Join Us at the ETIS Gathering 2025
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We are pleased to invite you to the ETIS Gathering 2025, the premier event for telecom professionals across Europe 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," reflects the key challenges and opportunities shaping our industry..
With over 250 participants from 30+ operators and 15 Working Groups, the Gathering provides a unique platform for peer learning, strategic networking, and thought leadership
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We will kick-off with a 2-hour Common Session, topics on agenda will include:
- Geopolitical shifts and digital sovereignty
- Business continuity in times of climate change, trade and hybrid war
- AI’s transformative potential and ethical dimensions
- Telcos’ expansion into new verticals for sustainable growth
The Keynote Speaker's for this year's Gathering are -
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Wim De Meyer
Director, ETIS
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Keynote 1: Welcome Speech & Introduction to the Gathering 2025 themes
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Keynote 2: Building the Future: Collaboration and Innovation of Telecoms in a Transforming World
In a time of rapid change, collaboration is more crucial than ever, and ETIS stands as a unique platform fostering knowledge exchange and cooperation among European telecom professionals. As pillars of the digital ecosystem, telcos are vital to society and central to Europe's competitiveness. Ensuring network resilience is not just a priority but an imperative, particularly in today’s complex geopolitical landscape. AI offers unprecedented opportunities to enhance efficiency, optimize costs, and elevate user experiences. At the same time, diversification is key to unlocking new revenue streams and driving growth.
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Pedro Gonçalves
ETIS Chairman & Senior Advisor for EU & International Digital Policy, MEO
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Antonietta Mastroianni
Chief Digital and IT Officer, Proximus
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Keynote 3: Telco Innovation: Scaling AI and Ecosystems to Drive New Growth
This keynote explores how Proximus strategically leverages AI at scale to transform multiple facets of telecom operations. It highlights Proximus ADA a center of excellence for AI and Cyber security, the advanced AI initiatives, showcasing how AI enhances customer experiences, operational efficiency, product development, and innovation. Additionally, the discussion covers the approach to scaling ecosystems by targeting the consumer market through integrated applications and digital platforms and addressing business customers through software-driven solutions and "as-a-service" models. The presentation also addresses the balance of these transformations with legacy management to ensure operational stability and security in a dynamic telecom environment.
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Ulrich ten Eikelder
Business Resilience, Deutsche Telekom Security
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Marcus Beyer
Security Awareness Officer, Swisscom
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Keynote 5: Secure, Aware, Resilient: Driving a Strong Security Culture
This presentation will focus on building resilient work organisations as a prerequisite for the rapidly evolving technology areas such as AI & Co. and the digital transformation of telecommunication companies. We will also present the latest developments from the Security Awareness Working Group, with a focus on our joint efforts and the recently developed paper on ‘Resilience and Security Culture’ and the value of a resilient security culture for our organisations. In this presentation, attendees will gain insights into how collective expertise is shaping the next generation of security awareness practices.
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Richard Kerkdijk,
Senior Security Consultant, TNO
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Keynote 6: ETIS Telco Security Landscape 2025
Last year’s Telco Security Landscape was impacted by rising geopolitical tensions. The situation has only worsened, and challenges European countries to an extent few had foreseen. It seems clear that European nations will need to increase defence and security investments. This landscape report is based on the input, deliberations and consensus of the ET-ISAC members. While much of the knowledge sharing within the ET-ISAC is trust-based and confidential, we choose to make this summary public, as food for thought and a call for attention to the highlighted topics among a wider audience. The Landscape is accessible via this link.
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Keynote 7: TeBIT 2024 Benchmark report - AI Makes Telcos Smart. But Are Telcos Smart About AI?
Ask a telecom company the big questions—how do you spark growth, boost efficiency, or improve customer satisfaction—and chances are, AI is their go-to answer. And increasingly, artificial intelligence, including generative AI (GenAI), has become telcos’ answer to other questions. That’s the beauty of AI: It’s a multi-purpose enabler.
But are telcos truly poised to unleash the technology? Are they making the investments, developing the strategies, and reaching the maturity levels that will let them take AI in new directions? Findings from this year’s telco IT benchmark ( TeBIT ) study, jointly developed by ETIS —The Community for Telecom Professionals—and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), raise concerns that operators may not be realizing, or be poised to realize, the full value of AI and GenAI.
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Thomas "Tom" Kruger
Partner and Director, BCG
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Following the Keynote session, 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 below.
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 Farewell ceremony.
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IN ORDER TO ACCESS THE FULL 2-DAY PROGRAMME / AGENDA FOR EACH SEPARATE WORKING 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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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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We encourage all industry professionals to register now and secure your place.
Please reach out to us via "info@etis.org" with any questions you may have.
Let’s shape the future of telecom together.
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