Sophia Antipolis, France The ETSI Artificial Intelligence Conference - How Standardization is Shaping the Future of AI will take place face-to-face on 10-12 February 2025, in ETSI premises, Sophia Antipolis, France.
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) and related technologies continue to be at the forefront of research, industrial and business developments and have become the key enablers for new and innovative products and services that are transforming business and society.
Europe, as with many other Nations and regions, is currently developing the required policies and legislation to ensure the deployment of artificial intelligence according to relevant values and fundamental rights.
The complex standards and regulatory landscape is shifting rapidly, the technologies are developing exponentially, and businesses are attempting to integrate AI into services and products.
Now more than ever clarity is needed! It is time to engage into standardization to lay the groundworks of an AI enabled future full of opportunities.
The ETSI AI Conference has been designed to provide attendees with the unique opportunity to exchange with AI subject-experts and learn about the state of the art work that is being done in AI-related standardization, regulation and service deployments.
Attending this face-to-face event will provide exclusive insights into the most relevant applications of AI, the related challenges and key enablers that need to be put in place to ensure the deployment of ‘trustworthy’ AI-enabled products and services. Attendees will also learn about current and future opportunities to contribute to standardization, and therefore play a role in actively shaping the future of the technology.
Register now! The event is open to all upon mandatory registration.
Demos and posters will complement the conference agenda.
This is the stable agenda of the ETSI AI Conference. Please note that some timings may be subject to change.
The ETSI AI Conference will start at 14:00 on Monday 10 February and end on Wednesday 12 February afternoon.
- Day 1: Monday 10 February
14:00 - 14:20 Welcome Address and Opening Remarks
- Jan Ellsberger, Director General, ETSI
- Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board Chair, Programme Committee Chair
14:20 - 15:50 SESSION 1: How AI/ML will drive Europe’s Business and Societal Evolution
Moderated by Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board Chair, Programme Committee ChairSession Objectives: Frame the role of AI/ML in driving Europe's business and societal needs and provide an overview of the potential for highly innovative work in ETSI designed to serve the needs of all relevant stakeholders.
- Keynote: Outlining the Tremendous Potential for AI/ML Work according to Industry Needs
Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI - Keynote: The Impact of AI Regulations on Telecommunications and Society
Rafia Inam, Ericsson Research - Keynote: The Perspective of AI/ML from a SME
George Sharkov, SME Alliance - Panel Discussion
15:50 - 16:20 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits
16:20 - 18:10 SESSION 2: Policy and Research Initiatives Accelerating AI Developments: Balancing the Hype with Circumspection
Moderated by Marinos Charalambides, European Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU)Session Objectives: Building upon the directions given by European policy makers, the session will provide a broad outlook (including and beyond the AI Act) whilst illustrating the potential standards related activities serving the needs of all relevant stakeholders in the context outlined by the European Commission and the ESOs. The session will provide a forward looking and positive outlook on the amazing potential of AI/ML, outline the benefits that have been demonstrated by AI/ML to date and examine potential future developments.
- Status of AI related European Policy Initiatives
Carlos Lopez Rodriguez / Emilio Davila-Gonzalez (speaker tbc), DG CNECT, European Commission - The Emerging European AI Standardisation Ecosystem
Patrick Bezombes / Sebastian Hallensleben, CEN CENELEC - Emerging and Transformative Trends in AI/ML Applications for 6G Networks and Services: Insights from Academia
Emilio Calvanese Strinati, CEA LETI - Overview of EC Funded Projects and Initiatives working in the area of AI/ML
Marinos Charalambides, SNSJU - Panel Discussion
18:10 Networking Cocktail and End of Day 1
- Day 2: Tuesday 11 February
09:00 - 10:00 SESSION 3: Overview of the Conference Demos and Posters
Moderated by David Boswarthick, ETSI Director of Strategy and InnovationThis session will include an overview of the demos and posters that are available in the ETSI Lobby during the networking breaks.
