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3rd People Tech Maritime Athens Autumn event
Friday, Nov 20, 2026
New Hotel, Syntagma
Language models - vessel performance - digital maturity - cybersecurity
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Dr Panagiotis Nomikos, Maritime AI Consultant
Kyriakos P. Mahos, HSQE & Energy Efficiency Director, Levante Ferries MC
Capt. Konstantinos D. Geomelos, Master Mariner, Msc, AFNI – Navigation Manager, Chandris (Hellas) Inc.
Tilemachos Kreouzis, Senior ICT Officer, Newport S.A.
Achilleas Mantzios, System/SW Engineer, Team Leader, Analyst, Dynacom Tankers Management
Giannis P. Papageorgiou, Performance & Decarbonisation Manager, TMS
Andreas Polidis, IT Advisor, Ionic
Nick Andriopoulos, IT Manager, Heidmar
Martinos Paisios, Electrical & Automation Superintendent / Jr Technical Superintendent, LAMDA MARITIME
Dimitris Lyras, Director, Lyras Shipping and Ulysses Systems
Theodore Chouliaras, BOD President, Upoil Tankers & Trading
Ourania Papagianni, Head of Digital Transformation, Goldenport Group
The future maritime company will make great use of advanced techniques like language models, will have great vessel performance, and will combine the strengths of people and machine.
We'll learn more about what that looks like at People Tech Maritime Athens in November 2026.
Free to attend for employees of shipping companies.
We'll also look at ways to improve the maturity of our maritime technology implementations, particularly onboard ships, and latest developments in how to maintain cybersecurity.
All of our discussions will have a strong people theme - how we can make it easier for people to understand, use and benefit from the technologies.
This event will build on our People Tech Maritime events in Athens in April 2026 and October 2025.
SPEAKER ENQUIRIES
if you are from a shipping company, please contact our conference producer Vaida Berkecz on vaida@peopletechmaritime.com
SPONSORSHIP ENQUIRIES
For sponsorship / provider speakers enquiries, contact Karl Jeffery, director, People Tech Maritime, on jeffery@d-e-j.com
We hope to see you in Athens on November 20!
OUTLINE AGENDA
08:30 REGISTRATION
09:20 Opening from Karl Jeffery, Managing Editor at People Technology Maritime
SESSION 1 - WORKING WITH LANGUAGE MODELS AND OTHER FORMS OF AI
09:30 Implementing agentic AI in shipping companies
Panagiotis Nomikos, Maritime AI consultant
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What they might do: market intelligence agents, operational department agents, reporting agents
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How shipping companies should manage their “orchestra” of agents
09:50 From lab report to maintenance decision: how Levante Ferries uses ChatGPT for lube oil analysis
Kyriakos P. Mahos, HSQE & Energy Efficiency Director, Levante Ferries MC
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How Levante Ferries uses laboratory lube oil analysis as part of its condition-monitoring process
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A real-life case study: using ChatGPT to identify trends, interpret abnormal results, suggest possible root causes and support corrective actions
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What we learned: where AI adds value, where it can get it wrong, and why laboratory data and engineering judgement remain essential
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Conclusion: AI accelerates understanding – engineers provide judgement
10:10 Can LLMs assist troubleshooting technical problems?
Martinos Paisios, Electrical & Automation Superintendent / Jr Technical Superintendent, LAMDA MARITIME
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When a technical problem occurs, engineers need to establish what has happened, if it happened before, maintenance recently performed, what checks were made
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Relevant information is scattered across manuals, alarm records, maintenance systems, defect reports and correspondence
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Can we use a LLM to retrieve relevant information from approved sources and produce a concise troubleshooting brief, with known facts, previous cases, missing information, and inspection steps, leaving the final decision to the engineer's judgement?
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Proposal for a pilot project
10:30 Why you need a model to connect data from maritime e-mail and data
Dimitris Lyras, Director, Lyras Shipping and Ulysses Systems
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The model needs to cover the thousands of different activities and issues which maritime people can be faced with
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You cannot do it just with LLMs, but LLMs can support it, including extracting data and helping work with voice commands
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Leading to people working through having situation awareness, not by monitoring e-mails
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How Ulysses Finder delivers this
10:50 BREAK
SESSION 2 - DOING MORE WITH VESSEL PERFORMANCE DATA
11:20 Vessel performance data: from acquisition to AI
Achilleas Mantzios, System/SW Engineer, Team Leader, Analyst, Dynacom Tankers Management
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how to define, how to canonicalise
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how to link with existing apps such as noon reporting
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how to link to PMS, crew, etc
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remember you have big data now, what to avoid, how to manage
11:40 Presentation
Giannis P. Papageorgiou, Performance & Decarbonisation Manager, TMS
12:00 From vessel data to safe action: bridging technology, shipboard reality and professional judgement
Capt. Konstantinos D. Geomelos, Master Mariner, Msc, AFNI– Navigation Manager, Chandris (Hellas) Inc.
