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The second keynote speech on the 9th of August was delivered by Prof. Michael Pecht. MERCon 2024 was honored to host Prof. Pecht, who travelled from the USA to attend the conference in person. Prof. Pecht is a distinguished professor as well as the founder and director of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering (CALCE) at the University of Maryland, USA. Prof. Pecht’s scholarly work is highly influential, with over 55,000 citations and an h-index of 105. Along with many other prestigious awards, Prof. Pecht has also been honored with the IEEE Reliability Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the highest accolade in the field of reliability