People Tech Maritime - Decarbonisation Athens, Oct 15 2025 

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Improving digital tools to support decarbonisation decision making

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Forum at Eugenides Forum, Athens, Oct 15

In partnership with Ulysses Systems

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SPEAKERS AND PANEL DISCUSSION PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE
 

• Giannis Papageorgiou, senior consultant and vessel performance expert, Perception Consultancy (formerly senior consultant / ship performance expert, CMA CGM and voyage efficiency subject matter expert, A P Moller Maersk)

• Dimitris Orfanos, partner, Further and Further (former technical manager, Pavarotti Shipping)

• Panos Theodossopoulos, Chief Executive Officer, METIS

• Konstantinos S. Lourandos, Senior Technical Consultant, Ninety Percent of Everything Ltd (formerly technical manager, Delta Tankers; fleet manager / local director, Wallem Group; member INTERTANKO working group on performance monitoring)

• Omur Karatas, Chief Ocean Engineer, Ortech Marine (former maintenance manager, Arkas Maritime and Transport)

• Dimitris Lyras, director, Paralos Maritime / Ulysses Systems 

• Karl Jeffery, editor, People Tech Maritime

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ABS says that maritime decarbonisation is 70 per cent fuel selection, 15 per cent energy efficiency and 15 per cent performance optimisation.

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While fuel selection decisions may be left to senior management, everybody in the company is involved in decisions relating to performance optimisation and energy efficiency.

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How can these decisions best be made, and how can we improve the digital tools we have to make them?

We'll discuss in our workshop on October 15.

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There are many challenges.

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• Dashboards are useful in telling you what you did, but not so useful in predicting future fuel consumption, such as to charterers, banks, and for compliance planning.

• Data analysis can help you work out what you might save, but you still need to put this into practise, and you might find there are good reasons crew cannot follow the suggestion.

• Consumption / power models tell you how your speed will relate to fuel consumption, which is useful in planning voyages, but does not provide the whole picture of what your emissions / performance will be.

• Crewmembers make decisions about auxiliary engines, turbocharger operation and aspects of speed, which may have a big impact.

• Digital tools are available which can analyse and present data, but can they integrate with the enormous volume of different data types involved, including vessel sensor data, fuel data, and regulator / customer commitments?

• Are digital tools designed to support expert decision making with input from expert users - or do they over promise their ability to support decisions in order to get a sale?

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This event is followed by our People Tech Maritime - digital event on October 16

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AGENDA 

Chair: Dimitris Lyras, director, Paralos Maritime

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9.30 Overview of the digital challenge relating to maritime decarbonisation decision making
Karl Jeffery, editor, People Tech Maritime 
 

9.45 Decarbonisation strategies and operational excellence in times of uncertainty

Giannis Papageorgiou, senior consultant and vessel performance expert, Perception Consultancy (formerly senior consultant / ship performance expert, CMA CGM and voyage efficiency subject matter expert, A P Moller Maersk)

10.15 Thinking about situation awareness: why every digital tool needs to provide it, and how it relates to decarbonisation
Dimitris Lyras, director, Paralos Maritime / Ulysses Systems 

- Modelling / wireframing what a shipboard engineer, navigation officer, performance manager might want to see
- Modelling what a commercial manager and operations manager might want to see
- How far are we from being able to deliver this?
 

10.45 discussion

11.00 BREAK
 

11.30 Where are digital tools achieving the most, and where do they cause most challenges - Perspective from Türkiye
Omur Karatas, Chief Ocean Engineer, Ortech Marine (former maintenance manager, Arkas Maritime and Transport)

- experiences with clients in trying to use digital tools to decarbonise 

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12.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Can and should the development of decarbonisation digital tools be driven by expert users? What is the best way to improve digital technology to improve decarbonisation, and get it implemented faster?

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Dimitris Orfanos, partner, Further and Further (former technical manager, Pavarotti Shipping)

Panos Theodossopoulos, Chief Executive Officer, METIS

Konstantinos S. Lourandos, Senior Technical Consultant, Ninety Percent of Everything Ltd

(formerly technical manager, Delta Tankers; fleet manager / local director, Wallem Group; member INTERTANKO working group on performance monitoring)

Chair: Dimitris Lyras, director, Lyras Shipping

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- Expert users may have a better idea of what they need than software companies

- Expert users are mainly motivated by the need to get a better understanding of the situation

- Expert users have a better idea about what data they want to see, how good it is, what needs to be shared

- What is the best pathway to find common ground between technology companies and expert users? How can technology companies best find a business model doing this?

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1.00 Lunch and close

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Speaking enquiries - please contact Karl Jeffery

 

Sponsorship enquiries - please contact David Jeffries

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Standard attendance will be free for shipping company employees and €200 for others.