Big data in Shipping 2015

Franck J Kayser

Vice President Network Operation
UASC

Franck J Kayser started his career at sea in 1982 and has served as Captain on different ships. Capt. Kayser has worked international shipping for more than 30 years for companies such as A. P. Moller – Maersk, CMA-CGM, TCC and is now Vice President Network Operation for United Arab Shipping Company (SAG). Capt Kayser has held a number of senior management positions in the fields of:
Maritime Transport
Marine and Port operation
Infrastructure development
Technical Management
Ship Management
Mergers and Acquisitions
Capt. Kayser is a board member in various shipping related businesses.
Capt. Kayser holds a Masters from Copenhagen Nautical Academy and has received additional education at INSEAD, IMD and Duke University.
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Neeraj Sareen

Chartering Manager VLCC and Suezmax
AET

Neeraj Sareen is managing AET’s commercial operations in Europe. He has worked on various projects to bridge the gap between weakened freight markets and rising fuel prices by delivering commercially viable solutions to reduce fuel consumption. He is a MBA graduate, Ex master Mariner with over 20 years of Maritime experience and in the past has worked with BP, Essar and GEM more

Haakon Lindstad

Senior Engineer
Marintek

Dr. Lindstad holds a PhD in Marine Technology from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and a MSc. degree in Industrial Economy from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH). Dr. Lindstad work as a Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Marine Technology Research Institute (MARINTEK) in Trondheim, Norway. Dr. Lindstad has long experience in developing, initiating and managing research and development projects with focus on new shipping solutions, new innovative vessel designs and integrated supply chains. Prior working experience to MARINTEK includes both Manufacturing Industry and Integrated transport and logistics supply providers. more

Tristan Smith

Lecturer in Energy and Transport
UCL

Tristan Smith is a lecturer at UCL Energy Institute where he leads a 15-strong shipping research group. He has an academic and practitioner background as a naval architect. He was coordinator of the project “Low Carbon Shipping” and is currently leading research activity in the project “Shipping in Changing Climates”.
He led the IMO 3rd GHG Study, a “big data” inventory of global shipping’s energy demand and emissions, is lead author of ISO 19030 on the application of data to understanding hull and propeller performance, and contributes to the IMO, EU and UK policy discussions on the use of data in MRV and GHG policy measures. more

Lars-Erik Hellring

Superintendent, Project Manager – Energy Saving Programme
Stena Line Scandinavia AB

Lars-Erik Hellring started working 2006 with Energy saving projects in the Stena Line organization, Stena Line started with a project called “Energy Saving Programme”, the goal was to reduce.The fuel consumption per trip with 5% in 2 years, this worked out ok and then the goal has been to keep on with 2,5% per year and with a good result, the goal for 2015 is another 2% reduction. Today Stena Line has finished more than 200 various Energy Saving Projects. more

Michael H. Larsen

Senior Manager, Performance Data & Performance Reporting
TORM

Michael started has been working as a deck officer in Torm and moved to the Safety department in 2004. In 2009 he completed as Master in Environmental Management at the Technical University of Denmark. His tasks have covered all aspects of ISM, ISPS and incident investigation as well as owners response to Vetting inspections. Over the last few years the focus has been on using the available data to provide insights into the business and where improvements can be made. more

Roger Adamson

Managing Director
Futurenautics

Trained as a naval architect, Roger Adamson ran Inmarsat’s Training and Worldwide Partner Programme before leaving to join IMC as Managing Director in 1999. As one of the co-founders of the innovative maritime e-procurement platform Setfair.com Roger then ran its maritime data solutions business, Rydex Corporation as Chairman and Chief Executive. Following a period of consultancy Roger joined strategic maritime market intelligence specialists Stark Moore Macmillan as CEO in 2008, adding new multi-platform publishing activities focussed on future technology, to create Futurenautics, a business which occupies a unique position within the maritime industry. Wholly independent, the Futurenautics web portal and quarterly magazine are free resources dedicated to identifying relevant technology trends and contextualising them for the shipping and maritime industry, which has been described as ‘Shipping’s Economist’. In addition Futurenautics runs a rolling programme of in-depth, maritime market research producing ground-breaking studies and results against which the industry benchmarks itself. The company also provides strategic consulting to organisations considering entering the maritime market or acquiring maritime businesses, reviewing and analysing existing and proposed offerings. Roger is a frequent international speaker and regularly contributes his significant expertise on a voluntary basis to a variety of maritime industry associations, serving as an advisor to InterManager, the international trade association for the ship management industry, as Chairman of IMASMA, the International Maritime Sales & Marketing Association, as Co-Chair of the Global VSAT Forum Maritime Satellite Group and as a member of the VSAT100. more

