Through an initiative designed to optimze the use of broadband solutions for seafarers, the GVF Maritime Satcom Forum is collaborating with Intermanager, the international ship-management association, to stage a joint conference program involving leading representatives of the two sectors.
Entitled, “Broadband Maritime Offshore & Oceanic 2012: Information & Communications Networking Mobility South East Asia”, the joint programme will take place on 14-15 February 2012 at the Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore, where the GVF-EMP partnership’s 6th conference on maritime communications will feature a dialogue that offers extended ‘Maritime Insights,’ discussion of satellite broadband-supported information and communications technologies (ICTs), applications that fulfill mission-critical needs in the maritime sector, and shipping industry discussion of its Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Standards.
The conference is being held in association with Inmarsat (Principal Sponsor) and Hughes (Guest Sponsor). It will afford an opportunity to both maritime communications solution providers and shipping industry end-users, to further their dialogue on how the satellite industry can best match solutions to the growing requirements of the maritime sector for broadband-based applications.
InterManager’s Secretary General, Capt. Kuba Szymanski said, “The Shipping KPI Standard proposes a global shipping industry standard for defining, measuring and reporting information on operational performance in order to: (1) Boost the internal performance of companies engaged in ship operation activities; and, (2) Provide an efficient communication platform for relaying ship operation performance information to internal and external stakeholders. The parallel discussion at this conference of the technology, services and applications offered by the satellite communication sector is an overwhelmingly obvious synergy and opportunity.”
Martin Jarrold, GVF Chief of International Program Development, added “The collaborative relationship between the GVF Maritime SatCom Forum — a vertical market industry sub-group of the Global VSAT Forum — and InterManager began in early 2011. In September 2011, Capt. Szymanski addressed a meeting of the Maritime Satcom Forum in London, where arrangements were confirmed for a deeper collaboration with the well-established GVF-EMP Broadband Maritime series of conferences. We have now advanced our collaboration to implement these arrangements.”
The conference program will be presented in two Streams — Stream One on 14th February, and Stream Two on 15th February.
On 14th February, comprising Stream One which will be chaired by Mr. Jarrold, 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
(1) To provide information on the Shipping Industry KPIs;
(2) To introduce to the concepts of the InterManager Shipping KPIs;
(3) To provide assistance in “getting started” with the KPIs;
(4) To tackle myths surrounding KPIs; and,
(5) To exchange ideas concerning Shipping Industry KPIs.
Further information on the details of the combined ‘Maritime Insights’ conference is available on the conference website at
