Join us at the ETIS Gathering 2025, taking place on June 5th & 6th at the Royal Olympic Hotel in the heart of Athens. This year’s theme, "How Resilient Telcos Leverage AI and Navigate New Markets to Create Value," sets the stage for a unique exploration of how European telecoms can adapt and innovate in an ever-evolving market landscape.
As the premier event for telecom professionals across Europe, the ETIS Gathering 2025 offers an exclusive platform for C-suite executives, industry experts, and emerging leaders to come together, share insights, and forge impactful collaborations. Across two days, attendees will engage in deep-dive discussions, practical workshops, and strategic networking opportunities, all aimed at tackling the challenges and seizing the opportunities of a rapidly shifting telecom sector.
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Highlights include sessions on how telcos are entering new markets such as energy, insurance, and smart home technology to drive growth, retain customers, and unlock new revenue streams. We’ll also explore the pivotal role AI plays in the industry today, from improving operational efficiency to opening new possibilities for customer engagement. With investor expectations pushing for swift returns, the Gathering will address how telcos can manage resilience and stay competitive without compromising long-term vision.
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
The event begins with a two-hour keynote session that delves into the main themes outlined above. Following this, participants will join their designated working groups, each featuring a tailored agenda and interactive sessions. These groups vary in size (10–40 participants) and focus on highly specialized topics relevant to their domain. Detailed agendas for each working group will be available at the start of 2025.
Day 1 concludes with a group activity—a guided tour of Athens—followed by an official dinner at an iconic venue.
On Day 2, participants resume their activities in their designated working groups. The events ends with a small ceremony.
IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE FULL 2-DAY PROGRAMME OF EACH SEPARATE GROUP, CLICK ON THE ICON(S) BELOW:
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(These 16 working groups will meet over the 2 days of the ETIS Gathering)
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HOTEL BOOKING:
Exclusive Hotel Offer for Attendees
- We’ve arranged special rates at the Royal Olympic Hotel, the venue for the ETIS Gathering 2025, so you can stay where all sessions, workshops, and networking will take place — a perfect opportunity to connect with peers seamlessly.
Exclusive Attendee Rates:
- Single guest: €175.00 per night (includes breakfast & City Tax).
- Available from June 3rd to June 8th, 2025, for added flexibility.
Book Now to Secure Your Stay:
- Use this link to lock in these discounted rates: BOOK YOUR ROOM
Note: If you want to book more than one room, please make separate bookings for each person/room. Only one room per booking is possible for the event.
Cancellation Policy:
- Free Cancellation till the 4th May 2025
- Until 72 hours prior to arrival, the participants will be charged with one night’s cancellation fees.
- Within the last 72 hours for any cancellation or reduction of stay or in case of no-show each participant will be charged with full cancellation fees of the cancelled nights (total amount of their reservation).
Whether you're focused on driving digital transformation, enhancing customer lifecycle value, or navigating the future of AI in telecom, the ETIS Gathering 2025 is an essential event for industry leaders dedicated to shaping the next chapter of European telecommunications.
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Don’t miss your chance to be part of this forward-thinking event — reserve your spot today and join us in Athens!
Please reach out to us via "info@etis.org" with any questions you may have.
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WHY DO PEOPLE JOIN?
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COMMON SESSION PROGRAMME
ALL MEMBERS OF ALL WORKING GROUPS ATTENDING
09:00 – 11:00
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DAY 1
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Registrations in the hotel lobby as of 8:00 AM
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Common Session
(09:00 – 11:00)
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“How Resilient Telcos Leverage AI and Navigate New Markets to Create Value”
Each Gathering participant is invited to participate in the Common session. Keynote presenters will each have 15 minutes to deliver their speech and then take questions from the audience of 230+ telco experts.
We will have different views from telcos on how they are entering new markets - such as energy, insurance, and smart home technology to drive growth, retain customers, and unlock new revenue streams. We’ll also explore the pivotal role AI plays in the industry today, from improving operational efficiency to opening new possibilities for customer engagement. With investor expectations pushing for swift returns, the Gathering will address how telcos can manage resilience and stay competitive without compromising long-term vision.
Keynote 1: Welcome by Wim De Meyer, ETIS Managing Director, 10'
Keynote 2: "Building the Future: Collaboration and Innovation of Telecoms in a Transforming World”, Pedro Gonçalves, MEO, ETIS Chairman, 15'
Keynote 3: “Telco Innovation: Scaling AI and Ecosystems to Drive New Growth”, Antonietta Mastroianni, Proximus, 15'
Keynote 4: TBC
Keynote 5: “Secure, Aware, Resilient: Driving a Strong Security Culture”, Ulrich ten Eikelder, DT & Marcus Beyer, Swisscom, 10’
Keynote 6: “Telco Security Landscape 2025”, speaker tbc, 10’
Keynote 7: “AI Makes Telcos Smart. But Are Telcos Smart About AI?”, Thomas Kruger, BCG, 10’
Panel Discussion + Q&A: TBC
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11:00 – 11:30
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Coffee Break
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INDIVIDUAL WORKING GROUP AGENDAS
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DAY 1
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INFORMATION SECURITY WORKING GROUP MEETING STARTS IN PANORAMA ROOM
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Session 1
(11:30-12:15)
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Company Updates (part I)
Each company is allocated 3 minutes to present recent challenges, threats, incidents, projects, and future plans. Also delivering expectations from this 2-day meeting. New members in the group receive a longer time slot, if requested.
