The international conference Safetronic holistically addresses the safety of road vehicles and all related aspects, including but not limited to functional safety, SOTIF, cybersecurity, safety-in-use and others.

The conference offers a rewarding exchange with experts of renowned companies and the excellent opportunity to connect with partners next to best practice reports and innovative approaches of leading OEMs and the supply industry.

Conferene date: 13-14 November 2024 | in Stuttgart-Fellbach, Germany

Wednesday

November 13, 2024

08:45

Registration and welcome coffee

09:30

Welcome and short introduction
Prof. Dr. habil. Mario Trapp, Executive Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Munich, Germany

Safety of automated driving systems and AI
09:40

Waymo's approach to the determination of safety for automated driving systems
Brennan Dutta, Senior Systems Safety Engineer, Waymo LLC, Mountain View, CA, USA

10:20

V&V: moving from ODD to behavioral safety centric approach
Eric Barbier, Head of Safety, Wayve Technologies Ltd., London, United Kingdom

11:00

Coffee break - Teams-Networking for online participants

11:40

AI in vehicle technology and its safety limitation
Hans-Leo Ross, Advisor Safety, Vay Technologies GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Dr. Bernhard Bauer, Lead Safety Expert, CARIAD SE, Ingolstadt, Germany

12:20

Architectures for safe automated driving
Moritz Antlanger, Senior Safety Engineer TTTech Auto AG, Vienna, Austria

13:00

Lunch break

14:10

Explainable statistical evaluation of an automated driving system functionality
Frauke Blossey, Senior Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Consultant;
Rainer Faller, Principal Partner, exida.com GmbH, Neubiberg, Germany

Standards & legal regulation
14:50

Updates to norms and standards
Andreas Knapp, Functional Safety, Mercedes-Benz AG, Sindelfingen, Germany

15:10

Interactive keynote: Legal landscape of product safety
Dr. Volker Hartmann, VP Product Compliance, HOLON GmbH, München & Of Counsel, reuschlaw, Berlin, Germany

16:10

Coffee break - Teams-Networking for online participants

Focus Talks I
16:50

Adaptive operational design domain
Ryan Mut, Research fellow AI Engineering, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Sankt Augustin, Germany

Functional safety for FCEVs
Dr. Christian Nessler, Senior Consultant, HORIBA MIRA Ltd., Warwickshire, United Kingdom

Thinking out of the box – learning from other domains
17:30

Innovating safely: Assurance for the next generation of aviation
Dr. Kim Wasson, Autonomy Certification Lead and Staff Development Assurance Engineer, Joby Aviation, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

18:10

Closing words 

19:00

Get-together and Scientific keynote “Building safe systems with AI – a call to action” of Dr. Reinhard Stolle, Deputy Director & Head of Business Unit Mobility, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS

Thursday

November 14, 2024

08:30

Welcome
Prof. Dr. habil. Mario Trapp, Executive Director, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Munich, Germany

Safety analysis
08:40

Hazard analysis and risk assessment for autonomous vehicles
Dr. Adam Schnellbach, Lead Engineer Safety Methods & Analyses, AVL List GmbH, Graz, Austria

09:20

AbRA - Architecture-based risk analysis to speed up safety argumentations
Jürgen Sauler, Global Head of Safety Management, FORVIA HELLA, Lippstadt, Germany
Florian Beer, Engineering Software Infrastructure and Integration, Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany

Focus Talks II
10:00

Quantitative fault tree analysis for autonomous systems
Noah Carlson, Safety Engineer, Edge Case Research Inc., Pittsburgh, PA, USA

On the significance of pseudo-random software errors in holistic product safety
Dr. Andreas Amoroso, Corporate Functional Safety Manager, Continental Automoitve Technologies GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany

Hazard Safety analyses methods using artificial intelligence - future outlook
Britta Linnemann, CEO, FSS Functional Safety Solutions Hamburg GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

11:00

Coffee break - Teams-Networking for online participants

Safety of platform software
11:40

Timing verification of AUTOSAR-based fail-operational systems
Jonas Wolf, Fellow Product Management, Vector Informatik GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
Dr. Daniel Kästner, CTO, AbsInt GmbH, Saarbrücken, Germany

12:20

A Linux based OS solution for safety related applications up to ASIL-B/ SIL-2
Dr. Michael Armbruster, Solution Architect, emlix GmbH, Göttingen, Germany
Aqib Javaid Butt, Expert at Hypervisor and Microkernel OS, Elektrobit Automotive GmbH, Erlangen, Germany

13:00

Lunch break

Practical experience reports
14:00

Operational safety experiences @ ZF Mobility Solutions
Dr. Roman Krzemien, Head of Safety and Cybersecurity; Ahmed Kchikach, Safety and Security Manager, ZF Group, Friedrichshafen, Germany

14:40

Implementation in accordance with ISO 26262 – recurrency of MPF safety mechanism
Magnus Jaster, System architect Product Line Battery, Schaeffler AG, Berlin, Germany

15:20

Identification of triggering events as extension of existing functional safety processes
Hans N. Beck, Functional Safety, Daimler Truck AG, Stuttgart Germany

16:00

Closing words and farewell coffee

Chair and Program Committee

Name Company
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mario Trapp / Fraunhofer IKS Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mario Trapp Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS
Nicolas Becker Stellantis N.V.
Thomas Frese / FORD Werke GmbH Thomas Frese FORD Werke GmbH
Simon Fürst / BMW Group Simon Fürst BMW Group
Frank Kirschke-Biller / Volkswagen AG Frank Kirschke-Biller Volkswagen AG
Andreas Knapp / Mercedes-Benz AG Andreas Knapp Mercedes-Benz AG
Stefan Kriso / Robert Bosch GmbH Stefan Kriso Robert Bosch GmbH
Peter Lascych / Vitesco Technologies Germany GmbH Peter Lascych Schaeffler AG
Hans-Leo Ross / Vay Technology GmbH Hans-Leo Ross Vay Technology GmbH
Dr. Håkan Sivencrona / Zenseact AB Dr. Håkan Sivencrona VOLVO CAR GROUP