A master mariner and a committed proponent of the maritime users’ perspective, Rear Admiral Nick Lambert concluded a long naval operational career as the UK National Hydrographer in December 2012. He advises on a wide range of maritime issues including the growing potential of the blue economy concept, the importance of spatial data infrastructures and hydrography for maritime economies, the evolution of eNavigation and GNSS vulnerability, near or real time situational awareness (especially that derived from space based assets and applications), human factors, and training and education in the maritime sector. He has a particular interest in the Polar Regions and is also engaged in a variety of situational awareness, marine autonomous systems and vessel efficiency projects.

Tom Erling Hansen has double engineering degrees in Telecom and IT from the Royal Norwegian Air force complemented with a Master’s degree in Business administration and Management from the Norwegian Business School. Mr Hansen has worked with Maritime applications and communication for almost two decades and has extensive international experience from working and living in several maritime hubs including Dubai, Oslo, London, Brussels, Singapore and Houston. He is currently head of Sales North Europe for Maritime in Marlink.

Mary Etienne is a business leader with over 25-years industry experience in Fortune 500 companies. She joined Dell in 2011 as Business Development Director of Dell OEM Solutions, where she is responsible for creating business value for customers in the maritime, shipping, and offshore markets. A specialist, global division, Dell OEM Solutions builds industry-grade and long lifecycle products and provides customized logistics and services for customers to sell into the marketplace as part of their own branded products.

Rob O'Dwyer, Editor of Digital Ship, has been a maritime IT journalist since 2005. He has a Master's degree in business and law from University College Dublin and was previously a commercial writing consultant in Seoul, South Korea.

Rob was also previously Editor of Port Finance International.

Raimo Warkki was born in Göteborg. With a technical background, he has been working within Stena for more than 30 years. He has worked with ship communications since late 1990, and was involved when Stena Line installed the fleet with satellite communication at the beginning of 2000.

Raimo has been responsible for satellite communication since 2005 and worked as IT demand manager for ship management regarding ships specific systems.

Michael joined Telenor Satellite in 2005 and is currently Director of Sales for our Network and Data services division, which is responsible for providing high quality data communication services over satellite to customers on land and sea.

He has over 14 years International Telecom experience, working for companies such as Tandberg (Now CISCO) and BaneTele. Michael has an MBA from Griffith University in Queensland, Australia and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Fonty's University in Eindhoven, Holland.

Mark joined Inmarsat in September 2016 and has responsibility for maritime marketing communications activities, with the objective of opening up the full potential of high-speed connectivity at sea across vertical markets including merchant shipping, small boat, fishing and leisure.

With over 19 years’ experience in the maritime industry, Warner has an extensive track record in digital platform development and marketing programme creation for ship owners, managers and suppliers. He has sector-specific experience in data analytics, E-commerce, lead generation and public relations, social media and online advertising. He is also the former Head of Digital Maritime and Professional Division for Informa, publishers of Lloyd’s List, where he managed the digital offering from the world’s oldest daily shipping paper during an intense development period.

Warner joins Inmarsat after seven years with ShipServ, the world’s leading e-marketplace for the marine and offshore supply industries, where he was a Director for Marketing and Business Development playing a central role in ShipServ’s contribution to the EU e-maritime digital development project.

A University of Plymouth alumnus, holding an MSc in International Logistics and a BSc in Maritime Business & Law, Warner has recently finished serving five years as Chairman of the Plymouth Nautical Degree Association, many of whose 500 members now occupy senior positions across the maritime industry. He is also current chairman of the Marine E-commerce Association.

Tommy Konkol Dybvad is Director Cruise and Ferry Services in Marlink. Tommy works from the Norwegian Oslo-office responsible for service development and sales in the global cruise and ferry market.

Prior to working as Director for Cruise and Ferry Services, Tommy worked as Maritime VSAT Product Director, and Sales Director for Maritime VSAT in Marlink.

Tommy has more than 25 years’ experience with satellite communication services for Oil & Offshore, Shipping, Governmental and Cruise & Ferry markets, dating back to the very start of Maritime VSAT in the early 1990s. Prior to his current position in Marlink, Tommy worked as the Senior Executive Officer in Norwegian Telecom International, Satellite Division, then held roles as Sales Manager and Commercial Director Maritime VSAT in Telenor Satellite Services, Vizada, Astrium, and Airbus Defence and Space.

