Digital Ship September 2004

PROGRAM DAY ONE - SEPTEMBER 7 - IT AND QUALITY / SATCOMS

Please note this is the 2004 conference program - to see the 2005 conference program click here

8.30 Welcome coffee in exhibition hall

9.20 Introduction and welcome by Dr Panagiotis Nomikos, president of AMMITEC (Association of Shipping Company IT managers)
Dr Panagiotis Nomikos is president and founder of AMMITEC (Association of Maritime Managers of Information Technology and Communications). He is an IT consultant (and was founding IT manager) of Stelmar Tankers in Athens and was founder of Netshipbrokers.com. He has a Phd in computer science from the University of Sussex, UK. www.pnomikos.com

CONFERENCE CHAIRMAN - Dr Panagiotis Nomikos

9.25 Introduction by Arthur Bowring, director, Hong Kong Shipowners Association
Arthur Bowring is the Managing Director of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association and part time Maritime Arbitrator and HKIAC accredited Mediator. He has a broad shipping background, which includes several years at sea as a deck officer, working as a ship surveyor for Lloyds Register, acting as an oil and dry cargo chartering and owning broker and freight trader for a major international trading house, handling marine insurance placing and claims and working as a consultant, handling investigative work, claims and project management. He is fellow and member of several professional associations and organisations. www.hksoa.com.hk

9.30 Keynote speech: Pradeep Chawla, Director- Quality Assurance and Training, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement
Pradeep Chawla is director of quality assurance and training, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement and a regular speaker on matters related to seafarers, shipping quality and information technology. www.angloeastern.com

9.55 Keynote speech: Capt. Arvind M. Karandikar, general manager - quality and safety, Fleet Management Ltd
Capt. Arvind M. Karandikar is general manager - quality and safety, Fleet Management Limited and oversees safety, security, quality assurance and administration including documentation onshore and onboard. He is also in charge of the tanker operations cell and supervises development of training modules and training videos for on board and shore based training of seafarers. www.fleetship.com

Fleet Management's online tool for communications with customers
Breakthroughs in operational efficiency and transparency
The old paper-based system and why change was required
Website launched to provide transparency.
We built on this platform to develop management tools for our offices
Gains from this initiative
100,000 technical reports later, the ships were getting left behind - launch of shipboard module
PARIS Advantages of PARIS over other systems.
Brief look at the future

10.20 Doris Ho, President & CEO, Magsaysay Maritime Excom Member, Fairmont Shipping
Doris Ho is director of Hong Kong based Fairmont Shipping

10.50 to 10.55 Puzzles for conference delegates
helios and matheson

Sponsored by Helios and Matheson

10.55 - 11.30 break - coffee in exhibition hall
VSM

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR - VSM Navigator

SESSION - SOFTWARE

11.30 Trial project to provide up to date water currents data to pilots in the Port of Singapore using tablet PCs - improve berth and port area utlisation and navigation safety
Mark Womersley, Project Manager of info@SEA, BMT Technology
Mark Womersley is the project manager of info@SEA, BMT (British Maritime Technology) Asia, which undertakes a variety of different consultancy work including port planning and development, marine navigation, port equipment, terminal operations, environment and risk, and emergency planning and response. http://www.bmtasia.com.sg/

11.50 Panel session for shipping company IT managers - using software to improve shipping operating efficiency
With: Pradeep Chawla, quality assurance and training, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement
Capt. Arvind M. Karandikar, general manager - quality and safety, Fleet Management Ltd
Doris Ho, director, Fairmont Shipping, David Kam of Wah Kwong Shipping Holdings Ltd
Mark Womersley, Project Manager of info@SEA, BMT Technology

12.20 - 1.20pm Lunch

Joint Lunch sponsors ShipServ and ITIC
shipserve ITIC
ITIC - the ITIC the ShipManager's P and I insurance managed by Thomas Miller http://www.itic-insure.com

Luncheon speaker - Ken Chih, chief information officer, OOCL

Capturing real time sailing schedules
sharing updated estimated time of arrival information from the vessel with shippers and carriers
OOCL's SchedulingSmart portal
OOCL's view on how technology will change the maritime industry

Ken Chih is chief information officer, OOCL, one of the world's leading container shipping lines in its use of IT. OOCL operates the largest objects-based IT system in the world and claims to have reduced its overall spend on administration, customer service and documentation from 13.5 per cent to 9 per cent of total company revenue through its IT system, which cost just 1.8 per cent of total company revenue. www.oocl.com

