Functional Safety Events Radar – July ’26 Edition

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Functional Safety Events Radar — July 2026

We’re at the mid-point of the year, so this edition zooms out. July and August are genuinely quiet on dedicated functional safety events — the calendar picks up again in September and runs through to December. Rather than a thin month-by-month roundup, here’s your functional safety run-up to the end of 2026: one August date to note, a packed autumn in full, and the winter dates worth holding in your calendar now.

August — one to note

August stays quiet on the dedicated functional safety calendar, but one event is worth flagging early.

ISSS 2026 — Annual International System Safety Summit & Training

Editorial note: This one’s been on our radar a while, but we held off on a full write-up until the session and speaker details firm up. Based on the society’s long track record, it looks relevant — so treat it as a save-the-date: pencil it in if you’re near Huntsville, and we’ll bring the full programme hopefully in the next edition once it’s public.

One-line summary: The International System Safety Society’s annual summit and training week.

Keywords: system safety, MIL-STD-882, system safety engineering, safety assurance

Looking ahead to autumn

Since July and August are quiet, here’s the full autumn line-up in one place — every core functional safety/system safety event from September through the end of October, plus a few industry-adjacent picks (flagged as such). Listed in date order.

Our naming convention →
Core — functional safety is the event’s whole point; the programme is built around it, so it earns a spot on your calendar (block these first).
Industry-adjacent — events from neighbouring safety-critical fields that carry confirmed functional safety sessions; worth it if you already work where those worlds meet.

EuroSPI 2026 — Functional Safety & Cybersecurity + Standards & Assessment Models tracks

One-line summary: The two tracks worth your time at a broader process-improvement conference.

Why join?
EuroSPI covers a lot of ground, but two community tracks make it worthwhile for functional safety readers: “Best Practices in Design of Systems Applying Functional Safety and Cybersecurity” and “Standards and Assessment Models” — both directly relevant to FuSa practitioners. The rest of the programme is broader process-improvement territory. A hybrid attendance option is available if Cairo isn’t on your itinerary.

Keywords: functional safety, cybersecurity, standards and assessment models, ISO 26262, ASPICE

TÜV Rheinland International Symposium: Functional Safety meets Cybersecurity

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 at TÜV Rheinland’s Cologne headquarters 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, with strong room for networking across integrators, manufacturers, operators, testers and approval authorities. Sessions in German and English (simultaneous translation).

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

SAFECOMP 2026 (45th International Conference)

One-line summary: The 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 — a 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, seven of them squarely in functional-safety/safety-critical territory (except CSRIS 2026, which is Cyber Security-related).

Keywords: SAFECOMP, SASSUR, WAISE, assurance cases, AI safety

Safetronic 25th Anniversary Online Pre-Event

One-line summary: A free online warm-up to Safetronic’s anniversary year.

Why join?
A free, low-commitment online session with safety talks drawn from this year’s call for papers — a way to preview the themes ahead of the Safetronic main conference in November. Good for teams who can’t travel but want to stay close to the automotive functional safety conversation.

Keywords: automotive safety, ISO 26262, SOTIF, safety-in-use, online

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. A good read on how European OEMs and suppliers approach automated-driving safety.

Keywords: AD safety, SOTIF, operational safety, automated driving, L3+

Critical Operations Forum 2026

One-line summary: Industry-adjacent — human factors and reliability in safety-critical operations.

Why join?
An international conference for professionals working with safety-critical systems, seen through a human-factors lens — cognitive ergonomics under pressure, HMI design, automation bias and decision-making in high-risk control-room environments (healthcare, infrastructure, emergency response, industry). Not a core functional safety event — it sits on the human-factors side of safety-critical operations — but useful if the human-in-the-loop part of your safety case matters.

Keywords: safety-critical operations, human factors, HMI, cognitive ergonomics, control rooms

TÜV SÜD Mobile Robotics Conference 2026

One-line summary: Where AI meets functional safety for autonomous machines.

Why join?
A focused, cross-functional look at where AI and functional safety intersect for autonomous machines — spanning dual-use sectors like construction, agriculture, mining and logistics, with research institutes, start-ups and industry developers on the programme.

Keywords: mobile robotics, AI and functional safety, autonomous systems, ISO 13849, safety-critical

Munich Embedded 2026

One-line summary: Industry-adjacent — testing, security and reliability for embedded systems.

Why join?
A compact evening conference (capped at ~100 participants) on testing strategies, security and reliability in embedded systems. Not a core functional safety event, but the reliability-and-testing themes overlap with the platforms safety functions run on.

And it’s on the same day as the TÜV SÜD Mobile Robotics conference if you’re already in Munich. Plus, catch Modelwise while you are at it.

Keywords: embedded systems, testing, reliability, security, safety-critical

Block it now — winter

The autumn wave carries into winter. Full write-ups will follow closer to the dates — for now, here’s what to hold in your calendar:

The next full edition of the Functional Safety Events Radar returns mid-August, with September in full detail once again.

Attending an event not on the list? Or know one we should track? Let us know — we’ll check it for the next edition.

Found this useful? If someone in your functional safety network would benefit, share it their way.

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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