UIAA Safety Commission World Congress

Name: UIAA Safety Commission World Congress
Start: 2025-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-04-17T23:59:59+00:00

April 13 - April 17

The UIAA Safety Commission will host a UIAA Safety Commission World Congress from Sunday 13 April to Thursday 17 April. As part of the event, SafeCom will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its existence as a UIAA Commission.

The event will take place in Chamonix, France and comprises SafeCom internal and plenary meetings, working group meetings, a re(bolting) workshop, public conferences as well as other events to be organised with co-hosts FFCAM (la Fédération française des clubs alpins et de montagne) and ENSA (National School of Skiing and Mountaineering)

Perhaps most significantly there will be two public events, under the guise ‘UIAA SafeCom World Congress’ on the evening of Tuesday 15 April and Wednesday 16 April. These are being organised in close collaboration with ENSM, National School of Skiing and Mountaineering of France (Ecole Nationale des Sports de Montagne), and will take place at ENSA’s (Ecole Nationale de Ski et d’Alpinisme) HQ.

Across both evenings there will be a presentation of the UIAA’s work and heritage in climber safety as well as contributions from ENSA and from FFCAM, la Fédération française des clubs alpins et de montagne, a founder member of the UIAA and a close supporter of the event. The centrepiece of both evenings will be round table discussions led by UIAA Safety Commission President Lionel Kiener.

The themes of the two evenings are:

15 April, 20:00: Climbing-mountaineering and equipment innovation: a common evolution?
Speakers: Michel Beal, CEO Beal, Denis Pivot, CAMP/CEN Commission President, Alain Maurice, Head of Bureau d’étude at Petzl, Jean-Franck Charlet, professor at ENSA, former UIAA SafeCom President and SafeCom Honorary Member
16 April, 20:00: UIAA and EN standards history, research, updates and future developments
Speakers: Denis Pivot, CAMP/CEN Commission President, Jean-Franck Charlet, professor at ENSA, former UIAA SafeCom President and SafeCom Honorary Member, Marco Bonaiti, CEO Kong, Julia Janotte, DAV (German Alpine Club) Sicherheitforschung (Safety Research Centre/DAV)