Functional Safety Events Radar – August ’26 Edition

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August is the quiet stretch on the functional safety calendar, which is no surprise. The mid-year edition last month already mapped the run-up to November, so rather than padding a thin month, this edition does two things: flags the one August date worth holding, and sharpens the September line-up.

What’s new since the July mid-year edition
  • ISSS stays a save-the-date for August.
  • SAFECOMP workshop programmes are now live for nearly all eight workshops, so the SAFECOMP entry below now gives a one-line overview of each. WAISE is the one workshop that has not published its programme.
  • New on the list: Global Conference on Process Safety and Big Data (15–16 Sep, Frankfurt) → industry-adjacent, with confirmed functional-safety content on the preliminary programme.

August: one to note

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

ISSS 2026 — Annual International System Safety Summit & Training

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

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. Also, it starts today, 17 Aug.

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

Core events in September

September is where the dedicated functional safety calendar comes back to life. Here’s the full line-up in date order: the core functional safety events, plus industry-adjacent picks (flagged as such).

Just as a reminder, 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: A broad process-improvement conference with two tracks that speak directly to FuSa practitioners.

Why join?
Much of EuroSPI is broader process-improvement territory, but two community tracks are squarely aimed at FuSa practitioners: “Standards and Assessment Models” (08–09.09) and “Best Practices in Design of Systems Applying Functional Safety and Cybersecurity” (09–10.09).

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

TÜV Rheinland International Symposium: Functional Safety meets Cybersecurity

One-line summary: TÜV Rheinland’s biennial home fixture for the functional safety community, held at its Cologne headquarters since 1994.

Why join?
A practice-oriented programme from industry and science, with cybersecurity now firmly part of the functional safety agenda. Sessions run in German and English with simultaneous translation, and the room itself is a draw: integrators, manufacturers, operators, testers and approval authorities all attend.

Editorial note: Same week, same region: the 2026 Global Conference on Process Safety and Big Data process-safety conference below runs on the same two days in Frankfurt, about an hour from Cologne by train, so 15–16 Sep is an either/or choice depending on whether your work leans industrial FuSa or process safety.

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.

  • Date: 22–25 Sep 2026 (workshop day 22 Sep; main conference 23–25 Sep)
  • Location: Valencia, Spain (Universitat Politècnica de València)
  • Type: Conference + Workshops
  • Attendance mode: In-person
  • Organizer: SAFECOMP / EWICS TC7
  • Website: https://safecomp2026.webs.upv.es/

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.

Workshops are scheduled on September 22nd, the first day of the conference. 23–25 Sep are the conference days with their own scientific programs and keynotes.

The 22 Sep workshop day runs eight parallel workshops, each a self-contained event with its own call for papers, programme and proceedings. Seven sit squarely in functional-safety / safety-critical territory; the eighth (CSRIS 2026) is about cybersecurity for supply chains, not functional safety. The main conference (23–25 Sep) is single-track and squarely on-topic throughout, so no cherry-picking here: expect AI safety, industrial safety engineering and hazard-analysis sessions across the three days. One line on what each workshop covers, drawn from its published programme:

  • DECSoS 2026 (dependable embedded cyber-physical systems): plenary on “Functional Safety and AI”, plus safety argumentation and residual-risk reasoning for autonomous systems.
  • DAIES 2026 (dependable AI in embedded systems, tentative programme): appraising the functional safety of LLMs in automotive contexts, a deterministic safety monitor for mission-critical AI, and a keynote on neuromorphic AI under DO-254 / DO-178C / ECSS.
  • SENSEI 2026 (safety–security interactions): the safety-critical Rust ecosystem under IEC 61508 (SIL 2/3), and co-engineering functional safety and cybersecurity in automotive control systems (ISO 26262 + ISO/SAE 21434).
  • ORCAS 2026 (overreliance on cognitive AI in safety-critical domains): managing reliance risks for effective human oversight.
  • SafetyNXT 2026 (disruptive safety challenges): how safe is safe enough for autonomous robots, risk-aware driver monitoring and dataset diversity for automated driving, and functional hazard analysis bridging MIL-STD-882E and IEC 61508.
  • SASSUR 2026 (next-generation system assurance): a keynote on Assurance 2.0, plus sessions spanning automotive assurance, assurance-case methods for AI-enabled safety functions, and standards-based assurance.
  • WAISE 2026 (AI safety engineering): programme not yet published at the time of writing.

Editorial note: All eight workshops run in parallel, so in practice you pick one for the day: DAIES, SASSUR or WAISE for AI-safety assurance, DECSoS or SafetyNXT for automotive-leaning topics, SENSEI for safety-security co-engineering, and ORCAS for human oversight of AI.

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

Safetronic 25th Anniversary Online Pre-Event

One-line summary: Fraunhofer IKS opens Safetronic’s anniversary season with a free online session.

Why join?
Zero cost, zero travel: an online session of talks drawn from this year’s call for papers, previewing the themes of November’s main conference. An easy way to stay close to the automotive safety conversation from your desk.

Editorial note: If you’re at Safety.AD in Munich that week, this one can still fit in: it runs 4:00–6:30 p.m. CEST on 28 Sep, online, so you can join from wherever you are if the topics matter to you.

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

Safety. AD Europe 2026

One-line summary: Two Munich days on SOTIF and system-level safety for automated driving.

Why join?
Panels and discussion rather than lecture theatre: SOTIF, operational safety and system-level safety argumentation for L3+ vehicles, with European OEMs and suppliers in the room. A useful read on where the industry actually stands on automated-driving safety.

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

Industry-adjacent event coming up in September

Global Conference on Process Safety and Big Data 2026

One-line summary: Process safety meets AI/big data, with confirmed functional safety content on the programme.

Why join?
AIChE/CCPS’s process-safety conference sits at the intersection of process safety and AI/big data. Not a dedicated functional safety event, but the draft programme carries several sessions a FuSa practitioner would care about:

  • “Governing AI in Safety-Critical Operations”: responsible-AI controls, drift and human oversight in safety-critical process operations, plus deterministic, physics-grounded AI for safety-critical control rooms.
  • “The evolution of process safety intelligence: Aligning functional safety with the next generation of APM and industrial AI” (the one talk that names functional safety outright).
  • “Real-time barrier health monitoring for proactive process safety” and “Predictive safety-critical element management: Integrating cumulative risk assessment, maintenance optimization and artificial intelligence” (barrier and safety-critical-element health, close to SIS territory).
  • AI-assisted HAZOP and process hazard analysis (Session 2), plus predictive maintenance and machine learning for mechanical integrity (Session 5).

Editorial note: Expect a process-industry (IEC 61511) framing; worth it if your work sits where process safety meets digitalisation.

Keywords: process safety, functional safety, HAZOP, dynamic risk, AI in safety

The next full edition of the Functional Safety Events Radar returns on 15 September, with the rest of September and October in full detail.

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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