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2026
Online 19 May 2026
After the great success of our first INTACS Central and Eastern Europe regional event last year—with more than 120 participants joining both onsite and online—the regional representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia are pleased to invite you to the 2026 regional event, which will be held online on the 19 May.
This event brings together professionals and experts from our regional SPICE networks to exchange insights, discuss current challenges, and share experiences across a variety of SPICE‑related topics.
As in previous years, the program will feature presentations from the INTACS working groups, OEMs, and automotive suppliers from across the region.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required to attend. Priorities will be given to the members of our regional community.
Register here: https://forms.gle/8aDc4VS99Bt3QWcC8
In case of issues with the registration link, please send an e-Mail to:
Preliminary Agenda:
| Start time | End time | Duration | Presentation | Presenter |
| 08:50 | 09:00 | 00:50 | Login to Teams | |
| 09:00 | 09:15 | 00:15 | Welcome by the Intacs Regional Representatives | Damjan Ekert (AT/HR/SI/SR) Viktor Gremen and Mate Horvath (HU) Ronaldo Mendes and Kanev Kostadin (BG) Svatopluk Stolfa (CZ) Mihai-Daniel Banea (RO) |
| 09:15 | 09:45 | 00:30 | Welcome by Intacs | Lars Dittman, Managing Director of iNTACS, Germany |
| 09:45 | 10:15 | 00:30 | Introduction to the SPICE4AI Intacs Workgroup | Yasser Elzant, INTACS |
| 10:15 | 10:30 | 00:15 | Break | |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | 00:30 | Introduction to the SANSEI Intacs Workgroup | Isabella Stilkerich, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG |
| 11:00 | 11:45 | 00:45 | Driving Product Quality Through Robust Development Processes: An Automotive SPICE® Perspective | Thomas Kömmerling, Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany |
| 11:45 | 12:15 | 00:30 | News on the Automotive SPICE for Cybersecurity 2.0 Update | Thomas Liedtke, INTACS and Richard Messnarz ISCN, Austria |
| 12:15 | 13:15 | 01:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:15 | 13:45 | 00:30 | Rethinking Quality for the AGILE Era | Ancuta-Elena Bulgariu, SCHAEFFLER Schaeffler Automotive Buehl GmbH & Co. KGr, Germany |
| 13:45 | 14:30 | 00:45 | Automotive SPICE 4.1: VDA AK13 Updates & Key Perspectives for the Road Ahead | Balázs Harman, VALEO GmbH, Member of VDA AK13, Germany |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | 00:30 | Guidance Needed: AI deployment challenges in project context | Ronaldo Mendes Junior,DXC Technology, Bulgaria |
| 15:00 | 15:30 | 00:30 | Break | |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | 00:30 | Experience with VDA Potential Analysis | Andreas Gasch and Flavia Povirnaru, Cariad SE, Germany |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | 00:30 | Data Management SPICE PAM 2.0: Applications in the context of the EU AI Act and EU DATA Act | Reiner Seitz, APS Advanced Project Services SRL, Romania |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | 00:30 | ||
| 17:00 | 17:15 | 00:15 | Closing |
2025
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The intacs regional representatives from:
are inviting you together with Robert Bosch Kft. Hungary to a joint regional SPICE event in Budapest, from the 14.-15.05.2025 |
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This event brings together professionals and experts from our regional SPICE networks to discuss and share experiences in different SPICE related topics.
You can join us onsite and online, ensuring flexibility for all participants.
The event will be held at the Bosch Budapest Innovation Campus, 1103 Budapest, Vaspálya Street 57 from the 14.05. 9:00 to 15.05. 12:30. Parking spaces (35) are limited, please register in time if you want to come by car. Many hotels are available in Budapest, the following are recommended (however, each participant should take care by himself):
There are no registration fees, but registration is required to attend the event (onsite and online). REGISTER HERE. The deadline for onsite registrations is over, only online registration is possible till 2025-05-07. Participant number is limited, so please register in advance and don't wait until the last minute!
Participants joining onsite can obtain a Type EE-EP: External Passive Confirmation.
We have confirmed presenters from the VDA AK-13 (Automotive SPICE Potential Analysis, news for Automotive SPICE), intacs working groups (Hardware SPICE, Cybersecurity, Organizational SPICE, Machine Learning) as well as automotive organisations (Cariad, Rimac Technology, ...).
| The Lunch will be sponsored by EuroSPI, EuroSPI organises an annual conference since 32 years bringing experts, researchers and assessors together and publishing an international book series. This allows assessors to dig deeper in the knowledge, compare assessment models with actual practice and current research. This years event is organised in Riga, Latvia, 17 - 19 September 2025. https://conference.eurospi.net/index.php/en/ |  |
Presentations:
- Welcome by Intacs and future PAMs, outlook - Lars Dittman, Managing Director of iNTACS, Germany
- VDA WG13 News and Outlook; ASPICE Potential Analysis intro - Attila Fehérvári, SANEON GmbH and Balázs Harman, VALEO GmbH, Germany
- Experiences with HW SPICE, Outlook - Attila Fehérvári, iNTACS
- Experiences with the Automotive SPICE for Cybersecurity PAM - Thomas Liedtke and Richard Messnarz, iNTACS
- EuroSPI and Intacs - A sucessful network - Richard Messnarz, EuroSPI
- All the assessment answers we did not wanted to get in the last 75 assessments - Andreas Gasch and Flavia Povirnaru, Cariad SE, Germany
- How much Cybersecurity is needed? - Richard Messnarz, ISCN/EuroSPI
- Crossing the bridge between Automotive SPICE® Assessments and Functional Safety Audits - Marinus Tesselaar, iNTACS
- Processmanagement at MAGNA - Brigitte Kurz-Grießnig,Engineering center Steyr Gmbh & Co KG, Austria
- Assessors between assessments - utilize your experience for project coaching - András Kapus, Attila Horváth - Robert Bosch Kft., Hungary
- How we define, measure and achieve the software quality at supply chain - Marek Bělka, ŠKODA AUTO, Czech Republic
- Insights into ASPICE Implementation: Lessons Learned and Transitioning from 3.1 to 4.0 - Viktoria Bencz, Rimac Technology d.o.o., Croatia
- Data Management SPICE - Thomas Sievers, iNTACS
- Software Automation SPICE - István Kocsis, iNTACS
- Experiences with the Machine Learning Processes - Petr Svimbersky, iNTACS