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.

Jon Jahren is a cloud architect from Microsoft Norway, covering maritime and other industries with a focus on industrial IT architecture. Although he has a technical background, Jon loves to show how technology can make sense not only from a business perspective, but also can make us more human.

Full-stack product guy with great passion creating new ventures that impact industries and people. Analytic, strategic, impact driven and loves working with outliers. I look for gaps and people that wants to challenge status quo.

I want to bring new ideas to life with ambitious and inspiring people that wants to make impact. I love to help other fellow entrepreneurs and doers.

My main strength is ability to see patterns, trends and opportunities to innovate and be able to communicate the story to get others onboard. I have proven over time the ability to take ideas from start to end and put together great teams that have built awarded products that have millions of happy users.

I see no barriers of industry and think there are many gaps to be filled.

Latest industry is the maritime industry and before that has music/media been my passion. We launched as a selected launch partner on Spotify's new platform in 2011 and became quickly the top app. We have later scaled out Soundrop to Deezer and Youtube aiming it to become a leading marketing platform for the music industry.

During the last 10 years have we managed raising more than USD 10m for three companies. Two of them was acquired by other companies in their industry.

Our first VC backed start-up was Mobile CTI AS. The company was a pioneer in creating mobile apps for Symbian smartphones and launched the worlds first automatic caller ID service. Mobile CTI AS was acquired by Opplysningen 1881, a Telenor company.

Second start-up was Numo and the vision of the company was "the global interactive phonebook in your pocket". We launched the service in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany with large telcos.

After Numo had I the pleasure to work with a lot of great people in Opera Software. Main focus was looking at new monetization areas. A result of this work led to launching Opera Mobile Store and responsible for content partnerships for the Opera Mobile & TV Store.

Joe Apa is Vice President for Maritime, Central, Northern Europe, and the US for Speedcast, based in the United Kingdom.

Qualifying as a Radio Officer from Wray Castle College of Marine Electronics and Communications Engineering, Mr Apa has over 25 years’ experience in the Satellite communications industry, including senior positions at TrustComm, Inmarsat and Stratos.

While at Inmarsat, Mr Apa held the position of Vice President of Maritime Sales Asia, and contributed in a successful period of year on year growth in the region. Before that, Mr Apa spent 15 successful years at Stratos, covering roles as Director, Enterprise and Government for UK and Americas, and ultimately as Vice President of the Global Maritime Business, before the successful acquisition of Stratos by Inmarsat in 2009.

Since joining Speedcast, Mr Apa has focused on improving the regional reach, and Speedcast experience to the customer base, while actively engaging with the team to increase the awareness of the new Speedcast network plans and Value Added service offering to the market.

Rob O'Dwyer, Editor of Digital Ship, has been a maritime IT journalist since 2005. He has a Master's degree in business and law from University College Dublin and was previously a commercial writing consultant in Seoul, South Korea.

Rob was also previously Editor of Port Finance International.

Olga is responsible for the Blockchain practice in IBM Norway, has successfully led several blockchain pilots in Norway, and is engaged in helping clients execute their innovation strategies with the help of Blockchain and AI.

Tom Erling Hansen has double engineering degrees in Telecom and IT from the Royal Norwegian Air Force complemented with a Master’s degree in Business administration and Management from the Norwegian Business School.

He has worked with Maritime applications and communication for more than two decades and has extensive international experience from working and living in several key maritime hubs including Dubai, Oslo, London, Brussels, Singapore and Houston.

He is currently Vice President of North Europe Sales in Marlink.

Martin has worked in the Telecoms and IT Market Sector for over 30 years, with the last 15 spent in Maritime Communications and IT. Martin has spent much of the last 15 years advising Maritime customer on solutions available for their vessels and on ways to improve connectivity for vessel operations as well as how to improve communications for the welfare of the Seafarers on board. In January 2018 Martin joined Ceragon Networks to help with the delivery of revolutionary new Communication solutions into the Maritime Market.

Full-stack product guy with great passion creating new ventures that impact industries and people. Analytic, strategic, impact driven and loves working with outliers. I look for gaps and people that wants to challenge status quo.

