Oslo - March 11th - 12th 2008

Two day conference and exhibition on satellite communications, software, navigation for the deep sea shipping and offshore shipping industry

Delegates registed so far include Arkas Shipping and Transport S.A., IT Consultant; BP Shipping, Ship Delivery Manager; Briese Schiffahrts GmbH & Co.KG, IT-Manager; Chevron Shipping Company LLC, Electronic Technical Officer, Shipboard System Specialist, Senior Engineer; Clipper Group A/S, Project Superintendent; Furetank Rederi AB, ICT Manager; Inchcape Shipping Services, Group Information Director; Jo Tankers As, Purchaser; Laurin Maritime, IT coordinator; P&O Ferries, Head of Technology Services, Business Analyst; PGS, Senior Network Engineer, IT Field support; Solvang ASA, IT coordinator; Stolt Tankers, Navigation Superintendent; Utkilen AS, ICT-Manager; Wallem Shipmanagement Norway AS, IT Consultant; Wilhelmsen Maritime Services,IT Architect, vessel product responsible; Wilson, QA and Ship/Shore coordinator, Group QA manager

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We would like to invite you to have a look at the program for Digital Ship Scandinavia, our two day conference about developments and best practise in communications, IT and navigation systems in the maritime industry.

Our speakers include the IT managers and directors of some of the world's most technically advanced shipping companies, including Maersk Supply Services, Rickmers, Neste Shipping, Rederiet Trans Atlantic, Grieg Shipping Group, KG Jebsen, Lyras Shipping, Solvang and Stolt Tankers .

For the first time ever, we will have perspectives on the use of electronic charts from three different shipping companies.

We also have speaking the maritime managing directors of Inmarsat, SpecTec and Jeppesen Marine, probably the world's largest maritime companies for satellite communications, software and electronic charts.

Whether your role in the industry is as a buy, user, or developer of IT and communications, we believe you will find Digital Ship Scandinavia a great opportunity for idea building, learning, networking, business development, and of course business.

You will not hear about theory on the conference platform, but learn from the experiences of people who work with this technology every day. This is knowledge you can use.

Just as valuable as what you can learn from the conference podium and discussion panels, are the discussions outside the conference, in the exhibition area in the beautiful Telenor headquarters building overlooking the fjord, and at the Inmarsat evening dinner, currently planned for Cafe Christiana, a historic building in central Oslo.

If you've been to Digital Ship Scandinavia before, you'll know what we mean. If you've never been, make 2008 your year.

So on behalf of our generous speakers, sponsors and exhibitors, we would like to invite you to come to Digital Ship Scandinavia, in Oslo on March 11-12.

DAY ONE MORNING - SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

Chair: Lars Brodje, managing director, Telemar Scandinavia

9.30 - Chairman's introduction - the current state of broadband communications in the maritime industry

9.40 Keynote speaker: Peter Faurhoej , head of navigation and communication Systems, A.P.Moller - Maersk A/S - Maersk Supply Service

Peter Faurhoej has been with AP Moeller - Maersk for 5 years, and has been working with satellite and navigation communication equipment for 20 years. He is 43.

10.10 Lars Gerdes, CIO, Rickmers Holding GmbH & Cie. KG. Reports from testing Inmarsat FleetBroadband solution, incorporating Becker Marine's umc.global network and Thrane ahd Thrane's SAILOR FB500.

Lars Gerdes is the person in charge of the IT for the whole Rickmers Group. He has studied business economics and started his career in the area of EDP controlling management. After working for several years as an ERP-sonsultant with a focus on SAP he took over his first responsibility for an IT-department in 2001. He joined Rickmers in early 2007. The Rickmers Group manages more than 85 vessels from their offices in Hamburg, Limassol and Singapore and will increase their fleet by 30 further vessels up to 2011.

10.40 Sandro Delucia, maritime market manager, Inmarsat - developments with FleetBroadband

11.10 BREAK

11.50 Wouter Deknopper, director Europe, Iridium. Iridium's new IP service for the maritime market to be launched in Q1, 2008.

12.15 Kyle Hurst, maritime market manager, Inmarsat - developments with crew calling

12.40 Panel discussion

1.00 Lunch Day One Lunch sponsor:

DAY ONE AFTERNOON - SOFTWARE

Chair: Kari-Anne Larmerud, CIO and Business Architect, Wilhelmsen Ship Management.

2.10 Keynote speaker: Kristiina Kannus, IT Manager, Neste Shipping Oy Experiences with IT projects at Neste Shipping.

2.40 - Staffan Strive, Vice President Production, Rederiet Trans Atlantic AB jointly with Peter Kindborn, ITC manager, Rederiet Trans Atlantic. Keeping shipboard PCs running - using Palantir’s KeepUp@Sea Solution as the stabilizer of IT&C systems on board the TransAtlantic Vessels

3.05 Dimitris Lyras, advisor to the board, Ulysses Systems, and drector, Lyras Shipping. Using software to improve shipboard safety.

