Since 1995 Mr. Hans-Jörg Aryus is “Gesellschafter” of SystemA Engineering GmbH in Immenstaad. As managing senior system safety and reliability engineer he is responsible for the performance and coordination of safety activities within SystemA Engineering GmbH. Beside the managing activities he is still involved in system analyses of major and complex systems for aerospace and automotive projects. His main safety tasks were with the military projects: EF2000, Airbus A400M, with civil aircraft projects: Dornier 328 and Fairchild-Dornier 728 and with several automotive projects from steer by wire systems to fuel cell powered vehicles. For automotive safety projects the IEC 671508 was applied for the first project until it was replaced by an ISO 262626 base d approach. Based on this background he is familiar with several safety relevant standards: MIL stan-dards, civil aircraft standards and automotive standards. He is member of the International System Safety Society (ISSS) since 2001. Mr. Aryus studied aerospace engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, Germany and got the academic degree Dipl.-Ing. in 1981. After the service in the Army he joined Dornier Luftfahrt 1988-1995 and worked on civil and military aircraft projects. This included work in multinational reliability and flight safety management groups.
Fabio Bella is Senior Process Consultant and Market Manager for Italy at KUGLER MAAG CIE GmbH. He is iNTACS™ Principal Assessor and instructor for Automotive SPICE® and TÜV certified Functional Safety Engineer (Automotive). Since many years, he supports organizations to improve their development and safety processes in various industries such as automotive, aerospace, telecommunications, insurance and IT. He works internationally in Europe, USA and Japan. His projects require strong training, facilitating and counseling skills. Since this year, Mr. Bella is member of the Advisory Board of the International Assessor Certification Scheme (iNTACS™) and Regional Representative of the association for Italy. He is also a member of the Management Board of Automotive SPIN Italia. Mr. Bella began his career at the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) in the department for process management, after he had completed his studies in computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern. He currently lives in Bologna (Italy).
Florian Bogenberger manages the central department for Functional Safety at Elektrobit Automotive GmbH. Beginning of 2008 he changed to Elektrobit Automotive GmbH where he has been building up the area of Functional Safety. Mr. Bogenberger studied Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. He started his professional career in 1993 at Motorola Semiconductors (now Freescale) developing CAD systems for VLSI-circuits. Then he specialized on embedded automotive systems and was responsible for the development of HW and SW for safety related systems at Freescale.
Since 1989 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Broy is full Professor in Computer Sciences (Successor of Prof. F.L. Bauer) at the Institute of Computer Sciences, Technische Universität München (Technical University of Munich) and works in the Department of Software & Systems Engineering. Among others he works in the research projects "Tool Support for the design of embedded systems", Software Quality "and" Methods of requirements engineering."
Dr. Viktor Bunimov worked for the Carmeq Company, Berlin, until 2006. He specialises in functional safety and requirements management. He aims to use computer science to solve safety issues and to reach the higher levels of effectiveness. Dr. Bunimov was born in 1977 and studied computer science at the university of Braunschweig. He gained his PhD in the Department of Computer Science of the University of Kiel.
Dr. Mirko Conrad manages the Simulink Certification and Standards team at MathWorks. His responsibilities include development and maintenance of tool qualification kits for ISO 26262, IEC 61508, EN 5018, and DO-178B/C. He also provides ISO 26262 consultation services to automotive customers around the world. Mirko Conrad participated in the standardization of ISO 26262, MISRA AC AGC, and DO-178C. Dr. Conrad started his professional career in the automotive industry in 1995 and joined MathWorks in 2006. Mirko Conrad is member of the management team of the Special Interest Group for Automotive Software Engineering in the German Computer Society (GI-ASE). He holds a Ph.D. in engineering and an M.Sc. in computer science from Technical University in Berlin, Germany. Mirko Conrad is also visiting lecturer at Humboldt University in Berlin and Technical University Munich.
