing helps make better standards
    Laurent Velez, ETSI Centre for Testing and Interoperability (CTI)
    
    
  • 12:20 Questions and Answers
    
    

  12:30 -14:00 Lunch Break including Demos and Posters visits

  14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 5: Data deep dive: Data is the new oil
  Chaired by Tony Rutowski, ETSI OCG-AI vice chair
  
  The session focuses on two vital areas within the complex Data domain. Expert stakeholders from policy, the IT and mobile industries will explore the topics of semantic Data models and Data governance.
  

  • 14:00 Setting the scene in the field of data spaces 
    Diego Lopez, ETSI Technical Committee DATA (TC DATA) chair
    
    
  • 14:15 Government View
    
    
  • 14:30 IT Industry view, challenges and opportunities
    
    
  • 14:45 A Holistic Data Management Approach - Ericsson Perspective
    Bulent Gecer, Ericsson Data Management and Incident Analytics
    
    
  • 15:00 Panel discussion
     

  15:30 Coffee Break including Demos and Posters visits 

  16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 6: Agentic AI Deep Dive
  Chaired by Markus Mueck
  
  The session focuses on the highly topical subject of Agentic AI. Expert stakeholders from policy, Industry and ETSI TC SAI standardisation will explore the importance of Agentic AI and how regulation, frameworks and standards may help the deployment of this key technology.
  

  • 16:00 Setting the Scene - Technology Introduction: Agentic AI, what are we talking about here?
    Ray Forbes, ETSI TC DATA, ETSI OCG-AI
    
    
  • 16:15 Agentic AI - Why this is a new dimension for standards to address
    Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI
    
    
  • 16:30 Driving Agentic AI: methods, capabilities and the autonomy of means
    Taras Holoyad, Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)
    
    
  • 16:45 Perpective of a network operator
    Telefonica (speaker name tbd)
    
    
  • 17:00 Panel discussion 

  17:30 End of day 2

• Conference Day 3: Wednesday 11 February 2026
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  Conference Day 3

  09:00 10:15 SESSION 7: Status & opportunities in ETSI technical groups
  Chaired by Ray Forbes
  
  This session will provide a holistic overview of new tools introduced by ETSI – especially the ETSI Technology Radar – and new activities recently initiated, including ETSI Technical Committee DATA (TC DATA), Technical Committee Quantum Technologies (TC QT) and others. The cross-relationship to the topics of AI and DATA will be discussed. Finally, the audience will learn about the latest AI and DATA  planned activities in the pipelines of ETSI TC SAI and TC DATA.
  

  • 09:00 ETSI Technology Radar and foresight into AI, new activities
    David Boswarthick, ETSI Strategy and Innovation
    
    
  • 09:20 What are the projects in ETSI TC SAI and ETSI TC DATA?
    • SAI - what do we do and why?
      Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI
    • DATA - what do we do and why?
      Diego Lopez, ETSI TC DATA
      
      
  • 09:45 Panel Discussion
    
    

  10:15 KEYNOTE: Marco Landi, Director of the Europia Institute
  

  10:45 Coffee Break including Demos and Posters visits

  11:15 - 12:45 SESSION 8: Stakeholders Priorities and Views
  Chaired by Scott Cadzow
  
  Technologies and solutions related to AI and DATA are a game changer for all involved stakeholders. The audience will have the opportunity to listen to first-hands accounts of key industry players and how their product portfolio and business as a whole is affected by AI and DATA technology. Speakers' line up include a Mobile Network Manufacturer, a Mobile Network Operator and a vertical industries' representative.
  

  • 11:15 Unlocking the full potential of AI native 6G through standards
    Nokia (speaker name tbd)
    
    
  • 11:30 Perspective of a mobile network operator
    
    
  • 11:45 Perspective of the vertical industy
    
    
  • 12:00 Panel Discussion 

  12:45 - 13:30 Final Session and Concluding Remarks
  

  14:00 End of the ETSI AI and Data Conference 2026

• 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

Attendees will have the opportunities to visit the following demonstrations during the conference coffee and lunch breaks in ETSI Lobby:

• EUROCOMPLY: Automated Regulatory Compliance Validation for AI/ML Systems in Telecommunications via Agentic AI
  Presented by Mazene Ameur, EURECOM
  
  
• CERTAIN RegOps: Automated, continuous compliance for AI systems
  Presented by Dimitrios Christodoulou, Digital for Planet
  
  
• AI Core-Next Generation Network Architecture
  Presented by Xueli An, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH 
  
  
• Advancing AI-assisted Invention for 3GPP Standards
  Presented by Harry Cronin, Iprova
  
  
• AI-Driven Anomaly Detection for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS)
  Presented by Marwan Haruna, CNIT
  
  
• Data: the Foundation of Future AI Applications, Services, and Data Governance
  Hesham Moussa, Huawei Technologies Canada
  
  
• Optical Testbed Data Space: Sovereign Data Sharing for Cross-Testbed AI Empowerment
  Angela Mitrovska, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, HHI
  
  
• Agentic, OSI‑Open, and Auditable: A Standards‑Aligned Data‑Quality Pipeline for Trustworthy AI in eHealth, MedTech, Cybersecurity and Renewable Energy
  Hans Christiaan De Raad, OpenNovations

Attendees will have the opportunity to visit the following posters during the conference coffee and lunch breaks in ETSI Lobby:

• 6G GOALS - Enabling Semantic & Goal Oriented Communications using AI for next wireless network evolutions
  Olivier Forceville, HPE
  
  
• Integrating Network Digital Twinning (NDT) into future AI-native 6G networks
  Régis Decorme, R2M Solution France
  
  
• CoEvolution EU project | A comprehensive trustworthy framework for connected machine learning and secure interconnected AI solutions
  Orestis Tsirakis, CyberAlytics Limited
  
  
• Applying Graph-based RAG to ETSI Standards
  Aiman Al Masoud, CEI - Comitato Elettrotecnico Italiano
  
  
• Intelligent NGSI-LD Navigation: A Self-Adaptive Agent for Knowledge Graph Exploration
  Adam Lewis, EGM
  
  
• Sustain-6G: Embedding Responsible AI into the Heart of 6G Network
  Chaima Ghribi Nokia, CEA, Qampo
  
  
• Telco Data Space: A Sovereign Data Ecosystem for Future 6G Networks
  Angela Mitrovska, Fraunhofer-Institut für Nachrichtentechnik, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut International
  
  
• SEM-NTN: Enabling Semantic Communications in O-RAN-Integrated Satellite Networks
  Engin Zeydan, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
  
  
• GPT-NL: Transparent, Responsible, and Sovereign LLM
  Piotr Zuraniewski, TNO
  
  
• Open, Auditable Data‑Quality Evidence for AI in eHealth, MedTech, Cybersecurity, and Renewable Energy: A Reference Architecture and Gap Analysis
  Hans Christiaan De Raad, OpenNovations

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)

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