AGENDA AND HIGHLIGHTS AT A GLANCE

DAY ONE Developments in ship shore communication - ship shore communications applications for seafarers Using IT to facilitate transparency - IT to help meet OCIMF best practise - AMMITEC AGM - dinner

DAY TWO - Best practise in using IT for shipping company operations - using IT for shipboard and ship-shore applications


HIGHLIGHTS include a presentation by Connexion by Boeing about their plans for the maritime industry, Inmarsat reveals its plans for high bandwidth services to shipping, the latest technologies for crew communications (prepaid data communications cards, shipboard GSM services, low cost SMS messages to ships)

IT managers of Imperium Shipmanagement, Olympic, Lyras Shipping, Hanseatic, Wallem (IT consultant), Kristen Navigation, Empros Lines, Ceres Hellenic, AB Maritime, Samos Steamship, Gourdomichalis Maritime talk about how they use IT and communication in their companies - topics include achieving best practise in tanker operations as defined by OCIMF - using IT to improve transparency - IT in newbuilding projects - software buying - using SAP and Lotus Notes - maintaining shipboard computers - crew IT training - shipboard power supplies - managing shipboard virus protection