Digital Ship Cyprus 2008

In association with Cyprus Shipping Council

Click here to see day one program
Click here to see day two program
Monday - Dualog seminar
Monday - World Link seminar
Monday evening Monarch Telecom cocktail party

Get the first sunshine in 2008 with a trip to Digital Ship Cyprus on Feb 5-6 in Limassol, organised in association with Cyprus Shipping Council.

This is a free conference and exhibition (*) for shipping company employees, to learn about the latest technologies for maritime satellite communications, software and electronics, and how they are helping shipping companies meet their toughest challenges, including recruiting and retaining competent and motivated crew.

Get in-depth insight into new services such as Inmarsat's FleetBroadband, launched November 2007, offering ships an affordable 432 kbps satellite connectivity, and Blue Ocean Wireless, which enables seafarers to use their GSM phones at an affordable price, without interfering with the existing ship's satcom, or requiring large additional satcom investments.

The conference will include insight from shipping companies about their experiences with electronic purchasing, maintenance systems, remote monitoring, electronic charts.

Digital Ship Cyprus is well supported by the local shipping community; the IT managers of the largest shipmanagement companies in Cyprus will be speaking or chairing, including Columbia, Hanseatic, Intership, Unicom, Reederei Nord, Marlow Navigation.

(*) conference is free of charge for shipping company employees only, delegate fee applies for others

Speakers include:

Mrs Maria Malachtou Pampalli, Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works
Guy Morel, general secretary, InterManager
Herman de Meester, deputy secretary general, European Community Shipowners’ Associations
Adonis Violaris, chairman, Cyprus Shipping Council ICT Sub-Committee (also director, Telaccount Overseas Ltd.)
Capt. Eugene Adami, vice president of the Cyprus Shipping Council (also managing director, Intership Navigation Co. Ltd)

Dr. Giancarlo Coletta, purchasing director, Grimaldi Group Naples
Savvas Lambidonitis, IT manager, Columbia Shipmanagement Co Ltd
Dr Matthias Westphal, manager of NavCom and Electronics group Columbia Shipmanagement Co Ltd
Pavlos Demetriou, IT manager, Hanseatic Shipping Co Ltd
Pawel Bury, IT manager, Intership Navigation Co Ltd
Oleg Kalinin, fleet technical manager, Unicom Management Services (Cyprus) Co Ltd
Alexey Bozrikov, IT manager, Unicom Management Services (Cyprus) Co Ltd
Themis Evriviades, marine surveyor A', Cyprus Department of Merchant Shipping
Sergiy Nastachenko, IT Administrator, Reederei "Nord" Klaus E. Oldendorff Co Ltd
Manos Manoli, IT manager, Marlow Navigation Co Ltd
Prof. Nikitas Nikitakos, President of the shipping company IT managers' association (AMMITEC)

Andrew Bermejo, head of sales - Europe, ShipServ
Robert Johnson, managing director, Blue Ocean Wireless
Harry Miyashita, general manager, Europe, JRC
Casper Jensen, manager, maritime global marketing, Thrane & Thrane
Piers Cunningham, director of maritime business, Inmarsat
Sandro Delucia, maritime market manager, Inmarsat
Costas Ioannou, Cosine Consultants Ltd
Wouter Deknopper, director maritime vertical EMEA, Iridium
Michalis Hadjistylianou, general manager, One Net Ltd
Michiel Meijer, maritime market manager, Stratos
Mads Bjerre-Petersen, managing director, KVH Europe
Chris Loizou, Transas Marine

Agenda

February 4 - 4pm Dualog mini seminar

February 4 - Evening cocktail party for all Digital Ship delegates in Limassol, organised by Monarch Telecom to announce their appointment as agents of OTESAT-Maritel in Cyprus and the Middle East. Click here to see the invitation, further information and RSVP.

February 5 morning

DAY 1: Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Morning Session Chairman: George Hoyt, managing director, Newslink Services

9:30 Welcome Speech - Mr. Adonis Violaris,

9:35 Address - H. E. Mrs. Maria Malachtou-Pamballi, Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works

9:45 Address - Capt. Dirk Fry, President of the Cyprus Shipping Council

9:55 Keynote Speech - Mr. Guy Morrel, General Secretary of InterManager

10:15 Implementation of VTMIS - Mr. Themis Evriviades, Cyprus Department of Merchant Shipping and Mr. Chris Loizou, Transas Marine Ltd.

10.35 Survey on Perception of Technology by Crew - Mr. Herman de Meester, European Community Shipowners’ Associations)

10:55 Coffee Break and Opening of Exhibition Area by the Minister of Communications and Works

Day one morning Coffee break sponsor

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SESSION

11:40 Latest with FleetBroadband (Piers Cunningham, director of maritime business, Inmarsat)

12:00 Case study on FleetBroadband by Hanseatic Shipping Co. Ltd., challenges and opportunities of broadband IP for IT and Operation Managers (Michiel Meijer, maritime market manager, Stratos and Pavlos Demetriou, Hanseatic Shipping Co. Ltd.)

