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