Compliance Agenda
Compliance Working Group Agenda
Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece, June 5-6, 2025
Day 1 (June 5, 2025)
08:00 – 09:00
Registrations in the Hotel Lobby
09:00 – 11:00
Meeting Room - Olympia A + B
Location - Underground (-1 Floor)
Keynote Session: How Resilient Telcos Leverage AI and Navigate New Markets to Create Value
Keynote 1: Welcome Speech - 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: How to Thrive in Unthinkable Times: Change Your RULEs, Andrew Collinson, Connective Insight (15’)
Keynote 4: Secure, Aware, Resilient: Driving a Strong Security Culture - Ulrich ten Eikelder, Deutsche Telekom & Marcus Beyer, Swisscom (10’)
Keynote 5: Telco Security Landscape 2025 - Richard Kerkdijk, TNO (10')
Keynote 6: AI Makes Telcos Smart. But Are Telcos Smart About AI? - Thomas Kruger, BCG (10’)
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
COMPLIANCE WORKING GROUP BREAKOUT SESSIONS START
11:30 – 13:00
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 1: Company Updates
Roundtable
In this introductory session, each company is allocated 10 minutes to present:
- an overview of their compliance departments,
- its objectives,
- recent challenges,
- and expectations from this 2 days-long meeting.
13:00 – 14:00
Meeting Room - KALLIRHOE
Location - Ground Floor
Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 2, Part 1: Governance of Compliance
Roundtable
Building on the previous session, each company is allocated 15 minutes to introduce their compliance governance model, answering the questions of:
- What does your governance model currently look like?
- What is the line of reporting like?
- How do you manage compliance within the company, and how do you govern relationship with the subsidiaries?
- What kind of governance model would you like to create in the future?
- What do you need to overcome to achieve your ideal governance model?
We invite participants to present concrete examples backed with organigramme of structure.
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 2, Part 2: Governance of Compliance
Continuation of Session 2.
18:15 – 20:00
Sightseeing activity – Meeting point: Hotel Lobby
20:00 – 22:00
Community Dinner - Rooftop restaurant,
Hotel Royal Olympic
Compliance Working Group Agenda
Location: Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens, Greece, June 5-6, 2025
Day 2 (June 6, 2025)
09:00 – 10:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 3: Roles and Responsibilities of the Compliance Manager
Roundtable
Each company is invited to hold a 10 minutes long presentation on their roles and responsibilities, including:
- What are your core compliance functions?
- What are the adjacent compliance domains you are involved in? How is it managed overall?
- How do you deal with the complexity of the increasing number of compliance responsibilities?
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 4: Contract Lifecycle and Compliance Optimisation
Presentations
Joint session with the Procurement and Supply Chain Management Working Group.
Under the theme Ensuring Control, Visibility & Compliance Across the Value Chain, we invite one or two participants to hold presentations on:
- Next-gen contract lifecycle management – intelligence & automation
- Key tools, tech, and tactics to streamline contract compliance and reduce risk.
- Operationalising risk management in procurement
- Best practices for proactive monitoring, early warning systems, and supplier contract governance.
12:00 – 12:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 5: Compliance in Turbulent Times
Open discussion
In this session, we invite all participants to share if (and how) their respective compliance function is affected by newly emerging risks in the global economy. This should allow participants to learn from each other and anticipate changes.
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 – 14:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 5: Continuous Improvement of the Compliance Function
Presentations
Participants are invited to share unique use cases about questions like:
- Have your compliance department recently implemented a new solution to an existing problem, with the help of automation, machine learning, AI, and so on?
- Or have you implemented substantial changes to restructure or streamline your compliance processes?
Presentations:
- Automatising compliance procedures by KPN
- Using AI for legal document search by MEO
14:30 – 15:30
Meeting Room - TBA
Session 6: Commitment of the Upper Management
Roundtable
Each company is invited to share their insights and thoughts about:
- What is your relationship like with upper management (management board, CEO)?
- What are your expectations from them?
- What is the ideal commitment you would like to achieve?
15:30 – 16:00
Meeting Room - TBA
Wrap-up
Closing session to share feedback and discuss the leftover topics that the group can address at the next in-person meeting in Lisbon, on 25-26 September, hosted by MEO.
16:00 – 17:00
Farewell Reception for all attendees in the Foyer
Event Context and Expectations
This workshop is a collaborative knowledge-sharing event, where success relies on active preparation and engagement from all participants.
- Each company must prepare at least one 10-20 minute presentation relevant to one of the main sessions (ideally addressing one or more of the suggested topics within that session).
- Topic selection confirmation with the organizer by May 5th and final presentation submission by May 28th.
Event Sponsorship and Participation
This event is fully sponsored by ETIS and its partners, covering all meals, coffee breaks, the guided tour, and the farewell reception. Participation is free of charge.
Participation is open exclusively to ETIS member companies, and attendees are expected to actively contribute to discussions and presentations.
Registration and Support
If you have not yet registered for the event, or if other colleagues from your organization wish to register, please visit the website: HERE
For any questions, requests, or support, please do not hesitate to reach out to the organiser:
Konrad Ferenczy (kf@etis.org)
ETIS Central Office
Hotel Layout
