Digital Ship Cyprus - 3 - 4 February 2010

Maritime Communications and Information Technology Conference and Exhibition

Digital Ship Cyprus is one of the world's largest maritime communications, IT and technical conferences, held annually in Cyprus and organised jointly with the Cyprus Shipping Chamber ICT Subcommittee. It will be held for the 7th time in February 2010.

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2 February, 15.00-17.30:
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DAY 1

08.30 Welcome Coffee

Chairman, George Hoyt, Newslink Services

09.30 Welcome, Adonis Violaris, Chairman, Cyprus Shipping Chamber ICT Sub-Committee

09.35 Opening Address: His Excellency Mr. Nicos Nicolaides, Cyprus Minister of Communications and Works

09.45 Welcome Address: Capt Eugen Adami, President, Cyprus Shipping Chamber

Morning Session: The Financial Crisis and its Effect on the ICT Sector

09.55 Keynote Speech: Dr. Michalis Sarris, ex-Minister of Finance, Cyprus and ex- Director of the World Bank
The World Financial Crisis – An Update

10.30 Capt. Eugen Adami, Intership Navigation and President, Cyprus Shipping Chamber
Financial Crisis and its Effect on New Buildings

10.50 Alexandre Albertini, Director, Marfin Management S.A.M.
Managing the Financial Crisis - A Ship Owner's Perspective
• A shipowner’s view of the dry bulk sector
• Crisis is good, let's face it!
• How "Shipping KPI" and IT systems can help sail through "bad economical weather"

11.10 Carl Bennett, Analysis Partner, Gilmour Research
Objective Casualty Comparisons - the Definitive Performance Table

11.30 Tea/Coffee Break - Minister Nicolaides to Open Exhibition and Tour the Stands

12.00 Thomas Reppenhagen, Fleet Personnel Director, Uniteam Marine Ltd
The Ongoing Shipping Crisis – A Challenge and an Opportunity for Crewing
• The need to continue with training in difficult economic times
• Identifying training needs from performance reports issued onboard
• In-house training - certification and follow-up
• Filtering of useful information from a central crewing database

12.20 Baret Kouyoumdjian, Managing Director, Monarch Telecom
Vessels Communication Costs - Why all This Fuss?
• Current status of vessel communication costs
• Various types of satellite technology currently available in the maritime market
• Fuel efficient operations – weather routing / speed optimization / optimised ship handling
• Percentage of communication costs on overall costs

12.40 Panel Discussion, Chairman, George Hoyt, Newslink Services
The Financial Crisis and its Impact on the ICT Sector

13.00 Lunch Break is Kindly Sponsored by Dualog

Afternoon Session: Satcoms Technology

Session Chairman: Michalis Hadjistylianou, Managing Director, ONE NET

14.30 Sandro Delucia, Maritime Market Manager, Inmarsat
FleetBroadband Update 2010
• FleetBroadband status
• New enhancements and developments

14.55 Holger Ritter, Commercial Shipping Services, MTN
VSAT for Shipping - the Latest Developments
• Latest developments in ku-band and C-band VSAT services
• Crew ePayment solutions
• Global presence update

15.20 Wouter Deknopper, Director, EMEA Market, Iridium OpenPort™
Update on Iridium's OpenPort Service with 128 kbps IP Backbone
• With One True Global Network, Iridium is today a fast growing Industry Leader
• Prepared for the future with IridiumNEXT constellation & NEXT advantages
• Iridium OpenPort™ advantage ; Lowest cost solution for ship’s business and crew calling, the reliable alternative to expensive time-charged legacy data satcoms

15.45 Tea/Coffee Break

16.15 Manos Manoli, IT Manager, Marlow Navigation
Firewall Onboard the Vessels
• Fleet Broadband and firewalls - are we ready?
• Bi-directional threads and reverse engineering
• “Time Warp" not applicable

16.40 Ron Vollenga, Broadband@sea Project, Outsource IT Management
Results Achieved in the First Phase of the Project
• Overview of the results of the project Broadband@Sea
• Introduction of the platform Broadband@Sea
• Overview of upcoming activities of the Platform

17.00 Panel Discussion, Chairman, Michalis Hadjistylianou, Managing Director, ONE NET

17.30 Close of Conference Day One Followed by Cocktail Reception in Exhibition Area

19.00 Bus Departs

19.30 - 22.30 Dinner Kindly Sponsored by Inmarsat

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DAY 2

08.30 Welcome Coffee

10.00 - 11.30 Morning Parallel Session: Inmarsat Fleetbroadband Training

Led by the Inmarsat training department from London, FleetBroadband is Inmarsat's next generation of maritime services delivered via the world's most sophisticated satellites - the 14s. It will bring you simultaneous voice & broadband data through a single terminal incroporating the latest technology, to take you seamlessly into the IP age. Inmarsat will deliver a 2-hour "training" session on FleetBroadband at Digital Ship Cyprus. During the session, Inmarsat will update you on the technology behind FleetBroadband, the proposed coverage, the prospective services and the new terminals & network.