1.20pm - 1.50 pm Delegates have time to visit exhibition stands

SESSION - SATELLITE AND HF RADIO

1.50 Keynote speech, Geoff Arnold, general manager fleet management of World-Wide Shipping Managers, Singapore

Use of Iridium in the fleet

Geoff Arnold is general manager fleet management of World-Wide Shipping Managers Ltd in Singapore, which operates 28 tankers (of which 27 are VLCCs) and 4 bulk carriers of a total of some 12 million tonnes deadweight. Geoff is head of IT and Procurement and first joined World-Wide in 1976 serving as Chief Engineer onboard VLCC's until he came ashore in 1994. After working in the Quality department first in Singapore then in London, developing the company Safety Management System, he moved on to be Fleet Manager and progressed to his present position within the company which he has held since 2001. Academic qualifications:- First Class Certificate (Chief Engineer), MBA (Stafford). The parent company, World-Wide Shipping of Hong Kong, is headed by Dr. Helmut Sohmen, which controls both World-Wide Shipping Managers Singapore and the recently acquired Norwegian shipping company, Bergesen. www.wwshipping.com

2.15 Univan's experiences with Iridium - G A Shankar, IT officer, Univan
Univan is the largest shipping company user of Iridium globally

2.40 Piers Cunningham, maritime market manager, Inmarsat

The Inmarsat I4 satellites
availability, coverage area, speed
Inmarsat's new strategy

Piers Cunningham is maritime market manager of Inmarsat, which operates the satellite communications system used by most of the world's merchant shipping fleet. Inmarsat plans to launch three new satellites over the next 2 years, dubbed the "I-4s". www.inmarsat.com

3.05 Pål Jensen, vice president Telenor satellite services, Sealink
Sealink's project to equip all 17 vessels in the Anders Utkilens fleet with VSAT and experiences so far - Sealink's experiences with fitting GSM equipment on ferries so passengers can make GSM calls at standard roaming rates, billed through their normal GSM provider
Pål Jensen, is vice president Telenor satellite services, Sealink, probably the largest maritime VSAT service provider in the world. Telenor has a recent contract to install VSAT on 17 vessels in the Anders Utkilens fleet; it has fitted VSAT to the entire Color Line ferry fleet in Scandinavia and the P&O Dover Calais ferries between the UK and France, journey time around an hour, most of it under GSM coverage. It also has 30 vessels in the Stena fleet. http://www.telenor.com/satellite/

3.30 Sean Schwinn, vice president of strategy and business development, Connexion by Boeing

Boeing's plans to offer global 2.5 mbps ship shore data communications to the maritime industry by 2006 with a 0.6m shipboard antenna

Sean Schwinn is vice president of strategy and business development at Connexion by Boeing, a division of The Boeing Company. Connexion is deploying a global satellite communications network, capable of providing high speed (5+Mbps data rates) communication services to mobile platforms. Services to be offered will include IP data communications, voice and rebroadcast television. The service coverage area currently spans from Japan to North America, and will grow to resemble Inmarsat spot beam coverage by early 2006. The initial market for the service is commercial aviation, where Lufthansa is the launch customer. Connexion announced its entry into the maritime market this past January. www.connexionbyboeing.com

3.55 BREAK

COFFEE BREAK SPONSOR

4.25 Broadband feasibility for shipping
Mary Ellen Kramer, CEO, Broadband Maritime
Mary Ellen Kramer is President and Member of the Board of Directors of Broadband Maritime Inc., a telecommunications service provider offering true global online connectivity at an affordable monthly fee. This high speed VSAT service delivers simultaneous voice and data and offers real time vessel positioning and video conferencing. www.broadbandmaritime.com

4.50 Perspectives on the future of maritime communications - Thomas Flinth, Thrane and Thrane

5.05 Trends in ship shore e-mail - Shengwei Qian, sales manager Hong Kong, Xantic

Has the possibility of MPDS led to an increase in the use of email?
If stepped over to Inmarsat Fleet, is using email different from the way it was done via Inmarsat-A?
What could you do with telex and what can you do with email?
Did the use of email and its possibilities change the way of working, processes within companies?
Migration from Inmarsat-A to Fleet and the way this changed certain patterns within companies
Trends in the use of email - what's happening in the market, recently and in the near future.

5.20 Techniques for managing ship-shore e-mail services
John Sherwood, product manager Stratos

5.35 Panel discussion - best value from satcoms
Chaired by: Dr Panagiotis Nomikos.
Participants include: Natarajan Jayakumar, IT manager, Anglo Eastern Shipmanagement
Nicholas Li, manager, Enterprise Resource Planning, Eurasia
Geoff Arnold, general manager fleet management of World-Wide Shipping Managers
G A Shankar, IT officer, Univan
Piers Cunningham, maritime market manager, Inmarsat
Pål Jensen, managing director, Telenor Sealink
Sean Schwinn, VP strategy and business development, Connexion by Boeing
John Sherwood, product manager Stratos
Mary Ellen Kramer, CEO, Broadband Maritime
Shengwei Qian, sales manager Hong Kong, Xantic
Thomas Flinth, Thrane and Thrane
Capt. Ashwin Khandke, SeaConnection.

6.15 - 8pm Alcoholic beverages in exhibition hall
connexions
Sponsored by Connexion by Boeing