Event Recording | The 14th GSMA EMF Forum 2025
Start: Tuesday 30 September 2025 09:00
End: Tuesday 30 September 2025 16:30
Venue: Le Louise Hotel
Location: Brussels, Belgium
The Evolution of EMF Science, Technology and Communication
The 14th GSMA EMF Forum 2025 provided a platform for international dialogue on the evolution of 5G and related wireless technologies, the latest scientific research, and how to effectively engage the public on EMF issues.
Key themes
- WHO assessment of health effects of exposure to RF-EMF
- Risk perception and effective risk communication strategies
- National case studies on addressing public concern over base station siting
- GOLIAT project update: Citizen engagement in EMF science and policy
- EMF implications of next-generation mobile technology
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Agenda
09:00-09:30
Introduction to the 14th GSMA EMF Forum
Mike Wood, Telstra –GSMA EMF and Health Chair
Laszlo Toth, Head of Europe & CIS, GSMA
Dr Jack Rowley, Senior Director, EMF & Deployment Policy, GSMA
09:30-10:45
WHO commissioned systematic reviews of RF-EMF effects on cancer and symptoms: epidemiological and human experimental evidence
WHO assessment of health effects of exposure to RF-EMF
Q&A session
Professor Martin Röösli, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Switzerland)
Dr Jos Verbeek, WHO Task Group on Radiofrequency Fields and Health Risks, 2023
Facilitator: DI Manfred Ruttner, A1 Telekom Austria – GSMA EMF and Health Deputy Chair
10:45-11:00
Coffee break
11:00-12:30
GOLIAT (5G expOsure, causaL effects, and rIsk perception through citizen engAgemenT): project overview and current status
Panel: What do we know, what is uncertain? The perspective of EMF expert groups
Dr Mònica Guxens, GOLIAT Coordinator, ISGlobal (Spain)
Dr Gemma Castaño, GOLIAT Project, ISGlobal (Spain)
Panellists:
Dr Georg Neubauer, Radio Scientific Advisory Board (WBF), Austria
Dr Alberto Nájera López, Scientific Director Scientific Advisory Committee on Radiofrequencies and Health (CCARS), Spain
Facilitator: Stefano D'Elia, Vodafone Group – GSMA EMF and Health Delegate
12:30-14:00
Lunch and networking
14:00-15:30
Polish attitudes towards new technologies: awareness and emotions associated with electromagnetic fields - analysis and international comparison
Panel: National experiences in addressing public concern related to base station siting
Professor Urszula Soler, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
Panellists:
Margit Kropik, Forum Mobilkommunikation, Austria
George Stefanopoulos, EEKT, Greece
Lisa Kelly, Optus, Australia
Hamish MacLeod, Mobile UK, United Kingdom
Facilitator: Isabel María Álvaro Alonso, Telefonica – GSMA EMF and Health Delegate
15:30-15:45
Coffee break
15:45-16:15
An RF-EMF perspective of the mobile technology evolution roadmap
Christer Törnevik, Head of EMF and Health, Ericsson Research
Facilitator: Patricia Martigne, Orange – GSMA EMF and Health Delegate
16:15-16:30
Wrap-up
Dr Jack Rowley, Senior Director, EMF & Deployment Policy, GSMA
Speakers
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