08:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
08:55 Welcome from Digital Ship
Session 1: How shipping companies are supporting decision making with digital tools, and improving digital product development
09:00 Decision making with data
How OSM is supporting employee decision making through its “OSM Insights” tool which collects data from many locations around the company.
Arne Sørensen, IT Manager Europe, OSM Maritime Group
Bio: Arne Sørensen has 24-year work experience in shipping companies as a System Engineer in Rasmussen Maritime Services, IT manager in Bergshav Ship Management, and IT Manager Europe for OSM Maritime Group for the recent three years.
Ernesto Miguel Yandoc, Head of Enterprise Application and Data & Analytics, OSM Maritime Group
Bio: Ernesto Miguel Yandoc has over 10 years of diverse experience in end-to-end Product Management, Application Development, ETL, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. During his tenure in OSM, he has held various positions in different departments, where he has used his experience in Technology to drive process excellence and efficiencies before moving back to OSM's Technology Department.
Currently, he works as the Head of Enterprise Applications and Data & Analytics, where he leads a team consisting of Data Engineers, Architects and Analysts, enabling the digital transformation in a large organization like OSM.
09:20 Data visualisation for business decision making
How G2 Ocean is supporting business decision making for safety and ESG targets, building dashboards showing data gathered from vessels
Kristin Hellen Andersen, VP IT at G2 Ocean
Bio: Kristin Hellen Andersen is Vice President IT in UnITy, the joint IT department established between G2 Ocean, Gearbulk and Grieg Star. She has 15 years of experience working with technology driven management both in private and public sector. Her area of responsibilities has mainly been in the interface between business and IT, as Head of IT or Head of Business Development. Before Kristin went into Shipping in 2018 she has been working with digital strategy and projects with a special focus on transformation within different business sectors, ranging from Consulting to Transportation. Kristin truly believes that IT can be an important business driver in the digital transition Shipping is experiencing.
09:40 Digital product development in a shipping company
Wilhelmsen have the ambition to shape the maritime industry, and Wilhelmsen Ships Service is taking the maritime products and service industry into the digital age. Magnus will share how the company is leveraging the large trends of increased connectivity in the maritime industry to fast track their digital developments, and lessons learned in the journey of building out internal digital capabilities.
Magnus Dickens, Digital Products Lead, Wilhelmsen Ships Service
Bio: Magnus Dickens has worked with innovation projects and digitalization efforts in the maritime industry having worked in different parts of industry in Europe and Asia for the last 6 years. Previously he was responsible for selected IoT development projects in the company. Now as digital products lead he is leading cross functional teams in developing digital products for the maritime industry and building a team to handle the companies digital strategy. Magnus holds a MSc in Naval Architecture and Marine engineering from the NTNU in Trondheim.
10:00 Transforming seafarer payments
Nikolay will speak about how new financial technologies are able to transform the way seafarers are paid and how this can contribute to digitalization of the shipping industry and seafarers' wellbeing.
Nikolay Chekan, Head of Sales, Kadmos
Bio: Nikolay Chekan Nikolay is the Head of Sales at Kadmos GmbH, a Berlin-based startup providing an end-to-end salary payment platform. Kadmos makes paying crews more efficient while drastically reducing administration and transfer costs. Nikolay has more than 20 years of experience in different management positions within international banks, Fintechs, and payment processors.
Q&A with the speakers
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Session 2: Digital technology developments – improving digital infrastructure foundation on ships, moving to open infrastructure, getting data ship-to-shore
11:00 Getting the foundation right for your digital infrastructure on ships
It is becoming increasingly clear to vessel owners and operators that leveraging high frequency vessel operational data is critical to be able to improve the financial and environmental performance in the short to medium term. But getting access to this data in an efficient and reliable way is not always straightforward. What do you need to get right from the start to be able to build the right foundation to efficiently scale your digital initiatives on your fleet, maximizing the value you get from your vessel data?
Ari Marjamaa, CEO, Raa Labs
Bio: Ari Marjamaa has broad experience from management, strategy as well as technology driven business development within the maritime industry. Prior to his role as CEO of Raa Labs, Ari was Chief Transformation Officer in Wallenius Wilhelmsen. Previously, Ari served as a Director within a global maritime management consulting unit in DNV GL. He also has experience from technology investing with a leading Nordic venture capital company, as well as from academia. Ari holds a MSc in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) and Universität St.Gallen.
11:20 Moving to open infrastructure for maritime digital technology
Digitalization has moved to open infrastructure, where Kongsberg Digital is partnering to maximize the potential of the data. What are the perspectives and the benefits for the maritime industry and ship owners?
Harald Durban, Growth Manager, Kongsberg Digital
Bio: Harald Durban is an experienced ship broker. His talk will explain what are the perspectives and the benefits of vessel-to-cloud data infrastructure for the maritime industry and ship owners.
11:40 Demystifying complex connectivity – keeping it simple
Owner economics come into play with space based business. Eutelsat demonstrates how they make use of their scale in space and ground resources for partners servicing maritime business. Enhancing user experience by dynamically optimising data availability to ships - allowing innovation for vessel operations and ensuring mariners super reliable freedom to be connected.
Paul Petit-Jean, VP, Head of Maritime Business Line, Connectivity Business Unit, Eutelsat
Bio: Paul Petit-Jean is the VP at Eutelsat heading the Maritime Business Line in the Connectivity Business Unit. Prior to joining Eutelsat in 2018, Paul has worked for satellite service providers over the last 20 years, in the harbours of Hamburg, Rotterdam, Singapore, and finally Paris where he is based now.