I want to bring new ideas to life with ambitious and inspiring people that wants to make impact. I love to help other fellow entrepreneurs and doers.

My main strength is ability to see patterns, trends and opportunities to innovate and be able to communicate the story to get others onboard. I have proven over time the ability to take ideas from start to end and put together great teams that have built awarded products that have millions of happy users.

I see no barriers of industry and think there are many gaps to be filled.

Latest industry is the maritime industry and before that has music/media been my passion. We launched as a selected launch partner on Spotify's new platform in 2011 and became quickly the top app. We have later scaled out Soundrop to Deezer and Youtube aiming it to become a leading marketing platform for the music industry.

During the last 10 years have we managed raising more than USD 10m for three companies. Two of them was acquired by other companies in their industry.

Our first VC backed start-up was Mobile CTI AS. The company was a pioneer in creating mobile apps for Symbian smartphones and launched the worlds first automatic caller ID service. Mobile CTI AS was acquired by Opplysningen 1881, a Telenor company.

Second start-up was Numo and the vision of the company was "the global interactive phonebook in your pocket". We launched the service in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany with large telcos.

After Numo had I the pleasure to work with a lot of great people in Opera Software. Main focus was looking at new monetization areas. A result of this work led to launching Opera Mobile Store and responsible for content partnerships for the Opera Mobile & TV Store.

Jon Jahren is a cloud architect from Microsoft Norway, covering maritime and other industries with a focus on industrial IT architecture. Although he has a technical background, Jon loves to show how technology can make sense not only from a business perspective, but also can make us more human.

Hávarðsson holds a Msc degree in aquaculture biology and has been working in the Aquaculture Industry for 30 years. As a biologist he has been working in the area where technology and biology interfaces. Among other areas Hávarðsson has worked with industrial fish counting and biomass estimations, smolt quality and transfer to sea, feeding and feeding technology, management of feeding systems and RT-PCR screening for diseases.  Hávardsson has written farmers guide on biofouling, published in 5 languages as well as writing literature for remote learning and the UN fisheries school at the University of Bergen.  Hávarðsson currently holds the position of Innovation Manager at the Seafood Innovation Cluster in Bergen.

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.

After serving with the Royal Norwegian Navy for 26 years, having five years as commanding officers Ole Jørgen joined Norwegian Hull Club. He has had various positions over the last seven years. His current position is Chief Business Development Officer in Norwegian Hull Club and CEO of NHC’s daughter company Insurance Technology Solutions (ITS).

Hávarðsson holds a Msc degree in aquaculture biology and has been working in the Aquaculture Industry for 30 years. As a biologist he has been working in the area where technology and biology interfaces. Among other areas Hávarðsson has worked with industrial fish counting and biomass estimations, smolt quality and transfer to sea, feeding and feeding technology, management of feeding systems and RT-PCR screening for diseases.  Hávardsson has written farmers guide on biofouling, published in 5 languages as well as writing literature for remote learning and the UN fisheries school at the University of Bergen.  Hávarðsson currently holds the position of Innovation Manager at the Seafood Innovation Cluster in Bergen.

David Cameron is the Centre Coordinator for the SIRIUS Centre for Scalable Data Access at the University of Oslo. He is a Chemical Engineer with 30 years of industrial experience in the metals, chemicals and petroleum industries. His technical specialization is the application of simulation to the optimization of operations. He has worked in applied research, strategy and development management roles in BHP Billiton, Norsk Hydro, Kongsberg Group and then in consulting and senior business development roles related to the internet of things in IBM and Sopra Steria. He earned his doctorate in simulator-based process analytics from the University of Cambridge.

Vebjørn Søndersrød is partner in Advokatfirma Ræder AS and head of Ræder’s TMT department. Vebjørn has extensive experience in work related to intellectual property law, marketing law, personal data protection and GDPR. He is an experienced litigator and also advises clients on commercial law maters. He primarily works with GDPR compliance, apps, internet services, digital marketing, sales and marketing and with trade mark and copyright disputes. Vebjørn has a background from working as an assistant judge, as an attorney with the National Library and with the Department of Private Law at the Faculty of Law in Oslo. He holds several seminars on IP and privacy and GDPR issues and publishes articles in trade and economic journals. Vebjørn is ranked in TMT in The Legal 500.

