Arved Fuchs – OCEAN CHANGE 18/19

Innovation unit and venture capital investor.

Extreme sportsman, environmental activist and founder of the Zero Emissions Project

With his Zero Emissions project, Michael combines sport and environmental protection. By stand-up paddleboard along the west coast of Greenland or unassisted 1300 km across Germany. With his actions, the Kiel-based athlete wants to make clear that we have to actively tackle challenges, be they sporting or in climate protection.

John Allan has over 35 years experience in the Geospatial and Space-based Surveillance and Monitoring industries. He has held senior positions at a number of industry leading companies including ERDAS, DigitalGlobe , BAE Systems and exactEarth. He now provides business development Consultancy Services to startup companies in these fields, helping them build highly successful businesses.

Jan Heyen Oltmanns (born November 6, 1956 in Esens) is a German Protestant clergyman and sailor deacon. He studied youth work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Education and trained as a Deacon at the Rauhen House.

At the Deutsche Seemannsmission Hamburg-Harburg he was responsible for the development of the International Sailor Club Duckdalben. In cooperation with Anke Wibel  he has been leading this sailor club since 1986. Today 938,000 guests from 181 countries around the world have visited the club.

Edoardo Panziera is the founder and Managing Director of Ionada, a manufacturer of marine exhaust gas cleaning systems, with facilities in Canada, China, and The Netherlands. Mr. Panziera received his Masters Mechanical Engineering Degree from the University of Toronto, specializing in design for environmental engineering.

Edoardo has more than 20 years of experience in developing emission reduction technologies for the marine, automotive, aerospace industries, having worked on projects with Bombardier, Weir Minerals, GM, Ford, Chrysler, 3M, and clean tech start-up companies such as Hydrogenics, Hyroad Industries, and SuntoWater. Edoardo holds numerous patents, including several patents for Ionada.

Edoardo is supported by a number of marine professional at Ionada, having successfully completed two marine scrubber installations for Canada Steamship Lines Baie St. Paul, and the MV Nolhanava. Ionada is currently completing an installation on the Van Oord Lelystad, a dredging vessel.

Torsten Thiele focuses on ocean governance, marine conservation and sustainable finance, drawing on over 20 years experience in project and infrastructure finance with leading financial institutions. He is Founder of Global Ocean Trust, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam and Senior Advisor to the IUCN Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility and advises governments and other bodies on policy, biodiversity and innovative blue finance.

Recent publications address blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions, innovative High Seas funding mechanisms, blue bonds, deep sea governance and ocean, climate and biodiversity linkages. Torsten Thiele holds graduate degrees in law and economics from Bonn University, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MPhil in Conservation Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

With over 15 years in Marine Electronics and 5 years in Air Traffic Control (ATC) particularly in Communication, Navigation & Surveillance (CNS) engineering segment, Mohd Shafrizan Bin Solah passionate about innovating & inventing a new layer of intelligence data (intel-info) that would protect and preserve the coastals.

One of his current initiative is the implentation of the patented Solar Powered AIS onboard 2500 fishing vessels across Malaysia, tonnes of data that daily he dig, process and analyse mainly to fight the little-known global epidemic, the pirates fishing.

47 years, Master of Engineering for Radio Technologies, Captain during his military service, Sales director for Weatherdock Cooperation with a lot of experience and expertise in OEM and Authorities business. His focus is not only on sales in new markets, but also the support of the product management and development.

Ken is Partner and Founder of Pen Test Partners, a firm of ethical hackers. He regularly blogs on everything from satellite communication hacking to maritime security and the Internet of Things. This has led to regular appearances on BBC TV and BBC News online as well as the broadsheet press. He also writes for various newspapers and industry magazines in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering put about by many security vendors. Ken has become a voice for reform and legislative change in the largely unregulated IoT, briefing UK and US government departments as well as being involved with various EU consumer councils. He has also spoken about satellite communication security at various maritime events such as Digital Ship Rotterdam/Oslo/Limassol, GibCyber, Maritime Cyber Security Summit, and CMA Shipping.

Johanna Fräki has over 20 years of leadership experience in industry leading companies. She currently drives the innovation journey of Wärtsilä Marine Solutions towards smart, safe and clean marine industry.

Taro Yoshikawa is founder of Q-Sync Corporation and has over 30 years experiences in power boat and sailing yacht operation (business and pleasure). With his over 35 years experiences in radio telecommunications and computer industries, he is expierenced in AIS promotional activities and providing cos efficient AIS system (type approved) to the market.

Cleanhub exists to protect and preserve our oceans from waste. To achieve that, we are working on a future where waste will be too valuable to be thrown away. How? By building a global platform for waste management, and a global movement empowering brands and consumers to pull their plastics out of the wild.

Co-founder of the BlueBenu startup focused on recycling mixed plastic and other materials.

Born 1970 in Bremen. Married, three children.

1992 – 2003 doctoral degree at the Free University of Berlin and assistant doctor at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Joined the Harren & Partner Group in 2003.

Key activities: Solely responsible for the group’s corporate finance. Driving strategic projects.

Acting as managing director for SAL Heavy Lift, SAL Engineering, SAL Renewables, Combi Lift, Harren Tankers, Harren Bulkers as well as all ship management activities.

Dr. Torsten Büssow is Vice President of Global Head of Maritime Digital Business Unit (Fleet Performance) at DNVGL. He and his team are providing solutions to improve ships and shipping companies performance. Torsten has joined DNV GL in 2008 and has set up a Maritime Software business around a suite of Shipmanagement applications known as the “ShipManager”. He holds a PhD in decision theory. After a few years at BP he has worked as management consultant at Capgemini, a global management and IT consulting company focussing on logistics and transport clients.

German Master in Sprint and Wave SUP Boarding and environmental enthusiast.