As the Commercial Maritime Product Director of SpeedCast, Dan Rooney is responsible for innovation and delivery of products to the commercial maritime sector. Based in Budapest, Hungary, he has been employed in the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) sector since 1999. His past experience includes working with Globe Wireless managing several product lines and as a Fleet ICT Support Manager for a large Norwegian shipping company.

Olga Kravchenko is a Blockchain expert from IBM Norway. She works with innovative solutions that utilize the power of Blockchain or artificial intelligence, Watson. Her educational background is in innovation and finance from BI in Oslo and a partner university in Ukraine.

Lars Henneberg is Head of Risk Management at Maersk. Lars is a lawyer by background and has extensive experience with legal and insurance matters in the oil and gas and shipping industries. Before taking up his current position in 2010, Lars worked 12 years in various legal positions in Maersk Oil. From 2005 to 2010, he headed up Maersk Oil's legal department. Lars has a broad international experience from his many years in the oil and gas and shipping industries, including a five-year posting to Qatar.

Matthew is a solicitor who works in the Admiralty team, part of HFW’s shipping department. He qualified as a solicitor in September 2009 and has been with HFW since November 2011.

Matthew has a broad practice and advises on a wide range of legal issues. Having completed a diploma in marine casualty investigation, he has particular expertise in the investigation and handling of claims arising out of marine casualties. In this regard, he acts for shipowners, charterers, P&I clubs and marine underwriters in cases involving groundings, collisions, salvage and towage including the contractual disputes which arise from casualties such as issues of unseaworthiness, unsafe port claims and general average. Since qualifying as a solicitor, Matthew has spent time on secondment at two International Group P&I Clubs.

Matthew also advises on offshore matters and is part of HFW’s growing decommissioning team with a particular interest in the regulatory aspects. He is developing an expertise in cyber security and regularly writes articles and speaks on the subject. Matthew is qualified in England and Wales

Mark joined Inmarsat in September 2016 and has responsibility for maritime marketing communications activities, with the objective of opening up the full potential of high-speed connectivity at sea across vertical markets including merchant shipping, small boat, fishing and leisure.

With over 19 years’ experience in the maritime industry, Warner has an extensive track record in digital platform development and marketing programme creation for ship owners, managers and suppliers. He has sector-specific experience in data analytics, E-commerce, lead generation and public relations, social media and online advertising. He is also the former Head of Digital Maritime and Professional Division for Informa, publishers of Lloyd’s List, where he managed the digital offering from the world’s oldest daily shipping paper during an intense development period.

Warner joins Inmarsat after seven years with ShipServ, the world’s leading e-marketplace for the marine and offshore supply industries, where he was a Director for Marketing and Business Development playing a central role in ShipServ’s contribution to the EU e-maritime digital development project.

A University of Plymouth alumnus, holding an MSc in International Logistics and a BSc in Maritime Business & Law, Warner has recently finished serving five years as Chairman of the Plymouth Nautical Degree Association, many of whose 500 members now occupy senior positions across the maritime industry. He is also current chairman of the Marine E-commerce Association.

Øistein Jensen has a background from the Navy and educated at Naval Academy and has an MBA from NHH. He served for 3 years as Submarine commander, then heading the Submarine command course. Øistein then worked at PwC Management Consulting for 10 years, before taking the role as Senior Vice President/Chief of Staff  in Odfjell SE.

Helle Hammer joined the Nordic Association of Marine Insurers (Cefor) as its Managing Director in 2007. Prior to this, she was Director of Innovation at Norway’s  Houston office. She has more than 25 years of experience from politics and industry policies, including four years as State Secretary in the Norwegian Ministries of Trade & Industry and Finance, and six years with the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association.

Since 2012, she has been in the chair of the International Union of Marine Insurance’s (IUMI’s) Political Forum, tasked with the responsibility of identifying, monitoring and proposing any framework related actions to support and protect the interests of the global marine insurance industry.

Hammer is a Norwegian native, and holds a degree in business and marketing from Oslo Business School.

