Centre for Assuring Autonomy Symposium
The inaugural CfAA Symposium is a celebration, showcase and collaborative event which brings together leading experts from academia and industry who are committed to advancing safe autonomy and AI. Taking place across three days at both the Institute for Safe Autonomy and the Malmaison in central York, the Symposium features our BIG Argument, AMLAS, and SACE as well as insightful panel discussions around safety cases for AGI, the expansion of harms and the engineering challenges around safe AI.
Tuesday 23 September 2025, 9am to Thursday 25 September 2025, 3.30pm In-person only: Institute for Safe Autonomy & Hotel Malmaison
The International Workshop on Assurance for Software-intensive Systems (ASSURE) is a new incarnation of the earlier workshop series on Assurance Cases for Software-intensive Systems. It expands the scope of those earlier workshops to new and ongoing research and practice for addressing the assurance challenges brought forth by novel technological advances over the past decade: for example, in autonomy enabling technologies such as machine learning, including deep neural networks, transformers, large language models, etc., which have already been deployed in safety-critical transportation systems, sometimes with catastrophic consequences.
The mission of the High Integrity Software Conference (HISC) is to bring software engineering practitioners together to share their challenges, best practices and experiences. Our conference programme features high-quality content from experts in industry and academia who disseminate their knowledge of important and innovative techniques and methods that software engineers can apply in practice across industry sectors.
HISC will return to the International Convention Centre (ICC) Wales on 13th November 2025.
Registration is now open. Get your tickets and learn more:
https://www.his-conference.co.uk/
We are in an age of digital dependency, where more and more aspects of our everyday lives will rely on the correct function of software-intensive electronic systems.
These systems may be tangible, at-hand, embedded systems, but more frequently are remote and highly distributed, relying on multiple layers of communication and infrastructure for correct operation. We expect these systems to deliver ever-more complex functionality on demand, and need to be able to trust this functionality to be delivered with appropriate levels of safety and security.
The need for trustworthy software – software that does exactly what it is intended to do – is well-established in certain sectors such as defence, aerospace, and transportation, along with a mature approach to its design and assurance. But the increased use of software in more and more domains – embedded, connected, consumer and infrastructure systems – means that similar approaches are needed across a broader range of industries.
In addition there are disruptive technological influences which mean that traditional approaches to verification and assurance in the established industries will no longer remain applicable or sufficient.
The aim of the High Integrity Software conference is to share the experience and know-how that will address these challenges within our industry and help to build the foundations of a trustworthy software ecosystem for the future.
The Annual Systems Engineering Conference is the UK’s premier Systems Engineering event, attracting a wide range of industry professionals, international presenters and practitioners, which provides a distinguished platform for networking, learning and sharing ideas.
ASEC 2025 will be taking place on 25-26 November 2025, at the Ashford International Hotel, Kent.
INCOSE UK hosted its first ASEC in 2010, now in its 16th year, the two-day conference has developed to include technical presentations on contemporary Systems Engineering theory and practice, tutorials run by leading Systems Engineering Practitioners, an exhibition of Systems Engineering organisations presenting their products and services.
Theme
The theme for ASEC 2025 is ‘Broadening Our Horizons’ within which we intend to explore the following sub-themes:
- Enabling Sustainability
- The impact of Al on Systems Engineering
- Enhancing Collaboration
- Managing Stakeholder Expectations