July 15 – 16, 2026  |  Shanghai, China

Here you see a recap of the program of the Automotive Safety Summit Shanghai 2025. As soon as the program of the 2026 conference is finalized, you will find it here.

 Wednesday, July 16, 2025 

Opening of SafetySummit 2025

Rainer Hoffmann - carhs gmbh

Welcoming Address

Prof. Jun Li - Tsinghua University

Safety of Automated Cars - Status, Regulations and Consumer Testing

Chair: Dr. Boya Zhou - CATARC - China Automotive Technology & Research Center

One Solution for Safety V&V for Autonomous Driving - SOTIF Index 1.0

Prof. Hong Wang - Tsinghua University

Automated Driving Systems: Regulatory Requirements for Homologation in Germany

Direktor & Professor Andre Seeck - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

New UN Global Regulation on Automated Driving

John F. Creamer - GlobalAutoRegs.com
  • ADS design and performance requirements
  • Manufacturer certifications and requirements
  • Assessments and confirmatory testing
  • Post-deployment safety reporting requirements

A Data-driven Approach Towards Real-world Effective Safety Systems

Chun Wang - BMW China Services Ltd.
  • Overview of BMW vehicle safety strategy
  • Examples of field data use cases at BMW
  • Crash data for showing real world effectiveness of AEB systems
  • Human behavior data for ensuring safety in use

Securing AI's Future:Bosch's Pioneering Research & Engineered Safety Frameworks

Hao Sun, Tao Zhou - Bosch Automotive Products (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
  • AI Safety
  • Smart Driving Safety

Test and Assessment Research on Reclined Seat Occupant Safety

Jing Fei - CAERI - China Automotive Engineering Research Institute
  • Why are we doing this?
  • What research have we conducted?
  • What are the specific test and rating contents?
  • Object(Definition of Reclined Seat, Selection of T&A Objects, Test Angle of Reclined Seat)
  • Tool(Selection of Environment Samples and BIW, Test Dummy)
  • Method(Test Condition, Test Pulse, Positioning Procedures of Seat and Dummy)
  • Rating(Restraint System and Dummy Kinematic, Dummy Injury, Overall Rating)

Test Methods and Practices for Intelligent Driving Open Road Testing

Feng Yu - Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification Technology Research Center Co., Ltd.

Active Safety Test Tools

Markus Schmidl - Humanetics Austria GmbH

Virtual Testing

Chair: Stefan Kirschbichler - VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research GmbH

System Simulation and Virtual Validation

Christian Kurzböck - VIRTUAL VEHICLE Research GmbH

Evaluation and Visualisation of Biofidelic Injury Metrics after positioning and simulating HBMs. An automated Approach with Generator4 and Animator4

Leyre Benito Cia - GNS Gesellschaft für numerische Simulation mbH
  • Current challenges on HBM handling
  • Generator4 tools for a realistic and accurate positioning process
  • Presentation of the new Animator 4 dedicated tool for handling and
  • evaluation of HBMs, including the automated injury metrics report
  • for biofidelic data.

META VTC Tool's New Features Boost Advanced Virtual Testing for Vehicle Safety Crashworthiness Assessments

Tao Huang - BETA CAE Systems China Ltd.

Keysight Developments to support the Emergence of Virtual Testing

Pierre Culière - Keysight

Battery Safety

Chair: Feng Yu - Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection Certification Technology Research Center Co., Ltd.

Interpretation of GB 38031—2025 Safety Requirements for Power Batteries for Electric Vehicles Standard

Jianyan Wang - CMVR - China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • 1. Background of the standard revision
  • 2. Standard revision process
  • 3. Overall situation of the standard revision
  • 4. Interpretation of the main revision points

Fire safety of electric vehicles

Dr. Chen Bin - CMVR - China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Current Safety Status of Electric Vehicles — Statistical Data
  • Key Technologies for Fire Safety Testing and Evaluation of Electric Vehicles
  • Fire Protection Technologies for Electric Vehicles
  • Case Studies Sharing

Methodology Proposal for Egress Evaluation on ECE R100

Nicholas Young López - CSI S.P.A. - IMQ Group
  • Key requirements of ECE-R100-03 supplement 05 regulatory update: evacuation time or containment of TR
  • Evacuation phases, from warning light activation to safe exit
  • Influencing factors: location, passenger arrangement, vehicle type

 

 Thursday, July 17, 2025 

Requirements

Chair: Chaobin Li - China Automobile Institute Intelligent Internet Technology Co.,Ltd.

2027 C-NCAP Research Progress Introduction

Peng Liu - CATARC - China Automotive Technology & Research Center
  • China traffic safety challenges
  • C-NCAP 2027 edition project plan
  • Future Work Plan

Euro NCAPs Safety Assessment for 2026

Direktor & Professor Andre Seeck - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

C-IASI Evaluation Research Findings

Jun Wang, Wei Peng - CIRI Automotive Technology Research and Testing Center (Beijing) Co., Ltd.

ASEAN NCAP 2026–2030 Protocol

Mohd Syazwan Solah - Malaysian Institute of Road Safety Research (MIROS)

Research on Crash Safety Testing Methods for Intelligent Vehicles

Dr. Hailan Xu - China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
  • Introduction to crash safety of intelligent vehicles
  • Scenarios of intelligent vehicle crash safety test
  • Test methods of intelligent vehicle crash safety

Advances in Safety Testing Technology

Chair: Dayong Wang - SAIC Motor Co., Ltd.

Multi DOF in Crash Simulation Tests

Kyrie Chen - Encopim

Customer Pre-Impact Braking tests using the SESA RPI technology with the 3.1MN ServoSled. Actual performance and future potential of the RPI system

Philipp Tölke - Seattle Safety Europe GmbH

Validation of Child Presence Detection Sensors: Real-World Data vs Simulation 

Christian Salm - MESSRING GmbH

Crash Simulation Development & Roadmap for the future

Youwen Wu - Instron (Shanghai) Limited
  • Current Development Update
  • RoadMap for the Future

Next-Gen Crash Test Software Solution: From Data Acquisition to Detailed Analysis and Management

Jens Wolking - Kistler Automotive GmbH

Solutions for Passive Safety Testing

Paul Lemmen - Humanetics Europe

Full-Process Development and Optimization of the China-Specific Mobile Progressive Deformable Barrier (AC-MPDB)

Fu Zhi - CAERI - China Automotive Engineering Research Institute Co. Ltd.

Analysis of Virtual Assessments in the 2026 Protocols

Allen Gu - Shanghai IDIADA Automotive Technology Services Co.,Ltd.