With 30 years of IT industry experience, including commercial IT for small to large businesses and vertical specific including Marine / Maritime, Defence, Industrial Automation, Security & Surveillance, Healthcare, IoT and more, Greg is working with many of the organisations and companies in the Marine Sector, helping shape the future of the Digital Ship.

Ingolf Saetrevik holds the position of Director Global Sales at Palantir AS, a Norwegian company delivering IT&C services to the maritime industry. The KeepUp@Sea product has been in the market for 12 years, and is considered an industry standard approach to cope with the specific challenges in delivering IT-products and –services towards a fleet of vessels, operating on a global basis. Currently, approximately 1.000 vessels have signed up for services delivered from Palantir AS.

André is Director in PwC Consulting, where he mainly works with strategy- and digitization projects within a broad range of companies and industries. He has extensive experience with digital solutions, emerging technologies and data analytics.

Fredrik is partner and head of shipping & offshore in PwC. In addition to being an advisor and auditor for many international shipping/offshore companies, he has extensive operational experience including CEO for a tanker company. Fredrik is leading the PwC study “The digital transformation of shipping”.

Torbjørn joined Odfjell SE in June 2017.  He previously worked at Statoil ASA for 16 years where he held various leadership positions both within corporate services and the business line. Torbjørn graduated as IT Engineer in 2001, after 4 years in the Royal Norwegian Navy.

Terje Hesthamar is 61 years old and has been the Purchasing Manager for Jo Tankers AS for the last 27 years.

Ché Geldard is CEO of Kinnetik Solutions, and formerly, held the position of Departmental Manager for MarineLink at EVRY.  

With over 18 years’ experience in eCommerce, and 20 years in the Maritime Industry, Ché has now founded Kinnetik Solutions, an independent Cloud based eCommerce platform service, which provides an economic integration platform for Buyers and Suppliers regardless of internal formats.

Fredrik is partner and head of shipping & offshore in PwC. In addition to being an advisor and auditor for many international shipping/offshore companies, he has extensive operational experience including CEO for a tanker company. Fredrik is leading the PwC study “The digital transformation of shipping”.

Inge Andrè Sandvik has been working in global tech, internet and consultancy companies for the last 20 years, and co-founded 3 VC backed companies. His focus has been mobile first and building software platforms. He co-founded Soundrop in 2011 with three other co-founders and led the process of teaming up with Spotify. He later co-founded Filmgrail which has become a new and popular platform for cinemas, cable companies and telcos. 

Prior to Soundrop, Inge was with the internet browser company Opera Software as Head of Opera Mobile Store. He co-founded and was CEO in Numo, a company that built a global platform that meshed together national phone directories into one universal search experience.

Inge started his entrepreneurial path in 2004 as Co-founder and CEO in Mobile CTI which launched the first automatic lookup on unknown incoming callers and won several international awards for their innovative apps. The company was acquired by Opplysningen 1881, a Telenor company.

Inge has spent more than 10 years in global tech and software companies such as Telenor, Oracle, Compaq/HP, PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He is an advisor to entrepreneurs and startups in Norway and is co-founder and organizer for Product Tank Oslo.

Svein Medhaug is 41 years old and from Norway. He has a background as deck officer at oil- and LNG tankers at the merchant fleet. For the last decade, he has worked for the Norwegian Maritime Authority (NMA), in various positions. He is currently responsible for e-navigation matters at NMA, and has held this position since 2009. At the moment, he chairs the international correspondence group for one of the outputs from e-navigation at IMO: “Guidelines for harmonized display for navigation information received via communication equipment”. He is also the “project manager” for autonomous and remote vessels at NMA. Innovation and new technology in general is one of Medhaugs great passions.

Thale leads the Maritime Industry sector in Microsoft Norway. During her 9 years in Microsoft her main focus has been the data platform business from Data Warehouse and BI to IoT and AI.

Prior to Microsoft, she spent 10 years abroad, studying Computer Science in Edinburgh and an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and Singapore, working for United Technologies in Milan and a FinTech Startup in London.

Her passion is helping organizations take advantage of technology to transform (and sometimes disrupt) themselves and their industry through innovation.