Panel/ Talk
Thursday 06.09.2018 at 15:15
Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone, 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags, straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces.
Summary of the panel
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Participants/ Speakers
Dr. Bernhard Bauske
Günther Bonin
Michael Hofmann
Albert Kravos
Moderation
Frank Schweikert
Challenge for Hackathon
The goal of this challenge is to find smart, intelligent ways to reduce plastic pollution.
Mentors Hackathon
Pierre Garreau
French Floridian in Germany building machine learning magic for the Maritime Industry. Former Quant at Deutsche Bank and Applied Math postdoc at UCLA.
Monique Giese
Albert Kravos
Dr. Torsten Büssow
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.
Anders Flensborg
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.
