08:00 – 09:00

09:00 – 11:00

Meeting Room - Olympia 1 + 2
Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

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, ETIS Chairman & Senior Advisor for EU & International Digital Policy, MEO (15’)

Keynote 3: No Power, No Problem: How to Keep the Network Operational During Blackouts - Markus Lyyra & Ville Väre, Elisa DES (5’)

Keynote 4: Secure, Aware, Resilient: Driving a Strong Security Culture - Ulrich ten Eikelder, Business Resilience, Deutsche Telekom Security & Marcus Beyer, Security Awareness Officer, Swisscom (10’)

Keynote 5: Telco Security Landscape 2025 - Richard Kerkdijk, Senior Security Consultant, TNO (10')

Keynote 6: TeBIT 2024 Benchmark report - AI Makes Telcos Smart. But Are Telcos Smart About AI? - Thomas "Tom" Kruger, Partner and Director, BCG (10’)

Keynote 7: How to Thrive in Unthinkable Times: Change Your RULEs - Andrew Collinson, MD, Connective Insight (20')

Panel discussion, 20'

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

INFORMATION SECURITY WORKING GROUP MEETING STARTS

IN PANORAMA ROOM

11:30 – 13:00

Meeting Room - "Panorama"
Location - Floor

Introduction and Roundtable, 10'

Goal: Welcome speech and agenda overview, followed by a roundtable where all participants introduce themselves (only name, company, role).

Company Updates (part I), 50'

Goal: Each company is allocated 2 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.

A Power Point Template to fill in will be circulated to all members in advance of the meeting. Members who presented their update in Stockholm (Feb 2025) are asked to only present news since February.

Updates to take place in the following order, max 2 minutes each:

Moderator: Andrija Višić, ETIS Central Office

• A1 Austria (first time update)
• A1 Croatia 
• BT
• Hrvatski Telekom
• MEO (first time update)
• NBI (first time update)
• Orange
• OTE (first time update)
• Proximus
• Swisscom
• TET
• Vodafone Germany
• Yettel Bulgaria (first time update)
• Yettel Hungary (first time update)
• Yettel Serbia (first time update)

Goal: ETIS, being a European Telco ISAC, often collaborates with other ISACs. In this session, the Japanese ICT-ISAC colleagues will update us on their newest initiatives.

Presentation: “Updates from the Japanese ICT-ISAC”, Dr. Shinsaku Kiyomoto and Dr. Koji Nakao, 20’ + 10' Q&A

13:00 – 14:00

Meeting Room - KALLIRHOE
Location - Ground Floor

Lunch Break

14:00 – 15:30

Meeting Room - "Panorama"
Location - Floor

Theme: Ensuring Compliance with NIS2, AI Act, CRA, and Emerging Regulations. Are authorities becoming stricter; adding new requirements; shifting focus towards BCM and DR?

Moderator: ISWG Core-Team

Presentation 1: “Belgian NIS2 cybersec landscape”, Fabrice Clement, CISO & Jo Van Damme, Cyber Security Program & Strategic Missions, Proximus, 15’

Description

Presentation on the dedicated NIS2 program and dedicated NIS2 taskforce in Proximus

Presentation 2: “Croatian NIS2 cybersec landscape - deep dive into the measures and controls”, Martina Dragičević, A1 Croatia, 15’

Description

The presentation will show in detail the cybersec (NT/IT and other) measures defined by the national regulation and accompanied by a 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, 20’

Presentation 3: “Cybersecurity Risk & Control Transformation at KPN”, Paul Slootmaker, Vice President Monitoring & Reporting, 25’

Q&A session: 15’

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30

Goal: European telcos and suppliers showcasing the most recent uses of AI tools in cybersecurity.

Moderator: ISWG Core-Team

Presentation 1: “AI for Cyber Defense + Evolution towards Autonomous Security Operations”, Tom Curry, Google, 20’ + Q&A

Description
Presentation will consist of showing a range of use-cases for AI in cyber defense, including real examples of what is possible today, as well as a more forward-looking view towards semi-autonomous and eventually autonomous security operations, based on increasing sophistication of agentic AI.

