News and Press Releases

ETSI launches new standard for Quantum-Safe Hybrid Key Exchanges to secure future post-quantum encryption

Sophia Antipolis, France, 25 March 2025

Today, ETSI announces the launch of its post-quantum security standard to guarantee the protection of critical data and communications in the future. The specification “Efficient Quantum-Safe Hybrid Key Exchanges with Hidden Access Policies” (ETSI TS 104 015) has been developed to enhance security mechanisms, ensuring that only authorized users with the correct permissions can access sensitive data to decrypt them.

Brussels, 21 March 2025

The European Standardisation Organisations (ESOs) CEN, CENELEC, ETSI, together with ENISA, the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, successfully co-hosted the 9th Cybersecurity Standardisation Conference on 20 March 2025 in Brussels.

Sophia Antipolis, France, le 17 Mars 2025

L’ETSI organise une conférence, le jeudi 10 avril 2025, sur les enjeux du numérique durable avec la présentation de solutions spécifiques pour les collectivités et les entreprises. En partenariat avec l’ONG indépendante e. green for users, cette conférence gratuite permet de découvrir entre autres, Living-in.EU, l’initiative européenne pour un numérique responsable dans les collectivités et les campus, ainsi que des études de cas et retours d’expériences.

Sophia Antipolis, France, 11 March 2025

With over 109,000 attendees from 205 countries gathering in Barcelona, Mobile World Congress (MWC) once again proved to be a key destination for ETSI.

Europe to Establish Presence in Five Countries to Strengthen Cooperation on ICT Standardization

Sophia Antipolis, France, 28 February 2025 - Are you the experts we are looking for?

The Global Partnership for Human-Centric ICT Standardization Project (GIST) was officially launched on 06 Feb 2025 at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), marking a significant step towards strengthening global collaboration on ICT standardization, as part of the EU’s Global Gateway initiative.

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 and how Standards Development Organizations can bring rationality to the AI debate.

ETSI launches a Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA) to encourage the adoption of new standards in line with the European Data Governance Act

Sophia Antipolis, France, 17 February 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Technical Committee on Data Solutions (TC DATA) aimed at advancing data-driven technologies and supporting the development of new industry standards. TC DATA will provide a center of expertise in data infrastructures, services, and applications, developing data solutions specifically designed to support services for IoT, telecommunications systems and networks, as well as human services and other industries.

The TC DATA will also develop technical standards to support data interoperability and semantic interoperability.

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

ETSI announces the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer

Sophia Antipolis, France - 10 February 2025

ETSI is pleased to announce the appointment of Martin Chatel as Chief Policy Officer, who will lead the Policy Affairs Department at ETSI. Martin Chatel will join ETSI on 10 February 2025 and will be based in Brussels. As Chief Policy Officer, Martin Chatel will spearhead ETSI’s strategic policy engagement with the European Commission, EFTA, CEPT, international policymakers, societal stakeholders, and industry associations, under the leadership of ETSI Director-General Jan Ellsberger.

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.