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an operational and safety-focused perspective on how vessel performance technology is applied in practice onboard
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how can we combine the strengths of people and machines
12:20 What charterers are looking for in vessel performance data and how this is changing
Theodore Chouliaras, BOD President, Upoil Tankers & Trading
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The data charterers need to assess speed and fuel consumption, including the operating conditions behind the figures
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How the consistency, transparency and reliability of performance reporting affect vessel evaluation and chartering discussions
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How discrepancies between reported and observed performance can be investigated jointly by chartering and vessel performance teams.
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Why careful reporting by crew and shore staff matters commercially, and how that connection can be communicated more clearly
12:40 LUNCH
13:40 VESSEL PERFORMANCE PANEL
Panellists
Capt. Konstantinos D. Geomelos
Master Mariner, Msc, AFNI– Navigation Manager
Chandris (Hellas) Inc.
Theodore Chouliaras
BOD President
Upoil Tankers & Trading
SESSION 3 - THE PATHWAY TO MARITIME DIGITAL MATURITY AND CYBERSECURITY
14:20 Managing cybersecurity in the age of agentic AI
Nick Andriopoulos, IT Manager, Heidmar
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What changes when AI is integrated with corporate email, documents, operational systems and workflows — and is able to take actions, not just provide answers
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Tackling agentic AI from a security and governance perspective: identity and access, data boundaries, excessive agency, prompt injection, auditability and accountability
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What “least privilege” means when the user of a system may itself be an AI agent
14:40 Panel - THE PATHWAY TO MARITIME DIGITAL MATURITY
Panellists
Andreas Polidis
IT Advisor
Ionic
Tilemachos Kreouzis
Senior ICT Officer
Newport S.A.
Ourania Papagianni
Head of Digital Transformation
Goldenport Group
Nick Andriopoulos
IT Manager
Heidmar
15:40 CLOSE
Our November 2026 People Tech Maritime event in Athens builds on our events in April 2026 and November 2025. Attendees of these events included:
ABCmaritime, Superintendent; Agile Cargo, Investment Manager; AIMS Shipping Corporation, Performance & Environmental Superintendent Engineer, Technical Dept; Alpha Maritime Training Center, Training and development manager; AM Nomikos TWMA SA, IT; Angelakos Hellas, Technical Manager; Anglo-Eastern Ship Management Hellas Ltd., Junior Asset Integrity Superintendent Engineer; Athens Multinational Sealift Coordination Center, Director; Biamax S.A, IT Manager; Blue Planet Shipping, Legal Counsel; Central Mare, Energy & Environmental Engineer; Technical Superintendent; Central Ship Management Ltd (DMCC Branch), Technical Manager; Chandris Hellas Inc., PMO Manager; Dileton Maritime S.A., Chartering Manager; Dynacom Tankers Management, System/SW Engineer, Team Leader, Analyst, Marine superintendent; Equinox Maritime Ltd, Tech. & MRV Dept.; EXMAR Ship Management, Business Process & Database Manager; Hellas Confidence Shipmanagement, ICT department, IT Manager; Hellenic Coast Guard, Coast Guard Officer; Hellenic Naval Academy, Researcher, Mathematics and Statistics lab; Hellenic Navy, Commander; Intermodal Shipbrokers Co, director; Ionia, Software Engineer; Ionic, IT Advisor, IT Projects Support Manager; Laskardis Shipping. Innovation & Technology Manager; Latsco Marine Management, Head of Group IT, IT manager; Levante Ferries MC, HSQE Director; Marpoint, Quality and CSM Coordinator; Navar, Director; Navarone, Performance Engineer; Newport S.A., Senior ICT Officer; Nomikos Transworld Maritime Agencies, IT Director and CISO; Pantheon Tankers, Instructional Designer; Paradise Navigation, CEO, IT Manager; Paralos Maritime, director; Ritelane Marine, Technical Superintendent; Sea Hawk Gas S.A, IT Manager; Seaven Tankers, IT Manager; Thenamaris (Ships Management) Inc, Planning manager, Strategic Program Manager; TMC Shipping, Senior Maritime Strategy Consultant, Chartering Executive & Commercial Director; TMS Group, Application Innovation & Integration Officer