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18th November, Hilton, Rotterdam
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The Maritime CIO Forums have been developed by Digital Ship – the world’s foremost maritime IT & communications publication – to address the issues and trends that shipping technology professionals face in an increasingly changing and continuously developing business environment.
This, the second Maritime CIO Forum, is designed to be a meeting point where industry leaders can share knowledge and collaborate with your peers on innovation in technology and communications issues – and learn from other senior professionals in the shipping industry.
Highly targeted, this exclusive one-day forum will provide an opportunity for you to meet other experts and business heads to discuss and debate the on-going role of IT & communications in the shipping industry and help to solve the technology, leadership and business challenges of the ever changing organization.
This year’s CIO Forum will address some of the key questions facing our sector today:
- Data Analysis and Usage - how this is going to impact the way the industry is developing?
- Innovation in Maritime Communications - with all the options out there now what really matters?
- The Value of Human Capital - how important is this in the industry and why this needs to be more than just about providing Internet onboard.
- Shipping in Context where does the maritime industry sit in relation to other sectors? How can we catch up and what do we need to do to get there?
Each of the 3 sessions will include presentations, case studies, and conclude with a panel discussion designed to pull together not just the speakers but also to bring your questions, comments, issues and debate to the forefront too.
Confirmed Speakers include:
- René Teichmann, CIO, Rickmers Group
- Peter van de Venne, Director of IT, Spliethoff
- Jose Milhazes, Business Process & Application Manager (Shipowning), Stolt Tankers
- Raimo Warkki, Commercials, Ship Communication & Systems, Stena IT Operations
- Ron Vollenga, Secretary, Broadband@Sea & Consultant, Stolt Tankers
- Dan Veen, Senior Business Developer, Marine & Offshore, TNO
- James Collett, Director Mobility Services, Intelsat
- Morten Lind Olsen, CEO, Dualog
- Bjørn Kjærand Haugland, Chief Sustainability Officer, DNV - GL Group
- Tore Morten Olsen, Head of Maritime, Airbus Defence and Space
- Claude Rousseau, Research Director, NSR- France
- Chris Insall, Consultant, Satcoms Mobility
- Kyle Hurst, Director Channel Development, Station711
- Rene ten Brinke, Director Global Services, Imtech Marine
- Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO, SpeedCast
- Andreas Haralambopoulos, Director of Technology, Navarino
- Freek Bomhof, Principal Business Consultant, TNO
- Neville Smith, Director, Mariner Communications
Who should attend?
- Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
- Chief Technology Officers (CTOs)
- Chief Operating Officers (COOs)
- Other senior business and technical executives in technology, communications, information management, operations, and finance functions
- Suppliers providing:
- Ship Shore Communications
- Software / Data Services
- Shipboard Electronics / Safety / Navigation Systems
- Control Systems / Power
- Security Technology
For more information about this programme or to find out how your company can be part of the Maritime CIO Forum please contact young@thedigitalship.com
Registration
Registration is free of charge for shipping company employees and €395 for suppliers and includes access to the conference, refreshments and all materials post-event.
Discount of 15% for 2 or more delegates from the same company.
Click on Registration tab to book your place or contact narges@thedigitalship.com
Please note cancellations must be received in writing. Refunds will not be given 4 weeks or less prior to the event. Substitutions may be made at any time in writing.
Agenda
Tuesday November 18, 2014
08:00 Registration & Welcome Tea/Coffee
09:00 Opening Notes by Conference Chair
Chris Insall, Consultant, Satcoms Mobility
SESSION 1: Data Analysis and Usage
09:15 The Future of Data Communications for Optimisation in Shipping
Kyle Hurst, Director Channel Development, Station711
09:40 Data Standard at the Heart of Maritime Innovation
- How iShare@Sea protocol is increasing availability and return on investment of maritime assets
Dan Veen, Senior Business Developer, Marine & Offshore, TNO
10:10 Panel Session – Key speakers from this session, plus:
René Teichmann, CIO, Rickmers Group
Freek Bomhof, Principal Business Consultant, TNO
Jose Milhazes, Business Process & Application Manager (Shipowning), Stolt Tankers B.V.