Dr. Christian Cornelissen started working at VDE Testing and Certification Institute (www.vde.com) in Offenbach in 2011. Since 2012, he is also acting as coordinator for functional safety activities in the institute. Before working at VDE, he was Engineering Manager (2007-2011) and Project Manager (2006-2007) at Nexans in Moenchengladbach, part of an global acting cable manufacturer (www.nexans.com). Previous to these activities, Dr. Cornelissen was engaged at RWTH Aachen University, where he worked as Chief Engineer at the Institute for High Voltage Technology, after he finished his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2003.
Dr. Dominik Düchs has been part of the Functional Safety Management & Quality department at Continental Engineering Services (CES) since 2011. Originally a research scientist in computer simulation methods applicable in the chemical industry, he now puts these skills to use in the automotive industry and benefits from them in conducting safety analyses of safety-critical systems at the software, hardware and system levels. His interests at CES include making AUTOSAR software ISO 26262 compliant.
Alexander Duisberg is a partner of Bird & Bird in Munich, Joint Head of our International IT Sector Group and Head of the German IT Sector Group, handling Commercial, Outsourcing and Data Protection issues.
Alexander's expertise and practical experience cover the full range of contentious and non-contentious matters of IT-law (licensing, professional services, distribution, online commerce, cloud computing, open source, data protection and data security law) including major research and development projects, complex technology transfer agreements and co-operations, managed services and outsourcing arrangements of all kind, as well as assisting to technology-related mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. His client base comprises IT suppliers and IT users as well as providers and customers to outsourcing services in numerous industrial sectors, including in particular the automotive and the energy sector. Alexander is also a member of the Automotive Sector Group and advises clients of the automotive industry in particular on legal questions in connection with embedded software systems and open source, on contract and data protection aspects (e.g. with regard to navigation, geo data and connectivity solutions), on contractual design regarding innovative distribution and usage concepts as well as on legal issues in the field of e-mobility. Alexander is an appointed and practicing panelist to the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Centre. Further, he is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and contributes regularly to publications on technology-related topics.
In 2011 Dr. Peter Grabs joined Intedis GmbH & Co. KG as functional safety manager. He holds a Ph.D. in semiconductor physics from the University of Würzburg. Afterwards he joined Marquardt GmbH as supplier quality manager for electronic components. Later on he took over the functional safety management for the Marquardt group.
Dr. Andreas Himmler has been a product manager for hardware-in-the-loop simulators at dSPACE GmbH in Paderborn since 2007 and is responsible for the Modular Hardware and HIL Simulation product family in the context of ISO 26262. Before joining dSPACE, he gained practical experience in the automotive industry as a project and team leader at a Tier 1 company. Before that, he performed research at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and at an institute together with industrial partners, working on optical signal transmission issues and completing his doctorate in that field.
Dr. Bernhard Kaiser is head of Competence Center Safety and Systems Engineering at Berner & Mattner and works on functional safety and system modeling since 2001. He did his Ph.D. in state based safety modeling of software-driven systems. After 15 years of practical experience in industry, he has a profound know-how in developing embedded systems.
Dr. Daniel Kästner is a co-founder and CTO of AbsInt GmbH. He studied Computer Science and Business Economics and received his Ph.D. on code optimization for embedded processors in the year 2000. He has been a lecturer at the University of Saarbrücken, Germany and has been program committee member of numerous international conferences. His current work is focused on functional safety, validation and verification of safety-critical software and program analysis for embedded processors. In these areas he is author or co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications.
In January 2006, Dr. Olaf Kath became CEO of ikv++ technologies ag. Olaf is a functional safety expert with detailed knowledge and experiences in methods, processes and tools for functional safety according to ISO 26262. He has a long years track record in the definition of functional safety concepts, application of safety analysis methods such as FMEA, FMEDA, FTA and HARA as well as in automotive software architectures such as AUTOSAR. Dr. Olaf Kath received his PhD in 2001 at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, at the institute for computer sciences. From 2001 onwards he engaged in the introduction of model based technologies and methodologies into customer processes.