November 26 – 27, 2025 | Landsberg, Germany

 Wednesday, November 26, 2025 

The times given here refer to CET = UTC+1

09:00

Welcome & Introduction

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ulrich - carhs.training gmbh

Fundamentals

09:10

Cervical Spine Distorsion Injuries in Car Accidents. Pathophysiology, Biomechanics and Prevention in Improved Seat Design

Dr. med. Wolfram Hell - DHW Unfallanalyse München

09:40

Advancements in Safety and Restraint System Requirements and Evolution of Bharat New Car Assessment Program

Dileep D. Kulkarni, Rahul Mahajan - The Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)

10:10

Status and Further Development of Euro NCAP

Volker Sandner - ADAC Technik Zentrum Landsberg

10:40

Coffee Break

Fundamentals

11:10

Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Rear Impact Protocol 2.0, Including Updates on Ongoing and Future Rear Impact and Virtual Testing Research

Marcy Edwards - Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

11:40

HPM II and Reclined Seats: Comparison HPMI – HPM II, Advantages Compared to Current Situation. A brief Insight into Practice!

Michael Gumprecht - Faurecia Autositze GmbH

12:10

Investigating Soft-tissue Response and Risk of Whiplash-associated Disorders Using a Detailed Computational Human Head-and-Neck Model

Prof. Dr. Duane S. Cronin, Matheus A. Correia, Matheus S. Reis - University of Waterloo

12:40

Lunch Break

Walk to ADAC Technical Center

PRACTICAL PART AT ADAC TECHNIK ZENTRUM

13:50

Welcome at the ADAC Technical Center

Volker Sandner - ADAC Technik Zentrum Landsberg

14:00

Demonstrations Euro NCAP Setup & Test Procedures

17:00

Walk back to the Conference Hotel

18:30

Evening Reception

 

 Thursday, November 27, 2025 

Development Tools 1

08:30

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

09:00

Positoning Dummys - Leveraging Closed Loop Potential

Mathias Wolff - Humanetics Europe GmbH

09:30

Future Seating Configurations During Side Impact – Testing Insights

Filip Novotny - TÜV SÜD Czech s.r.o.

10:00

Coffee Break

Development Tools 2

10:30

Video-Based Test Documentation – Closing the Gap Between Test Documentation and Marketing

Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Meier-Noe - all4projects GmbH

11:00

Presentation Title tba.

Prof. Dr. Astrid Linder - VTI - Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute; Dr. Victor Strömbäck Alvarez - Lightness by Design AB

11:30

THOR 50M-RECLINED Finite Element Model in Comfort Seating Positions of Autonomous Vehicles

Ulrich Freyberger - CDH AG

12:00

Lunch Break

Development Strategies & Solutions

13:00

Introduction of Rear-Facing Seats and Adaptive Semi-Active Seat Systems for Autonomous Cars

Dr. Selcuk Himmetoglu - Hacettepe University

13:30

Presentation Title tba.

Andreas Forster - Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH

Current Research and Outlook

14:00

Experimental Setups to Measure Seat Pressure Distribution and (Dis)comfort in Autonomous Driving to Parametrize Digital Human Models

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Fehr - University of Stuttgart et al.

14:30

Coffee Break

15:00

Aware2all EU Project : Protection of Occupants in Rearward Facing Seating Configurations

Ricardo Tejero de la Piedra - Humanetics Europe GmbH

15:30

Analyzing the Effects of Multidirectional Accelerations in a Driving Simulator on Head-Neck Muscle Activity Using Inverse Kinematics and OpenSim

Meghna Rajkumar Vadhyar - Universität Stuttgart

16:00

Do we Need Seat Model Validation Requirements for Virtual Testing?

Dr.-Ing. Andre Eggers - BASt - German Federal Highway and Transport Research Institute

16:30

Summary & Farewell

Dr.-Ing. Dirk Ulrich - carhs.training gmbh; Volker Sandner - ADAC Technik Zentrum Landsberg

 

 

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