5th international scientific conference Safety of New Technologies 25.09.2025 in Katowice
GENERAL INFORMATION:
The Scientific and Research Centre for Fire Protection, together with co-organisers, invites you to participate in the 5th international scientific conference Safety of New Technologies.
The conference will be held in a new location — Katowice — as part of the New Mobility Congress at the International Congress Centre in Katowice.
The idea of the conference continues to focus on the safety of new technologies and the improvement of rescue technologies used in the field of fire safety.
The fifth international conference will serve as a summary of previous editions, which primarily focused on the following issues:
- batteries, electric vehicles, photovoltaic installations – safety research,
- fire hazards of batteries and energy storage facilities,
- new technologies in the context of law, safety, and trust,
- robotics, artificial intelligence – opportunities and threats.
This time, these topics will be discussed on an even broader international level, in Polish and English. The event will be held in a hybrid model – both on-site during the New Mobility Congress at the International Congress Center in Katowice and on-line.
The conference is addressed to manufacturers, designers and installers, officers and civilian employees of the State Fire Service, specialists and appraisers in fire protection, managers, users and owners of building facilities, as well as other people interested in the above-mentioned topics.
Technological progress and increasingly ambitious climate goals adopted at the European and global level influence the dynamic development of renewable energy sources (RES) and electromobility. Electric vehicles, as well as renewable energy sources, increasingly use electrochemical batteries to store energy – the so-called electric batteries. The safe use of electric batteries used in devices, electric vehicles and renewable energy installations requires maintaining their cells in specific conditions, including the required voltage and temperature ranges. Loss of control over the increasing temperature of cells, their excessive discharge, and overcharging are just selected cases that may lead to a fire in the battery and the device it powers.
A battery fire is characterized by high dynamics of development and intense release of smoke and fire gases. The subject of the conference is therefore in line with the market need for a broader discussion on areas requiring attention, improving the fire protection conditions of electric batteries and methods of conducting rescue and fire-fighting operations during incidents involving them. The choice of this topic is also dictated by the need to undertake debates and activities in relation to new technologies – their safety and the possibility of their use, also in fire protection. Fire protection requires adapting it to the threats related to the creation and implementation of new technologies – both completely new ones and evolutions of already known ones. These new technologies and solutions, including artificial intelligence, pose not only security challenges, but also opportunities to use them to improve fire safety.
The speakers at the conference will be: representatives of the State Fire Service, universities, insurance companies, manufacturers, invited specialists and experts, who will raise selected issues in the field of fire safety of new technologies and improvig rescue actions.
Previous editions of the conference in the series were held at the headquarters of CNBOP-PIB, in October 2023, June and November 2024 and May 2025. We encourage you to read the reports on the Organizer’s webstie https://cnbop.pl/en/science/conferences/
TIME AND DATE
25.09.2025; 8.30–13.15
PLACE
International Congress Centre in Katowice
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Chairman of the scientific committee: st. bryg. dr hab. inż. Jacek Zboina
nadbryg. Wojciech Kruczek
dr hab. Zdzisława Dacko-Pikiewicz, prof. AWSB
nadbryg. dr inż. Tomasz Klimczak, prof. uczelni (APoż)
prof. dr hab. inż. Katarzyna Chruzik
prof. dr hab. Anna Rabajczyk
prof. dr hab. Bernard Wiśniewski
prof. dr hab. Robert Socha
prof. Xinmin Zhan (Ireland)
dr hab. Andrzej Czupryński, prof. AWSB
dr hab. Tomasz Safjański, prof. AWSB
dr hab. Paweł Lubiewski, prof. AWSB
dr hab. Maria Zielecka, prof. instytutu (CNBOP-PIB)
dr hab. Aleksander Babiński, prof. (Akademia Policji w Szczytnie)
dr hab. Jarosław Struniawski
dr hab. Stanisław Rysz, prof. uczelni (Uczelnia Państwowa im. Jana Grodka w Sanoku)
st. bryg. dr hab. inż. Paweł Janik
dr inż. Jacek Roguski, prof. instytutu (CNBOP-PIB)
Songkai Qiu (China)
dr Artur Szela (Polskie Towarzystwo Nauk o Bezpieczeństwie, UPH w Siedlcach)
dr inż. Jan Ziobro
dr.-ing. Sylvia Pratzler-Wanczura (Germany)
dr inż. Dariusz Gołębiewski
dr inż. Zenon Małkowski
dr inż. Bogusław Kogut
nadinsp. dr Rafał Kochańczyk
dr Robert Gwardyński
dr inż. Michał Chmiel
dr inż. Jarosław Tępiński
dr inż. Tomasz Popielarczyk
dr Monika Wyszomirska
plk. Ing. Michal Valouch (Czech Republic)
Ing. Jan Tripes (Czech Republic)
Anna Wesołowska
Maciej Mazur
st. bryg. w st. sp. mgr inż. Krzysztof Biskup
st. bryg. mgr inż. Michał Gigoła
mgr inż. Krzysztof Dąbrowski
mgr Barbara Adamska
Krzysztof Kochanowski
st. bryg. mgr inż. Daniel Małozięć