Rear Admiral Nick Lambert

Marine Domain Expert
Satellite Applications Catapult

A master mariner and a committed proponent of the maritime users’ perspective, Rear Admiral Nick Lambert concluded a long naval operational career as the UK National Hydrographer in December 2012. He advises on a wide range of maritime issues including the importance of spatial data infrastructures and hydrography for maritime economies, the evolution of eNavigation and GNSS vulnerability, near or real time situational awareness (especially that derived from space based assets and applications), human factors, and training and education in the maritime sector. more

Anshul Tuteja

Senior Fleet Performance Manager
Maersk Line

Anshul Tuteja has been steering the bunker optimization projects & energy performance initiatives at A.P. Moller Maersk group for plus 4 years, based in Singapore, Mumbai and currently at the HQs in Copenhagen. He has a marine engineering background and has sailed the international waters for plus 6 years on various types of ocean going vessels. Post his sailing career; Anshul did his MBA in Operations mgmt. & Int’l Business from the City University of New York. He’s on the board of Shipping Professional Network in Copenhagen (SPNC), a sister concern of the SPNL, UK. more

Astrid Dispert

Associate Professional Officer
International Maritime Organization

Astrid Dispert is an Associate Professional Officer in the Marine Environment Division of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). Ms Dispert supports IMO’s work to address GHG emissions from international shipping including regulations on energy efficiency for ships that entered into force on 1 January 2013. She holds a Master’s degree in both Physical Oceanography and Coastal and Marine Management. more

Melvin Mathews

Director Maritime
Eniram Ltd.

Melvin Mathews is an MBA graduate and Ex-Master Mariner with over 20 years of experience in the Maritime Industry. He has extensive business and consultancy experience and shouldered Risk-assessment and Risk-management initiatives at a senior level. Melvin is a certified nautical lecturer and has been involved in Maritime & Competency training. more

Anne-Marie Warris

Consultant
Ecoreflect

Dr Anne-Marie Warris has over 25 years’ experience in sustainable matters and is a leading expert in climate change and environmental issues. She was voted as ‘Outstanding contributor to ship efficiency’ by the industry for the Ship Efficiency Award 2014 and on to the top ten on the inaugural Environmentalist power list by readers of The Environmentalist in July 2014. The power list reveals those who are believed to be the most influential in helping organisations to better their environmental impact or who have had an influence on raising environment issues up the business and policy agendas. Anne-Marie was awarded Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association UK (WISTA UK) Personality of Year for 2013. She gave the Royal Academy of Engineering invited lecture on ‘A low carbon world – is it realistic?’ in April 2010. She was one of the drivers behind the ‘Sustainable Shipping Initiative’. Anne-Marie attends IMO MEPC as part of the ISO delegation. She holds a number of key external voluntary roles, all of them elected appointments – chair of ISO (International Organization for Standardization) sub-committee responsible for environmental management systems. In early 2014 she became chair of the project committee funded by Innovate UK to look at the proof of concept for a technology package related to marine wave energy ‘CCell’ www.ccell.co.uk  more

Daniel Slater

Area Sales Manager
GreenSteam

Daniel has over 20 years experience selling software solutions to the Marine and Scientific industries. After being awarded an BSc(Hons) in Chemistry in 1994 Daniel has worked for such companies as Marconi, Waters Corporation and is currently employed by GreenSteam working in business development helping ship owners and operators understand their vessel efficiency. more

