Last year's program: April 29-30, 2004

PROGRAM – Day 2

CHAIRMAN: Dr Panagiotis Nomikos, president, AMMITEC

9.15 KEYNOTE SPEECH:
Case study - Barber International - streamlining global business processes with IT. The business case, the challenges, and the experience gained Helge Mothes, chief information officer, Wilh.Wilhelmsen ASA www.wilh-wilhelmsen.com

Helge Mothes is vice president information technology (CIO) for Wilh.Wilhelmsen (WW), parent of Barwil Agencies, Barber International, EUKOR Car Carriers, Wallenius Wilhelmsen, Wilhelmsen Agencies, Wilhelmsen Bunkers and Wilhelmsen Insurance Services.

Being a versatile, seasoned information technology executive, Helge oversees the whole Corporate IT activities related to WW's worldwide businesses and the implementation of corporate wide projects.

His daily tasks are divided between the delivery of WW's global IT infrastructure, the administrative issues associated in supervising IT organizations located at Lysaker and Kuala Lumpur, the financial issues of planning and executing multimillion dollar budgets, and the implementation of WW Corporate wide projects - Project Management Framework, WW Enterprise Architecture, WW Enterprise Technical Platform Upgrade (WW4Net), OneVoice CRM Strategy and Global Intranet.

ELECTRONIC CHARTS
CHAIRMAN: Dr Andy Norris, chairman International Electro technical Committee 80 (Maritime Navigation and Radio communications Equipment and Systems), also Special Professor of Navigation Technology, Nottingham University, UK

He has spent much of his time managing high-tech navigation companies but now he is working on broader issues within the navigational world, providing both technical and business consultancy to the industry, Governmental bodies and maritime organizations

9.45 Requirements for electronic charts in the Norwegian administration
 – possible requirements for electronic charts internationally - choice of ECDIS, ENC, ARCS Eivind S Vågslid, deputy director, Norwegian Maritime Administration www.sjofartsdir.no

10.15 Research by DNV showing that use of electronic chart systems onboard can lead to 40 per cent reduction in groundings
Erling Linna, senior nautical surveyor, DNV. www.dnv.com

10.45 The electronic charting jigsaw
– availability of official and non-official data, options shipping companies face. Distribution of navigation information by internet and satcom Tor Svanes, CEO, C-MAP www.c-map.no

Tor Svanes is CEO of C-MAP, one of the world's leading companies in electronic charts, based in Norway. C-MAP supplies proprietary worldwide vector charts and chart display software. Over 90 manufacturers of navigation, vessel traffic control and fleet management systems can read and display C-MAP digital chart data.

11.15 BREAK

11.25 - 11.35 Exhibitor presentation from Xantic at stand no 4

11.35 to 11.45 Exhibitor presentation from Fugro Survey at Desktop in hall.

11.45 Harmonizing official ENCs.
Relations between the official ENC-data (S57) and the display (S52), current efforts to increase harmonization in the encoding to ensure harmonized display of adjacent ENCs from different official sources, recent agreement in the IHO to supply small scale official ENC coverage. Ole Berg, chairman of the IHO Committee on Hydrographic Requirements for Information Systems (CHRIS) and Chairman of Primar Stavanger Advisory Committee.

12.15 Effective distribution of ENCs
(Service elements for an effective global and official electronic chart service). Robert Sandvik from ECC has been engaged in the ENC area since 1989, and has been involved in several IHO working groups, lately as the Chairman of the IHO S-63 Data protection Scheme Working Group. Robert Sandvik, Operations Manager, Electronic Chart Centre. www.ecc.as

Electronic Chart Centre is the operator of Primar Stavanger, the regional ENC service covering Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore and Sweden.

ECC is a wholly state-owned limited company which lies under the Norwegian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Its staff have documented experience of and education in electronic navigation charts (ENCs), mapping, development, service delivery, information technology, project management, administration and accounting

12.40 Panel discussion
– what issues have to be overcome before ships have a seamless availability of official ENCs with a minimum of hassle, and what should be done to overcome them.

Dr. Andy Norris; Eivind S Vågslid, deputy director, Norwegian Maritime Administration; Erling Linna, senior nautical surveyor, DNV; Tor Svanes, CEO, C-Map; Ole Berg, chairman of the IHO committee on Hydrographic Requirements for Information Systems (CHRIS); Robert Sandvik, operations manager, Electronic Chart Centre

1.15 LUNCH SPONSORED BY C-MAP

SHIP ALERT SYSTEMS, AIS AND LONG RANGE TRACKING

2.15 Norway requirements for ship security alert systems
Sigmund A. A. Breivik, senior principal surveyor and leader of the Norwegian delegation to COMSAR, Norwegian Maritime Administration www.sjofartsdir.no

Sigmund A. A. Brevik is senior principal surveyor and leader of the Norwegian delegation to COMSAR, Norwegian Maritime Administration

2.40 Expected requirements for long range tracking systems
 – possible issues. Paul Morter, Transas Telematics. www.transas.com

Transas produces software and electronic systems for the maritime industry, including communications services (Transas Telematics), bridge systems / electronic chart displays, simulators, vessel traffic systems and electronic charts. It produces one of the industry leading ship alert systems.

3.05 CCTV, lighting and locks co-ordinated in a central computer system
– possible shipboard configurations Geir Ludvigsen, area sales manager, Hernis.

Geir Ludvigsen is the Area Sales Manager for Hernis and has been responsible for the BeNeLux, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and India. He has been working for HERNIS since May 2002 and has mainly been focusing his 15 years of professional experience in Marine and Offshore related industry.

3.30 Software to improve ship security
- white paper on how software can help improve ISPS compliance. Anders Arlberg, Xantic/AMOS http://www.xantic.net

Xantic claims to be one of the world's largest maritime satcoms and software companies, formed from the merger of Station 12 and Telstar (Inmarsat land earth station operators) and SpecTec (maritime software).

3.55 Beverages and close