Torkild ERIKSEN is as Principal Scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). He has a M.S. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1999) in Physics / Electronic Engineering from the University of Oslo. He has been developing space systems and services within the maritime domain since 2000, including satellite AIS and VHF Data Exchange via Satellite (VDE-SAT). His international experience includes work on EU and ESA contracts, secondment to the European Defence Agency and the European Union Satellite Centre (2007-2008), and work for the European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Maritime Affairs Unit (2012-2014), on maritime surveillance capabilities including Copernicus services. Eriksen is currently working as researcher and manager of space-based AIS activities at FFI.

Maria Behrens (G-209) comes from Lübeck and Windsurfing team driver for Duotone / Fanatic. She has been windsurfing since 2014 and was able to attract attention by winning the Danish Open in Klitmøller, among other things.

Rolf Habben Jansen was born on 27 August 1966 in Spijkenisse near Rotterdam.

He graduated in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1991. In the same year, he embarked on his career as a trainee at the former Dutch shipping company Royal Nedlloyd. He held a number of different positions both there and at the Swiss logistics firm Danzas, before the latter merged with DHL, the subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG.

From 2001, he was responsible at DHL for contract logistics for large parts of Europe, and from 2006 he was in charge of the services group’s 100 most important customers as Head of Global Customer Solutions. As Chief Executive Officer from 2009, he spent five years heading up the global logistics company Damco.

Rolf Habben Jansen was appointed member of the Hapag-Lloyd AG Executive Board in April 2014. He has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hapag-Lloyd AG since July 2014.

Dr. Jan-Olaf Willums has been a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor in various technology companies, including Computas (Artificial Intelligence), Avenir (Software) , REC (Solar), Think (Electric cars), Move About (Electric mobility) and ZEM (batteries for the offshore and shipping industry). He was co-founding director of the World Business council for Sustainable Development.
Jan-Olaf Willums has a M.Sc. from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) and a joint D.Sc. in Ocean Engineer and International Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he lead a Deep Ocean Mining project and was working in the Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE I) headed by MIT and Harvard.

He became the first Marine Policy & Ocean Management Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod. Today he is on the advisory Board of the European Development Bank (EBRD) and member of the Maritime Battery Forum.

Paul Woods is CEO and leads the technology team at Global Fishing Watch. He also works for SkyTruth in a consulting capacity.

Anders Flensborg is Managing Director of Munich-based Flensborg and Associates , a result-driven firm specialized in business development along the supply chain. The company excels in the Maritime and Transportation Industries and is experienced with capital, start-ups, technology, regional and industrial development as well as M&A.

In the summer of 2018, the company launched a digital replicate: www.flenzies.com

Anders Flensborg has been involved with the creation and early execution of a consolidation concept for the German Maritime Industry involving 11 vessel owners. He was a founder of ocean24.de, the maritime booking engine & disrupter launched during the New Economy.

George Best Director, AIS Sales, EMEA and APAC for ORBCOMM brings 10 years of knowledge and experience gained through the study and application of the use of Satellite AIS.

Sabine is project manager of the trade fair fish international in Bremen, Germany. After over 20 years of experience with the product fish, Sabine knows the industry inside out. She is always in touch with the industry’s concerns and succeeds in making them the topic of lively discussions.

Alfred Kotouczek-Zeise is CEO of the German Cooperation Weatherdock AG. Weatherdock is one of the world leaders for Class B AIS technologies with a full range of products.

Lena Gothberg is founder of Shipping Podcast and a real shipping business woman, who has taken upon herself to get the shipping industry more visible.

Julien Dufour the CEO of Verifavia, a worldwide independent accredited environmental verification, certification and auditing body for aviation, airports and maritime transport (shipping).

Markus, born 1967 in Hamburg, 4 Children has 30 years of shipping experience. Starting as shipbroker working in London, H.K. and US, spent almost 20 years of senior management and board positions in leading ship owning, financing and ship management companies in Hamburg. With a focus on all commercial management aspects, customer relations and business development. [He has been involved in the over 100 newbuilding projects, chartering, insurance as well as shiprecycling.] Since 2020 President Lloyd’s Register EMEA in Hamburg.

Working from Hamburg and Lisbon for his company urbane ressourcen Jürgen Wehnert has a track record in innovation in more than one domain: IT applications in logistics, in transport security, for smart cards and more recently in electronic health. In all domains Jürgen is active in conceiving, defining and promoting new applications and (web) services. Jürgen is delighted to once again be the moderator of the AIS Summit.

Max started his career at Siemens. He worked on real time operation systems for automation systems, mainly for the automotive industry. He quickly switched to the startup world.

Logistics Professional, Boardmember, Founder, Venture Projects

Since 2013, Mira Schwarz has been working at the Ship Security Department as a Flag State Surveyor and as a Port State Control Officer since 2014. Previously, she was 1st Officer at a German shipping company under German flag.

Now on contract to the US Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology (DHS S&T) as their subject matter expert (SME) for Maritime Domain Awareness and Commercial Earth Observation Space Systems, Guy is the former US Science & Technology Advisor for Maritime Domain Awareness (2003-2012) and creator of both space-based AIS & C-SIGMA, (Collaboration in Space for International Global Maritime Awareness). He also serves as the technical/academic advisor to the Multinational Maritime Security Center of Excellence. Guy has been involved in surveillance operations and systems in the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, industry, Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) as well as the Department of Homeland Security and its operational elements.

SubCtech offers underwater power solutions and ocean monitoring systems.

Haris comes from Leuphana, Europe’s leading environmental sciences university, where he worked on multiple European research projects. He holds degrees in B.A. and sustainability sciences. In 2015, he joined Breeze Technologies as Head of Science.

FUELSAVE GmbH is a german energy efficiency enhancement and cleantech company with strong R&D background, which became TOP SME in Europe and got funded by the EU and signed end of 2019 its first 5 Mio Euro contract with the same customer – SAL Heavy Lift GmbH that used the solution to full satisfaction on one of Europes largest heavy lift crane ships for 2,5 years.

