Joint GVF Maritime Satcom Forum and InterManager ‘Maritime Insights’ Program at Sixth International Conference

Singapore, January 24, 2012-- Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012: Information & Communications Networking Mobility South East Asia’, the joint GVF-EMP Partnership and InterManager ‘Maritime Insights’ conference will take place on 14th-15th February 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore.

This, the 6th event in the GVF-EMP conference series on maritime broadband communications, will be the first to feature the extended ‘Maritime Insights’ dialogue, bringing together discussion of both satellite broadband-supported information and communications technologies (ICTs) and applications that fulfil mission-critical needs in the maritime sector, together with shipping industry discussion of its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Standards.

The ‘Maritime Insights’ initiative, designed to promote and advance optimisation in the use of broadband solutions for seafarers, brings together the programmes of the GVF Maritime Satcom Forum and InterManager – the international ship-management association – and has, as of the date of this release, attracted the participation of more than 30 key communications solution provider companies and organisations from the global shipping/ship management industry, including:

Paul Stahl, Managing Partner of EMP, noted that “The conference is being held in association with key satellite companies providing communications solutions in the maritime space, Inmarsat (Principal Sponsor) and Hughes (Guest Sponsor). Their support, and that of our speakers and delegates, affords us the opportunity to offer maritime communications solution providers and shipping industry end-users, an opportunity to further their dialogue as to exactly how the satellite industry can best match its solutions to the growing requirements of the maritime sector for broadband-based applications. We are delighted with the degree of interest in the content of both days of this conference from the shipping and ship management community, with companies registering thick and fast, often with management-board level representatives. It is worth monitoring the event home-page, which is up-dated daily, where registered attending organisations are listed.”

The ‘Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012: Information & Communications Networking Mobility South East Asia’ conference programme will be presented in two Streams – Stream 1 on 14th February, and Stream 2 on 15th February.

On 14th February, comprising Stream 1 which will be chaired by Martin Jarrold, GVF Chief of International Programme Development, Chairman of the GVF-EMP Broadband Maritime Conference Series, and Co-Chairman of the GVF Maritime SatCom Forum, will be sessions on the following topics:

The Maritime Communications Marketplace: Understanding the Bigger Picture
Segmenting Maritime Sector Communications Services: Who Wants What and Where?
Evolving the “Unlimited Broadband” Bandwidth Equation: New Evolutionary Trends in C, Ku, Ka & L Frequency Footprints for the Maritime Space
Maritime Communications Platforms: From ICT for the Ocean-Going Office on the Bridge to ICT for Crew Training, Welfare & Retention
Efficient Fleet Management in the 21st Century: Why is Broadband the Key?
Regulation of Communications Inshore & on the High Seas: Who Makes the Rules? Who Enforces the Rules?
Evolution of Maritime Satcoms Terminal Equipment: Supply-Side Innovation for an Expanding Market
New Maritime Antenna Technologies & Installation Training Resources: The Multi-Band Challenge in a Stabilised Market
Safety & Distress Maritime Communications Systems & the Broadband Environment

Speakers currently listed for the first day programme include:

Frank Coles, President, Inmarsat Maritime
Vaibhav Magow, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, Hughes International
Rick Abbasi, Senior Product Marketing Director, Network Services, Intelsat
Nick Dukakis, Vice President, Maritime & Offshore, SpeedCast
Nile (Patompob) Suwansiri, Vice President, Marketing & Sales, Thaicom
Patrick Wong, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Comtech EF Data
Jerry Ling, Sales Manager, Communications, (MT) Marine Technologies Pte Ltd
Charlie Ransford, Pharostar Business Development in Asia, Vizada
Patrick M. French, Senior Analyst & Head of Singapore Office, Northern Sky Research
Soren Einshoj, Founder, ShipSurf
Christopher Sivertz, Managing Director, PTS Thailand, Chief of GVF Training SEA
Roger Adamson, Chief Executive, Stark Moore Macmillan

The following day, comprising Stream 2, will be an agenda to be chaired by Capt. Kuba Szymanski, Secretary General of InterManager, which will include posing the key question: “What is stopping your company from measuring your own performance?” – A question which will be answered during discussion of session themes including:

The Role of KPIs in Today’s Shipping Companies: An Exercise
The KPI Project: History & Objectives
PIs, KPIs & SPIs. A How & Why Interactive Session: Which PIs & KPIs do Delegates Use?
IMKE – A Live Demonstration
KPI Ratings: The Mathematical Foundation of Benchmarking
Shipping Performance Indexes: How Balanced Are We?
Implementation Strategy: Which Hurdles to Expect & How to Overcome These

Martin Jarrold, commenting on the conference content, said that “The joint programme is an advanced networking opportunity for representatives of the two industry sectors. The shared conference dialogue on topics of overlapping interest will be fully leveraged to explore the detailed inter-dependence of those topics, and this will be realised in both Streams. In Stream 1, the shipping sector will learn more from the communications industry on its current cutting-edge offerings to the maritime space, and in Stream 2 the satellite solutions sector will have the opportunity to listen to the maritime industry defining its communications requirements, and then describe how these can most effectively be met.”

Further information on the details of the combined ‘Maritime Insights’ conference is available on the conference website at www.uk-emp.co.uk/6th.BMSEA.SG.2012/. Contacts for the conference are Martin Jarrold of GVF, the Conference Stream 1 Chairman (martin.jarrold@gvf.org) or Paul Stahl of EMP (paul.stahl@uk-emp.co.uk).

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