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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.

Looking forward to the world’s largest and most influential connectivity event - Mobile World Congress 2025, March 3 - 6 in Barcelona.

Jan Ellsberger, ETSI Director-General, will be taking to the stage as a featured speaker at the following sessions:

Session 2: Monetising Mobile Services with 5G-Advanced: mobile AI, networking slicing, and massive IoT
This session will explore how 5G-Advanced is unlocking new revenue streams for MNOs through innovations such as enhanced mobile AI, network slicing, and Massive IoT.
🗓️ Monday, March 3rd | ⏰ 17:00 - 18:30 | 📍 GSMA Summit Stage, Hall 6
👉 Registration: bit.ly/4gbgGi2

The Summit will explore the future evolution of 3GPP and O-RAN ALLIANCE architectures towards 6G. Jan Ellsberger will take part of a panel discussion about Regional Views on Open RAN Activity & Outlook.
🗓️ Tuesday, March 4th | ⏰ 11:35 - 12:15 | 📍 Partner Theatre 6, Hall 8 - 4YFN & Partner Theatres
👉 Registration: https://bit.ly/3CdJXef

Sophia Antipolis, France, 31 January 2025

ETSI announces the second Release of the open-source software platform developed by the Software Development Group OpenSlice. This Release continues to drive the evolution of Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solutions, offering service providers and consumers a powerful framework for orchestrating and managing end-to-end (E2E) network services across private and public clouds.

Additionally, OpenSlice 2024Q4 builds on its comprehensive, service-based Operations Support System (OSS) capabilities to meet the evolving demands of the telecom industry. It extends developments beyond NaaS to embrace Telco Cloud scenarios, incorporating support for CAMARA and TMF Operate APIs. These enhancements enable the capability exposure essential for a contemporary Operator Platform.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 23 January 2025

ETSI SDG OpenCAPIF, the Software Development Group developing an open-source implementation of the Common API Framework (CAPIF) defined by 3GPP, has just launched their Release 2.0.0. This version has been upgraded to support CAPIF Release 18 Technical Specifications from 3GPP and the associated YAML templates available in the 3GPP Forge.

This new Release also introduces significant updates, enhancements, and new features aimed at providing a more robust, secure, and efficient API management platform.

Sophia Antipolis, November 18, 2024

The status of Open Source as a mature component of the standardization landscape and as a tool of choice for research and product development has shone through the agenda of this week’s Software and Standards for Smart Networks and Services - SNS4SNS - event.

A mix of presentations, tutorials, Hackfests, posters, demos and social networking over three days has attracted over 100 experts to ETSI to explore the role of software development, advanced research and industry standards in next generation networks.

Sophia Antipolis, 18 October 2024

One of the event highlights of the year - the ETSI Security Conference – has closed its doors at the end of expert discussions on a range of cybersecurity standardization topics.

195 onsite attendees enjoyed presentations across multiple sessions, over three and a half days, as well as networking opportunities at the breaks - extending into the evening - during the ETSI hosted social events.

Sophia Antipolis, 30 September 2024

Direct communications between vehicles, pedestrians and infrastructure based on 3GPP and ETSI TC ITS standards have been tested during the 4th C-V2X Plugtests™ interoperability event in Malaga, Spain, hosted by DEKRA (September 10- 13, 2024).

In partnership with 5GAA, this Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) and ITS technologies event attracted the participation of 24 companies and 82 experts – both onsite and via remote connections – with 94% of the planned tests, based on over 60 test scenarios, successfully completed.

Sophia Antipolis, 11 June 2024

ETSI, the Standards People, are putting high emphasis on enhancing education to help prepare the next generation of standards professionals master tech standardization.

The European standardization organization provides a comprehensive set of high-quality educational materials on ICT standardization aimed at universities, NSOs and member organizations for training purposes. This comprises a textbook on ‘Understanding ICT Standardization’ which is complemented by a modular slide set allowing components to be used in a range of engineering, business, and law courses.

ETSI is pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Utrecht University Summer School on ‘Global Power and Technology’ covering ‘Competition, Innovation & Technological Advancement through Standardization in the EU’, taking place on 15-19 July 2024 in the Netherlands.

Sophia Antipolis, 18 April 2024

ETSI is pleased to unveil its 2024 ETSI Fellows who were announced at the 83rd ETSI General Assembly on 16 April 2024.
The Award Committee, composed of the GA Chair and Vice-Chairs, the Board Chair and the ETSI Director-General, unanimously named Dr. Howard Benn, Mr. Philippe Magneron, Dr. Matthias Schneider, Mrs. Isabelle Valet Harper and Mr. Dirk Weiler, as ETSI Fellows 2024 for their outstanding personal contributions to the organization.

Sophia Antipolis, 8 March 2024 

On 5 March, the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, joined forces with ENISA, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, to organize their 8th Cybersecurity Standardization Conference.