Digital Ship Cyprus 2009

Maritime Communications and Information Technology Conference and Exhibition

Digital Ship magazine, together with Cyprus Shipping Chamber ICT subcommittee, have put together a strong programme for our 6th Digital Ship Cyprus conference, to help you get to grips with the challenges of today's shipping industry, and renew your knowledge about the best way that digital technology can contribute.

Senior executives from Interorient Navigation, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, Intership Navigation, Uniteam Marine, Unicom and the International Ship Managers' Association will be giving their advice on how to maintain seafarer welfare, handle crew training, and meeting demands for environmental performance and safety, whilst carefully managing company expenditure - with sessions chaired by senior executives from Columbia, Reederei Nord and MSC.

You can discover new ways to use digital technology to assist with seafarer training, help seafarers keep in touch with friends and family, keep the vessel in close contact with the office, manage fuel costs and overall expenditure. In the exhibition you can try out the latest satcom, software and navigation technology and meet the people behind it.

Everybody is invited to a dinner in central Limassol on February 3rd, courtesy of our main event sponsor, Inmarsat.

We look forward to welcoming you to Digital Ship Cyprus in Limassol on February 3-4rd.

DAY 1

8am Welcome coffee - coffee break sponsor:

9.30 Opening conference session

Morning Session Chairman - George Hoyt, CEO, Newslink

George Hoyt is founder and CEO of NewsLink Services Ltd, of Cyprus, which produces 36 daily electronic crew newspapers for seafarers, sent to over 5,000 ships as e-mail attachments, and DVD magazines and computer tutorials sent to vessels by post. Newslink also runs a website to promote the image of shipping, www.shipping-news.net. George is a non executive director of computer based training company Seagull. He is a member of the executive committee of InterManager, chairman of InterManager's New Products Committee,' which manages the KPI working group, and member of their Manning and Training Committee. He is also a member of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber's Manning and Training Sub-Committee plus their ICT Sub-Committee and Public Relations Committee.

9.30 Welcome - Adonis Violaris, chairman, Cyprus Shipping Chamber ICT Sub-Committee

Adonis Violaris is the group marketing and communications Director with Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement, the HR Manager of the Cyprus office, as well as the Director of Telaccount Overseas Ltd and chairman, Information Communications Technology Subcommittee, Cyprus Shipping Chamber. Mr. Violaris holds an MBA in Business Administration from Freie Universität in Berlin. At Bernhard Schulte, Mr. Violaris is involved at national and local levels in communications and marketing, and human resources management. He was elected to the position of chairman for Intermanager's Communications Committee. He is also a member of the Cyprus Human Resources Management Association.

9.35 His Excellency Nicos Nicolaides, Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works Opening address.

Nicos Nicolaides was appointed Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works in February 2008. He was previosuly deputy area manager for the Limassol District, and also chairman of the Cyprus Licencing Authority. He is a member of the Central Committee, the Political Bureau and President of the Limassol District Committee of the Social Democrats Movement EDEK. He has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (USA) and a MSC from the University of Southern California.

9.45 Welcome address Capt Eugen Adami, Vice President Cyprus Shipping Chamber

Capt Eugen Adami is vice president of Cyprus Shipping Chamber and managing director, Intership Navigation. Intership Navigation is principally a shipowning company which also offers third party management for a small number of European and Asian owners. It technically manages a fleet of 50 owned vessels, which consists of a different series of vessels of 23.000 DWT bulk carriers, 31.000 DWT bulk carriers, 17.800 DWT and 8,000 DWT multi-purpose tweendeckers, 37.000 DWT lakers, as well as a number of smaller vessels, all trading on a worldwide scale. In addition to its owned fully managed vessels, ISN partly manages an additional fleet of 70 ships on a crew management basis.

