Functional Safety Events Radar – June ’26 Edition

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Functional Safety Events Radar — June 2026

Late June is one of the busiest stretches of the year for dedicated functional safety events, and then the calendar goes quiet over the summer. This edition covers the second half of June, and because July and August are thin on core functional safety events, we have also pulled together the autumn dates worth holding in your calendar now.

Core events this month

What we mean by “core events”: Functional safety is the event’s central subject, not a side track. The whole programme is built around it — keynotes, panels and working sessions all come back to it — so the entire event earns its place on your calendar. These are the ones we block out first.

VDA Automotive SYS Conference

One-line summary: The long-running German forum on quality, safety and security for automotive software-based systems.

Why join?
A dedicated automotive software safety and security conference. The programme runs parallel workshops and sessions on product safety/integrity, safety in automotive applications, verification and validation, standards and compliance, automated driving, and AI/ML in automotive systems. One of the established meeting points for the ISO 26262 / Automotive SPICE community.

Keywords: automotive software safety, ISO 26262, product safety, verification and validation, automated driving

FMEA User Tage 2026

One-line summary: A hands-on practitioner forum for FMEA and FMEDA — core ISO 26262 work products.

Why join?
A practice-focused forum where experienced FMEA users exchange methods, tooling, and best practices. Note: sessions are in German.

Keywords: FMEA, FMEDA, hardware safety analysis, systematic failures

Planning a Stuttgart trip? Vehicle Tech Week Europe (in the Industry Adjacent section below) runs on overlapping dates just minutes away — Messe Stuttgart is also in Leinfelden-Echterdingen — so the two are easy to pair into one visit.

R.A.M.S. Europe 2026

One-line summary: Cross-industry, practitioner-focused conference on reliability, availability, maintainability, and safety. (Previewed in our May radar).

Why join?
Cross-industry conference at the intersection of safety assurance, reliability and dependability. Relevant for engineers who build safety cases that integrate reliability/availability arguments, or who work at the IEC 61508 system level across energy, rail, process and automotive.

Keywords: RAMS, reliability, safety assurance, IEC 61508, dependability

SCSC Workshop: How to Make the Most of AI (for Safety Engineers)

One-line summary: AI tools framed specifically for functional safety practice — not generic productivity advice. (Previewed in our May radar).

Why join?
A practical workshop on using AI meaningfully when the output ends up in a safety case, argument, or review. Rare in that it addresses functional-safety-specific considerations rather than general AI productivity.

Keywords: functional safety practice, AI tooling, safety-critical systems, safety engineering

Safety.AD USA 2026

One-line summary: Functional, operational & system safety for L3+ automated vehicles — the US edition. (Previewed in our May radar).

Why join?
The US counterpart to Safety.AD Europe — discussion-heavy panel format on SOTIF, AD system-level safety argumentation, and US operational safety practice. A good read on how US OEMs and regulators approach AD safety.

Keywords: ADAS/AD safety, operational safety, functional safety, SOTIF, L3+ vehicles

Industry-adjacent events this month

What we mean by “industry adjacent”: Conferences and expos from adjacent safety-critical industries that carry confirmed functional safety sessions on their programme. We include them only when the field is genuinely safety-critical, and the FuSa sessions are confirmed. If you already work where those worlds meet, they are worth your time.

Automate 2026

One-line summary: Two confirmed FuSa sessions in the “Safety in Automation & Manufacturing” track. (Previewed in our May radar).

Why join?
Relevant if your work touches industrial robot safety, machine safety, or ISO 10218 / ISO 13849 territory. Two confirmed sessions in the “Safety in Automation & Manufacturing” track —

  • “Maximizing Robot Throughput and Safety with Industrial Safety Agents” (22 Jun, 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM)
  • “Exploring the New ISO 10218 Standards and Revised R15.06” by Roberta Nelson Shea, Universal Robots (23 Jun, 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM).

Keywords: industrial robot safety, ISO 10218, ISO 13849, machine safety, automation safety

Vehicle Tech Week Europe

One-line summary: An umbrella over three co-located expos in Stuttgart, with functional safety concentrated in two of them.

Why join?
Functional safety lives in two of the three shows. The Autonomous Vehicle Tech Expo conference is explicitly addressed to safety leads (functional safety, SOTIF, cyber). The Automotive Testing Expo hosts a confirmed ATTI Forum panel — “Safe by Design, Secure by Default — Navigating SOTIF, Functional Safety and Cybersecurity” (24 Jun, 13:55–14:25). We found no functional-safety content at the third show, the Automotive Interiors Expo.

Keywords: autonomous driving safety, SOTIF, automotive testing, functional safety panel, ADAS validation

Looking ahead to autumn

July and August are quiet, so we are pointing you to the autumn dates worth holding now — all dedicated functional safety/system safety events.

TÜV Rheinland Symposium: Functional Safety and Cybersecurity in Industrial Automation

One-line summary: A long-running international symposium on functional safety — with cybersecurity in the context of functional safety added in recent editions — held biennially since 1994.

Why join?
One of the longer-running international symposiums dedicated to functional safety, with cybersecurity in the context of functional safety added in recent editions. Practice-oriented presentations from industry and science on the latest applications and developments across the digital automation industry, with strong room for networking and exchange of experience across integrators, manufacturers, operators, testers and approval authorities. Sessions in German and English (simultaneous translation).

Keywords: functional safety, IEC 61508, cybersecurity, safety-related systems, AI safety, cross-industry

SAFECOMP 2026 (45th International Conference)

One-line summary: A long-running flagship cross-industry conference on computer safety, reliability, and security.

Why join?
The 45th edition of the long-standing computer safety, reliability and security conference — single-track main conference with no parallel sessions on 23–25 Sep, drawing the cross-industry safety community across automotive, rail, aerospace, robotics and AI safety. The 22 Sep workshop day runs eight parallel workshops, each a self-contained event with its own call for papers, programme and proceedings — and seven of them sit squarely in functional-safety / safety-critical territory:

  • DECSoS 2026 — 21st Int. Workshop on Dependable Smart Embedded Cyber-Physical Systems and Systems-of-Systems
  • SASSUR 2026 — 13th Int. Workshop on Next Generation of System Assurance Approaches for Critical Systems
  • WAISE 2026 — 9th Int. Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering
  • SENSEI 2026 — 5th Int. Workshop on Safety and Security Interactions
  • SafetyNXT 2026 — 2nd Int. Workshop on Disruptive Safety Challenges and Paradigms
  • DAIES 2026 — 1st Int. Workshop on Dependable AI in Embedded Systems
  • ORCAS 2026 — 1st Int. Workshop on OverReliance on Cognitive AI Systems in Safety-Critical Domains

Keywords: SAFECOMP, assurance cases, AI safety, cyber-physical systems, safety-security co-engineering

Safety.AD Europe 2026

One-line summary: The European AD-safety summit — SOTIF and system-level safety argumentation for automated driving.

Why join?
The European edition of Safety.AD — discussion-heavy panels on SOTIF, operational safety and system-level safety argumentation for L3+ automated vehicles.

Keywords: ADAS/AD safety, operational safety, functional safety, SOTIF, L3+ vehicles

The July edition of the Functional Safety Events Radar drops mid-July — covering the core and industry-adjacent events as the autumn calendar picks up.

Attending an event not on the list? Or know one we should track?

Let us know — we’ll check it for the next edition.

Event details are sourced from organizer websites and are correct at the time of publishing — always verify dates and registration directly with organizers before booking travel.

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