ETSI SNS4SNS 2026

ETSI OSG Open Source MANO (OSM) at the edition of SNS4SNS – Software & Standards for Smart Networks & Services, which took place in Sophia Antipolis, France, from 2–5 February 2026.

Overview

🌐 SNS4SNS is an event that brings together open source communities, industry standardisation, and cutting-edge research initiatives for the future development of next-generation networks and services. The event will feature conferences, panel discussions, demos, tutorials and hackathons, where participants can delve into the world of open source software communities.

📚 SNS4SNS 2026 – Presentations & Materials

The ETSI SNS4SNS 2026 agenda brought together perspectives from industry, open‑source communities, academia, and both public and private sectors, contributing to the evolution of an open software ecosystem for future connectivity and services. It was an amazing opportunity to:

• 👀 Watch 35+ live demos and posters, showcasing collaborative innovation across sectors.
• 🧠 Attend interactive tutorials and explore the latest advances in ETSI Software Development Groups:
  • OpenOP
  • OpenSlice
  • OpenCAPIF
  • TeraFlowSDN
  • OpenSourceMANO

👉 All conference presentations and on‑stage demos are available through the official ETSI event page:

here. 

Tutorial

Open Source Mano held a very successful and inspiring tutorial on Tuesday, delivered by Francisco Javier Ramón Salguero (Telefónica, ETSI OSM Chair), on "Open Source MANO", providing an overview of Open Source MANO (OSM) and its role as a generalised cloud-native orchestrator for infrastructure, platforms, and services. The tutorial will showcase OSM’s new declarative approach to infrastructure and application management, including enhanced cluster management and declarative application modelling.

🌐 The slides are available here

🌐 The video recording of this session is available on our OSM YouTube channel here

Conference, Hackathon, Demos!

🔵 Francisco Javier Ramón Salguero (Telefónica, ETSI OSM Chair) delivered an excellent presentation focusing on ETSI OSM: Cloud-native orchestration in multi-cloud environments.

🔵 Francisco Javier Ramón Salguero (Telefónica, ETSI OSM Chair) represented on stage Open Source MANO on our cross-SDGs efforts with the launch of an open and long-term infrastructure/lab for cross-collaboration between SDGs.

🏅 SNS4SNS 2026 – Awards and Highlights

🏆 Best Demo Award

The Best Demo Award at SNS4SNS 2026 was presented to DEMO 19, titled “Smart just‑in‑time logistics atop an end‑to‑end orchestrated compute, network, and data continuum.”

🎉🎉 Many congratulations, Nikos Psaromanolakis (UBITECH), Georgios Angelopoulos (iLINK), Panagiotis Zikos (iLINK), Georgios P. Katsikas (UBITECH) and congratulations to all contributors for their hard work and dedication! 👏

🏆 Hackathon Award

The SNS4SNS Hackathon Award was won by the ATNoG – IT Aveiro team. Their project, “Network Testbeds as a Service (NTaaS) for Application Development,” integrated four ETSI Software Development Groups (SDGs): - TeraFlowSDN - OpenSlice - OpenSourceMANO - OpenOP

🎉🎉 Congrats to João Capucho, Igor Coelho, and Zakhar Kruptsala (IT Aveiro), who demonstrated not only strong technical skills but also the ability to translate ideas into working solutions under time pressure, while aligning with the event’s focus on standards-based, open-source innovation. 👏

Contact

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