Presentation 2: “Title tbc” Marc Scheidegger, Swisscom, 20’ + Q&A

Description

“Based on experience from DevSecOps, Swisscom is currently analyzing the security capabilities required in the context of MLSecOps. The presentation is about the results of Swisscom PoC with multiple solutions to continuously security testing an LLM based chat bot. Swisscom is also collaborating on this topic with students from EPFL, the technical university in Lausanne, and can give some insights on the work we do in this area as well.

Company Updates (part II), 20' - Updates to take place in the following order, max 2 minutes each + Q&A:

• Ericsson, 2'
• Nokia, 2'
• Oracle, Alexander Rockel, 2'
• Google, Tom Curry, 2'
• TNO, Richard Kerkdijk, 2'
• SAP, Koen Claesen, 2'

18:15 – 20:00

20:00 – 22:00

09:00 – 10:30

Meeting Room - Olympia 2

Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

Presentations: A Closer Look at Liminal Panda, by Alexandre De Oliveira, POST Luxembourg, 15’ + Q&A

Moderator: Andrija Višić, ETIS Central Office + ETIS ISWG core-team

Roundtable Discussions: 30'

• Implications of Salt Typhoon
• Discuss the Data Leak Incident of SK Telecom - server was infected with malware, resulting in the need of 25 million SIM card replacements
• Experiences with hybrid war activities, sabotage-activities and ways to signal these
  • Mentimeter survey: "Telecom Infrastructure Resilience and Preparedness: Energy Backup, Service Continuity, and Crisis Collaboration", 30'

Other:

“ETIS as a European Telco ISAC – update”, Andrija Višić, ETIS CO, 5’

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30

Meeting Room - Olympia 2

Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

Moderator: Andrija Višić, ETIS Central Office & Core-Team SAWG

Workshop, 30’

Format & Goal: Workshop in 3 breakout groups (room, lobby & ground floor), each of which will produce points to go into a “suggestion paper” of measures to be implemented by telco cyber security / defence departments.

Theme: ”What factors impact telco cyber resiliency the most?”

BREAKOUT GROUP 1: Motivation and attitude of Executive Level colleagues in telecoms towards Security Awareness, Training & Culture.

• How much space, budget, resources and time is given to the topic? What goals do they have in this area – and what goals CISOs have?

Moderator: Stephan Nanning, KPN

BREAKOUT GROUP 2: What role does psychological safety play in the consideration of cyber security in organisations? Also, how to facilitate critical thinking.

Moderator: Marcus Beyer, Swisscom

BREAKOUT GROUP 3: Motivation and attitude of employees towards Security Awareness, Training & Culture.

• How to effectively reach employees – the discussion will focus on the level of engagement employees demonstrate in security initiatives, the effectiveness of current training programs, and how security awareness is perceived across different roles and responsibilities.

Moderator: Ulrich ten Eikelder, DT

Plenary consolidation:

• GROUP 1 presentation, 5’ + Q&A
• GROUP 2 presentation, 5’ + Q&A
• GROUP 3 presentation, 5’ + Q&A

Moderated discussion on next steps, 10’

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Moderator: Andrija Višić, ETIS Central Office & Core-Team SAWG

Presentation: “Hey, that number belongs to our customer, not the scammer - how Elisa won the battle against scam calls”, Petri Rajamäki, Elisa, 15’ + Q&A

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:30

Meeting Room - Olympia 2

Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

Moderator: ISWG core-team

Operators and telcos to propose presentations or discussion topics:

• “Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) interlinkage and the associated security threats, + impacts on CSPs”, presentation by Nokia, 30’
• Presentation slot 2: tbc

Moderated discussion: 30'

14:30 – 15:30

Meeting Room - Olympia 2

Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

Updates to take place in the following order, max 2 minutes each + Q&A:

• Elisa
• LMT
• KPN
• POST Luxembourg
• Sunrise
• Telenet
• Telenor Norway

15:30 – 16:00

Meeting Room - Olympia 2

Location - Underground (-1 Floor)

A short session dedicated to follow-ups and discussing topics that arose during the meeting’s discussions. Participants will brainstorm and compile a list of future topics for consideration in upcoming ETIS events.

Before leaving, participants are kindly requested to fill out the Feedback Form.

16:00 – 17:00

Farewell Reception for all attendees in the Foyer