Panel: Rust Adoption in Safety Critical Systems - Perspective from Micro controller and Automotive world

This panel explores the adoption of Rust in safety-critical systems, with perspectives from the microcontroller and automotive worlds. Experts from leading semiconductor companies will discuss why Rust is emerging as an alternative to C/C++ and the challenges it addresses in embedded and automotive domains, including software-defined vehicles. The conversation will cover ecosystem realities, hybrid toolchains, RTOS integration, and certification hurdles for ASIL-grade systems. Panelists will examine the need for standardization and industry consortia, while highlighting the role of open-source initiatives and community projects in accelerating adoption. Looking ahead, they will share visions for the next decade of safety-critical Rust, strategies to convince decision-makers, and approaches to foster innovation in traditionally conservative industries.

The currents of concurrency: reasoning with Async Rust

• Async

Reasoning through concurrent systems has always been a challenging task. Poor code can be riddled with race conditions, non-terminating cases and other complex concurrency bugs; and even well-written code can be hard to understand. Async programming is an innovative concurrent programming model that rises to this challenge. In this talk, we'll explore reasoning with async Rust. We'll be introduced to its fundamental building blocks, such as `async`, `await`, `join` and `Pin`, and learn how to predict the behavior of code written with them. We'll build on these to simplify more complex concurrency puzzlers. Finally, we'll explore other models of concurrent programming to see how async Rust compares.