Leon Gommans is Co-founder of Teqplay, a start-up in the Maritime industry. Leon had a back-ground in computer science and loves everything that has to do with innovation, collaboration and technology. One of his other achievements is the World Port Hackathon that was organized the last five years in Rotterdam.

About Teqplay:
Teqplay is a context broker providing information and tools to empower the shipping industry to make smarter and informed decisions in both planning and execution, reducing CO2 emissions, risk and saving cost.

About the presentation:
In the presentation Léon will present the challenges that customers are facing and how AIS helps in providing information and tools to address these challenges. We will focus on the potential for port-call optimization and inland barging

Natalie has been the Director of Employment Affairs for the International Shipping Federation and International Chamber of Shipping, since March 2003.In her role she represents the industry on all Employment Affairs matters and coordinates Industry positions at the ILO, IMO, EC, WHO and other UM bodies as appropriate. She was actively involved in the development and implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and discussions on the ILO minimum wage, Crew Claims and Abandonment, Revision of STCW and concerns related to Piracy to name but a few areas. Natalie is also a trustee for Seafarers UK.

Natalie is also actively involved with The International Seafarers Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) of which she was a Board member for a number of years for both its previous operations namely ISAN and ICSW. She is currently part of their Piracy subgroup formed since the integration of MPHRP under the charity. She is also Secretary of the Shipowner Group at the International Labour Organisation. She is also a voting member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and gets actively involved in interfaith and diversity projects.

Natalie was previously a Trustee of Sailors Society and Chair of the Welfare and Chaplaincy Committtee. Her greatest personal pride was in leading their efforts in developing a project to provide housing and accommodation in the Philippines post typhoon Haiyaan which resulted in housing, medical centres, and assistance to schools hit by the event. This activity was driven by seeing the realities after the Indian Tsunami 10 years ago and a lack of coordination to expedite assistance to seafarers’ families at the time.

Teus van Beek has an education at Delft University of Technology, naval architecture with specialization in ship hydromechanics.
Since 1980 he has been employed by Wärtsilä Netherlands B.V. (former Lips B.V.) in Drunen.
His experience is related to the design and applications of Marine Power Systems to all kind of vessels. Active participation in development and design projects has given him a wide overview and technical background as well as the business needs in ships’ design. Teus has been active in external commercial contacts as well and has a wide network in the shipping industry. He contributed to well over 30 technical publications on all technical levels of ship power systems.
Currently his position is General Manager Market Innovation within the Marine Solutions division at Wartsila. The Market Innovations team is set out to create and promote future concepts for the marine industry by showing thought leadership and testing the waters for new technologies and solutions.

Dr. Steffen Knodt is the Head of the Fraunhofer Centre for Sustainable Subsea Solutions at the Ocean Technology Campus in Rostock. With its background and PhD in engineering from RWTH Aachen, Steffen worked over his career in various senior management roles in applied research and industry at Hilti, Aker Solutions / MHWirth, Maersk and Wärtsilä. In his recent role as Director Digital Ventures at Wärtsilä, Steffen is focussed impact entrepreneurship as a venture client, since that time supporting the SEADEVCON as a co-organiser and moderator. Steffen as well serves in various boards and as a mentor for startups. Currently, he serves in the German Committee for the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development – as well he serves a member of the board in the German Association for Marine Technology GMT.

Yann graduated from the university of Brest in Engineering Physics and remote sensing, Marine specialization. He started his carrier in 1998, joining a company acting in the field of marine Environnement. Yann served six years as an engineer, working on projects related to scientific software developments for several government clients like IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploration of the Seas) and SHOM (Hydrographical and Oceanographical Marine Service). He joined in 2004 a company specialized in a broad range of expertise areas within the marine environment sector. Yann has used his experienced to design and implement operational systems for oceanic environmental analysis and forecasting, and for high resolution remote sensing applied to coastal zone management and deep ocean mapping. Since 2008 as the head of the data processing unit at Cerema (Centre for Expertise and Engineering on risks, urban and country planning, environment and mobility) and since 2013 as the head of the Research & Development division in the field of maritime Telecommunications, his experience includes working with the Maritime Affairs and managing projects related to technological maritime surveillance solutions including AIS (Automatic Identification System) terrestrial and space-based communications systems. In 2015, Yann co-founded eOdyn and started to develop a transformative solution to measure ocean surface currents thanks to a patented technology  relying on ship trajectory analysis and machine learning.

Carsten is a serial entrepreneur and holds a Diploma in Logistics and Computer Science. He has started various companies in the field of digitalisation and maritime operations, like vesseltracker.com , trusteddocks.com , searoutes.com and portcall.ai. Carsten also organizes conferences like the seadevcon and aissummit, and holds speachers and seminars to bring the ideas of the Blue Economy into shipping and maritime.

Rex is a polar researcher, climatologist and physicist, who is a major researcher of the climate system of the polar regions and the ozone layer.

Dr. Bernhard Bauske, born in 1958, has been responsible for the topic of plastic waste in the oceans of the world for WWF Germany since 2016.

Dr. Matthias Keller has been working for the Federal Association of the German Fish Industry and Fish Wholesaling for 30 years and has been sole Managing Director since 2000. In addition to food law and trade policy topics, his area of expertise also includes the topic of IUU, which he has been working on for more than 10 years in the association. Furthermore, he is a deputy member of the board of the European Fish Industry Association „AIPCE-CEP“ and since 1997 managing director of the Fish Information Center e.V.

Paul works with the private sector and market forces to develop practical solutions for achieving sustainable development and addressing environmental concerns, especially for marine areas and resources.

His experience ranges from working with the global industry associations or directors of UN agencies to working with fishermen in small island villages. Paul has been involved in coastal and marine resource sustainable development and conservation work in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, Central America and Africa. As a consultant on sustainable development and environmental management, he has worked with companies, industry associations, UN agencies, international NGOs and foundations on sustainability, especially in the areas of oil/gas, fisheries, aquaculture, standards and certification.

