Speakers & Experts seadevcon 2018

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.“

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.