Q&A with the speakers
12:15 Panel: Improving how we collect data from ships and get it to shore
Panellists:
Kevin Brunn, Director of Business Development, ShipIn
Bio: Kevin Brunn brings extensive experience in the digital space in the maritime industry, helping ship owners and ship managers orchestrate their digital transformation for the past 15 years. As Director of Sales at ShipIn Systems, he works closely with clients in reshaping their digitalization initiatives through innovative AI technology application onboard to increase safety, security and operational efficiency. Prior to joining ShipIn, Kevin worked for 14 years with DNV / GL in the Digital Solutions business area.
Jason McFarlane, CTO at Hyke - Hydrolift Smart City Ferries
Bio: Jason McFarlane is passionate about innovation and emerging technologies and how they can be utilized towards more sustainable and liveable cities. His strong technical foundation in systems development is combined with a creative drive for exploring new and better solutions and the ability to bring ideas to realisation. Jason holds a degree in Computer Systems Engineering, and an MSc in Information Systems Management. He started as CTO at Hyke in 2021 bringing with him broad cross-industry experience with several roles at management level, including 14 years at Kongsberg Maritime with most recent focus on research and innovation as well as the concept and technical development of autonomous systems.
13:00-14:30 Networking Lunch
kindly sponsored by MARLINK
Session 3: Maritime cyber security – monitoring onboard networks, and passing an audit
14:30 Monitoring onboard networks, who cares?
The network has become one of the most important systems allowing flexible operations and data gathering. Let’s discuss the benefits of monitoring networks and what benefits can be found within the maritime industry.
Peter Szendroi, Senior Technical Engineer - Scandinavia, Nozomi Networks
Bio: Peter Szendroi is a Technical Sales Engineer for the Scandinavia region at Nozomi Networks. Peter has extensive experience within the security industry and has previously worked at Tanium as a Technical Account Manager and Trend Micro as a Senior Sales Engineer. Peter has more than 30 years technical background, working hands on with different aspects of cyber security and operational effectiveness in environments ranging from ICS to pure IT systems.
15:00 How to implement IMO 2021 and pass an audit
Many companies today are unsure of how to implement IMO 2021 in a practical way to pass an audit. Hanne and Cicilie from Devoteam will take you through the most important areas and give you advice on how your company can act.
Speakers:
Hanne Wesselsen, Cybersecurity advisor, Devoteam
Bio: Hanne Wesselsen worked with a number of large clients, abroad and in the Nordics. She is currently a CISO working with IMO compliance and OT technology.
Cicilie Hennig-Till, Cybersecurity advisor, Devoteam
Bio: Cicilie Hennig-Till has 15 years experience as communications advisor in public and private sector. Before Devoteams she worked on digitization programme at Oslo municipality.
Q&A with the speakers
Session 4: Decarbonisation, digital technology and electrification
15:30 How sustainability and transition of shipping drives need for data
Øistein will present how sustainability challenges and opportunities affecting the industry, and how data collection and digitalization can support sustainability efforts and reporting, transition and decarbonization.
Øistein Jensen, Chief Sustainability Officer at Odfjell
Bio: Øistein Jensen was appointed as Odfjell’s first Chief Sustainability Officer in 2020. He joined Odfjell in 2016, came from the position as Director at PWC, and has previously held various managerial positions in the Royal Norwegian Navy. Jensen also serves as a member on the board of the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN).
15:50 Collecting fuel consumption data from ships using the onboard wireless communication mesh network
Scanreach will explore how obtaining accurate fuel consumption data using cost-effective and easy-to-install onboard wireless connectivity solutions, will help owners achieve regulatory compliance in 2023 and beyond.
Trond Liabø, VP Sales, Scanreach
Bio: Trond Liabø has a strong passion for collaborating with clients and generating technical solutions that increase efficiencies and safety of operations. He has considerable experience in bringing new products to market and creating high levels of customer satisfaction among global marine customers.
16:10 Contextualising data to drive informed decision making for voyage management
Organisations require contextual and timely data to solve problems, refine operations, and make the best-informed decisions for efficient shipping. However, data can get complicated. An enormous amount of data is being generated all the time—roughly 100-120 million data points daily, from different sources. So how can you move from data paradox to data productivity? How can you tackle challenges like data silos, ownership, data format, findability and context?
Erik Fritz Loy, Founder & CEO, Dataloy
Bio: Erik Fritz Loy founded Dataloy in 2002, a global technology platform that provides the commercial maritime industry with the visibility, flexibility, and efficiency required to address its most significant planning and operational challenges in voyage management. He has since expanded the company's capabilities in technology, strategic partnerships, and new business models. The entire organisation shares his enthusiasm for creating value through customer focus and innovation, guiding people through change and transformation, and solving complex business challenges.
It is no wonder that Dataloy Systems makes an excellent example of an API-first company with its extensive partner ecosystem that greatly simplifies complex maritime operations without taking away the choice of the customers.
16:30 Electrification and ships of the future
This presentation shows how it is possible to build a ship today that fulfils current regulations and upcoming future environmental changes. Using power distribution blocks around an innovative DC-Hub, electronic bus link breaker and electronic DC breaker, ships can switch from AC to DC to gain better fuel and cost savings. This offers high reliability and flexibility to run on any future power source. New building-block products from Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch enable large battery systems to be connected to a DC system in an efficient way to prepare for the future.
Asbjørn Halsebakke, Manager, Technical Solutions, Marine at Yaskawa Environmental Energy / The Switch Norway
Bio: Asbjørn Halsebakke is an experienced technical manager for marine with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. He is skilled in power electronics, electrical wiring, management, transformer, continuous improvement and research and development (R&D). He is a strong sales professional with an MSc focused on power electronics from The Artic University of Norway (UiT).
Q&A with the speakers
17:00 Closing with drinks reception
kindly sponsored by DUALOG