Paul Kingsbury

Manager, Navigation Safety
Royal Caribbean International

Paul Kingsbury is currently the Manager of Navigational Safety at Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, and his last held rank was Chief Officer. He has an undergraduate degree in Economics and was an officer in the Canadian military before pursuing his degree in Nautical Science. His passion for data-driven processes has shaped his careers in the financial industry, the military, and now the shipping industry. more

Argyris Stasinakis

Partner
MarineTraffic

Argyris Stasinakis is Partner, Board Member and responsible for Business Development at MarineTraffic. His work focuses in delivering high-value, actionable intelligence to stakeholders in the maritime sector all over the world. Between 2005 and 2014 Argyris served as Chairman of WOW group, a digital agency, active in European and Middle East markets, offering state of the art e-commerce and e-marketing solutions. An active technology consultant since 1998, Argyris has performed in government and private European organisations, focusing on information systems integration and restructuring. Argyris was awarded BA Hons in Physics (1993) and DPhil in Particle Physics (1998) from the University of Oxford, where he also held a Rhodes Scholarship. more

Capt. Patrik Dahlgren

Vice President Marine Technical Operations
Royal Caribbean International, Azamara Club Cruises

Patrik has been a Captain with Royal Caribbean since 2008, with the Voyager of the Seas being his first command. He has worked on GR, SS, MN, FR, VY, LB, NV and OA, and was also assigned to the Royal Caribbean Shipboard Master Advisory Committee. In early 2011, Patrik left the fleet to join the New Building team for Project Sunshine, reporting to EVP Maritime. He worked closely with the Project Management office and design team, Hotel-Marine Operations and Maritime Safety as well as the yard’s technical group at Meyer-Werft. It has been his responsibility (while still serving as Captain) to execute a flawless development process of Quantum Class, and to ensure close cooperation and collaboration with all teams. His leadership as a key member of the Multi-branded Safety Program FOCUS made the internal process and synergies between the groups a practice that we see as having great benefits for the fleet. more

Jacob Wiegand Clausen

Head of Consulting
Marorka

Jacob Wiegand Clausen has a degree in Naval Architecture from the Technical University of Denmark and has been working with technical and operational performance optimisation within the maritime industry since 2007. He started his career at FORCE Technology as Product Manager, was later appointed Innovation Manager at Maersk Maritime Technology and now heading the Consulting department at Marorka. more

Avital Johanan

Director of Research and Analysis
IHS Maritime and Trade

Avital Johanan leads the research and analysis division at IHS Maritime and Trade, working with data and industry experts across the IHS business to bring together new forecasting capabilities for the maritime industry. She has an MA in Intelligence and International Security from Kings College, London. more

Jan Wilhelmsson

Lead Consultant, Commercial Shipping
Eniram Ltd

Former seagoing officer and senior executive with 20 years industry experience, Jan is now a consultant at ENIRAM. Although he has sailed a variety of vessels and holds a Master ticket, Jan spent most of his career commercially operating large trade lanes, and has particular interest in advanced commercial optimization. more

Peter Platzer

CEO
Spire Global, Inc.

Peter cofounded Spire with a vision to provide satellite-powered data from any location on earth. He is now regarded as one of the pioneers in launching small form factor satellites, and has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership, including being named a White House Champion of Change in 2013. more

Lennart Cederberg

Head of SMHI Shipping
The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Lennart Cederberg, SMHI, The governmental Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, is a marine meteorologist with 25 years in Weather, Global Shipping & Performance. Weather (and Ocean) in itself is a true BIG DATA project. Lennart like: Innovation, Visualisation of complex data within Weather and Shipping. Searching Problems and Finding Solutions. more

Established in 2005 by experienced seafarers and technologists, Eniram provides small and large shipping companies with energy management systems to reduce fuel consumption, cut harmful emissions and increase profitability. Employing 70 people Eniram is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland and has subsidiaries in the UK, the USA, Germany and Singapore. more

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Marorka is a leading provider of on-board and online energy management systems for the international shipping industry. Marorka’s products and services enable vessel operators to optimise fuel consumption by maximising the energy efficiency of their vessels. Marorka fuel performance monitoring and energy management systems incorporate automatic data collection, real-time monitoring and decision support. They have been installed on hundreds of ships all around the world. more