10:00 - 10:30 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits
10:30 - 12:00 SESSION 4: ETSI Support of Innovation through the Use of AI/ML
Moderated by Ray Forbes, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, ETSI ISG ENI ChairSession Objectives: Provide a positive and forward looking view on AI/ML technologies including an overview of ETSI's activities and future plans for work on AI/ML technologies.
- AI and Autonomous Networks: Coordination across ETSI
Markus Mueck, OCG-AI - Standards in Support of Innovation
Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC Securing Artificial Intelligence (SAI) - AI Agents and Policy, an AI Architecture
Ray Forbes, ETSI ISG Experiential Networked Intelligence (ENI) - Panel Discussion
12:00 - 13:30 Networking Lunch with Demos and Posters Visits
13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 5: Upcoming Work by ETSI on Data for AI/ML, and Related Activities in Partnership Projects
Moderated by François Ortolan, ETSI Board Member, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, NEC Europe LtdSession Objectives: Complementing the previous session that presents ongoing ETSI activities, this session will introduce new ETSI initiatives and showcase opportunities in ETSI's Partnership projects to drive innovation for AI/ML and Data.
- Overview on 3GPP Activities relating to AI/ML
Juan Montojo, 3GPP RAN (Radio Access Networks) - Future of Data in ETSI
Diego Lopez, Telefonica - ETSI SmartM2M / OneM2M / SAREF and Future Data Plans
Enrico Scarrone, ETSI SmartM2M / oneM2M - NGSI-LD for Interoperable Data Exchange and How it Supports AI/ML
Martin Bauer, ETSI ISG CIM - Panel Discussion
15:00 - 15:30 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits
15:30 - 18:15 SESSION 6: A Guide to What Needs to be done for Conformity Assessment of Products
Moderated by Markus Mueck, ETSI OCG-AI and Board ChairSession Objectives: Provide a guide to what needs to be done for conformity assessment of products. Stakeholders in the conformity assessment chain (notified bodies, notifying authorities, market surveillance, etc.) will comment on the solutions developed by ETSI and outline a vision on how market access is achieved in this new field.
- Building Trust in AI-enabled Systems Through Standardized Testing, Conformity Assessment and Documentation
Dorian Knoblauch, ETSI MTS AI - Metrology for AI/ML: Related Metrics
The National Physical Laboratory UK (speaker name TBC) - European Notifying Authority
Michael Schwarz, BnetzA - The role of Notified Bodies in the Context of AI/ML Products - How Notified Bodies Deal with Upcoming Requirements
Holger Bentje, RED CA - Market Surveillance Authority
Speaker TBC - Lifecycle Monitoring of AI Systems and Models: Governance Tools at the Heart of Conformity Assessment
Martijn Wiertz / Jochen Friedrich, IBM - Industrial view from an SME (Title TBC)
George Sharkov, SME Alliance - Panel Discussion
18:15 End of Day 2
- AI and Autonomous Networks: Coordination across ETSI
- Day 3: Wednesday 12 February
09:00 - 10:30 SESSION 7: Exploring the wider AI/ML Ecosystem
Moderator name tbcSession Objectives: Provide a holistic overview of the wider AI/ML ecosystem and examine some recent technology trends and evolution in the domain of AI/ML.
- Overview of ORAN AI/ML Specifications with special focus on RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC)
Linghang Fan, NEC / Lead of AI/ML work item for the RIC - ITU-T SG13 AI Activities and Focus Groups
Marco Carugi, ITU-T SG13 - RAN-AI
Pertti Lukander, Nokia - Panel Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Networking Coffee with Demos and Posters Visits
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 8: An Industry Perspective on applying AI/ML
Moderated by Jochen Friedrich, ETSI Board Member, IBMSession Objectives: Building on the summary of activities and future opportunity in standards, representatives of the industry and SMEs will give a positive and forward looking overview on i) how AI is used by industry to do things in a novel and innovative way ; ii) how will the future look like from an industrial perspective ; iii) what is needed from ESOs/SDOs.