Helen is a human rights lawyer and international justice reform practitioner. Over the past 20 years, she has advised and collaborated with governments and justice sectors in 50 countries to address human and civil rights violations and develop more robust and preventative legislative and policy responses.  Helen is currently developing a tool fusing international law and technology to assess and address slavery and exploitation in global supply chains and is one of the UKs Top 100 Slavery Influencers.

Federica has 10 years of experience in helping companies implement social and environmental standards in the supply chain. She is a social auditor, consultant and a trainer. She worked many years for the certification and inspection company SGS in Hamburg before funding her own consulting company, Etika, in 2021.

At Etika, she supports companies complying with sustainability regulation and standards, especially when it comes to human rights due diligence laws. She has trained more than 200 company representatives on sustainability topics and worked on around 50 consulting projects.

Lena Aylin Erdil (born 28 February 1989) is a professional windsurfer from İzmir, Turkey. She is competing in the PWA World Tour mostly in the slalom event. She is currently sponsored by NRV, Starboard Windsurfing, Point7, Salzbrenner Würstchen and FGH.

 

 

 

 

 

French Floridian in Germany building machine learning magic for the Maritime Industry. Former Quant at Deutsche Bank and Applied Math postdoc at UCLA.

Janine Mehner is a professional presenter since 2010 and works for several tv and radio stations. She hosts events such as summits, awardceremonys and trade fair shows, e.g. in San Diego.

Foto Credit: Anna Lena Ehlers.

David has 25+ years of commercial experience in data solutions services, specializing in enterprise class software products and engineering.

Günther Bonin is founder of the association One Earth - One Ocean e.V. (OEOO). He sails since his youth, even long distances on the oceans. It always bothered him to bump into plastic waste even in the most remote places.

Henning holds a degree as Environmental Engineer (Diplomingenieur, Dipl.-Ing.) and is engaged in various fields of maritime environmental protection since the year 2000.

He established Astra Paging Ltd in 1997. The company has started development of software for the maritime industry in 2004 and developed the national AIS server and VTS database for Bulgarian Maritime Administration, the VTMIS monitoring systems in Bulgaria and the Netherlands.

Dr. Xu Kai is an outstanding scholar who specializes in the research of informatization of the port and navigation. His achievements in big data and e-commerce have been recognized by the shipping industry. He is a compound talent with knowledge background in three fields: mathematics, computer, and transportation. He also provides government and enterprises with informatization strategy consulting and technical solution design services.

Among the most influential are he has provided „A Study on the Application of Big Data in Port and Shipping“  for the world’s largest port – Ningbo Zhoushan Port, developed the „Intelligent Service Platform for Yangshan Port Water Traffic Data“ for the Shanghai Port, and published a sole-authored book titled „Shipping Information Platform in the Big Data Era „, and led the preparation of the „Global Port Aviation Informatization Development Report“ (every year). He has 10 software copyrights, published more than 20 academic papers, and participated in the writing of five books on „Subversion of the Shipping Industry in the Future.“

Otto Schacht has over 40 years of international transportation and logistics experience. He
was appointed Executive Vice President of Global Sea Logistics at Kuehne + Nagel
International AG in September 2011 and has served as Member of its Management Board
since 2011. Mr. Schacht has global responsibility for the company’s Sea Logistics business
unit which provides innovative solutions to customers in 100 countries.
As a „climate advocate“, he is also personally strongly committed to sustainable businesses
and a driver of Kuehne+Nagel’s Net Zero Carbon initiatives, supporting the corporate culture
of sustainable behaviour within Kuehne+Nagel and at the same time the concept of
sustainability reflected in transport solutions, e.g. by using new digital platforms to emit
significantly less CO2.
Previous to his current role, Mr. Schacht was Senior Vice President of Global Sea Logistics at
Kuehne+Nagel Group from 1999 to 2011. He has a well-balanced perspective of the shipping
industry, having worked for Hapag-Lloyd cargo container shipping line in various positions
from 1978 to 1997, including three years as United States Posting and Trade Manager Far
East- Europe

Sofia Fürstenberg Stott started FMA in 2017. A micro-consultancy, FMA develops and implements ESG strategies for smaller shipowners and adjacent stakeholders. FMA are members of Getting To Zero Coalition and advisors to the Ammonia Energy Association, and in various outfits supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Sofia has previously lead innovation programmes at Maersk, developed pioneering exhibitions and conferences for Nor-Shipping, and advised shipowners on greener solutions, with DNV. She has more than 15 years experience in the shipping industry, having worked and lived in Oslo, Singapore and Copenhagen. She co-chairs WISTA Tech & Futures Committee and is Board member of WISTA Sweden. She has a background as Chemical Engineer from Lund Institute of Technology, and is a 2015 graduate of the Blue MBA, Copenhagen Business School.

Co-Founder und CMO everwave
Bei everwave seit vier Jahren
34 Jahre
Dipl. Sportwissenschaft, Medien & Kommunikation
TU München

Jacob is the co-founder and head of operations for Moonjelly, a secure funding platform for ocean conservation launching in 2022.Jacob’s mission in life is to help restore the health of the ocean. From 2010-2016 he worked as a diving instructor in Egypt, Maldives, and Thailand, where his love for life below the surface first sparked. In 2015 he experienced a devastating coral die-off in the Maldives unlike anything he had ever seen. This event filled him with anger and despair, which later turned into action and hope.

He participated in several ocean restoration projects, including deploying a small coral nursery in the Maldives. He then joined the core team at underwater camera manufacturer Paralenz, where he led the vision of “Turning Dives into Data,” linking the company to universities and conservation organizations, enabling divers to participate in data collection for the ocean.After Paralenz, Jacob embarked on a new journey with a team of ocean impact pioneers to create Moonjelly. Moonjelly’s mission is to help restore the wild, living ocean by strengthening the connection between corporate and individual funders and ocean impact projects, increasing trust, accountability, and impact tracking in the ocean conservation sector.

Innovation unit and venture capital investor.

