Digital Ship America - Sep 10-11 2008

In September this year, Digital Ship will come to the USA for the first time, for our Digital Ship America conference, looking at the technologies and communications systems American shipping companies can use to maintain safety, protect the coastline, maintain morale onboard ships, keep trade running smoothly and earn revenue.

We will cover the latest advances in satellite communications technology; latest best practise in using software tools to help keep ships running safely, well maintained and with all necessary supplies; and we will cover the latest developments in e-Navigation, to minimise the risk of navigation accidents.

Mark September 10th-11th in your diaries, for what promises to be one of Digital Ship's most exciting events, Digital Ship America.

Confirmed speakers: Vincent Cirel, SVP / Chief Information Officer, Norwegian Cruise Line (keynote) - experiences with VSAT
Captain Jim Pound, Seaway Marine Transport - on experiences installing and using VSAT


AGENDA AND SAMPLE OF POSSIBLE TOPICS

DAY ONE MORNING - Vessel communications

- VSAT for maritime - shipping companies' experience / new technology / applying lessons learned in the cruise sector to other maritime sectors
- Inmarsat's FleetBroadband - costs, benefits, user experience
- Shipboard GSM via Inmarsat - to enable seafarers to use cellphones and send information about container cargoes
- Shipboard GSM via VSAT
- Iridium's new 128 kbps OpenPort service
- Monitoring shipboard equipment (eg engines) from shore
- The business case for providing crew with communications facilities

DAY ONE AFTERNOON - Vessel management

- Software which can help manage safety and quality systems
- Developments with electronic purchasing
- IT in the cruise industry
- Developments with maintenance management
- Seafarer competence assessment and training
- Data management and data cleaning
- ShipDex / providing ship manuals in XML
- Maritime corporate IT systems
- Software to manage vessel chartering and scheduling
- Data historian - storing shipboard data for later processing
- Software to automatically complete shipboard documentation
- Improved monitoring of vessel fuel consumption


DAY TWO MORNING - e-Navigation and regulatory communications

- Next generation electronic chart data - Next generation navigation technology (bridge systems)
- Next generation shipboard information services (improved weather, tide, hazard data)
- Next generation navigation co-ordination between vessel and shore authorities
- Next generation tools for reporting / automating regulatory paperwork
- Next generation automatic identification systems

DAY TWO AFTERNOON - Technology showcase / Inmarsat FleetBroadband training session

Speaker enquiries: Karl Jeffery, on jeffery@thedigitalship.com. Please note that we will aim for most of the speakers in the main conference to be from shipping companies / Coastguard / Navy. If you are a vendor interested in speaking, you are welcome to let us know of your interest in speaking, but we will not be releasing speaker slots to vendors until we have made an exhaustive search for shipping company / Coastguard / Navy speakers, or if shipping company people have told us they have a specific interest in hearing more from you. We would be very interested in hearing from you if you are able to convince one of your shipping company customers to make a presentation about your technology, either alone or in a joint presentation with you. We are currently conducting research of our shipping company / USCG / Navy friends in North America to find out what they are interested in hearing more about, and what specific technologies they are interested in hearing about.

Exhibition enquiries: Ria Kontogeorgou, on ria@thedigitalship.com Tel +44 207 510 4931

Delegates enquiries: Theo Theodorou, on theo@thedigitalship.com