Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 February 2025
While Paris became the artificial intelligence (AI) capital of the world during the AI Action Summit, ETSI held its AI conference, How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI, at its premises. More than 160 face-to-face attendees from 22 countries engaged with experts who discussed the essential role of AI standards are essential and how Standards Development Organizations can bring rationality to the AI debate.
The event provided a unique opportunity for all stakeholders of the AI/ML ecosystem - including industry, governments, academia and other standardization bodies - to share their insights, research, experiences, and questions on the evolving AI landscape. SMEs emphasized that in AI, speed is more critical than size.
In his opening speech, Markus Mueck, ETSI Board Chair, highlighted the role of standardization in the AI/ML ecosystem ensuring interoperability, quality and reliability, security and privacy, innovation and regulatory compliance.
A poster session and live demonstrations complemented a series of discussions covering key topics such as trust in AI, regulatory compliance, data integrity, AI for 6G, generative AI in networks, cybersecurity threats, conformity assessments and testing AI. The European Commission stressed the importance of enabling European Standardization Organizations to collaborate with the broader AI ecosystem and ensuring that research outcomes contribute to the development of standards.
With extensive experience in AI-related standards and a holistic perspective shaped by its diverse membership, ETSI is considered as a key competence center for AI in Europe. ETSI’s strong expertise in AI can help deliver timely, impactful standards to support the AI Act and benefit the newly established Technical Committee on Data. This 4th AI conference organized by ETSI reinforced the importance of collaboration in shaping an AI-driven future that is responsible, secure, ethical, and aligned with the European AI Act.
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