Updates to take place in the following order – 3 minutes each!
- BT
- Deutsche Telekom
- Elisa
- KPN
- MEO (first time update)
- TNO
- Oracle
- Ericsson
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Session 2
(12:15 – 13:00)
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Enhancing Cybersecurity Measures with AI-Powered Solutions
Theme: Advanced Technologies in Cybersecurity
Presentation 1: TBC, 15’
Presentation 2: TBC, 15’
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13:00-14:00
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Lunch Break
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Session 3
(14:00 – 15:30)
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Compliance and Regulatory Adaptation
Theme: Ensuring Compliance with NIS2, AI Act, CRA, and Emerging Regulations. Are authorities becoming stricter; adding new requirements; shifting focus towards BCM and DR?
Presentation 1: NIS2 implementation in Belgium, speaker TBC, Proximus, 15’
Presentation 2: “Croatian NIS2 cybersec landscape- deep dive into the measures and controls”, Martina Dragičević, A1 Croatia, 15’
- The presentation will show in details cybersec (NT/IT and other) measures defined by the national regulation and accompanied check list of control mechanisms and accompanied calculator for securing compliance primarily in the field of self-assessment.
Discussion Session with ENISA representatives: Comparison of the two approaches and discussing challenges for telcos in Europe, All, 30’
Presentation 3: “Cybersecurity Risk & Control Transformation at KPN”, Paul Slootmaker, Vice President Monitoring & Reporting, 15’
Q&A session: 15’
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15:30 – 16:00
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Coffee Break
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Session 4
(16:00 – 17:30)
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Joint Session with Security Awareness Working Group
Theme: Global efforts to raise awareness, perform security fundamentals better, and to combat fraud
Presentation 1: Report on Red-Teaming teams, campaigns and best practices across ETIS member telcos (feedback from first sub-group meeting 1st April, Belgium), Andrija Višić, ETIS Central Office, 15’
Presentation 2: Updates from the Japanese ICT-ISAC on most recent achievements, speaker tbc, 20’
Presentation 3: Presentation by a telco on “Combatting the increase in fraudulent calls globally”, 15’
Roundtable Discussion: Members of ETIS ISWG and SAWG
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DAY 2
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MEETING STARTS IN THE PANORAMA MEETING ROOM FOR BOTH GROUPS
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Session 5
(09:00 – 10:30)
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Joint Session with Business Continuity Working Group
Theme: Building Resilience in the Telecom Industry
Presentations: TBC
Roundtable Discussion: Experiences with hybrid war activities, sabotage-activities and ways to signal these. Also drone screening solutions to protect telco infrastructure, etc.
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10:30 – 11:00
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Coffee Break
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Session 6
(11:00 – 11:45)
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Company Updates (part II)
Each company is allocated 3 minutes to present recent challenges, threats, incidents, projects, and future plans. Also delivering expectations from this 2-day meeting. New members in the group receive a longer time slot, if requested.
Updates to take place in the following order – 3 minutes each!
- Proximus
- Sunrise
- Swisscom
- Telenor Norway
- Huawei
- Google
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Session 7
11:45 – 12:30
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Quantum Cryptography
Theme: Future-Proofing European Telecoms: Navigating the Post-Quantum Security Shift
Presentation: TBC
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12:30 – 13:30
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Lunch Break
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Session 8
13:30 – 14:30
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Various topics + Reflection & Planning Session
45’
Operators and telcos are welcome to propose presentations or discussion topics, e.g.:
- Critical Communications in 5G
- Security of the 5G open core
- Data-driven security governance
- Zero Trust architectures and implementation strategies – What are current trends and priorities for ETIS members?
15’
Last 15 minutes of this session will be dedicated to planning the next ISWG meeting, which is taking place in Autumn 2025
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5-min Break
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MEETING ENDS FOR SUPPLIERS AND GUESTS
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Session 9
(14:35 – 16:00)
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Telco-Only session (only representatives of telecom operators participate)
Theme: TBC according to highest telco priorities communicated to ETIS Central Office
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16:00h
Farewell Reception
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Foyer of the Hotel (TBC)
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ETIS Confidentiality Agreement
itinerary