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Spire is a satellite-powered data company providing unprecedented weather, climate, and maritime data. Its advanced network consists of 20+ nanosatellites equipped with groundbreaking sensor-technology, and up to 20 global ground-stations for a resilient and reactive space-to-ground communication network. Spire analytics incorporate proprietary sensor data fusion to tackle global problems such as drought, illegal fishing, climate change, power consumption, and supply chain optimization. Spire is a global organization, with teams organically spanning San Francisco, Singapore, and Glasgow to serve customers in their own timezone and to develop next generation technology wherever the most talented people can be found. more

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MarineTraffic is the world’s leading and most popular global AIS facility with over 600,000 registered users and almost 20 million vessel positions registered each day. Marine Traffic, via over 2,000 AIS stations around the world and a leading network of AIS satellites, delivers the most comprehensive AIS tracking facilities available today. MarineTraffic offers an extensive range of added-value tools and services for professional users. These include fleet management, ETA estimates, route planning, custom area geo-fencing and forecasts, as well as data via API services. MarineTraffic serves the public, NGOs and corporate clients from a wide range of sectors including shipping, OEMs, bunkering, energy, logistics, defence, transport, telecoms, dredging, fishing, insurance and port management.  more

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IHS (NYSE:IHS) is the leading source of insight, analytics and expertise in critical areas that shape today’s business landscape. Technology, regulation, market risk and geopolitical threats have made the world’s oceans challenging to navigate both profitably and safely. Accurate and timely intelligence enables the market to understand global trade flows to make confident business critical decisions.
With a legacy spanning over 250 years, IHS is the leading source of critical maritime and trade intelligence and insight, enabling organizations, policy makers and security professionals to navigate today’s complex trading environment.  more

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GreenSteam is a technology company specialized in energy saving solutions for commercial vessels. The vision of GreenSteam is to maximize the fuel efficiency of all vessels sailing our oceans. Behind GreenSteam is a team of dedicated, highly educated engineers and scientists who have spent years of research to combine common-sense principles with advanced engineering to create a practical, simple-to-use energy saving system making it possible to reduce fuel consumption by 3-5% on average. The company was founded by three PhD and MSc candidates from the Technical University of Denmark in 2006 and is based in Copenhagen, Denmark. GreenSteam provides an on-board decision support solution, GreenSteam Optimizer, and an on-line performance monitoring and analysis solution, GreenSteam Manager.  more

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Genscape Vesseltracker™ has launched the world’s most comprehensive and accurate datafeed of global shipping. Genscape acquired Vesseltracker.com GmbH in May 2013 to create the world’s largest land and sea oil supply chain monitoring network. With thousands of new land, sea, and satellite vessel tracking data coupled with unique auto-cleanse/correct algorithms, traders and analysts can access near-real- time and highly accurate vessel/class-type shipping data. Vesseltracker has the largest privately owned AIS receiver networks on the planet, combined with the largest AIS Satellite constellation currently available. A master database of vessel characteristics, ports and distances completes the global picture. Learn more: www.genscape.com/maritime more

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VAF Instruments is the leading specialist for the development, manufacturing and world-wide sales of measurement and control systems.
We offer solutions for the marine- and process industry. In the maritime market VAF Instruments is worldwide known for the ViscoSense® viscosity controlling device and PD Flowmeters. From 2010 onwards the T-Sense® and TT-Sense® optical torque and thrust sensors have been introduced to the maritime market. More than 600 of these innovative and reliable sensors are on our reference list. Together with our PT2 flowmeters, the T-Sense® and TT-Sense® will bring you a complete efficiency overview of your vessel’s propulsion management. more

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Accounts House is a proactive firm of Chartered Certified Accountants in London specialise in helping businesses with all their tax and accounting needs. We have a team of qualified and part-qualified Accountants with extensive experience in tax and accountancy. we can offer an outstanding value service by using the latest technology to communicate with you. more

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Ecoreflect
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Eniram
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GreenSteam
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IHS Maritime & Trade
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IMO
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Maersk
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MarineTraffic
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Maroka
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RCCL
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Satellite Applications Catapult
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SMHI
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Spire
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TORM
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