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Dipl. Ing. Mark Haacke
Symposium: Product safety – focus on batteries, AI & cybersecurity
490,00 €
excl. 0% VAT zzgl. Versandkosten
29.10.2025 l City: Frankfurt on the Main l präsenz l german
Description
Date: October 29, 2025
Location: Mark Haacke Automotive GmbH, Savignystraße 63, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Time: 09:00 – 17:00
Participation fee: € 490 (incl. catering & exclusive access to the lecture recordings)
Combined price for both conferences: € 950 (on 25.09. + 29.10.)
Focus of the event
Products are becoming increasingly complex – particularly due to digital components, networked functions and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI). At the same time, the requirements for product safety, traceability and cybersecurity are increasing.
This symposium provides a compact, practical overview of the regulatory requirements, legal framework and practice-oriented implementation in the following key areas:
- Product safety & product liability in the digital age
- Batteries & high-voltage systems – safety assessment and recall
- Cybersecurity & AI – challenges for manufacturers and suppliers
- Interaction of safety, security and compliance in practice
Agenda
- 9:00 Champagne reception
- 9:00 – 9:15 Welcome
- 9:15 – 10:00
- Speaker: Daniela Miebach
- Topic: “SOTIF – Safety Of The Intended Functionality: An Overview”
- Contents:
- ISO26262 standard as the basis for sufficient consideration of functional safety since 2011
- Expansion to include the ISO21448 standard for autonomous driving functions
- Objectives and approach based on an example
- 10:00 – 10:45
- Speaker: Adrian Herrmann
- Topic: “Sodium-ion batteries (NIB) – The safe future of the battery industry?”
- Contents:
- Relevance and delimitation of sodium-ion battery technology (NIB) (for automotive applications?)
- New findings from the investigation of the thermal runaway behavior of sodium-ion battery cells compared to LFP-based lithium-ion battery cells and implications for system safety
- 10:45 – 11:00 Break
- 11:00 – 11:45
- Speaker: Veeresh Ravichand
- Topic: “AI-Enhanced TARA: Risk Management for Nex-Gen Mobility”
- Contents:
- Motivation: Why AI in TARA? the evolving threat landscape in connected and autonomous vehicles
- TARA in ISO/SAE 21434
- How AI/ML can support TARA
- AI Techniques for Automotive Cybersecurity
- Demonstrating AI-enhanced TARA on a vehicle system or ECU
- 11:45 – 12:30
- Speaker: Benedikt Rohrßen
- Topic: “Product safety and product liability in the age of AI”
- Contents:
- Product safety in transition
- Basics of product safety & product liability
- New rules of the game: GPSR, AI Act, cybersecurity and AI embedded – when does software become security-relevant?
- Product liability for AI systems
- 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
- 13:30 – 14:15
- Speaker: Marvin Müller
- Topic: “Battery type approval – sufficient proof of product safety?”
- Contents:
- Battery type approval basis
- Product safety basis of an electric vehicle battery
- Intersection for type approval
- Tools for verifying the product safety of an electric vehicle battery
- Challenges and solutions from everyday life (risk assessment, BattVO, market surveillance, safety culture, processes, …)
- 14:15 – 15:00
- Speaker: Mark Haacke
- Topic: “SAGA replaces RAPEX – the new requirements for a risk assessment”
- Contents:
- GPSR requirements – an overview
- Comparison of RAPEX and SAGA
- Lex Specialis – what applies to products with their “own” legal regulation?
- SAGA risk assessment explained in brief
- 17:00 official end
- 19:00 Optional evening event
Target group
- Whether you are a professional, a layman or simply “just” interested – you are always very welcome to our event!
Your advantages
- Topical presentations by experts from the fields of technology, law and standardization
- Exclusive access to all lecture recordings afterwards
- Catering included: snacks, drinks and lunch
- Interactive exchange with specialist colleagues
- Can be combined with the symposium “Management Systems” on 25.09.2025
Combined ticket available
You can also visit our symposium on this topic on 25.09.2025:
Management systems – QMS, CMS, initial assessment and CoP-Q
Combine both events and pay only 950 € – including full catering and access to all recordings.
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Dipl. Ing. Mark Haacke
Engineer, Managing Director of Mark Haacke Training & Consulting GmbH
With more than 25 years of professional experience in the automotive industry and over 20 years of experience with legal requirements, he is the head of operations and is always involved in projects and training. His CV is characterized by many stations – among others as an expert of an officially recognized monitoring organization, homologation engineer at a supplier, single point
of contact for recalls to two carlines at an international vehicle manufacturer and 6 years as head of
Conformity of Production. Mark Haacke is also actively involved beyond his professional duties, e.g. in numerous expert panels and various VDA-QMC working groups.
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