bryg. mgr inż. Wojciech Klapsa
CO-ORGANIZERS
Fire University
WSB Academy in Dąbrowa Górnicza
Institut für Feuerwehr- und Rettungstechnologie (IFR) der Feuerwehr Dortmund
Zhejiang University of Technology (Chiny)
The European Fire Safety Alliance (Holandia)
University of Galway (Irlandia)
Polish Association of New Mobility
The Polish Energy Storage Association
Association of Fire Service Engineers and Technicians
The Polish Chamber of Energy Storage and Electromobility Association
PZU LAB SA
National Association of Manufacturers of Fire Protection and Rescue Equipment
Executive Board of the Mazovian Voivodeship Chapter of the Polish Union of Volunteer Fire Brigades
District Headquarters of the State Fire Service in Otwock
SOLFINITY SP. Z O.O. SP.K
DEHN POLAND
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Chairman of the organizing committee: mgr Ilona Masna
mgr Katarzyna Szulejewska
mgr Aleksandra Grzęda
mgr Anna Golińska
mgr Elżbieta Muszyńska-Połeć
mgr Katarzyna Gromadka
mgr Magdalena Szelling
dr inż. Jarosław Tępiński
dr inż. Michał Chmiel
mgr Marta Iwańska
mgr inż. Michał Pietrzak
Hybrid conference: on-site or online, simultaneous translation Polish-English
CONTACT
bnt@cnbop.pl, tel. +48 22 769 33 00
REGISTRATION
Participation in the conference is free of charge, provided that prior registration is completed at:
https://tickets.kongresnowejmobilnosci.pl/registration?ticket=aexzjtax8n
The number of places is limited.
We invite you to register.
CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
Speakers are offered the opportunity to quickly publish their post-conference articles in the scientific journal “Safety & Fire Technology,” published since 2006 by the CNBOP-PIB in Józefów. “Safety & Fire Technology” is a semi-annual open access journal. Each article in the journal is provided with a DOI identifier, indexed on Crossref. The journal is listed in numerous scientific publication databases, including BazTech, Scilit, Open J-Gate, Erih+, and is also on the ministerial list of journals with 40 points assigned to it. Participants interested in publishing their manuscripts are invited to submit their work via the Editorial System, specifying that the submitted work is related to a presentation at the BNT conference. Manuscripts submitted to the system should be prepared in accordance with the editorial office’s technical guidelines, available at: https://sft.cnbop.pl/en/guidelines-for-authors. Each manuscript must receive at least two positive reviews before publication. The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2025.
The conference will be held under the honorary patronage of the Chief Commander of the State Fire Service of Poland.
| TIME | Program of the 5th INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC conference “SAFETY OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES” |
|---|---|
| 8.30-8.40 | Opening of the conference sen. brig. Paweł Janik, D.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB Director |
| 8.40-9.50 | Session 1. New Technologies and Their Safety Introduction to the conference topic – conclusions and recommendations from previous conferences in the series “Safety of New Technologies” moderator: prof. Anna Rabajczyk, D.Sc. – CNBOP-PIB |
| Discussion Panel | Safety of New Technologies – scientific and expert foundations Barbara Adamska, President PSME, Dariusz Gołębiewski, Vice President of the Management Board PZU LAB SA, Paweł Janik, CNBOP-PIB Director, Artur Łasak, Sales Director DEHN Poland |
| 9.50-10.25 | Sesja 2. Safety of New Technologies – Electromobility moderator: Jarosław Tępiński, Ph.D. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB |
| Speech | Results of inter-industry cooperation – guidelines, publications, training Elżbieta Muszyńska-Połeć, M.Sc. – CNBOP-PIB |
| Speech | Opportunities and barriers in the development of electromobility Albert Kania, PSNM |
| 10.25-10.55 | Coffee Break |
| 10.55-12.05 | Sesja 3. Safety of New Technologies – Energy Storage moderator: Michał Pietrzak, M.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB |
| Speech | Opportunities and barriers in the development of energy storage Barbara Adamska, PSME |
| Speech | Guidelines for the fire safety of energy storage – progress report Jarosław Tępiński, Ph.D. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB |
| Speech | Types of safety systems used in industrial energy storage Krzysztof Bukała, SOLFINITY |
| Speech | Fire safety tests on energy storage – research information brig. Wojciech Klapsa, M.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB |
| 12.05-13.05 | Sesja 4. New technologies for safety moderator: sen. brig. Jacek Zboina, D.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB Deputy Director |
| Speech | Using artificial intelligece in safety research Paweł Bujny, M.Sc., sen. brig. Jacek Zboina, D.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB Deputy Director |
| Speech | Fire safety – new threats = new solutions Jarosław Wiche, President of the Management Board, Neuron Sp. z o.o. Sp. K. |
| Speech | How to recognize synthetic content? Set of deepfake features for information security Karol Jędrasiak, D.Sc. Eng. – WSB University |
| 13.05-13.15 | Conference closing and summary sen. brig. Paweł Janik, D.Sc. Eng. – CNBOP-PIB Director |