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DS Athens '10 Conference '10 Exhibition '10
CONFERENCES DS Cyprus '10 DS Oslo '10 DS Hamburg '10 DS Singapore '10 DS USA '10 DS Athens '10
DS Athens '09 Conference '09 Exhibition '09 DS Athens '08 Conference '08 Exhibition '08 DS Athens '07 About DS Athens '07 Floorplan '07 DS Athens '06 About DS Athens '06 Floorplan '06 DS Athens '05 About DS Athens '05 Exhibitors '05 Floorplan '05 Presentations DS Athens '04 About Athens 2004 Visitor Reaction '04 Agenda and highlights
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and delegates Exhibitors Floorplan Ammitec Members DS Athens '03 About DS Athens '03
About Digital Ship Athens 2005
October 18-19 2005
DAY one - morning9.25 Chairman's introduction: George Hoyt, managing director, Newslink Services
9.30 Keynote: John Polimenakos, IT manager, Seabourn Cruise Line, Miami (previously manager, technical operations, Cunard Line)
Session: satellite communications
10.00 Adonis Violaris, manager of communications and public relations, Hanseatic Shipping. The importance of maritime BGAN / Inmarsat I-4s for the maritime industry
Adonis Violaris is communications and public relations manager of Hanseatic Shipping, he was previously ICT Manager of Interorient Navigation Co. Ltd. He is also the chairman of the ICT working group of the Cyprus Shipping Council. Hanseatic Shipping is the fourth largest shipmanager in the world by tonnage.
10.30 George Kyriakopoulos, IT manager, Naftomar.
Satcoms and data transfer
11.00 BREAK
11.20 Chris Insall Inmarsat
Inmarsat is the world's leading maritime satellite communications company, offering a global service with data speeds of up to 128 kbps. It recently launched the first of its new series of satellites, the I4s, with a second launch planned for this winter
11.45 Laurent Paul, Eutelsat How shipowners can get better packages by dealing directly with Eutelsat
Eutelsat is the third largest satellite company in the world with 23 satellites. Only Intelsat and SES are larger. Mr Paul has been with Eutelsat for 20 years and is an expert on VSAT. He personally introduced maritime services in Eutelsat in 1990 with the Euteltracs messaging service, then EMSAT voice and data service, VSAT services to ships in 2000 and the Eutelsat@Sea multiregional service in 2005.
12.10 Andreas Sakellion, business development director, OTESAT-Maritel. Satisfying your satcoms desires - at acceptable cost
How well can a shipping company's desire to have shipboard terminals as extensions of its office network, without restrictions on time of access or amount of data, be satisfied, using currently available communications and software?
Case study - with live shipping company data - equipment cost, satcom cost, application cost, infrastructure cost, calculation of total cost of ownership over five years.
12.35 Panel discussion - what are the most cost effective ways that shipping companies can engage with broadband
1.00 LUNCH
Afternoon session: shipboard software and supporting shipboard PCs
Chairman: Dr Nikitas Nikitakos, associate professor, University of the Aegean
2.15 Keynote: Charis Nassis, ICT Manager, Ceres Hellenic Shipping Enterprises. Managing shipboard IT systems without an on-line connection" Deploying an infrastructure to enable off-line remote PC management
Ceres Hellenic is one of the largest shipowners in Greece, with 2 Aframax tankers, 9 Suexmax tankers, 15 chemical tankers, 9 bulk carries and 3 LNG carriers, employing 200 shore staff and 3,000 seafarers. It is widely respected for the quality of its management systems. Last year, Mr Nassis spoke at Digital Ship Athens about SAP implementation at Ceres.
2.40 CASE STUDY tanker company using Seawave solution to manage ship shore communications and remote management of shipboard computers from shore. Presented by Mark Witsaman, VP technology, SeaWave.
Seawave recently announced a contract to fit its shipboard communications equipment to 15 tankers operated by US company Maritans, to ensure communications were sent by the least expensive appropriate route, enable crew communications and enable shipboard computers to be administered from shore office.
3.05 Comparing shipboard e-mail packages - specifications and user experiences. Tasos Makris, IT manager, Gourdomichalis Maritime
Tassos Makris is IS Director with Gourdomichalis Maritime, a shipmanagement company in Greece, which currently manages three Panamax bulk-carriers and two Handysize bulk-carriers trading under the Greek and Panamanian flags. www.gmsa.gr
3.30 BREAK
3.50 Iannis Ioannia, IT manager, Hellespont
Surviving without shipboard broadband - synchronising ship and shore databases and other applications
Hellespont Steamship is a shipping company that other shipping companies turn to for leadership on both technical, political and market issues. It currently owns four vessels and has six Panamax tankers (73,400dwt) under construction in China.