3.30 BREAK

4.00 - ICT strategy - Choosing a standardised IT infrastructure onboard ships - Oystein Sivertsen, ICT Manager, Grieg Shipping Group AS with Christoffer Johansen, Senior Sales Executive, DNV software

4.25 The MAST project - computer based training for seafarers - paid for by shipping companies, not by seafarers themselves. Captain Eugen Adami, managing director, Intership Navigation.

4.50 The ShipDex project - to turn ship manuals into XML electronic data. Giancarlo Coletta, purchasing director, Grimaldi Naples, together with Giampiero Soncini, CEO, SpecTec

5.20 Panel discussion

6.00 Cocktails

8.00 - Evening reception and dinner in Cafe Christiana, central Oslo sponsored by Inmarsat. All delegates, speakers and exhibitors are warmly invited. A bus will leave at 7pm from the conference centre to take delegates to the dinner.

Dinner sponsor

DAY TWO MORNING -Developments with electronic navigation equipment and electronic charts -

SESSION: SHIPPING COMPANIES' EXPERIENCE WITH ELECTRONIC CHARTS

Chair: David Pickles, senior partner, Marine Partners

David Pickles is senior partner of maritime consultancy Marine Partners, which focuses on maritime communication, navigation and bridge design. Mr Pickles was previously a director of the Naval and Marine Division of Smiths Aerospace (parent company of Kelvin Hughes), where he was responsible for Kelvin Hughes' sales and marketing, strategic planning and customer services. He worked directly with the UKHO in developing a number of products and services. He is a past director of the Society of Maritime Industries, and a past chairman of the British Marine Equipment Association. Prior to joining Smiths he was a navigating officer in the Merchant Navy.

9.30 Keynote speaker: Cpt. Tor Arne Tonnessen, maritime superintendent, Solvang . Experience to date with paperless navigation.

10.00 Jorgen Strandberg, Navigation Superintendent, Stolt Tankers BV Experiences with electronic charts
How Stolt Tankers anticipates having full paperless navigation with the same cost as normal paper chart navigation, using pay-per-view software from Maris.
The first fully transparent coverage display, showing all he licenses and charts carried in one window, allowing for visual and automatic monitoring of chart carriage and compliance.

Mr Strandberg is the navigation superintendent at Stolt Tankers BV, with the main task of improving navigational safety records, working with company bridge procedures, training, bridge equipment and newbuilding. He was previously a lecturer at the Kalmar Maritime Academy, Sweden, and before that had a 15 year seafaring carrier on tankers and passengers ships, ending as master.

10.30 Captain Robert Ward, director, International Hydrographic Organisation. Update on the Status of Global Coverage of Official Electronic Charting for ECDIS.

Captain Ward is the Director at the International Hydrographic Bureau with overall responsibility for the technical program of the IHO. The IHO technical program includes the development and maintenance of the specifications and standards underpinning the Electronic Navigational Charts required in an IMO compliant ECDIS. Captain Ward recently retired from the Royal Australian Navy where he was the Deputy Hydrographer of Australia. He has extensive experience in the development of the relevant IMO and IHO ECDIS standards. He is a hydrographic surveyor by profession, has served as a Deck Officer in merchant service and has commanded a number of Navy ships and units operating in all parts of the world.

11.00 BREAK

OVERVIEW OF DEVELOPMENTS WITH ELECTRONIC CHARTS TECHNOLOGY

11.30 Tor Svanes, head of division, Jeppesen Marine

11.45 Sach Sharma, market relations manager, Primar A new service to help port state control inspectors check that the ship has the latest charts onboard

12.00 Capt. Andreas Arvidsson, sales manager, Transas Norge

12.15 Ian C Vendrell, director of business development, Maritime Information Systems (MARIS)

12.30 Panel discussion - obstacles and developments

1.00 Lunch Day Two Lunch sponsor:

DAY TWO MORNING - INMARSAT FLEETBROADBAND TRAINING
- Training session about Inmarsat's new FleetBroadband service from Inmarsat's staff

DAY TWO AFTERNOON
- Technology showcase

Ten minute presentations about exciting new technology

2.00 - Otto Pedersen, CTO, Palantir. New developments with Palantir's solution to enable people to support and manage shipboard PCs from shore.

2.10 Hans Heiervang, BASS

2.20 - Mads Ebbesen, area sales manager, Asia, KVH Europe

2.30 Harry Miyashita, general manager, JRC Europe. Presentation of JRC's new FleetBroadband hardware, its unique features and user functionality.

2.40 Per M Grøsvik, general manager, Shipadmin AS. The Shipadmin FleetManger, which synchronizes certficates, various lists and personnel-related information on board the vessels. This enables the management at shore to keep track of critical information in the total fleet. The programme is a strategic tool for managing certificates and crew-related issues.

Please send any enquiries / suggestions about speaker slots to Karl Jeffery, conference producer, on jeffery@thedigitalship.com