Greener Shipping Summit April 2025

New Technologies and Education

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Eugenides Foundation, Athens, Greece

1. Enhancing Maritime Education for Next Generation Seafarers 

• The role of machine learning in optimising machinery performance, early troubleshooting and reducing risk

• Are virtual platforms and simulation based training sufficient to handle future technologies?

• How can the education on low-emission technologies and alternative fuels and propulsion systems bridge the gap of missing experience?

• Shore based vs onboard training

• Competency-based education and personnel assessment

2. Collaboration between academia and equipment makers-builders, class societies and operators 

• Discuss and define how the academia can help in the development and handling of new technology. What is the current experience?

• Building bridges between theoretical education and practical experience

• The role of apprenticeship and internship

• Encouraging practical partnerships between research, innovations and education

• The role of class societies and IACS in the newly emerging technology world

3. Reshaping the Training Needs to Deal with New Technologies 

• Describing the new technology in shipping, advanced automation and control, new fuels, new engines, reducing risks and enhancing safety

• Redefining roles and responsibilities in a new technology driven maritime world and ensuring the operators and officers / seafarers onboard are properly prepared

• The role of artificial intelligence in equipment design and integration, focusing on navigation, cargo handling, machinery operation and condition based maintenance

• Defining smart ships, real-time monitoring and remote operation: An option or a future rule requirement?

• Cyber security issues and developments. Relay on technological guard systems and educating stakeholders on maintaining secure data environments

SAVE THE DATE 

Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Attendance free