9.55 Keynote speech: Peter Bond, general manager, Interorient Navigation
- The ship efficiency management plan under development at Interorient Navigation
- Technology which can help provide data for ship efficiency - voyage planning software, on line weather routing, optimum trim software, navigation and command systems for auto pilots, engine monitoring systems

Peter Bond is general manager of Interorient Marine Services, the in house ship manager of Interorient Navigation. Mr Bond commenced his seagoing career as a Deck Cadet in 1973, serving on tankers of all types culminating in command of product tankers. He worked ashore in the management and operation of vessels since 1988. He has been safety and quality manager of mixed fleets of vessels for many years. He Is an active member of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber, being their representative on the ICS Marine Committee, a Council Member of Intertanko and a Fellow of the Nautical Institute. Headquartered in Cyprus, Interorient has offices in Hamburg, Miami, Manila, Riga and St. Petersburg and employs over 300 shore-based employees and over 3000 well-trained and experienced seafarers.

10.20 Bill Lunn, group director, loss prevention, safety and quality, Bernard Schulte Shipmanagement Creating value on loss prevention, safety and quality systems through unity

Captain Bill Lunn is group loss prevention, safety and quality director, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement. He is also vice chairman of Cyprus Shipping Chamber Quality and Safety Committee and has served on the IMO panel of experts for revision to the ISM Code, as well as steering committees for revision of the ICS Bridge Procedure Guide, CBT onboard training material. He is involved in Intermanager’s KPI project, and headed up the writing of its “Guidelines to implementing ISO 9001:2000 for Ship and Crew Managers.” Before working at Bernhard Schulte, he was marine manager of Navigo Management. He began his seafaring career in 1975 as a deck officer cadet with P&O, achieving his first command in 1989.

10.45 - Minister opens exhibition and tours stands, coffee break

Day One Coffee Break sponsor:

SESSION: CYPRUS - LEADING THE WAY IN SEAFARER TRAINING

11.30 Capt Eugen Adami, managing director, Intership Navigation Co. Ltd. The Magellan Training Academy - an e-learning initiative for the shipping industry.

11.50 Thomas Reppenhagen, Fleet Personnel Director, Uniteam Marine Ltd In-house simulator and computer based training / evaluating and processing crew performance reports to identify training needs and to monitor career development

Thomas Reppenhagen is fleet personnel director with Uniteam Marine, responsible for the Uniteam Group Crewing activities. He was previously a master mariner on ro-ro and container vessels. Uniteam Marine manages around 120 vessels, mostly belonging to German owners, mainly container vessels (up to 8400 TEU) and bulk carriers, handy to cape Size. Most of its crew is from recruited from Yangon (Myanmar) where the company operates its own training facilities.

12.15 Panel discussion - leading the way in seafarer training. Moderator: George Hoyt, CEO, Newslink. With Peter Bond, general manager, Interorient Navigation; Captain Eugen Adami, managing director, Intership Navigation; Menelaos Karayiotas, principal, Bernard Schulte Shipmanagement Maritime Training Centre, Limassol; Thomas Reppenhagen, Fleet Personnel Director, Uniteam Marine Ltd.

Menelaos Karayiotas is principal, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Maritime Training Centre, Limassol. Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement is one of the world's largest shipmanagement companies, with over 17,000 employees and a managed fleet of over 700 vessels.

1.00 LUNCH

Day One Lunch sponsor:

SESSION: NEW SATCOMS TECHNOLOGY

Session Chairman - Michalis Hadjistylianou, managing director, ONE NET

Michalis Hadjistylianou is one of the establishers and currently the general manager of One Net Ltd, a satellite communications and marine hardware supplier company based in Cyprus. One Net is the official distributor of Stratos, Rutter Technologies, Sperry Marine and Pole Star. The company besides the satellite airtime business over the last 10 years is specializing on bridge equipment and recently on technical services onboard the vessel, worldwide.

2.30 Piers Cunningham, director of maritime services, Inmarsat Overview of FleetBroadband

Piers Cunningham is head of maritime business with Inmarsat, which operates the satellite communications system used by most of the world's merchant shipping fleet which also forms the backbone of global GMDSS provision. In August 2008 Inmarsat launched the 3rd of its next generation Inmarsat-4 satellites, which will provide simultaneous voice and data at speeds of up to 432 kbs.

