ETSI & 3GPP @ 
At MWC 2010, ETSI - together with 3GPP - once again had a booth presence to facilitate interaction with existing members, to promote itself amongst a larger audience and last but not least to create awareness of its areas of activity.
At this year's event the main focus was on promoting key areas of activity regarding mobile communications, particularly LTE / LTE Advanced technology and thus 3GPP. Particular attention was given to not only raising awareness of ongoing telecoms-related activities but specifically on promoting new initiatives such as M2M, ITS, INT, etc.
Live presentations on ‘Security', ‘Machine-to-Machine' and ‘Enhancing the user experience' were given on three consecutive days at the booth. Following the presentations, a drinks reception took place that provided an ideal networking opportunity.
The presentations are available for download !
On Monday, 15th February, Charles Brookson looked at the security work within ETSI and some of the latest risks and threats to security which have happened in the last year. He looked at the motivation of those who try to break security, and what can be done to counteract this.
DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION HERE
About the presenter:
Charles Brookson CEng FIET FRSA M.Inst.ISP
Charles works in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of the United Kingdom Government, and is a Professional Electronic Engineer. He previously was Head of Security for one2one (now T-Mobile UK), and worked within British Telecom for twenty years before. He has worked in many security areas over the last 30 years, and mobile radio for over 25 years.
He has been Chairman on the GSM Association Security Group for 20 years.
He has been working the GSM and 3GPP security standards, first chairing the Algorithm Expert Group way back in 1986. He is Chairman of the NISSG, a group that was set up to co-ordinate security standards amongst the three European Security Standards Organisations and other bodies outside Europe. He is also Chairman of ETSI OCG Security, which is responsible for security within ETSI He is also on the Permanent Stakeholders group of ENISA, The European Network and Information Security Agency.
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On Tuesday, 16th February, David Boswarthick presented the world of connected object and machine-to- machine communications, and described how ETSI is currently standardizing an access agnostic M2M Platform that will support multiple innovative applications.
DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION HERE
About the presenter:
David Boswarthick, Technical Officer, ETSI
David has been extensively involved for over 10 years in the standardization activities of mobile, fixed and convergent networks in both the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). He is currently involved in the M2M standards group which is defining an end to end architecture and requirements for multiple M2M applications including Smart Metering, healthcare and enhanced home living. David holds a Bachelor's Honours Degree in Telecommunications from the University of Plymouth, and a Master's Degree in Networks and Distributed systems from the University of Nice and Sophia Antipolis, France.
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On Wednesday, 17th February, Mike Pluke gave a presentation on enhancing the user experience. He explored how the latest user interaction technologies can lead to a compelling user experience that sells products. He showed that getting this aspect wrong makes the cleverest underlying technology fail in the marketplace! ETSI is currently identifying the benefits of deploying future user interaction technologies whilst identifying how to design around potential weaknesses and avoid those embarrassing and costly market failures that all too easily happen.
DOWNLOAD THE PRESENTATION HERE
About the presenter:
Mike Pluke – Vice-Chairman ETSI Human Factors
Mike is a Director of the User Experience consultancy Castle Consulting Ltd. Previously Mike led the internal and external user experience standardization activity within BT.
He is currently Vice-Chairman of ETSI Human Factors which is responsible for user experience related activity within ETSI. Mike has been committed to the work of ETSI Human Factors for fifteen years both whilst working for BT and for Castle Consulting Ltd.
Following this year's success at MWC, ETSI is looking forward to next year's event.
In 2011 you will find us again in hall 2, booth E47.