HARA – how to develop a unified approach in the preparation of hazard, risk and undesired event analysis?

Real-world testing – how to approach field testing of automated and connected driving in urban environments

Perception – how to use sensor simulation concepts for virtual test drives?

Scenarios – can we develop a common framework for self-driving vehicles?

E/E system concepts – can traditional vehicles be converted into fail-operational vehicles via re-design / re-mapping of components?

Safe artificial intelligence – how to ensure the safety of deep learning based systems, incl. DNNs?

Cooperative automated systems – how to use risk-oriented runtime reconfiguration to increase resilience of connected AVs?

Public road testing – how to make it safe and efficient?

Map-based validation – how to improve virtual testing with 3D map data?

Vehicle motion control – how to achieve fail-operational control in different environments?

Safety-critical systems – how to make the step from fail-safe to fail-operational?

ISO 26262 – what does the 2nd edition mean for automated vehicles and how to reflect the real progression of autonomous driving innovation in its 3rd and most anticipated edition?

SOTIF (ISO/PAS 21448), UL 4600 and PAS 1881 – can they fill the gap in existing standards and regulations?

Simulation and virtual testing – how to best integrate it into the development process?

Safe AI – How to integrate functional and operational safety in the context of AI, ML & Deep Neural Networks?

Software architectures and safety critical functions – how to deal with functional and systematic failure at software level?

Verification and Validation – how safe is safe enough, and how to prove it?

Semiconductors – what are current challenges and opportunities for safety-critical automotive systems?

Cybersecurity – how to think safety and security together?

Connectivity – how to test safety and security of V2V and V2X

Software architectures – how to deal with systematic failure at software level?

Common and continuous safety definition – how to develop a continuous safety case in autonomous driving?

Best practices – what can be learned from other industries such as aerospace and defense?