3.00 Joint presentation from Antonis Kasios, Telaccount Overseas and Asad Salameh, president, World Link Communications Inc. on managing the communication link with Fleet Broadband, a case study on the Marianne Schulte

Antonis Kasios graduated from the Queens College of C.U.N.Y, USA where he obtained his diploma in computer science. He started his career with an Internet Service Provider on the island, in 1998 he joined a shipowning company as communications assistant and in 2001 he joined Hanseatic Shipping as communications administrator. In 2005 he was promoted to assistant communications manager and as from 2008 he is the communications manager of Telaccount Overseas Ltd (CY03, PSA 3050) the leading Accounting Authority in Cyprus and now also delivering value added services, customer support and competitive airtime rates. Telaccount Overseas portfolio includes mobile voice and data solutions for remote communication users, providing services through Satellite networks such as Inmarsat and Iridium.

Asad Salameh is president of World Link Communications Inc, which serves a fleet over 600 ocean going vessels, with tools to help companies improve performance, manage cost, and enhance security of fleet satellite communications. Products include ShipMail messaging software, which provides speeds up to 30% faster than similar products, the company believes; ShipForms, winner of the SeaTrade Award and commended by the Dubai International Maritime Awards in 2006; and ShipAV, the only anti-virus software specially developed for the maritime industry. World-Link currently serves a fleet of more than 600 ocean-going vessels.

3.30 Wouter Deknopper, director, EMEA market, Iridium Iridium's OpenPort service with 128 kbps IP backbone; Iridium's new long range tracking services

Wouter Deknopper is director Europe, Middle East and Africa with Iridium Satellite LLC, the world's fastest growing satellite services provider. Iridium Satellite recently unveiled its new Iridium OpenPort enhanced-bandwidth marine communication system, which can handle multiple phone lines, IP connectivity and flexible data speeds. With a return on investment measured in months rather than years, this breakthrough product will bring a fresh element of competition to the marine satcom market.

4.00 Break

4.30 Brent Horwitz, vice president of sales, MTN VSAT for shipping - the latest developments

Brent Horwitz is vice president of sales, Maritime Telecommunications Network, one of the world's largest maritime VSAT companies based in Miami, and has fitted VSAT to 250 vessels in the cruise, oil and gas, military, commercial and super yacht market sectors. It was acquired by SeaMobile in May 2006.

5.00 Panel discussion - the future of maritime communication. Moderator: Tim Charalambous - MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) Cyprus. With Adonis Violaris, group marketing director, Bernard Schulte Shipmanagement , Piers Cunningham, director of maritime services, Inmarsat , Antonis Kasios, Telaccount Overseas , Asad Salameh, managing director, World Link Communications Inc. , Wouter Deknopper, director, EMEA market, Iridium , Brent Horwitz, vice president of sales, MTN .

Tim Charalambous is with Mediterranean Shipping Company, which is based in Geneva and operates 419 container vessels. It recently acquired Cyprus based Dobson Fleet Management.

Savvas Lambidonitis is IT manager of Columbia Shipmanagement Co. Ltd, one of the world's largest shipmanagement companies, based in Cyprus. Columbia manages container ships, reefer vessels, product carriers, chemical tankers, passenger vessels, ro-ros, tankers, gas tankers and car carriers.

5.30 Close

5.30 Cocktail reception in exhibition area

7.00pm Bus departs Grand Resort hotel for evening dinner in Limassol for all delegates and exhibitors, sponsored by Inmarsat

7.30pm to 10.30pm - Dinner

Day One Dinner Sponsor:

DAY 2

SESSION: CREW WELFARE

Chairman – Savvas Lambidonitis, IT manager, Columbia Shipmanagement

9.30 Keynote speech - Guy Morel, general secretary, International Ship Managers' Association. Crew welfare in 2009 - how do you ensure seafarers are happy and motivated, and want to work on your ship?

Guy Morel is general secretary of InterManager, the International Shipmanager's Association. He was appointed in October 2006. Mr Morel was previously Professor of Finance and Director of Development at the International University of Monaco, also President, COO, Director and Shareholder of the New York-listed MC Shipping Inc, and Vice-President of V.Ships in Monaco.

