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Maritime data / digital is going through its biggest period of change in 25 years since the dot com era.

 

Where the past was about standalone systems and communications channels, the present and future is about a focus on data quality, a focus on human competency, digital tools to support competency and situation awareness such as AI. And perhaps the biggest opportunity of all in digital technology may be creating the semantic / contextualisation / intelligence / communications layer which connects it all together. 

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We'll look at this new world in our May 21 People Tech Maritime Hamburg event, our fourth event, following events in Athens, Bergen, Oslo and again in Athens.

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Our key themes are maritime digital maturity, vessel performance and cybersecurity.

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Maritime digital maturity is about how well all of the components work, including how they work with each other, and how they well the support the needs of maritime professionals in specific roles.

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Vessel performance may be the most important 'use case'. Shipping companies are seeking to improve data quality, improve how data is used to support decision making, and use tools to drive a more vessel performance centric culture. 

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Cybersecurity continues to be high on the agenda, with hackers who may understand this new distributed digital environment, and its weak points, much better than we do.

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Conference producer - Vaida Berkecz, People Tech Maritime - vaida@peopletechmaritime.com

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Sales manager - David Jeffries, Only Media - Tel +44 208 150 5293 djeffries@onlymedia.co.uk. 

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​​​Event moderator - Karl Jeffery, editor, People Tech Maritime

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AGENDA OUTLINE

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08:30 Registration

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09:20 Editor's introduction - Karl Jeffery, editor, People Tech Maritime

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SESSION 1: ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND IT STRATEGY

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09:30 A CEO’s perspectives on maritime AI, cybersecurity and maritime software

          Phrixos Papachristidis, CEO, Hellespont Group

• Using AI to support people rather than to replace people – and the importance of seeing it in that way

• Cybersecurity risks not given enough attention. Is that because cyber risks are so difficult to grasp?

• Reducing complexity and cost of software licenses – in the past a shipowner could rely on one ERP. How can we make costs of multiple software tools and integrations more manageable?

 

09:50 Maritime digitalisation and partnership in response to geopolitical challenges

           Arun Sankar, Director, Commercial and Strategic Development - Northern Europe Columbia Shipmanagement

• how marine operation is more efficient with digital technology

• fragmented marine technology space/no standards – challenge or opportunity? Can people thrive at work in this case?

• cybersecurity management with AI

 

10:10 Presentation by Ömer Faruk Bayar, Business Unit Director, Harren Tanker Management 

 

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 Presentation by Maximilian Heetel, Team Lead Fleet IT, MaDaTec

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11:20 Panel discussion

• getting a better overall understanding of AI and how it can be relevant and useful to today's maritime operations

• building an internal ecosystem of AI - how you can support staff to experiment with AI tools which help them do their own work better, but in a controlled way, and

• choosing the right software tools - a suite of tools or package?

• understanding the best investments - CoPilot vs ChatGPT?

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12:00 LUNCH

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SESSION 2: CREW AND OFFICE WORK

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13:00 Presentation by Tilla

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13:20 Panel discussion

• advanced crew recruiting and assessment strategies

• better use of e-learning / maintaining crew competency in an AI era

• shipboard fatigue management - is there a role for AI tools?

• navigation management in 2026 - including working with GPS spoofing risk, understanding competency

• better use of AI to automate routine tasks, making employment more attractive and achieving more productive work where possible

• keeping people engaged and applying core human skills in risk management

• digital tools to improve operations productivity and co-ordination

 

Panellists:

Dolf Vegter, Training instructor, Edugas (ex Captain on Gas Carriers, Gas Surveyor at Houston, Marine Superintendent with Unigas)

Arun Sankar, Director, Commercial and Strategic Development - Northern Europe, Columbia Shipmanagement

 

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SESSION 3: CARBON / VESSEL PERFORMANCE

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14:00 Presentation
          Kyungrok Kim, Vessel Performance Manager, Bestship

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14:20 Panel: Building a future proof platform for vessel performance / decarbonisation data, as a basis for making reporting easier, and advanced data analytics supporting decision making

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Panellists:

Kyungrok Kim, Vessel Performance Manager, Bestship

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SESSION 4: BEST PRACTISE IN CYBERSECURITY MANAGEMENT

 

15:00 Shipping company speaker

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15:20 Panel discussion: Best practice in cybersecurity management

 

16:00 Close

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People Tech Maritime Hamburg will build on our company's successful Tanker Operator Hamburg forums, held every year since 2012, and the Digital Ship Hamburg events produced by the same team since 2019.

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Our events are produced by the team formerly with Digital Ship, who have been running Athens maritime digital technology events for 24 years.

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