Where maritime IT leadership meets.
A one-day, peer-group summit for the senior IT leaders shaping the next decade of commercial shipping. By and for shipowners and ship managers. Focused, single-track, and built around the decisions you're working through.
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Maritime IT has become a strategic capability.
The summit exists to bring senior maritime IT leadership together. A peer-led forum to align on the decisions facing them over the next decade.
Five years ago, maritime IT reported to the CFO. The budget was a line item on the cost reduction agenda. Today, CIOs sit on executive committees and shape corporate strategy. Over the next decade, that change keeps reshaping how fleet operations are run.
Regulators expect more. Attackers expect to be lucky. AI requires data of a quality the industry is still working to produce. All three put modern IT infrastructure at the centre of safe, efficient, compliant operations.
Maritime IT teams need a forum built for the people making these decisions. The Digital Ship Summit is that conversation, by and for senior IT leaders at shipowners and ship managers.
Shipowner CIOs shape the agenda
The programme is built by shipowner IT leaders. Every session reflects the decisions they are weighing right now.
A single track, all day
Three peer-led keynotes and three structured debates, all in the same room. One conversation, the whole day.
Built for the right conversations
Networking lunch, the Undocked & Unwind evening reception with a live podcast, and a pre-event speakers' and sponsors' dinner. Time built in for the conversations that happen around the sessions as well as inside them.
Senior maritime IT leadership, on one stage.
Shipowner keynotes anchor the day's themes, and the CIOs, CTOs, and heads of IT at leading owners and managers argue the structured debates. Between them, the companies on stage own or manage more than 1,000 vessels.
Gunnar E. Eide
Manager Digital Applications
Odfjell SE
Michalis Michaloliakos
Group Head of ICT & Cyber Security
TMS
Peter Jackson
Chief Technology Officer
Seaspan
Thodoris Galanis
David Edwards
Nikolas Sarantos
Gkotsis Panagiotis
Steven Hemmings
Christian Treu
Jeremy Steventon Barnes
Konstantinos Stais
Ioannis Rizos
Zenon Oratis
Kris Vedat
Paal Lohne
Christina Orfanidou
Nicholas Timpelis
Dimitris PavlidisData & IT Infrastructure
Plenty of shipowners are still running ageing onboard hardware, inconsistent configurations, and a sprawl of cloud and legacy applications. The question now is how to design something that holds up across a global fleet, stays secure, and stays manageable as it grows.
Connectivity & Cyber Resilience
Ship-to-shore data is rising. Cloud applications are essential. Onboard systems are more connected than they have ever been. Upgrading networks, modernising onboard architecture, securing mixed IT/OT environments, and meeting new regulatory expectations are now at the top of the IT agenda.
AI & Automation
AI used to be an experimental project. Now it is embedded in maintenance planning, voyage optimisation, compliance workflows, and day-to-day decisions. The next phase of adoption is about data quality, integration, governance, and proving value at scale.
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Shipowner keynotes, structured debates with sharply contrasting views, and time built in for lunch, coffee, and the conversations that happen around them.
Doors open. Registration & morning coffee.
Sponsorship opportunityModerator introduction
Framing the morning's discussion: where shipowners are today on infrastructure, and what's at stake in the decisions ahead.
Modernising data & IT infrastructure for the next decade
A practical look at how a leading operator is modernising data and IT infrastructure to support future operations. Standardising onboard systems, consolidating platforms, improving data quality and accessibility, and preparing for higher-frequency data flows and more advanced analytics.
Should shipowners consolidate their digital ecosystem around a single primary vendor?
Thodoris GalanisLatsco Marine Management
David EdwardsNavigator Gas
Nikolas SarantosSea Hawk Maritime S.A.
Gkotsis PanagiotisDorian LPG
Steven HemmingsInsight
Panellists argue for and against. The trade-offs between integration and flexibility, the operational risks of vendor lock-in, the challenges of stitching together multiple platforms, and the impact on data quality, governance, and long-term scalability.
Moderator closing thoughts
Networking lunch
Sponsorship opportunityModerator introduction
Building cyber resilience across a connected fleet
How a major operator is strengthening ship-to-shore connectivity and building cyber resilience. What's already been done, the challenges of replacing or integrating legacy systems, how risk is managed across IT and OT, and what's coming over the next decade.
Do shipowners rely too heavily on vendors to manage cyber risk?
Jeremy Steventon BarnesV.Group
Konstantinos StaisDelia
Ioannis RizosDynagas Ltd
Zenon OratisIntermaritime Shipmanagement
Kris VedatSmartSea
Panellists argue for and against. Where the balance of responsibility lies between operators and technology providers, whether owners are taking enough ownership of cyber governance, the practical limits of vendor control in mixed IT/OT environments, and what regulatory expectations now demand.
Coffee break
Sponsorship opportunityModerator introduction
AI inside a modern shipping company: what's working, what isn't, what's next
A candid shipowner-led look at how AI is being implemented. What's been deployed, what's worked, what hasn't, and how the next phase of adoption is being planned.
Can shipping safely scale AI without clear standards, regulation, and oversight?
Paal LohneGrieg Star
Christina OrfanidouColumbia Shipmanagement
Nicholas TimpelisIonic
Dimitris PavlidisStealth Maritime Corporation S.A.
Steven HemmingsInsight
Panellists argue for and against. The real-world risks of moving too quickly, or too cautiously. How to govern AI-driven decisions across ship and shore. What safe and responsible adoption looks like over the next decade.
Closing thoughts & moderator wrap-up
Undocked & Unwind networking reception
Sponsorship opportunityNetworking reception begins
Undocked live
A special live edition of the Undocked podcast, featuring an on-stage debate and conversation with industry guests.
Cocktail reception & networking continues
Reception ends
A peer group of senior maritime IT leadership.
The Digital Ship Summit is shaped around senior IT leadership at shipowners and ship managers. The room is a curated peer group of people facing the same set of decisions.
- CIOs, CTOs, and Heads of IT from shipowners and ship managers
- Digital strategy leaders setting direction at fleet scale
- A select group of technology partners and service providers
- Regulators, class societies, and infrastructure experts
Ble Pavillon, on the Athenian Riviera.
The summit runs at Ble Pavillon, a waterfront events venue on the Alimos coastline, a short drive south of central Athens. Sessions, the networking lunch, and the evening drinks reception all run on one site, with open views across the Saronic Gulf.
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Secure your place in Athens.
Registration is £695 per delegate.
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Put your brand in the room shaping maritime IT.
The Digital Ship Summit brings together the senior IT decision-makers driving change across the world's leading shipping companies. A small number of sponsorship packages are available for partners who want direct access to this audience, through visibility, contribution to the programme, or hosted networking moments.
- Session sponsorship, aligned with one of the three core themes
- Networking lunch, coffee, or drinks reception host
- Pre-event speakers' and sponsors' dinner
- Branded delegate materials and on-site visibility
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A focused audience
Sponsorship is intentionally limited. Packages are confirmed on a first-come basis and several slots are already in conversation.
- 150 senior IT decision-makers
- Shipowner and ship-manager weighted
- Single-track, no competing sessions
Talk to the team. Enquire here.
The room where maritime IT decisions get made.
Join 150 senior maritime IT leaders for a focused day on the decisions defining the next decade of fleet operations.
Reserve your place · £695
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