Extreme sportsman, environmental activist and founder of the Zero Emissions Project

With his Zero Emissions project, Michael combines sport and environmental protection. By stand-up paddleboard along the west coast of Greenland or unassisted 1300 km across Germany. With his actions, the Kiel-based athlete wants to make clear that we have to actively tackle challenges, be they sporting or in climate protection.

John Allan has over 35 years experience in the Geospatial and Space-based Surveillance and Monitoring industries. He has held senior positions at a number of industry leading companies including ERDAS, DigitalGlobe , BAE Systems and exactEarth. He now provides business development Consultancy Services to startup companies in these fields, helping them build highly successful businesses.

Jan Heyen Oltmanns (born November 6, 1956 in Esens) is a German Protestant clergyman and sailor deacon. He studied youth work at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences for Social Education and trained as a Deacon at the Rauhen House.

At the Deutsche Seemannsmission Hamburg-Harburg he was responsible for the development of the International Sailor Club Duckdalben. In cooperation with Anke Wibel  he has been leading this sailor club since 1986. Today 938,000 guests from 181 countries around the world have visited the club.

Edoardo Panziera is the founder and Managing Director of Ionada, a manufacturer of marine exhaust gas cleaning systems, with facilities in Canada, China, and The Netherlands. Mr. Panziera received his Masters Mechanical Engineering Degree from the University of Toronto, specializing in design for environmental engineering.

Edoardo has more than 20 years of experience in developing emission reduction technologies for the marine, automotive, aerospace industries, having worked on projects with Bombardier, Weir Minerals, GM, Ford, Chrysler, 3M, and clean tech start-up companies such as Hydrogenics, Hyroad Industries, and SuntoWater. Edoardo holds numerous patents, including several patents for Ionada.

Edoardo is supported by a number of marine professional at Ionada, having successfully completed two marine scrubber installations for Canada Steamship Lines Baie St. Paul, and the MV Nolhanava. Ionada is currently completing an installation on the Van Oord Lelystad, a dredging vessel.

Torsten Thiele focuses on ocean governance, marine conservation and sustainable finance, drawing on over 20 years experience in project and infrastructure finance with leading financial institutions. He is Founder of Global Ocean Trust, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam and Senior Advisor to the IUCN Blue Natural Capital Financing Facility and advises governments and other bodies on policy, biodiversity and innovative blue finance.

Recent publications address blue infrastructure and nature-based solutions, innovative High Seas funding mechanisms, blue bonds, deep sea governance and ocean, climate and biodiversity linkages. Torsten Thiele holds graduate degrees in law and economics from Bonn University, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an MPhil in Conservation Leadership from the University of Cambridge.

With over 15 years in Marine Electronics and 5 years in Air Traffic Control (ATC) particularly in Communication, Navigation & Surveillance (CNS) engineering segment, Mohd Shafrizan Bin Solah passionate about innovating & inventing a new layer of intelligence data (intel-info) that would protect and preserve the coastals.

One of his current initiative is the implentation of the patented Solar Powered AIS onboard 2500 fishing vessels across Malaysia, tonnes of data that daily he dig, process and analyse mainly to fight the little-known global epidemic, the pirates fishing.

47 years, Master of Engineering for Radio Technologies, Captain during his military service, Sales director for Weatherdock Cooperation with a lot of experience and expertise in OEM and Authorities business. His focus is not only on sales in new markets, but also the support of the product management and development.

Ken is Partner and Founder of Pen Test Partners, a firm of ethical hackers. He regularly blogs on everything from satellite communication hacking to maritime security and the Internet of Things. This has led to regular appearances on BBC TV and BBC News online as well as the broadsheet press. He also writes for various newspapers and industry magazines in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering put about by many security vendors. Ken has become a voice for reform and legislative change in the largely unregulated IoT, briefing UK and US government departments as well as being involved with various EU consumer councils. He has also spoken about satellite communication security at various maritime events such as Digital Ship Rotterdam/Oslo/Limassol, GibCyber, Maritime Cyber Security Summit, and CMA Shipping.

Johanna Fräki has over 20 years of leadership experience in industry leading companies. She currently drives the innovation journey of Wärtsilä Marine Solutions towards smart, safe and clean marine industry.

Taro Yoshikawa is founder of Q-Sync Corporation and has over 30 years experiences in power boat and sailing yacht operation (business and pleasure). With his over 35 years experiences in radio telecommunications and computer industries, he is expierenced in AIS promotional activities and providing cos efficient AIS system (type approved) to the market.

Cleanhub exists to protect and preserve our oceans from waste. To achieve that, we are working on a future where waste will be too valuable to be thrown away. How? By building a global platform for waste management, and a global movement empowering brands and consumers to pull their plastics out of the wild.

Co-founder of the BlueBenu startup focused on recycling mixed plastic and other materials.

Born 1970 in Bremen. Married, three children.

1992 – 2003 doctoral degree at the Free University of Berlin and assistant doctor at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Joined the Harren & Partner Group in 2003.

Key activities: Solely responsible for the group’s corporate finance. Driving strategic projects.

Acting as managing director for SAL Heavy Lift, SAL Engineering, SAL Renewables, Combi Lift, Harren Tankers, Harren Bulkers as well as all ship management activities.

Dr. Torsten Büssow is Vice President of Global Head of Maritime Digital Business Unit (Fleet Performance) at DNVGL. He and his team are providing solutions to improve ships and shipping companies performance. Torsten has joined DNV GL in 2008 and has set up a Maritime Software business around a suite of Shipmanagement applications known as the “ShipManager”. He holds a PhD in decision theory. After a few years at BP he has worked as management consultant at Capgemini, a global management and IT consulting company focussing on logistics and transport clients.

German Master in Sprint and Wave SUP Boarding and environmental enthusiast.