10:40 Tea/Coffee Break
SESSION 2: Innovation in Maritime Communications
11:10 Segmenting Maritime Sector Communications Trends & Understanding the Challenges
James Collett, Director Mobility Services, Intelsat
11:40 How to Increase Efficiency and Business Value through IT Focused innovations?
Tore Morten Olsen, Head of Maritime, Airbus Defence and Space
12:10 Ship Communications Yesterday & Tomorrow
Raimo Warkki, Commercials, Ship Communication & Systems, Stena IT Operations
12:40 How the Combination of VSAT / Connectivity and Remote Services can Lead to Better Operational Performance and Added Value for the Vessel Owner
The art of maintenance is keeping the ‘asset pool’ (fleet or vessels) in good shape in such a way that the asset owner can operate its equipment in the most profitable manner. Well organized maintenance will prove its value by enabling high quality operations combined with a minimal on downtime while operational (OPEX) and capital expenditures (CAPEX) remain at a minimum. Often maintenance is considered as an inevitable cost aspect, while it can avoid high capital cost and indirect cost due to downtime, thus contributing to the profit margins.
Rene ten Brinke, Director, Global Services, Imtech Marine

13:10 Lunch break
Kindly Sponsored by DualogDon’t forget to visit the Dualog stand to enter your business card in the draw for an iPad mini!
Session 2: Innovation in Maritime Communications (continued)
14:10 Maritime Innovation Driving Developments in Human Capital
Morten Lind Olsen, CEO, Dualog
14:40 Data-Hungry Applications via the “Limited-Capability” Satellite Network
Peter Van de Venne, Director of IT, Spliethoff
15:10 Panel Session – Key speakers from this session, plus:
Pierre-Jean Beylier, CEO, SpeedCast
Ron Vollenga, Secretary, Broadband@Sea & Consultant, Stolt Tankers
Andreas Haralambopoulos, Director of Technology, Navarino
15:40 Tea/Coffee Break
SESSION 3: Shipping in Context
16:10 The Sustainability Revolution
- Research, innovation and optimum solutions for environmental sustainability
- How this can be applied to the maritime industry
Bjørn Kjærand Haugland, Chief Sustainability Officer, DNV - GL Group
16:40 Advances in Technology
- Investment in technology spearheading growth and development
- How might the maritime sector learn from these
Claude Rousseau, Research Director, NSR-France
17:10 Panel Session – Key speakers from this session, plus:
Neville Smith, Director, Mariner Communications

17:40 Closing Notes followed by Networking Reception until 19:00
Kindly Sponsored by SpeedCast
*Please note that some sessions and speakers may be subject to confirmation. Digital Ship reserves the right to amend the programme topics, times or speakers as necessary and without notice.
Exhibition
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Report
The Maritime CIO Forum Rotterdam saw shipowners and operators come together with airtime suppliers and distributors to discuss issues currently affecting maritime satcoms and IT: data analysis and usage, innovation in maritime communications and the shipping market context.
As chairman Chris Insall pointed out in his opening remarks, vendors and service providers need to understand the scale of the challenge, typified by the giant Maersk Triple E Containerships. What does the increasing scale mean at a time when expenditure is still tight but demand is growing?
To Station 711’s Director of Channel Development Kyle Hurst it means optimising not just the channel but the data itself. Something of an advocate for the development of standards to support data transfer and analysis, he positioned a greater degree of remote monitoring and telemetry as the first stage towards a future of unmanned ships.
For the moment, however, he asked the industry to consider what level of data adds value to operations. If that level was increasing, then shouldn’t providers agree on standards to shape the infrastructure? At present both sides are working to best fit rather than best practices, he said.
Dan Veen Senior Business Developer at TNO outlined how the iShare at Sea project is trying to do just that by increasing availability of maritime assets. Veen agreed that standards are currently lacking and stressed that open standards did not mean there could not be competition. The next billion of internet users he said would be machines not humans and a lack of standards was holding back the ability to innovate.
