Enhance your Competence with Saphire Masterclass
... and attain EE-EP or even EE-AC for your next recertification.
Saphire Masterclass
Put aside the daily business of meetings, emails and calls. At least for a short while. Take a step back and think about everything. Together. Join our Masterclass Events. Hosted by the community, for the community.
For all intacs® certified assessors, attending the Saphire Masterclass earns one EE-EP. The presentors may attain one EE-AC. EE authorization for each individual event is subject to prior approval by intacs®.
One-Day Events
We do not want to disrupt your day-to-day business, but we do want to give you the space to think.
Open to everyone
We invite everyone in the community to participate. We provide a platform to share, listen, discuss, and learn.
Micro-conference
The Saphire Masterclass is designed as a micro-conference with two presentations and a workshop.
You will receive your copy of the presentations and the certificate of participation.
Call for presentations is permanent
We want to support you in sharing your experiences with the professional SPICE community. If your presentation meets our and intacs® quality requirements, present and earn an EE-AC.
How to understand GP 2.1.1 and GP 2.1.2 in 4.0?
Pierre Metz
Global Head of Development Quality, Functional Safety and Product Safety | Automated Driving
Forvia Hella
Pierre Metz is a seasoned process and safety assessment expert with extensive of experience in the automotive and embedded systems domain. Pierre is not only an intacs® certified principal assessor and instructor, but also the speaker of the intacs® advisory board.
He is a key contributor to standardization efforts, serving on the VDA Working Group 13 Automotive SPICE board of authors and acting as German delegate to ISO TC22/SC7/WG8 for the ISO 26262.
Best practices for Organization SPICE Assessments
Christian Knüvener
Competent Instructor Automotive SPICE
Knüvener Mackert GmbH
Christian Knüvener is a seasoned process assessment expert with many years of experience in the automotive and embedded systems domain.
While being an intacs® certified principal assessor and instructor, he is known for his extensive contribution to various intacs®-PAMs that have been released over the past years.
Masterclass
Host
Hendrik Meyl
Chair of the Executive Board
Saphire Certification eG
With his work experience at an accredited inspection body of TÜV SÜD, Hendrik has been one of the initiators of the cooperative Saphire Certification. He supports all assessors with his vast knowledge in functional safety, Automotive SPICE joined with deep understanding of assessment work within a normative framework.
Automotive SPICE Assessment meets Functional Safety Audit
Alexander Levin
INTACS Working Group Functional Safety
Alexander Levin is a veteran of the automotive industry with more than two decades of experience. As Automotive SPICE Principal Assessor and expert in functional safety, he supports OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers to design and implement sustainable processes across the entire lifecycle, from individual components to complete vehicle development. He is also a co-author of the Automotive SPICE 4.0 Handbook.
Understanding Safety Analyses FMEDA and DFA in Functional Safety
Hendrik Meyl
Prinicpal Assessor Functional Safety & Automotive SPICE
Munich Safety GmbH
As a former T ÜV SÜD employee, Hendrik Meyl founded his own company Munich Safety in 2019 with the purpose of providing more intense support to his customers. Today, he is still today acting as a trainer for the FSCP program of TÜV SÜD, as well as partaking in the German mirror of ISO TC22/SC7/WG8 for the ISO 26262, and leading the intacs® working group functional safety.
Masterclass
Host
Joachim Leder
Supervisory Board
Saphire Certification eG
Dr. Joachim Leder is a seasoned process assessment expert with more than 25 years of experience at OEMs. He has deep knowledge for high-quality development processes, including experience in cybersecurity, safety and in managing appropriate organizations. He is also taking part in the intacs® working group functional safety.
Past Saphire Masterclasses
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Cyber Resilience Act
What is the impact of the EU Cyber resilience act and how could this be supported by us?
Dr. Joachim Leder
Senior Executive Consultant
Dr. Joachim Leder UG
SPICE Assessment Process
Taking a short detour on the theory and structure of the processes that we measure with SPICE, this talk shows how to define an assessment process meeting the requirements of observed assessments.
Hendrik Meyl
Prinicpal Assessor Functional Safety & Automotive SPICE
Munich Safety GmbH
The Cybersecurity Assessment
Cybersecurity assessments are now required for any automotive developmnet. Let's talk about the tips & tricks for performing them!
Rüdiger Beilharz
Principal Assessor and Instructor
Beilharz Security
AI Supported SPICE Assessments
How can the machine support our Assessments? Rüdiger is working on a tool that greatly enhances the work of project teams as well as both internal and external SPICE Assessors.
Rüdiger Heimgärtner
Principal Automotive SPICE Assessor
Intercultural User Interface Consulting (IUIC)
SPiCE 1-2-1 for Automotive
A purposeful SPICE Assessment tool is greatly supporting any assessment team. This talk introduces to the tool SPiCE 1-2-1 and good strategies for using it in highly efficient SPICE Assessments!
Christian Steinmann
Principal Assessor Automotive SPICE
HM&S IT-Consulting GmbH
Trace supporting SPICE Assessments
Trace is an internet-based process assessment tool that reduces effort, risk, and frustration associated with performing formal assessments, e.g., Automotive SPICE, CMMC, CMMI, ISO, and NIST.
Peter Petersen
Sharpen 360
Standard Agenda
1
09:00 - 09:30 Welcome
The host of the masterclass welcomes everyone and introduces the speakers and topics of the event.
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09:30 − 10:45 Speaker 1
The first speaker slot includes a presentation lasting between 45 and 60 minutes. The time before the coffee break is then used to discuss the topic presented with the speaker.
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11:00 − 12:15 Speaker 2
The second speaker slot includes a presentation lasting between 45 and 60 minutes. The period before the lunch break is used for discussing the topic presented with the speaker.
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13:00 − 14:30 Workshops
After lunch, the masterclass splits into several workshops, each aligned to the topics presented by the two speakers.
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14:45 − 15:45 Workshop Results Presentation
After the afternoon coffee break, the individual workshop teams will present their results to the plenary session, followed by a short discussion.
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15:45 − 16:00 Closing
The host of the masterclass briefly summarises the day and then closes the session.
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Why should I become a member of Saphire Certification?
Expanded
service portfolio
- Use of the certification services
- Increased international reputation
- Carry out Saphire observation
- Acting as certification examiner
Professional
excellence
- Confirmation of your professional excellence
- Regular feedback for your own continuous improvement
- Internal exchange of experts within the cooperative
Common strength
- Shaping the cooperative
- Collegial support
- Belief in the long-term success of SPICE and Organization SPICE
- Draw a return from joint success.
Executive Board
Hendrik Meyl
Chairman of the Board
Christian Knüvener
Board Member
Supervisory Board
Rüdiger Beilharz
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
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