Torkild ERIKSEN is as Principal Scientist at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). He has a M.S. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1999) in Physics / Electronic Engineering from the University of Oslo. He has been developing space systems and services within the maritime domain since 2000, including satellite AIS and VHF Data Exchange via Satellite (VDE-SAT). His international experience includes work on EU and ESA contracts, secondment to the European Defence Agency and the European Union Satellite Centre (2007-2008), and work for the European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Maritime Affairs Unit (2012-2014), on maritime surveillance capabilities including Copernicus services. Eriksen is currently working as researcher and manager of space-based AIS activities at FFI.

Maria Behrens (G-209) comes from Lübeck and Windsurfing team driver for Duotone / Fanatic. She has been windsurfing since 2014 and was able to attract attention by winning the Danish Open in Klitmøller, among other things.

Rolf Habben Jansen was born on 27 August 1966 in Spijkenisse near Rotterdam.

He graduated in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam in 1991. In the same year, he embarked on his career as a trainee at the former Dutch shipping company Royal Nedlloyd. He held a number of different positions both there and at the Swiss logistics firm Danzas, before the latter merged with DHL, the subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG.

From 2001, he was responsible at DHL for contract logistics for large parts of Europe, and from 2006 he was in charge of the services group’s 100 most important customers as Head of Global Customer Solutions. As Chief Executive Officer from 2009, he spent five years heading up the global logistics company Damco.

Rolf Habben Jansen was appointed member of the Hapag-Lloyd AG Executive Board in April 2014. He has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Hapag-Lloyd AG since July 2014.

Dr. Jan-Olaf Willums has been a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor in various technology companies, including Computas (Artificial Intelligence), Avenir (Software) , REC (Solar), Think (Electric cars), Move About (Electric mobility) and ZEM (batteries for the offshore and shipping industry). He was co-founding director of the World Business council for Sustainable Development.
Jan-Olaf Willums has a M.Sc. from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) and a joint D.Sc. in Ocean Engineer and International Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he lead a Deep Ocean Mining project and was working in the Mid Ocean Dynamics Experiment (MODE I) headed by MIT and Harvard.

He became the first Marine Policy & Ocean Management Fellow at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Cape Cod. Today he is on the advisory Board of the European Development Bank (EBRD) and member of the Maritime Battery Forum.

Paul Woods is CEO and leads the technology team at Global Fishing Watch. He also works for SkyTruth in a consulting capacity.

Anders Flensborg is Managing Director of Munich-based Flensborg and Associates , a result-driven firm specialized in business development along the supply chain. The company excels in the Maritime and Transportation Industries and is experienced with capital, start-ups, technology, regional and industrial development as well as M&A.

In the summer of 2018, the company launched a digital replicate: www.flenzies.com

Anders Flensborg has been involved with the creation and early execution of a consolidation concept for the German Maritime Industry involving 11 vessel owners. He was a founder of ocean24.de, the maritime booking engine & disrupter launched during the New Economy.

George Best Director, AIS Sales, EMEA and APAC for ORBCOMM brings 10 years of knowledge and experience gained through the study and application of the use of Satellite AIS.

Sabine is project manager of the trade fair fish international in Bremen, Germany. After over 20 years of experience with the product fish, Sabine knows the industry inside out. She is always in touch with the industry’s concerns and succeeds in making them the topic of lively discussions.

Alfred Kotouczek-Zeise is CEO of the German Cooperation Weatherdock AG. Weatherdock is one of the world leaders for Class B AIS technologies with a full range of products.

Lena Gothberg is founder of Shipping Podcast and a real shipping business woman, who has taken upon herself to get the shipping industry more visible.

Julien Dufour the CEO of Verifavia, a worldwide independent accredited environmental verification, certification and auditing body for aviation, airports and maritime transport (shipping).

Markus, born 1967 in Hamburg, 4 Children has 30 years of shipping experience. Starting as shipbroker working in London, H.K. and US, spent almost 20 years of senior management and board positions in leading ship owning, financing and ship management companies in Hamburg. With a focus on all commercial management aspects, customer relations and business development. [He has been involved in the over 100 newbuilding projects, chartering, insurance as well as shiprecycling.] Since 2020 President Lloyd’s Register EMEA in Hamburg.

Working from Hamburg and Lisbon for his company urbane ressourcen Jürgen Wehnert has a track record in innovation in more than one domain: IT applications in logistics, in transport security, for smart cards and more recently in electronic health. In all domains Jürgen is active in conceiving, defining and promoting new applications and (web) services. Jürgen is delighted to once again be the moderator of the AIS Summit.

Max started his career at Siemens. He worked on real time operation systems for automation systems, mainly for the automotive industry. He quickly switched to the startup world.

Logistics Professional, Boardmember, Founder, Venture Projects

Since 2013, Mira Schwarz has been working at the Ship Security Department as a Flag State Surveyor and as a Port State Control Officer since 2014. Previously, she was 1st Officer at a German shipping company under German flag.

Now on contract to the US Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology (DHS S&T) as their subject matter expert (SME) for Maritime Domain Awareness and Commercial Earth Observation Space Systems, Guy is the former US Science & Technology Advisor for Maritime Domain Awareness (2003-2012) and creator of both space-based AIS & C-SIGMA, (Collaboration in Space for International Global Maritime Awareness). He also serves as the technical/academic advisor to the Multinational Maritime Security Center of Excellence. Guy has been involved in surveillance operations and systems in the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, industry, Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab (JHU/APL) as well as the Department of Homeland Security and its operational elements.

SubCtech offers underwater power solutions and ocean monitoring systems.

Haris comes from Leuphana, Europe’s leading environmental sciences university, where he worked on multiple European research projects. He holds degrees in B.A. and sustainability sciences. In 2015, he joined Breeze Technologies as Head of Science.

FUELSAVE GmbH is a german energy efficiency enhancement and cleantech company with strong R&D background, which became TOP SME in Europe and got funded by the EU and signed end of 2019 its first 5 Mio Euro contract with the same customer – SAL Heavy Lift GmbH that used the solution to full satisfaction on one of Europes largest heavy lift crane ships for 2,5 years.

