… and we’re a bit excited to be fair! (we may have begged slightly to be here but who cares)
The 32nd Safety Critical Safety Symposium (run by the Safety-Critical Systems Club) is really the place to be if you have ANY interest in Safety (I personally work in Safety so I would say that)
This year its coming to the beautiful and great city of Bristol of all places, so if you are attending and want to pop over and say hi – please do. If you are not attending and are interested in all things Safety and AI then I don’t know why you wouldn’t be coming!
Its at the Bristol Royal Marriot Hotel next week from the 13th – 15th of February.
The symposium is for both experienced members of the safety community and those at earlier stages of their careers. It is a great opportunity to learn, develop experience and also build useful connections and create technical and social networks. It is a chance to meet experienced safety practitioners in an informal setting. A certificate of attendance will be issued and can be used for organisational CPD schemes.
We’ll do a few posts to let you know who’s going to be there so you can judge for yourself – we’ll start with the Automotive side of things though as that’s my industry.
The key person for me personally to hear speak is Phillip Koopman from Carnegie Mellon University (I’m a bit of a fan and big linkedin follower), who is heavily involved in Autonomous vehicles, the ethics around it, as well as the tech solutions. He’s recently released a white paper with William Widen from University of Miami School of Lawon “Safety Ethics for Design & Test of Automated Driving Features” which is well worth a read.
He’s testified for Washington State Senate on two autonomous vehicle bills, updates regularly on all things to do with Safety and the rapidly evolving tech world and how it affects safety. I’m sure he’s done loads of other great things, but so happy to have him visit and speak (not sure if asking for an autograph may be one step too far or if its bordering on stalking).
He’ll be one of the Safe AI Panel Speakers on the 14th along with …
Alessio Lomuscio: Professor of Safe Artificial Intelligence at Imperial College. Founder and CEO at Safe Intelligence, who leads the Verification of Autonomous Systems Lab at Imperial college London.
Helen Monkhouse: HORIBA MIRA who’s interests include functional safety, systems engineering, human factors, and requirements elicitation. Of particular interest, and the subject of Helen’s recent PhD thesis, is the impact that greater automation has on the way the industry develops and assures the safety of highly automated driving vehicle features.
John McDermid OBE FREng: From the Assuring Autonomy International Programme at the University of York. He is also a Non-Executive Director at the UK Health and Safety Executive.
Mark Sujan: Health Services Safety Investigation Body (HSSIB) who works at the Health Services Safety Investigations Body and is Managing Director of Human Factors Everywhere (we love Human Factors).
Greg Chance: Frazer-Nash Consultancy who works on AI assurance and methods to develop responsible AI and verification and assurance techniques
Alan Simpson: Owner and Director at Ebeni Ltd who is passionate about managing the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on safety-critical systems, exploring how AI influences traditional safety engineering practices and he envisions a future where safety engineering seamlessly integrates with evolving AI technologies, ensuring robust and reliable critical systems.
We’ll do another post about the rail, aviation and other speakers – including the fact that Bristol based Vertical Aerospace’s Simon Davies who’s doing an after dinner talk on the Wednesday
Did we also mention that Adiac Aguilar from Volvo Cars who works on the System Safety Architecture within the Core System Platform at Volvo Cars will be there?
Too exciting for Safety engineers like me – I’ll release another blog on the rail nuclear and aviation people later but for now – its great to have such a great event in Bristol as its where we are based. We also need to ensure that we have the women there as the future of safety, AI and autonomy are all something we should be part of.