10.00 Alexey Bozrikov, IT manager, Unicom. Providing crew with satellite TV services

Alexey Bozrikov is IT manager of Unicom Management Services, which provides technical management and crewing services for 14 bulk carriers, 4 gas carriers (LPG), 2 passenger ships, and 49 tankers for Sovcomflot and other owners (US-based, European and Japanese). The company's software system includes heavily modified Danaos software, customer-extended SpecTec AMOS products and some ShipNet software, along with in-house developed components.

10.20 Sandro Delucia, maritime market manager, Inmarsat - FleetBroadband Maritime Field Evaluations - enabling crew connectivity

Sandro Delucia is maritime market manager of Inmarsat, which operates the satellite communications system used by most of the world's merchant shipping fleet. It also forms the backbone of global GMDSS provision. In August 2008 Inmarsat launched the 3rd of its next generation Inmarsat-4 satellites, which will provide simultaneous voice and data at speeds of up to 432 kbs.

10.40 Robert Johnson, CEO, Blue Ocean Wireless taking GSM to sea.

Robert Johnson is CEO of Blue Ocean Wireless, which offers a mobile phone service enables seafarers to use their cellular phones at sea, paying rates much less than international GSM roaming rates, for a monthly subscription of less than $350 to $500 per ship paid by the shipowner. Two separate Inmarsat Fleet 33 terminals are installed as part of the service, so there is no interference with the main shipboard satcom. No VSAT terminal is required. BSM Shipmanagement and Admibros Shipmanagement of Cyprus have already signed up to install the service on their fleets.

11.00 BREAK

Coffee break sponsor:

11.30 Frode Stensaa, sales and marketing manager, Virtek - how to manage the communications services so seafarers can keep in touch with home

Frode Stensaa is sales and marketing manager with Virtek, a Norwegian company specializing in managing ship-shore data communications, including e-mail, file replication, routing and web optimization. The CommBox communication solution has proven excellent result on all different satellite carriers, especially important on FleetBroadband where CommBox cuts up to 85% of the communication costs.

11.50 Peter Martin, managing director, 7CCell. Using wi-fi onboard ships for the benefit of crew and shipping company

Peter Martin is managing director and founder of 7CCell, an Austrian company which claims to be the maritime industry's first mobile voice over IP (VOIP) provider, offering a service (com4crew) to set up securely integrated wi-fi networks on ships, which can be used for voice and data communication to enhance crew welfare and efficient ship operation.

12.10 Holger Ritter, director global sales, Becker Marine Case study of umc.global network with a shipowing company

Holger Ritter is director of global sales with Becker Marine Systems Communication (BMSC) of Hamburg. He was previously with Connexion by Boeing. Becker Marine Systems Communication provides the umc.global network, an integrated, secure and cost efficient managed service platform for maritime communications. BMSC provides and integrates shore communication (3GSM, Portnet), FleetBroadband and VSAT. BMSC is a business unit of Becker Marine Systems, the global market leader of high end manoeuvring systems with an installed base of +7.000 vessels and a 61 years experience in the shipping industry.

12.30 Panel discussion - improving crew satisfaction in today's business environment. Moderator - Sergey Nastachenko, IT manager, Reederei Nord . With Alexei Bozrikov, IT manager, Unicom; Adam Cooper, operations controller, Blue Ocean Yacht Management; Robert Johnson, Blue Ocean Wireless; Peter Martin, 7CCell; Holger Ritter, Becker Marine; Virtek; Sandro Delucia, Inmarsat

Sergiy Nastachenko is the IT manager of Reederei Nord Klaus E. Oldendorff Ltd, a family owned company established in Germany in 1964. The company currently operates a very modern fleet of 34 vessels, totalling nearly 3 million tonnes deadweight, forming the biggest fleet tonnage-wise under the Cyprus flag. This includes container vessels between 1354 teu and 3,586 teu, 6 Panamax bulk carriers of 75,000 tonnes deadweight and 10 tankers between 75,000 tonnes deadweight and 319,000 tonnes deadweight. The fleet will soon be enlarged by a new building programme of two container vessels of 3500 teu.

