e-Flyer - SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEMS CLUB (SCSC)

We hope you are enjoying the better weather!

Welcome to the SCSC’s April 2025 e-flyer, keeping you up-to-date with details of club events, publications and activities which may be of interest to you.

One-day Seminars for 2025

Safe Agile Developments  Thursday 1st May 2025, will take place at the Wellcome Collection, Euston Rd, London.

This 1-day seminar will look at techniques and approaches for managing Agile developments for safety-related systems.

Speakers and talks include:

• Bill Blackburn, Consultant - Scaled Agile for High Integrity Services
• Dewi Daniels, Software Safety Ltd - 24 years on from the Agile Manifesto: What have we learned?
• Oumaima Fasih, Functional Safety Engineer & Scrum Master - Bringing Agility to Functional Safety: A Practical Approach Aligned with ISO 26262
• Fred Heath, Faria Education Group - Can agility and safety coexist?
• Paul Lister, Equiniti - How Agile helps you hit the complexity bullseye
• Núria Mata, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS - Building blocks for the development of safety-critical automated driving functions in a holistic DevOps approach
• Thor Myklebust, Sintef - The AI Act and The Agile Safety Plan

The discussion session is led by Nigel Barlass, CGI

Please contact Alex King for more details. For further information and to make your booking please see here: https://scsc.uk/e1154

How Safety Culture has to Change with AI  Thursday 19th June 2025, will take place at the Hilton Euston Hotel, London.

This 1-day seminar looks at how an organisation's safety culture has to change when systems including AI are introduced.  

Speakers include:

• Ben Fulford, Safety Consultant, BMT
• Paul Leach, Rail Safety and Standards Board 
• Kathy Syfret, Deputy MilCAM for A400M RAF platform
• Ben Wright, Coventry University
• Michael Wright, Safety Culture Working Group (SCWG)

Please contact Alex King for more details. For further information and to make your booking please see here: https://scsc.uk/e1156

Safety-Critical Systems Symposium SSS’26

Save the Date
SSS'26 will take place 10-12th February 2026, at The Milner York hotel, York, UK.  https://scsc.uk/e1176 The Call for Abstracts is now open. 

SSS’25

Presentations and slides from the event are now available, on the SCSC website https://scsc.uk/SSS'25 (You will need to be a full SCSC member to access some materials.)

Working Groups

For a list of all upcoming Working Group meetings please see the Events Diary (https://scsc.uk/events?tab=working) If you would like to participate in one or more of these please contact the group leader.

Safety Futures Initiative (SFI) Working Group

The Safety Futures Initiative working group meets regularly to bring together fresh perspectives, innovative ideas and insights.

Please contact Khadijah Khatun, khadijah.khatun@scsc.uk, if you would like to attend or if anything about the group takes your interest. We encourage anyone to get involved to help shape the future of safety engineering careers.

Newsletter

If you wish to contribute an article to the Newsletter, please contact the editor, paul.hampton@scsc.uk. The latest edition of the SCSC newsletter is available at: https://scsc.uk/newsletter

Advertising in the SCSC Newsletter

The club publishes its newsletter Safety Systems three times a year in February, May and October.  The newsletter is free to all and can be made available in electronic form for inclusion on corporate members' intranet sites.

Half or full page advertising space is available. If you would like to advertise in the SCSC Newsletter, please contact office@scsc.uk for further information.

eJournal

If you wish to contribute to the eJournal as an author, reviewer and/or an editor, please register here.

Vol. 3 Iss. 2, the summer issue of the Safety-Critical Systems eJournal is available here:https://scsc.uk/SCSC-196, featuring three peer-reviewed papers:

Full SCSC Membership

Why not become a full member of the SCSC? This gives you discounts on events and access to all website content, and gives you a say in the running of the club. Full membership details are here:  https://scsc.uk/membership

Other Events

SCSC - Events diary

The AI Ethics, Risks, and Safety Conference returns to the Watershed in Bristol 15th May.

High Integrity Software Conference 2025
13th November 2025, International Convention Centre (ICC), Wales, UK

The High Integrity Software Conference (HISC) will return to the International Convention Centre (ICC) Wales on 13th November 2025.

HISC brings together software engineering practitioners together to share their challenges, best practices and experiences.

Registration is now open. Get your tickets and learn more.

Alex and Mike

alex.king@scsc.uk

mike.parsons@scsc.uk

scsc.uk

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