Morning Session Part I: Electronic Chart Display and Information System - ECDIS

Chairman, Matthias Westphal, Columbia Shipmanagement

09.30 Steve Mariner, Kelvin Hughes / ChartCo
Update on Charts Supply and Certification Today and in the Near Future

09.50 Sven-Eric Brooks, Director, Northrop Grumman Sperry Marine
ECDIS – A Gateway for Improving Ship Performance
• The mandatory carriage requirement has been put into force last year. The effects of this requirement as well as the benefits and challenges will be discussed
• ECDIS opens up a wide range of opportunities to enhance the vessel’s performance through additional data and services. Such services may include weather routing, ice charts, automated chart updates, on-time spares procurement etc.
• Being a mandatory requirement, the paper will offer guidelines when considering installing ECDIS technology onboard

10.10 Jim Davison, Sales Director, UK and Middle East, Offshore Systems Ltd.
ECDIS, an Important Addition to the Anti-Piracy Toolkit?

10.30 Andreas Arvidsson, International New Building Manager, Transas Marine International
Catering for Multi-Brand ECDIS Training Needs within a Fleet: How to be Ready to Deploy Such Systems?

10.50 Mike Dunstall, Commercial Manager, PC Maritime
Effective and Affordable ECDIS Training
• Summary of generic type training as required by IMO Model course, ISM Code etc.
• Practical problems associated with delivering type training
• Solutions
• Future trends offering affordability etc

11.10 Panel Discussion

11.30 Tea/Coffee Break

Morning Session Part II: Leading the Way in IT Technology

12.00 Peter Blackhurst, Head of Maritime Safety Services, Inmarsat
Maritime Safety Services Update and Evolution
• Facing the challenges
• Current safety services provision
• 505 emergency calling
• Into the future
• Evolution and innovation

12.20 Rasto Belcik, Group IT Director, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement and Asad Salameh, President, World Link Communications
Case study: IT and Communications – Two years After the Merger of BSM
• Creating a new infrastructure – challenges and approach
• BSM integrated software solution – how we went about it
• The global BSM mail merger - integration of the different platforms and migration into one single system

12.40 Markus Schmitz, Managing Director, Soft Impact
Implementing ERP software - Risks, Pitfalls and Recipes for Success
• What is ERP?
• Can an implementation succeed?
• What is a success?
• Risk and success factors

13.00 Pawel Bury, IT Manager, Intership and Marco Vatteroni, Shipdex Technical Manager, SpecTec
Shipdex Protocol – From Paper to Real Data & Practical application using Spectec Tools
• Shipdex initiative – how all this started (refresher)
• Shipdex protocol – it is not about communications, it is about technical information exchange
• Technical manuals/data in Shipdex format – where and how to use
• Shipdex data – real world application; showcase based on Spectec Shipdex tools

13.20 Lunch

Afternoon Session - Technology Showcase Studies

14.20 Willy Zeiler, Marketing & Communications Manager, Jeppesen Marine
ENC Service as part of eNavigation
• ENC distribution, the needs for a safe and secure service
• ENC licensing, avoid cumbersome solutions
• ENC updating, simplifying the tasks onboard

14.35 Guy Adams, VP Software Engineering, iDirect
Unified Management and Value Add Services
• Management, monitoring and reporting – rising above the Inmarsat/VSAT question
• Regulatory compliance – not just a ‘nice to have’
• Value add services – can service providers and customers engage in a true win:win

14.50 Angelos Demetriou, IT Officer, Intership Navigation
Limassol based Intership Navigation have installed Dualog Connection Suite on their fleet of nearly 70 vessels.
This session will focus on a couple of key experiences with this process.
Simplicity:
• How the new Dualog Connection Suite has increased operational efficiency
Crew Welfare:
• How Intership keep crew happy with zero-admin crew mail

15.05 Asad Salameh, President, World Link Communications
Broadband Technology Onboard

15.20 John Serafim, Director Sales, Continental Europe South, Marlink
Enhancing Communications at Sea – Value Added Solutions Suite from Marlink
• Prepaid crew calling (experiences and capabilities)
• Prepaid surf (experiences and capabilities)
• VPN solutions – focus on security
• IP optimization and accelerators – enhanced use of satellite communications
• Automatic switching from bundled solutions – The Access Controller

15.35 Kobi Ohayon, Sales Director, Station711
Smart@sea™ - Putting it all in a Small Box
• Smart@sea™ serves as all-in-one modular appliance addressing all onboard communications needs
• Smart@sea™ relief the ship from using various high cost software for various applications and by this keeping the Ship PC
• On board light and effective, much less sensitive and routinely 'getting stuck . .'
• Smart@sea™ turn the ship into a real working station, just as it was located in the shipping company offices

15.50 Close of Digital Ship Cyprus 2010 - See you in 2011