[SystemSafety] Australian System Safety Conference 2018, May 23 to 25, Melbourne

[Martin, BJ]

Conference Theme:
Strengthening and Integrating System Safety Engineering for Australia's future

The Australian System Safety Conference (ASSC) is organised by the Australian Safety Critical Systems
Association (aSCSa), a Special Interest Group of the Australian Computer Society.
Newsreels are full of coverage about impending introduction of autonomous vehicles and taxi services, aerial drone delivery services in your street, autonomous rail, cyber and energy security risks, artificial intelligence, intelligent transport networks and infrastructure and recently the announcement of an Australian Space Agency and growth in related space industries.
How well skilled is industry and responsible agencies to manage the system safety challenges that come with these technology advances? How should we rise to the challenge? Straw polls on compliance to proposed ACS Safety Professional competency criteria at 2017's ASSC indicate that attendees and members did not feel overly confident of their status.
Along-side publishable advances in system safety practices and notable project challenges - the ASSC2018 team would like to hear from Industry, project agencies and academia on needs and ideas for raising skills and strengthening safety engineering through better integrated practices.
Safety critical areas of interest include: . Medicine and health (medical devices, e-health systems etc.). Transport. Defence and Aviation.Telecommunications. Energy. Security. Resource and process industries, and. Emergency services.
Delegates have the option of submit two types of papers:
1) Refereed Papers by the conference program committee
2) Industry Presentations/Papers (not subject to peer review, and not published in conference proceedings, available by conference CD only)
Abstract Submission: Fri 23rdDec17 (or contact us for negotiated involvement)
Paper submissions can also be emailed to program at assc2018.org
For more information, visit https://www.ascsa.org.au/assc-submit

Program Chair - WGCDR (Dr) Derek Reinhardt




BJ Martin
Chairman aSCSa