Vessel performance info Athens - Feb 25, 2025 - organised by Digital Ship
Confirmed speakers
Michael Bruun Østergaard, Group IT Director, Monjasa
Dr. Iraklis Kyriakou, Chemical/Environmental Officer, Alberta Shipmanagement
Captin Thanasis Markopoulos, Operations Manager, Gourdomichalis maritime SA
Dr. Kyriakos P. Mahos, HSQE Director, Levante Ferries MC
Alexander Senteris, Compliance Manager-Emission Trading Systems, Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement
What is the best way to achieve transparency with our emissions?
At our Vessel Performance Athens event, we will explore advances in digital technology for managing emissions and ensuring compliance.
What everyone – crew, customers, and regulators – wants is transparency: knowing our emissions, how we analyse data, and how we manage it.
Managing emissions involves more than just buying software. It starts with gathering and managing the right data. Software handles analytics and AI, but the output must provide clear, actionable insights. It helps to address these components separately - data, analytics, and insights.
The business goals are complex. Emission data must be credible to banks, charterers, and regulators and reported in different formats and timelines. It supports decisions about short- and long-term investments for fleet decarbonization. The data also serves diverse roles – crew, technical staff, vessel performance teams, IT, commercial departments, and senior management.
AI is often discussed, but no single AI tool exists for decarbonisation. There are AI tools for routing, predicting arrivals, fouling, part failure, and document processing – each addressing specific needs. Effective use of AI requires tools compatible with your data, delivering valuable insights and predictions.
Digitalisation for crew presents unique challenges. Many systems burden them with repetitive administrative tasks. Decarbonisation demands extra effort, so tools must be simple and show clear results.
This is a complex challenge, but at the Digital Ship Vessel Performance Info forum, we’ll discuss practical solutions to make it manageable.
Topics we will cover include:
Data
GATHERING DATA - better ways to gather data from vessels, including with different types of sensors, connection to communications networks, cloud services
DATA MANAGEMENT - gathering emissions data into an integrated system
AI
AI - how can you make best use of it to support decarbonisation decision making?
Insights
CREW SKILLS - what do crew need to know how to do as they run high performance vessels - data gathering and decision making? Should decarbonisation be 'gamified'?
FUEL EU MARITIME - tools to support decision making and understand options as you reduce fuel intensity per energy unit
CII - tools to support decision making as you reduce fuel intensity per transport work done
CAPITAL INVESTMENT - how do you best make decisions about the ROI of retrofitting vessels or energy efficient newbuilds
COMMERCIAL DECISION MAKING - how can technologies best support commercial decision makers and help them develop their skills relating to decarbonisation, such as finding pool partners?
BUNKER PURCHASING - how can digital tools best inform bunker purchase decisions?
There are many conferences discussing maritime decarbonisation, but only the Digital Ship Vessel Performance Info forum gets into the details of how to make it work in practise - how to make it easier to do, and how to develop the skills to select the right technologies, and how the technologies can help company staff develop their skills.
Our business model for this event will be that shipping company employees attend free of charge and costs are covered by sponsorships from technology companies speaking and exhibiting.
If you are interested in speaking or exhibiting at this event, please contact our sales manager David Jeffries on djeffries@onlymedia.co.uk Tel +44 (0)208 150 5293
Call for speakers
Shipping company employees - please contact Matt Stevens on on matt@thedigitalship.com / Tel +44 (0)208 150 5292
Speaker-sponsorship opportunites – please contact David Jeffries on djeffries@vpoglobal.com / Tel +44 (0)208 150 5293
Click here for our VPi Forum Athens 2024 media pack
Find out about our past Vessel Performance Info events in Athens: https://events.vesselperformance.info/past-events