The subsequent panel also included contributions from Rene Teichmann of Rickmers, Freek Bomhof of TNO and Jose Milhazes of Stolt Tankers, discussing the value of data transfer – where the information resides and who has the ability to leverage its value.
The panel noted that some vendors were reluctant to share the data with third parties for commercial reasons but as the volume increases, the need to share becomes greater: co-operation was better than coercion. But are operators willing to invest? Milhazes reminded the delegates what motivates owners: ROI is the first requirement he puts to any proposal for new technology development.
Head of Maritime for Airbus Defence and Space Tore Morten Olsen is a man with much on his plate right now but he took an admirably down to earth approach on efficiency and business value. His main message was stop focussing on hardware and instead consider applications and service quality. The sell side has gone some way in moving from cost to value in the communications channel and the industry is ready to use it. Don’t focus on the band, he suggested but instead on controlling it.
Asked about the sale of the Airbus maritime business, he said didn’t think more consolidation would affect customers and he said the company was still open to new ideas. Having met with some of the market’s potential disrupters he said the key was to keep ship at the heart of the business.
Raimo Warkki does just that running IT for the Stena ferry fleet and said new services and capacity are an opportunity to increase the demands the owner can make on suppliers. Even so, he predicted there might never be enough capacity to fully run internet onboard and shipping would always be behind the connectivity curve.
Imtech Marine’s Director of Global Services Rene ten Brinke focussed on the ‘pain in the ass’ for shipowners: maintenance. The time and money that maintenance requires, he suggested can be dramatically impacted by a better communications plan. Adopting a strategy that embraced failure effect analysis and predictive maintenance could go beyond simple savings in downtime and costs.
Dualog CEO Morten Lind-Olsen gave an uncharacteristically downbeat view of the future in which the very low average bandwidth fails to keep pace with terrestrial speeds gains. He also suggested it was much harder than many believe to get crew to pay for internet access. He agreed with Airbus though that the solution, rather than the cost or the technology was the key to adoption - more owners are buying internet control software and learning to live in a limited internet environment.
This gloomy prognosis was somewhat dispelled by Spliethof IT Director Peter Van de Venne who demonstrated how a specialist owner could get the connectivity they wanted by offering crew combination of free and paid for airtime – enough to cover the cost of middleware and apparently at speeds fast enough to keep them happy.
The subsequent panel saw chairman Chris Insall point out that the theme of control had extended to Inmarsat which was itself ending its ‘unlimited’ airtime plans. Inmarsat’s Michiel Meijer suggested that the market would see a more attentive supplier under new Maritime President Ronald Spithout, but agreed there was a need for consistent services; customers were confused about which boxes and services to choose.
In terms of the next generation services that would power the brave new world of data collection and analysis, there were predictions that the number of global VSAT players could go as low as three or four, but there was agreement that HTS had the potential to enable far more applications than maritime users have been used to. There might never be ‘enough’ bandwidth to close the supply gap but service growth is keeping pace with demand.
In the final session, DNV-GL’s Bjorn Kjaerand Haugland reminded delegates of the broader maritime landscape: rising emissions, higher costs, more regulation, new approaches to hull forms and materials. Shipping is moving at a faster pace and looking for solutions that support smarter maintenance and more automation.
Finally Claude Rousseau of Northern Sky Research gave the satellite industry perspective on maritime. Shipping is feeling some of the big trends – notably M2M demand – but he said more VSAT mobility users will be targeted with the FSS providers’ bread and butter traffic: video.
The advent of HTS will unblock some of the existing ‘jams’ in connectivity and Rousseau suggested NSR’s own estimates of aeronautical market demand would probably fall short of reality. With operators already embracing HTS, more services would be available in future, which also suggests a ‘bigger pie’ for maritime – a total addressable market as big as 110,000 ships he suggested.
It was a positive note on which to end the Forum. Though Rousseau predicted more consolidation and increased competition, from a user perspective there would be greater redundancy, lower prices and more availability, spurring growth on all platforms.