3.30pm – 4.30pm, 5 December 2023 ‐ 1 hour
Technology landscape
Our Oceans and our waterways are one of our most precious resources, a critical component in managing the climate and also a key enabler for UK manufacturers and suppliers to reach out into international markets. Can we capitalise on emerging technologies in a sustainable and coordinated way to deliver on their promises of emissions reduction, cleaner oceans, and improved trade, connectivity and productivity, supporting new skills development and jobs. One thing is clear is that the solutions in the maritime space will need to be delivered through concerted international collaboration and a proper partnership between industries and government. |
DCE Marine and Maritime theme lead, Alan Turing Institute, University of Plymouth
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Strategic Partnerships, Security & Resilience, NPL
NPL’s nominated SIG Champion, Andre Burgess runs Strategic partnerships for the Digital Sector at NPL where he is also leading on its activities in CAV R&D as well as the development of new testing infrastructure for future integrated communications networks. Andre has a long experience in product and service innovation in the TMT sector, including NTL (now Virgin Media) and Three. He subsequently established a successful business designing and deploying disruptive digital end user products and services. More recently he turned his focus on the energy and environment sector, working with distributed generators, housing providers and local authorities, to develop innovative data centric services to optimise localised energy generation and affordable smart home services. With a mission to ensure data can be trusted and shared openly in the future, he joined NPL in 2017.Senior Application Engineer - Northern Europe, Protolabs
Highly qualified in Design and Engineering, over the past 12 years Rich has been an integral part of the team at Protolabs.
His current role is to provide expert advice and support to customers entering their journey from product development to deciding on the best manufacturing solution for their project. With extensive knowledge of the key manufacturing processes at Protolabs (injection moulding, CNC machining and 3D printing) Rich helps customer take advantage of Protolabs’ value, balancing the objective of satisfying customer requests with the potential of downstream risks to deliver acceptable parts on schedule.
With a BA in Furniture Design and a MSc in Engineering by Research, which focussed on the applicability on Additive Manufacturing technologies within creative industries, Rich has a wealth of knowledge and is a go-to Engineer for process and capability advice.
DCE Marine and Maritime theme lead, Alan Turing Institute, University of Plymouth
Dr Kimberly Tam gained a B.S in Computer and System Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the USA and a PhD in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London in the UK. She is currently an associate professor at the University of Plymouth and researches the area of cyber-security in all things maritime. She is currently the academic lead for the Cyber-SHIP project, PI of a Maritime Autonomous System AI security project, and co-I in a number of other maritime cybersecurity projects across a number of topics including security of vessels, ports, and offshore platforms.
Naval Architecture, Ocean and Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde
Professor of Marine Design and the Director of Maritime Human Factors Centre at the Department of Naval Architecture, Marine and Ocean Engineering, University of Strathclyde. He has internationally leading expertise in Safe and Energy-Efficient Marine design and operations, including maritime human factors. He was the founding partner and the technical director of Safety at Sea ltd between 1999 and 2007. He has published more than 90 journals and 200 conference papers while he organised several international conferences.
Prof Turan has extensive experience managing projects while serving as the international scientific advisor to the Norwegian National project ‘ Smart Maritime Project’. He has been involved in more than 100 research and consultancy projects. Prof Turan has participated as an investigator in EPSRC’s largest-ever funded marine research projects in energy efficiency: Low Carbon Shipping (2010-2013) and Shipping in Changing Climates (2013-2017). Prof Turan was the coordinator of FP7 SEAHORSE project, which received the LR-RINA maritime safety award 2017, and the scientific co-ordinator for the recently completed H2020 SAFEMODE project in collaboration with the aviation industry. Prof Turan was also the winner of the 2018 TRAVISION (TRA 2018) Senior European Researcher Award in waterborne transport organised by the European Commission.
CEO / Founder, JET Connectivity
James Thomas received a master’s in mechanical engineering from Brunel University in 2012 and has held varying engineering roles with technical and commercial responsibilities on numerous projects up to a $1.2B delivery. Having worked for a range of companies including, but not limited to, Ford Motor Company, Williams F1, Lockheed Martin, Ultra Electronics and TP Group PLC. In parallel to the delivery of these roles, James has founded and led an engineering consultancy firm, JET Engineering Services, which has been active and profitable for the last 7 years supporting several industries including maritime. Furthermore, James has now founded a second company JET Engineering System Solutions (JET) whose vision is to lead and deliver 5G connected technologies to provide environmental, security and safety benefits in the maritime sector. JET has managed to secure multiple 5G connected sea deployment contracts within the few years since the business was founded under James’ leadership, leveraging, and utilising his broad network acquired through the combination of his employment history and consultancy provided by JET Engineering Services.