Leon Gommans is Co-founder of Teqplay, a start-up in the Maritime industry. Leon had a back-ground in computer science and loves everything that has to do with innovation, collaboration and technology. One of his other achievements is the World Port Hackathon that was organized the last five years in Rotterdam.

About Teqplay:
Teqplay is a context broker providing information and tools to empower the shipping industry to make smarter and informed decisions in both planning and execution, reducing CO2 emissions, risk and saving cost.

About the presentation:
In the presentation Léon will present the challenges that customers are facing and how AIS helps in providing information and tools to address these challenges. We will focus on the potential for port-call optimization and inland barging

Natalie has been the Director of Employment Affairs for the International Shipping Federation and International Chamber of Shipping, since March 2003.In her role she represents the industry on all Employment Affairs matters and coordinates Industry positions at the ILO, IMO, EC, WHO and other UM bodies as appropriate. She was actively involved in the development and implementation of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and discussions on the ILO minimum wage, Crew Claims and Abandonment, Revision of STCW and concerns related to Piracy to name but a few areas. Natalie is also a trustee for Seafarers UK.

Natalie is also actively involved with The International Seafarers Welfare Assistance Network (ISWAN) of which she was a Board member for a number of years for both its previous operations namely ISAN and ICSW. She is currently part of their Piracy subgroup formed since the integration of MPHRP under the charity. She is also Secretary of the Shipowner Group at the International Labour Organisation. She is also a voting member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and gets actively involved in interfaith and diversity projects.

Natalie was previously a Trustee of Sailors Society and Chair of the Welfare and Chaplaincy Committtee. Her greatest personal pride was in leading their efforts in developing a project to provide housing and accommodation in the Philippines post typhoon Haiyaan which resulted in housing, medical centres, and assistance to schools hit by the event. This activity was driven by seeing the realities after the Indian Tsunami 10 years ago and a lack of coordination to expedite assistance to seafarers’ families at the time.

Teus van Beek has an education at Delft University of Technology, naval architecture with specialization in ship hydromechanics.
Since 1980 he has been employed by Wärtsilä Netherlands B.V. (former Lips B.V.) in Drunen.
His experience is related to the design and applications of Marine Power Systems to all kind of vessels. Active participation in development and design projects has given him a wide overview and technical background as well as the business needs in ships’ design. Teus has been active in external commercial contacts as well and has a wide network in the shipping industry. He contributed to well over 30 technical publications on all technical levels of ship power systems.
Currently his position is General Manager Market Innovation within the Marine Solutions division at Wartsila. The Market Innovations team is set out to create and promote future concepts for the marine industry by showing thought leadership and testing the waters for new technologies and solutions.

Dr. Steffen Knodt is the Head of the Fraunhofer Centre for Sustainable Subsea Solutions at the Ocean Technology Campus in Rostock. With its background and PhD in engineering from RWTH Aachen, Steffen worked over his career in various senior management roles in applied research and industry at Hilti, Aker Solutions / MHWirth, Maersk and Wärtsilä. In his recent role as Director Digital Ventures at Wärtsilä, Steffen is focussed impact entrepreneurship as a venture client, since that time supporting the SEADEVCON as a co-organiser and moderator. Steffen as well serves in various boards and as a mentor for startups. Currently, he serves in the German Committee for the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development – as well he serves a member of the board in the German Association for Marine Technology GMT.

Yann graduated from the university of Brest in Engineering Physics and remote sensing, Marine specialization. He started his carrier in 1998, joining a company acting in the field of marine Environnement. Yann served six years as an engineer, working on projects related to scientific software developments for several government clients like IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploration of the Seas) and SHOM (Hydrographical and Oceanographical Marine Service). He joined in 2004 a company specialized in a broad range of expertise areas within the marine environment sector. Yann has used his experienced to design and implement operational systems for oceanic environmental analysis and forecasting, and for high resolution remote sensing applied to coastal zone management and deep ocean mapping. Since 2008 as the head of the data processing unit at Cerema (Centre for Expertise and Engineering on risks, urban and country planning, environment and mobility) and since 2013 as the head of the Research & Development division in the field of maritime Telecommunications, his experience includes working with the Maritime Affairs and managing projects related to technological maritime surveillance solutions including AIS (Automatic Identification System) terrestrial and space-based communications systems. In 2015, Yann co-founded eOdyn and started to develop a transformative solution to measure ocean surface currents thanks to a patented technology  relying on ship trajectory analysis and machine learning.

Carsten is a serial entrepreneur and holds a Diploma in Logistics and Computer Science. He has started various companies in the field of digitalisation and maritime operations, like vesseltracker.com , trusteddocks.com , searoutes.com and portcall.ai. Carsten also organizes conferences like the seadevcon and aissummit, and holds speachers and seminars to bring the ideas of the Blue Economy into shipping and maritime.

Rex is a polar researcher, climatologist and physicist, who is a major researcher of the climate system of the polar regions and the ozone layer.

Dr. Bernhard Bauske, born in 1958, has been responsible for the topic of plastic waste in the oceans of the world for WWF Germany since 2016.

Dr. Matthias Keller has been working for the Federal Association of the German Fish Industry and Fish Wholesaling for 30 years and has been sole Managing Director since 2000. In addition to food law and trade policy topics, his area of expertise also includes the topic of IUU, which he has been working on for more than 10 years in the association. Furthermore, he is a deputy member of the board of the European Fish Industry Association „AIPCE-CEP“ and since 1997 managing director of the Fish Information Center e.V.

Paul works with the private sector and market forces to develop practical solutions for achieving sustainable development and addressing environmental concerns, especially for marine areas and resources.

His experience ranges from working with the global industry associations or directors of UN agencies to working with fishermen in small island villages. Paul has been involved in coastal and marine resource sustainable development and conservation work in over 30 countries in Europe, Asia, the Pacific, Central America and Africa. As a consultant on sustainable development and environmental management, he has worked with companies, industry associations, UN agencies, international NGOs and foundations on sustainability, especially in the areas of oil/gas, fisheries, aquaculture, standards and certification.