Blue Ocean Yacht Management Ltd is a company based in Cyprus, concerned with the operational management of large yachts for private owners. It currently has three yachts under full management, which range between fifty to one hundred and fifteen meters. Blue Ocean Yacht Management Ltd is also involved in a number of new build projects. Mr Cooper's background is from the private and recreational sailing sector.

1.00 LUNCH

DAY TWO AFTERNOON

Technology showcase (10 min presentations of new technology) / Inmarsat FleetBroadband training

Parallel on day 2 afternoon - Inmarsat FleetBroadband training session

TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASE AGENDA

2.00 Dr Philippos Sotiriades, General Director, Telematic Medical Applications LTD

Dr Philippos Sotiriades is the General Director of Telematic Medical Applications LTD a Greek Telemedicine Company based in Athens that exclusively represents AMD telemedicine (USA) and VISUS Company (Germany).Telematic Medical Applications also represents Aerotel and Emblaze VCON.

2.10 Ing. Claudio Aleandri, Services Operations Manager, ITS Servizi Marittimi E Satellitari Integrated Services for the Maritime Market

How a suite of Value Added Services running over a satellite broadband infrastructure can benefit from the SmartBox, an on-board component capable to manage heterogeneous data fluxes respecting Quality of Service and channel availability

Ing. Claudio Aleandri is services operations manager with ITS Servizi Marittimi E Satellitari, which offers a range of different maritime telecoms services, including safety communications, radar, Inmarsat and Iridium communications services. Integrates its traditional maritime offering scheme, with innovation and value added services through a new range of products (access to broadband internet services, telemedicine, teleassistance, entertainment) for the leisure and passenger vessel market sector as well as for the integrated logistics sector.

2.20 Alberto Rinaldo, Operations Manager. AMOS Mail (SpecTec Cyprus) SpecTec & AMOS Mail: what’s next?

Alberto Rinaldo is the Amos Mail Product Manager and Business Analyst, Product Development, based in Cyprus. SpecTec is the world's largest maritime software company. It has sold over 12,000 licenses for its AMOS maritime software to over 1,200 companies, over the past 22 years.

2.30 Martin Wren-Hilton, chairman, Zynetix A new technology for enabling seafarers´ mobile phones to work onboard

Zynetix is a UK company which provides GSM services to seafarers. The company provides a wide range of GSM infrastructure solutions, including GSM services in rural areas, and secure GSM services.

2.40 Chris Courard, business development manager, Onwaves Mobile phones on board 101.

Chris Courard is business development manager with Onwaves, an Icelandic company which provides services to make passengers' mobile phones work on cruise ships and ferries. It was recently awarded a fleet wide contract with Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and Transmanche Ferries to provide on board GSM and Wi-Fi connectivity.

2.50 Niels Reuther, commercial marine sales manager, KVH Mini VSAT Mini VSAT - a low cost, global high bandwidth communications service for the maritime industry.

Niels Reuther is commercial sales manager with KVH Europe. He was previously communications business unit manager with Furuno Denmark, working on Furuno's VSAT business. KVH Europe provides a mini-VSAT service, which can provide high speed satellite communications service for most of the world's oceans, with a 60cm antenna. KVH is a subsidiary of KVH Industries of Rhode Island, USA, which has sold over 150,000 mobile satellite antennas for boats, vehicles, trucks, buses and automobiles.

3.00 Marios Diogenous, sales manager, NetU Consultants Ltd Enterprise Asset Management Software (EAM)

Marios Diogenous is sales manager with NetU Consultants Ltd, an IT company based in Cyprus, offering business applications, customer relationship management / e-Business systems, infrastructure software and anti-virus. It also offers training courses in Microsoft, Oracle, Java, Sun and Linux software.

3.10pm End of conference

* NOTE ON FREE TICKETS Unlimited free tickets to employees of Cyprus Shipping Chamber full members. Free tickets limited to three per company for employees of Cyprus Shipping Chamber associate and overseas members. Free tickets cannot be given to people who are not employees of member companies. Free tickets must be registered in advance. Cyprus Shipping Chamber will verify that all people requesting free member tickets are employees of a member company. Additional tickets for employees of Cyprus Shipping Chamber associate and overseas members Eur 200 each. Normal delegate price GBP 450 / Eur 450.