From 8.30 – Registration and coffee
9.30 – Welcome and introduction from conference chair
Karl jeffery, Digital Ship founding editor
SESSION: DEVELOPMENTS WITH MARITIME DIGITALISATION
9.40 - Thoughts on the digital journey in maritime
Nils Aden, Managing Director, Harren Group
Bio: Harren is involved with heavy lift shipping, integrated project logistics, maritime engineering, crewing and ship management, commodity logistics and offshore wind operations. Nils Aden was formerly managing director of V.Group in Germany and co-CEO of ZEABORN Ship Management (formerly E.R Schiffahrt) among other roles. He has over 20 years’ experience managing all aspects of international business and implementing best development strategies for operational excellence.
10.00 - How we're approaching application management at TORM
Samuel Jones, Head of Application Management, TORM
Bio: Samuel Jones pivoted into maritime tech 10 years ago. He is currently the Head of Application Management at TORM in Denmark, where he leads a team of application specialists in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
Prior to joining TORM, Samuel held various IT management positions at other leading maritime tech companies, including Chinsay in Stockholm and Clarksons in Singapore. He has a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities facing the maritime industry, and is passionate about using technology to drive innovation and efficiency.
Samuel remains a member of the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship volunteering with various startups.
In his free time, Samuel enjoys spending time with his family and coaching youth football.
10.20 - Cybersecurity testing + training with bridge equipment in a lab
Fraunhofer CML has built a ship bridge in its laboratory, with real hardware and antennas, which can be used to test out the cybersecurity of different shipboard equipment.
This "bridge lab" can also be used for crew training, with simulated cyber attacks.
The researchers use it to identify cybersecurity problems in the interface between IT and OT, thought to be one of the biggest threat areas.
It can be used to test out possible risks from crewmember laptops, satellite communication systems, GPS jamming, and in the interfaces between systems.
Anisa Rizvanolli, Team Leader 'Maritime Scientific Computing and Optimization', Fraunhofer CML
10.40 - How the maritime cybersecurity threat picture is changing
Industry digitalization offers big opportunities, yet it comes with a new set of cyber security risks we have to consider. Let’s imagine we have forgotten about cyber security during digitalization – what can go wrong? What if it really happens? How can we mitigate the risk and be well prepared for it?
Marcin Marciniak, Maritime Cyber Security Team, EY Poland
11.00 - 11.40 - Break
11.40 - Maritime Satellite Communications – Market views and forecasts
Maritime satellite communication operators are expected to surpass $1.1 billion in revenues by 2032
Forecast on GEO and NGSO in the maritime market
Mathieu Cros, Principal Advisor, Euroconsult
Bio: At Euroconsult, Mathieu manages consulting missions for various stakeholder from the satcom market leveraging his in-depth knowledge of the satcom market dynamics.
Mathieu has been working in satcom sector for over 15 years. He started his career with an engineering background at Airbus provisioning satellite communications on behalf of European countries. From 2015 onwards, Mathieu developed a focus on Mobile Connectivity at Marlink across all 5 continents for land and maritime market. He has gained expertise in fishing, shipping, offshore, cruise and leisure markets.
Panel Discussion:
12.10 - Panel discussion: Plotting the course for maritime digitalisation
CYBERSECURITY - Is the cybersecurity focus switching to situation awareness rather than seeking technology-driven solution? Are we going about it in the right way?
LEOS - How much is Starlink changing things - does anyone have any experiences with it to share?
DATA ANALYTICS - Should data analytics be handled by data scientists or within software? Is generative AI a gamechanger or an incremental innovation? What are the main success drivers for data driven innovation? What the key elements of ‘democratising’ analytics (making data more accessible to more people in the organisation)?
APPLICATION MANAGEMENT - Should we put bigger focus on application management? Do companies have too many different applications, or too much trouble switching between them?
Participants:
Samuel Jones,
Head of Application Management, TORM
Anisa Rizvanolli,
team leader 'Maritime Scientific Computing and Optimization', Fraunhofer CML
Lutz Kretschmann,
Team Lead 'Data Capabilities & Governance', Hapag-Lloyd
Marcin Marciniak,
Maritime Cyber Security Team, EY Poland
Mathieu Cros,
Principal Advisor, Euroconsult
1.00 Lunch
kindly sponsored by MEDIAMOBIL
2.00 - Managing the challenge of alarm overload
Research by LR together with graduate marine engineering students to understand impact of alarm overload, based on visiting 16 ships and interviewing 60 watchkeepers
Are today’s watchkeepers able to respond to alarms, or do they receive too many?
Potential impact on future autonomous ships and cybersecurity
Asger C. Schliemann-Haug, Systems Engineering Specialist, Lloyd’s Register
SESSION: UNDERSTANDING OUR VESSEL'S PERFORMANCE
2.30 - Improving energy efficiency and performance at TMA Bulk
Varun Kumar, Energy Efficiency and Performance Manager, TMA Bulk GmbH
Bio: A Maritime management career extending now for 24 years across various ship operation fucntions including energy management, ship management, team management, bunker operations , regulatory frameworks and bunker operations. Motor ship's Chief engineer by primary education and trade. Came to Hamburg as part of Hamburg sud- Maersk FMT driving the integration and stayed on!. Presently working with TMA bulk, responsible for the operational efficiency and regulatory preparation of the fleet. Believes in value-based leadership and learning, unlearning, and relearning. Love to read, travel and explore.
2.50 - A digital tool to support decision making about which energy system to use
Live demonstration of VTT's platform "ND00"
Finding the best design from a number of different energy system design scenarios
Reducing time, efforts and costs of the conceptual design and optimization process of ship energy systems.
The platform has been under development for 10 years; VTT used EU funding under the "VesselAI project" to extend its capabilities in AI, data analytics and digital twins, and to use high performance computing.
Zou Guangrong, Senior Scientist - Shipping Intelligence, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Bio: Mr. Zou Guangrong has been promoting and dedicating to the decarbonization, digitalization and automation of ships and shipping for over 10 years, with special focus on simulation- and data-driven design and operation optimization. He has coordinated and managed a list of national and EU projects, incl. the VesselAI project funded through the European Horizon 2020 programme. He is also the coordinator of a newly funded national collaborative action BESPORT, aiming for the digitalization and decarbonization of port and wider logistics chain and beyond.
Panel Discussion:
3.10 Panel discussion: Plotting the course for improving vessel performance with the help of digital technology
What are the most important company decisions or actions related to vessel performance, and do we have tools we need to help us make them better?
Are we doing a good job so far of engaging crew and making it easier for crew to contribute to vessel performance?
Can the complexity of vessel performance and associated decision making be made easier, and could digital tools do more to help?
What we would we like to see more of, from digital professionals and digital products? Are there areas we think could be better?
Are we ready for the demands of compliance with EU ETS?
Participants:
Johann Meyer,
co-managing director,
Columbia Ship Management Germany
Bio: Johann Meyer has over 20 years’ experience in the shipping industry holding a variety of operational level positions before joining CSM in 2020 & CSME in 2021. Prior to that, he worked in different Managing Partner/Managing Director positions within shipping companies, single ship entities, chartering companies and public funds.
Varun Kumar,
Energy Efficiency and Performance Manager,
TMA Bulk GmbH
Zou Guangrong,
Senior Scientist - Shipping Intelligence,
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
4.00 Close.
We are planning discussion sessions on each of the topics above, plus presentations. If you work for a shipping company (operating ships) and are interested in participating in one of the discussion sessions, or providing a presentation, please contact Karl jeffery, conference producer, on jeffery@thedigitalship.com