Helen is a human rights lawyer and international justice reform practitioner. Over the past 20 years, she has advised and collaborated with governments and justice sectors in 50 countries to address human and civil rights violations and develop more robust and preventative legislative and policy responses.  Helen is currently developing a tool fusing international law and technology to assess and address slavery and exploitation in global supply chains and is one of the UKs Top 100 Slavery Influencers.

Federica has 10 years of experience in helping companies implement social and environmental standards in the supply chain. She is a social auditor, consultant and a trainer. She worked many years for the certification and inspection company SGS in Hamburg before funding her own consulting company, Etika, in 2021.

At Etika, she supports companies complying with sustainability regulation and standards, especially when it comes to human rights due diligence laws. She has trained more than 200 company representatives on sustainability topics and worked on around 50 consulting projects.

Lena Aylin Erdil (born 28 February 1989) is a professional windsurfer from İzmir, Turkey. She is competing in the PWA World Tour mostly in the slalom event. She is currently sponsored by NRV, Starboard Windsurfing, Point7, Salzbrenner Würstchen and FGH.

 

 

 

 

 

French Floridian in Germany building machine learning magic for the Maritime Industry. Former Quant at Deutsche Bank and Applied Math postdoc at UCLA.

Janine Mehner is a professional presenter since 2010 and works for several tv and radio stations. She hosts events such as summits, awardceremonys and trade fair shows, e.g. in San Diego.

Foto Credit: Anna Lena Ehlers.

David has 25+ years of commercial experience in data solutions services, specializing in enterprise class software products and engineering.

Günther Bonin is founder of the association One Earth - One Ocean e.V. (OEOO). He sails since his youth, even long distances on the oceans. It always bothered him to bump into plastic waste even in the most remote places.

Henning holds a degree as Environmental Engineer (Diplomingenieur, Dipl.-Ing.) and is engaged in various fields of maritime environmental protection since the year 2000.

He established Astra Paging Ltd in 1997. The company has started development of software for the maritime industry in 2004 and developed the national AIS server and VTS database for Bulgarian Maritime Administration, the VTMIS monitoring systems in Bulgaria and the Netherlands.

Dr. Xu Kai is an outstanding scholar who specializes in the research of informatization of the port and navigation. His achievements in big data and e-commerce have been recognized by the shipping industry. He is a compound talent with knowledge background in three fields: mathematics, computer, and transportation. He also provides government and enterprises with informatization strategy consulting and technical solution design services.

Among the most influential are he has provided „A Study on the Application of Big Data in Port and Shipping“  for the world’s largest port – Ningbo Zhoushan Port, developed the „Intelligent Service Platform for Yangshan Port Water Traffic Data“ for the Shanghai Port, and published a sole-authored book titled „Shipping Information Platform in the Big Data Era „, and led the preparation of the „Global Port Aviation Informatization Development Report“ (every year). He has 10 software copyrights, published more than 20 academic papers, and participated in the writing of five books on „Subversion of the Shipping Industry in the Future.“

Otto Schacht has over 40 years of international transportation and logistics experience. He
was appointed Executive Vice President of Global Sea Logistics at Kuehne + Nagel
International AG in September 2011 and has served as Member of its Management Board
since 2011. Mr. Schacht has global responsibility for the company’s Sea Logistics business
unit which provides innovative solutions to customers in 100 countries.
As a „climate advocate“, he is also personally strongly committed to sustainable businesses
and a driver of Kuehne+Nagel’s Net Zero Carbon initiatives, supporting the corporate culture
of sustainable behaviour within Kuehne+Nagel and at the same time the concept of
sustainability reflected in transport solutions, e.g. by using new digital platforms to emit
significantly less CO2.
Previous to his current role, Mr. Schacht was Senior Vice President of Global Sea Logistics at
Kuehne+Nagel Group from 1999 to 2011. He has a well-balanced perspective of the shipping
industry, having worked for Hapag-Lloyd cargo container shipping line in various positions
from 1978 to 1997, including three years as United States Posting and Trade Manager Far
East- Europe

Sofia Fürstenberg Stott started FMA in 2017. A micro-consultancy, FMA develops and implements ESG strategies for smaller shipowners and adjacent stakeholders. FMA are members of Getting To Zero Coalition and advisors to the Ammonia Energy Association, and in various outfits supporting the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

Sofia has previously lead innovation programmes at Maersk, developed pioneering exhibitions and conferences for Nor-Shipping, and advised shipowners on greener solutions, with DNV. She has more than 15 years experience in the shipping industry, having worked and lived in Oslo, Singapore and Copenhagen. She co-chairs WISTA Tech & Futures Committee and is Board member of WISTA Sweden. She has a background as Chemical Engineer from Lund Institute of Technology, and is a 2015 graduate of the Blue MBA, Copenhagen Business School.

Co-Founder und CMO everwave
Bei everwave seit vier Jahren
34 Jahre
Dipl. Sportwissenschaft, Medien & Kommunikation
TU München

Jacob is the co-founder and head of operations for Moonjelly, a secure funding platform for ocean conservation launching in 2022.Jacob’s mission in life is to help restore the health of the ocean. From 2010-2016 he worked as a diving instructor in Egypt, Maldives, and Thailand, where his love for life below the surface first sparked. In 2015 he experienced a devastating coral die-off in the Maldives unlike anything he had ever seen. This event filled him with anger and despair, which later turned into action and hope.

He participated in several ocean restoration projects, including deploying a small coral nursery in the Maldives. He then joined the core team at underwater camera manufacturer Paralenz, where he led the vision of “Turning Dives into Data,” linking the company to universities and conservation organizations, enabling divers to participate in data collection for the ocean.After Paralenz, Jacob embarked on a new journey with a team of ocean impact pioneers to create Moonjelly. Moonjelly’s mission is to help restore the wild, living ocean by strengthening the connection between corporate and individual funders and ocean impact projects, increasing trust, accountability, and impact tracking in the ocean conservation sector.