12:20 New FleetBroadband shipboard equipment -SAILOR 500 and SAILOR 250 FleetBroadband (Henrik Møller , Thrane & Thrane)

12.30 New FleetBroadband equipment - (Harry Miyashita, general manager, Europe, JRC)

12:40 Panel Discussion (Chaired by Sergiy Nastachenko, IT Administrator, Reederei "Nord" Klaus E. Oldendorff Co Ltd)

13:00 Lunch

Day One Lunch sponsor:

Afternoon Session Chairman: Michalis Hadjistylianou, general manager, One Net Ltd.

14:30 Alternative providers and satellite communications for crisis management (Manos Manoli, IT manager, Marlow Navigation Co Ltd)

14:50 Results of Inmarsat Survey into Crew Communications (Sandro Delucia, maritime market manager, Inmarsat )

15:10 Introducing Iridium’s new maritime voice and IP data service; The world’s first “truly” global IP network specifically engineered for the marine market. Easy to install and surprisingly affordable (Wouter Deknopper, director maritime vertical EMEA, Iridium)

15.30 BREAK

16.15 Using Mini - VSAT - global service with 60cm Ku band dish. Mads Bjerre-Petersen, managing director, KVH Europe

16:35 GSM voice and data service for the deep sea market (Robert Johnson, managing director, Blue Ocean Wireless)

16:55 Panel Discussion (Chaired by Mr. Michalis Hadjistylianou, general manager One Net Ltd.)

18.00 Cocktail reception in exhibition hall

19.30 Evening dinner at Karatello, Limassol - all delegates, exhibitors, speakers welcome - a bus will take delegates from the hotel to the restaurant, or you can take your own transportation / taxi. sponsored by Inmarsat

Banquet sponsor:

DAY 2: Wednesday, 6 February 2008

SESSION - IT SYSTEMS Morning Session Chairman: Savvas Lambidonitis, IT manager, Columbia Shipmanagement Co Ltd

09:30 How our company utilises IT tools in the effective implementation of Planned Maintenance Systems (Oleg Kalinin and Alexey Bozrikov, Unicom Management Services (Cyprus) Co Ltd.)

09:50 SHIPDEX - Technical Manuals data exchange between manufacturers and ship-owners (Pawel Bury, IT manager, Intership Navigation Co Ltd and Dr. Giancarlo Coletta, purchasing director, Grimaldi Group Naples)

10:10 Reducing costs using electronic purchasing systems - latest best practise (Andrew Bermejo, head of sales - Europe, ShipServ)

10.30 Business Intelligence (Costas Ioannou, managing director, Cosine Consultants Ltd and Sergiy Nastachenko , IT Manager of Reederei "NORD" Klaus E. Oldendorff Ltd)

10.50 Oil Major Vetting (Jeremy Tyson, marine superintendent, Interorient Navigation Co. Ltd.)

11:10 Coffee Break

11.50 Columbia's experience with Electronic Charts (Dr. Matthias Westphal, Columbia Shipmanagement Co Ltd.)

12.10 Remote Condition Monitoring Development Program for Vessels (Timo Elo, MacGregor, Service)

12.30 Amusement games based training for seafarers (Prof. Nikitas Nikitakos, President of AMMITEC)

12:50 Panel Discussion (Chaired by Savvas Lambidonitis,IT manager, Columbia Shipmanagement Co. Ltd.)

13:10 Lunch (during lunch - Inmarsat FleetBroadband live demonstrations)

14:30 - 16:30 Inmarsat FleetBroadband Training A 2 hour training course on FleetBroadand conducted by Inmarsat staff

Parallel to Inmarsat FleetBroadband Training: technology showcase. The vendors of the most exciting new technology will be invited to present it for a maximum 10 minutes each, providing you with an opportunity to get a fast overview of new developments.

Chair: Karl Jeffery, Digital Ship conference producer

14.30 Constantin Simeonidis, On-Waves A new mobile phone service for cruise and ferry

14.40 Holger Ritter, Director Global Sales, Becker Marine Systems. -umc.connect FleetBroadband+, umc.global network value added services, fleetbroadband link optimization and throughput enhancement, managed security services, insights of a current evaluation

14.50 Asad Salameh, CEO, World Link Communications

15.00 Paul Jolley, sales director, commercial maritime, Infonic . Collaboration and Satellite WANs

15.10 Torsten Ecks, sales manager, CiBS
How to integrate an ECM (Enterprise Contant Management System) into an existing environment containing of planned maintenance, E-Mail-archiving, digital technical documents (e.g. drawings).

15.20 Ian Vendrell, director of Business Development, Maritime Information Systems AS Development of Maris Maritime Digital Services

15.30 Marios Diogenous, sales manager, NetU Consultants Ltd. Financial and performance management systems

15.40 Tilman Michalke, Product Manager Prepaid & Billing, Vizada Prepaid mail/sms service

15.50 Graham Woodcock, Pole Star Space Applications. LRIT for the Ship Operator

16.00 Alcoholic beverages