- Industry Perspective as seen by the SMEs
Speaker name TBC - Roadmap towards an AI-native 6G Architecture
Abdelrahman Abdelkader, NOKIA - Potential AI/ML Implementations from the Perspective of a Network Operator
Julien Boudani, Orange Innovation - Panel Discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Networking Lunch with Demos and Posters Visits
14:00 - 15:30 SESSION 9 - Panel Discussion: Making AI a Reality: Next Steps and Opportunities
Moderated by David Boswarthick, ETSI Director of Strategy and InnovationSession Objectives: Standards support for AI/ML is already underway in ETSI and we now seek to identify further innovation prospects in this domain. Here we consider innovation in terms of fundamental technologies, business concepts and processes, but also including the all-important area of innovative approaches to the ethical and societal dimensions.
Featuring:
- Maxime Flament, 5GAA
- Oli B, DIST (Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, UK)
- ETSI TC eHealth Leadership Team (Speaker tbd)
- Piotr Zuraniewski, ETSI TC SAI, TNO
15:30 - 16:00 SESSION 10: Concluding Remarks
Presented by Markus Mueck16:00 End of the ETSI AI Conference 2025
- Overview of ORAN AI/ML Specifications with special focus on RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC)
The following demos and posters, located next to the networking area in ETSI Lobby, will complement the conference programme. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit these during the conference coffee and lunch breaks.
Demos:
- AI-assisted Invention for 3GPP Standards
Harry Cronin, Iprova - Transforming the Network into AI-based services for customers
Rodrigo Sanz, Telefónica Innovacion Digital - RDI AI Safety & Security Lab: How the Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure Builds Expert Knowledge on the New Risks of Today's AI
Thomas Adrian, Rijksinspectie Digitale Infrastructuur (Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure) - GENSHIELD-AI: Mitigating Adversarial Threats from AI and Proactive Fraud Prevention for Next-Generation Machine Learning Applications
Chamara Prabhash Sandeepa Abeysinghe Mudiyanselage, University College Dublin - The New Paradigm for Next Generation of Mobile Communication Networks enabled by AI
Xueli An, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH - AI Enhanced 3D Modeling and Pre-surgery Planning based on Multimodal Patient Record Data
Hans Christiaan de Raad, OpenNovations - Using an Intelligent Chatbot for Intent-Driven Management of Autonomous 6G Networks (SNS-JU 6GINTENSE
& SUNRISE-6G projects)
Christos Verikoukis ISI/ATH
Posters:
- Securing the Digital Age: AI/ML for Robust Media Broadcast and VoIP
Rajesh Mahato, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore - Synthetic Traffic Data Generation Through Network Digital Twin for ML-Based Detection of Benign and Malicious Flows
Yenny Lisbeth Moreno Meneses, Telefónica - 6G-DALI: 6G Data and ML Operations Automation via an End-to-end AI Framework
Takai Eddine Kennouche, VIAVI Solutions - DRAAMS - A Model-follow-data Paradigm Enabler
Hesham Moussa, Huawei Technologies Canada - Regulatory Sandboxes in the AI Act - An Accessible Way to Regulatory Dialogue
Sander de Graaf, Dutch Authority for Digital Infrastructure - Collaborative Intelligence Sharing in Energy Communities via Federated Learning
Luís Pisco, CNET-CENTRE NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES/ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - AI in ICT – the good, the bad and the good again
Piotr Zuraniewski, TNO
- Markus Mueck, Programme Commitee Chair, ETSI OCG-AI Chair, ETSI Board Chair, Intel Deutschland GmbH
- David Boswarthick, Director Strategy and Innovation, ETSI
- Scott Cadzow, ETSI TC SAI Chair, Cadzow Communications
- Ray Forbes, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, ETSI ISG ENI Chair, Huawei
- Jochen Friedrich, ETSI Board Member, IBM Europe
- François Ortolan, ETSI Board Member, ETSI OCG-AI Vice Chair, NEC Europe Ltd
- Helene Schmidt, ETSI OCG-AI Support Coordinator, ETSI
Venue:
ETSI Headquarters
650 Route des Lucioles
06560 Valbonne - Sophia Antipolis
FRANCE
Tel: +33 4 92 94 42 00
Information on venue, travel, visa, local accommodation is available at www.etsi.org/events/find-us