Program
Conference date: 18-19 November 2026 | in Stuttgart | Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany
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.
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Wednesday
November 18, 2026
| 08:45 | Registration and welcome coffee |
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| 09:30 | Welcome and short introduction |
| 09:40 | Keynote Holistic safety: The invisible practice that must become a conscious strategy |
| 10:20 | Coffee break |
| Regulation and standards | |
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| 11:00 | Updates & discussion on limitations |
| 12:00 | Lunch break |
| Automated driving & SOTIF | |
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| 13:30 | HEART‑Auto: Quantifying reasonably foreseeable misuse for SOTIF acceptance in ADAS |
| 14:10 | Federated Safety: A blueprint for keeping pace with autonomy |
| 14:50 | How to perform consistent and complementary scenario-based hazard and risk analyses for SOTIF: Practical application for urban navigation on autopilot (NOA) L2 |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:10 | Taxonomy of quality metrics for arguing mitigation of uncertainty in automated driving |
| 16:50 | Statistical models for acceptance criteria of automated driving systems (ADS) |
| 17:30 | Closing words & end of 1st conference day |
| Get-together & Dinner | |
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| 18:00 -22:00 | 19:30 Scientific keynote "25 years of Safetronic - Milestones of the safety community" (Prof. Dr. Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer IKS) |
Thursday
November 19, 2026
| 08:30 | Welcome |
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| Safety methods | |
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| 08:40 | A holistic safety approach to the development of disruptive mixed technology systems using simulation to de-risk and accelerate development Dr. Phil March, Senior Consultant, HORIBA MIRA, Warwickshire, England Mike Pantrey, System Engineering Manager, YASA Ltd., Aynho, England |
| 09:20 | From semiconductor to vehicle: Model-based safety evidence exchanges to accelerate safety analysis re-use Alison Young, Safety Architect & Customer Enablement, NXP Semiconductors, Glasgow, UK |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| AI in vehicles | |
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| 10:40 | Keynote AI in automotive safety: Integrating AI-enabled functionality and related AI-supported safety engineering |
| 11:20 | From port logistics to off-Road defense: Scaling functional safety from rule-based PL d systems to AI-enhanced architectures under ISO 8800 |
| 12:00 | Panel Talk:EU AI ACT – Legal & technical aspects for AI solutions for road vehicles |
| 12:45 | Lunch break |
| 13:45 | Safe AI: safety case compliance to ISO PAS 8800 learnings from the first safe AI safety case (for a low level perception functionality) |
| 14:25 | AI lifecycle analysis (AILA) – A structured safety argument for safety critical embedded AI models |
| 15:05 | GenAI safety in use - Multiple safety design patterns frameworks |
| 15:45 | Closing words and farewell coffee |
Chair and Program Committee
| Name | Company | |
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Mario Trapp | Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS |
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Nicolas Becker | Stellantis N.V. |
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Thomas Frese | FORD Werke GmbH |
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Simon Fürst | BMW Group |
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Edith Holland | Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) |
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Delphine Kervarec-Vicq | Valeo |
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Frank Kirschke-Biller | Volkswagen AG |
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Stefan Kriso | Robert Bosch GmbH |
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Peter Lascych | Schaeffler AG |
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Hans-Leo Ross | CARIAD SE |
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Moritz Schneider | Convenor ISO/TC22/SC32/WG8 | BMW Group |
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Dr. Håkan Sivencrona | VOLVO CAR GROUP |
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Dr. Thomas Wiltschko | Member of WG13 | Mercedes-Benz AG |