March 2025 eFlyer
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We hope you are enjoying the start of spring! Welcome to the SCSC’s March 2025 e-flyer, keeping you up-to-date with details of club events, publications and activities which may be of interest to you. Safety-Critical Systems Symposium SSS’25
Presentations and slides from the event are becoming available, on the SCSC website https://scsc.uk/SSS'25 (You will need to be a full SCSC member to access some materials.) One-day Seminars for 2025Safe 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. It will include planning, development, maintenance and support activities and will look at example projects and standards and guidance in the area. 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? Fred Heath, Faria Education Group - Can agility and safety coexist? Thor Myklebust, Sintef - The AI Act and The Agile Safety Plan (TBC) More speakers to be confirmed... 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. Presentations from experts, working at the cutting edge of AI and Human Factors, will discuss emerging principles and good practices in the emergent application of artificial intelligence in safety critical systems.
Speakers include: Ben Fulford, Safety Consultant, BMT Paul Leach, Rail Safety and Standards Board Kathy Syfret, Deputy MilCAM for A400M RAF platform Ben Wright 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
Working Groups Safe AI Working Group (SAIWG) The Safe AI Working Group (SAIWG) is producing a position paper. The group’s web page provides details on its aims and objectives - https://scsc.uk/gb. Contact alan.simpson@ebeni.com for more details. 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. We are working on developing a comprehensive roadmap to guide new safety 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 Article: The Sinking of the Unsinkable (again) - Wendy Owen Wendy Owen revisits a newsletter article from last year on the Titan submersible accident (June 2023), and uncovers a sorrowful tale of wayward tourism, bucket lists of the rich, rogue designers, paid-off whistle-blowers, a whole suite of independent assessors, test facilities, accreditation bodies and regulators “with no teeth”, and dubious legal waivers… Article: Modelling Our World - The Ontology Working Group (OWG) The Ontology Working Group (OWG) provides an introduction to ontology, explains how relevant and important it is and describes the OWG's current objectives in developing new ontological models that will be of benefit to everyone working in domains that involve the management of risk, such as safety and security. 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:
Volume 3 of the journal is now available in printed form from Amazon, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DVQ2SPNX/ 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
Following the success of its first edition, the AI Ethics, Risks, and Safety Conference returns to the Watershed in Bristol 15th May, to bring together leading experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities of AI. CW International Conference 2025
This year's conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform, engaging technologists, policymakers, and industry leaders to drive the conversation on strengthening technological resilience in a rapidly evolving world. Alex and Mike thescsc.org |
professionals in exploring career paths across various industries.To supplement this, we have an initiative to create a University 'League' Table to rank universities based on their safety engineering courses and the career pathways they support. We are also looking to start a reverse mentoring programme where we can match more experienced people with new professionals for information exchange.
