5th ShipIT CONFERENCE, Thursday, September 26th, 2019, Benaki Museum Amphitheatre, Athens

Maritime Digital Transformation Journey under the spotlight

Thursday, September 26th 2019, Benaki Museum Amphitheatre, Athens

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Further to the four successful past ShipIT conferences netweek magazine and the Association of Maritime Managers for Information Technology and Communications (AMMITEC) present the 5th ShipIT Conference.

ShipIT Conference is a one-day strategic event addressed to the shipping industry, analyzing Information and Communications Technologies’ (ICT) impact on the industry’s operations and business performance. The Conference is creating a unique knowledge exchange and networking platform for the maritime industry, where senior business and IT executives meet, discuss and evaluate how Digital Technologies improve both business and operational goals.

The conference’s agenda holistically covers crucial issues such as:

• How IT improves overall Ship industry’s Performance 
• How Big Data & IoT affect the shipping industry
• Business analytics, artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Action at the Shipping Sector 
• Risk Management & Cyber-Security under the spotlight

Key Issues

• How Big Data & IoT affect the shipping industry: Speakers at this session will analyze and evaluate how Big Data and IoT is a path towards better efficiency and fighting environmental problems, as well as how IoT and the subsequent AI to make the workplaces more “comfortable”.
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Action at the Shipping Sector: Speakers will analyze and evaluate how technology will augment, increase efficiency and productivity and guide the shipping sector to go to the next day of the digital transformation.
• Risk Management & Cyber- Security under the spotlight: Speakers will analyze and evaluate practical examples of how to effectively mitigate the cyber risks that affect the maritime industries as well as the steps can be taken in order to mitigate the cyber risks that shipping industry faces.

Topics included:

• Maritime Digital Transformation & Technological Developments
• Digitalization by IoT based solutions & automations
• Maritime Big Data & The Connectivity Evolution
• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in shipping industry
• Data Driven Decision Management - Maritime Business Analytics & Business Intelligence
• Advanced communication solutions to digitalize operations & enhance overall business efficiency
• Cyber Security & Cyber Detection in the Maritime Industry
• Issues for IT/OT Cyber Security
• Blockchain is the next big revolution in shipping?
• Classification in the digital age

What is there for you?

In this “era sense”, the ShipIT Conference 2019 brings together a broad spectrum of business and IT executives, with the objective to:

• Leverage digital and disruptive technologies to answer to the new needs of the shipping industry
• Present and assess the importance of ICT in creating best practices, innovative approaches, unique business models and tools to harness business opportunities
• Evaluate the challenges, questions and advances ICT technology addresses to the shipping industry
• Stay ahead of the innovation curve, with the digitalization of the maritime sector
• Address business issues rather than technical ones, as it is bringing shipping business leaders together with CIOs & COTs to explore the digital maritime business case
• Connect / network key leaders from maritime, technology development and innovation

Who should attend?

• Owners and CEOs
• Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
• Chief Operating Officers (COOs)
• Chief Technology Officers (CTOs)
• Senior business and technical executives
• Suppliers providing: •Software / Data Services • Ship Shore Communications • Shipboard Electronics / Safety / Navigation Systems • Control Systems / Power • Security Technology

PLEASE DISSEMINATE THE CONFERENCE DETAILS TO YOUR DEPARTMENTS.

Meet the Speakers:

Key Note Speakers:

Siraj Ahmed Shaikh, Professor of Systems Security at the Institute of Future Transport and Cities (FTC) at Coventry University

Ross Tsagalidis, Director Strategic CyberSec

Industry Experts Speakers:

Eyal Pinko, Senior consultant and researcher, Maritime security and Cybersecurity

Giampiero Soncini, Chief Executive Officer of Marine Division, IB Influencing Business

Experts:

* In alphabetical order

Dr. Ioannis Filippopoulos, Academic Director of Informatics and Engineering Division, Digital Transformation Specialist

Kostas Grivas, Information Security Officer, Angelicoussis Group 

George Karamanolis, Chairman Hellenic Blockchain Hub 

Athanasios Kosmopoulos, Head of Organization and Support, Executive Agency of Information Technologies | Data Protection Officer, Ministry of Development 

Matthew Maheras, CIO, Metrostar Management Corp 

Stergios Oikonomou, Communication & Electronics Officer (CIS, InfoSec, Cyber Defence & Crypto), Hellenic Air Force

Thanassis Pagonis, Business Performance Monitoring Unit Officer - Almi Tankers

Athanasios Spanos, Ph.D., Purchasing Operators Supervisor, Thenamaris (Ships Management) Inc.

Fotis Tsitsirigkos, Fleet IT Manager Euronav

Petros Valsamis, Head of IT Department Eurobulk Ltd

Dr. Dimitrios - Konstantinos Vasilakis, Planning & Analysis Supervisor, Marine Personnel Department, Thenamaris (Ship Management) Inc.

Konstantinos Zacharias, ICT Spring Marine Management


For more info please follow the path: https://www.shipit.gr/