4.15 Prof Takis Varelas, project management director, Danaos Management Consultants
. Risk assessment and management in the shipping industry.
4.40 PANEL DISCUSSION WITH Athanasios Rozakis, deputy general manager, Tsakos Hellas (panel participant - supporting shipboard software applications)
5.00 END OF CONFERENCE - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES IN EXHIBITION ROOM (will be continued until 8pm for those not attending AMMITEC AGM)
5.30 pm - AMMITEC annual general meeting - election of new president following the retirement of Dr Panagiotis Nomikos
6.30 - Alcoholic beverages
8pm - Evening dinner sponsored by Inmarsat in neighbouring Taverna
Day two morning - purchasing and maintenance software
Chair: Achilles Choursoglou, IT manager, Olympic Shipping
9.30 Keynote: Giancarlo Coletta, purchasing, maintenance engineering and cost control director, Grimaldi Naples
Giancarlo Coletta has a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering and he has cumulated a long experience for Maintenance in the transport industry. He worked twelve years for the main Italian Aircraft Manufacturer (AERITALIA-ALENIA) as manager in the Maintenance, Modification and Product Support Group, being involved in the most important civil and military aircraft programs such as ATR 42-72, EFA, USAF C27A, FLA and research project related to RMA (Reliability, Maintainability, Availability).
He had also a three years experience in rail transport industry, working for an Italian regional railway as Head of Maintenance Engineering Department being in charge of maintenance policies development for Trains, Bus, Electric & Electronic Systems and fixed installations. In 1996 he joined the shipping industry with the GRIMALDI GROUP NAPLES as Maintenance Engineering and Cost Control Director.
Grimaldi Group transports over 1,800,000 cars per year with 37 owned vessels and 11 chartered ones.
9.55 2nd keynote: Dr John Coustas, president, Danaos Shipping. Strategic usage of Information and Communication Technologies at Danaos Shipping to increase productivity and operating efficiencies.
Dr. John Coustas holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Imperial College, London, and a Ph.D. from the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of Imperial College, London. Since 1984 he has been Managing Director of Danaos Shipping who is operating 35 modern container vessels, including some of the largest container ships globally. Dr. Coustas is also co-founder (in 1986) and President of Danaos Management Consultants, one of the largest and oldest maritime software and services company with over 400 customers world-wide, including some of the largest shipping companies.
10.20 Lana S Al-Salem, IS manager, Sekur Holding. Process of acquisition of shipmanagement software. www.sekurship.com
10.45 BREAK
11.05 Yannis Routsis, IT director of Evgenidis Group of Shipping companies
11.30 Paul Ashton, VP Northern Europe, SpecTec The challenges in creating, selling and supporting an effective IT system for shipping
SpecTec is one of the world's largest maritime software companies. It recently had a management buy-out, taking it out from under the wing of Dutch telecom company KPN which had owned the company for five years, and promises to greatly increase staff, open new offices, develop services and a new version of its AMOS software over the coming years.
11.50 Nikos Goudoulias, Greek country manager, ShipNet
ShipNet is one of the world's largest maritime software companies, based in Norway. It opened an office in Athens in summer 2004.
12.10 Panteleimon Pantelis, director, Ulysses Systems
12.30 Panel discussion - shipboard IT / shipping company infrastructure. Including Vassilis Kalapotharakos, IS manager, Pleiades Shipping Agents
1.00 LUNCH
Afternoon
2.00 Session: Navigation and electronic charts
Chairman Carl Bennett, Gilmour Research
2.00 Rune Holst Johnsen, marketing manager, Primar Stavanger, Norway. Developments in electronic chart coverage of Greece -
Benefits of official electronic charts (ENCs)
- how much the accidents reduce
- why you have to use electronic charts from governments and penalties if you don't (IMO SOLAS carriage requirements
- current availability of official electronic charts (ENCs), covering Greece particularly and the whole world generally
- updating possibilities
- what Primar is doing to make sure charts are good enough and get them rolled out
Primar Stavanger is the official ENC (electronic navigation chart) service operated by Norwegian Hydrographic Service, co-ordinating and distributing official electronic charts from around the world.
2.30 Frank Berget, sales and marketing, ChartCo Navigating into the future with ChartCo oceanXpress, a 'bridge to the future' using the same user software to provide updates to paper charts, ARCS and ENCs.
ChartCo produces what is probably the world's most popular navigation technology tool,
3.00 Panel discussion
3.20 Close - alcoholic beverages