Kyrre W. Kielland is partner in Advokatfirma Ræder AS and essential part of Ræder’s Shipping, Marine and Transport department. Kyrre runs a broad practice within shipping and international trade, banking, financing and insurance. His experience vary from transactional matters on one side to dispute resolution on the other side. Kyrre offers assistance within several legal areas, hereunder contract law, market law, company law and insurance/tort law. Among others, he assists ship owners, airlines, lenders and others within transactions, financings, insurances and dispute resolutions. In addition to a decade of experience as external counsel, Kyrre has a background as research assistant with the Department of Private Law at the Faculty of Law in Oslo and in-house counsel with Eksportkreditt Norge AS.

Ken Munro is Partner and Founder of Pen Test Partners, a firm of ethical hackers. He regularly blogs on everything from maritime security to hacking cars and the Internet of Things. This has gained him notoriety among the national press, leading to regular appearances on TV and News online as well as the broadsheet press.

He also writes for various newspapers and has contributed to maritime industry magazines in an effort to get beyond the unhelpful scaremongering put about by many security vendors. Ken has also become a voice for reform and legislative change in the largely unregulated IoT, briefing UK and US government departments as well as being involved with various EU consumer councils.

Geir Isene has turned around companies and teams in the private and public sector and has forged strategies for well-known companies. He is the coach and mental trainer for Olympic athletes, stage artists and business executives. His authorship includes books on business, games, philosophy and also a children's book.

Geir is currently the Chief Mechanic – Innovation Manager of Dualog's Innovation Garage. He has composed a team of top-notch IT developers to create innovative solutions for the maritime industry.

Arnaud has a profound understanding of technology and how machines interface with the real world.

He has built autonomous ships, computer clusters, data platforms, sensor systems, experts teams, and companies. His latest venture, Visualiz, is helping companies create rich digital twins and visualize them in Virtual and Augmented reality.

Stian has passion for analytics and statistics and finding knowledge in data. He has a master’s degree in economics and is specialized in statistical optimization and time series. Nothing is more exciting than complex problems and finding the most elegant solutions.

His company, Recogni, has in the recent years assisted different companies in the maritime industry with problem solving based on big data analytics. This has resulted in the development of ReFuel, a web solution for fuel reduction based on real time data analytics. Recent studies show that ReFuel has helped crews to a 10% reduction in fuel consumption.

Jacob Grieg Eide / Chief Business Development Officer / ScanReach

Degree in naval architecture and maritime technology in combination with a degree in industrial design.

Extensive experience within digital innovation and business transformation primarily within the maritime and offshore segments.

Geir Isene has turned around companies and teams in the private and public sector and has forged strategies for well-known companies. He is the coach and mental trainer for Olympic athletes, stage artists and business executives. His authorship includes books on business, games, philosophy and also a children's book.

Geir is currently the Chief Mechanic – Innovation Manager of Dualog's Innovation Garage. He has composed a team of top-notch IT developers to create innovative solutions for the maritime industry.

L. P. Perera received the BSc (1999) and MSc (2001) degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Systems & Controls from the Oklahoma State University, USA and the PhD (2012) degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. His research experience includes the SINTEF Ocean (2012-2017), Norway, Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (2008-2012), Portugal and the Advanced Technology Research Center (1998-2001), USA. His academic experience includes the Naval & Maritime Academy (2005-2008), Sri Lanka and the Ocean University of Sri Lanka (2003-2005), Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Dr. Perera was a visiting lecture (2001-2005) for several academic institutes in Sri Lanka: University of Ruhuna, University of Moratuwa, Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo International Nautical & Engineering College. His industrial experience includes Wartsila Finland, Finland (2012-2014).

Robert Hopkins, Jr., KVH’s senior director for maritime services, manages product marketing partnerships based on KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband connectivity services. His engineering team develops health and performance monitors. With a background in strategic consulting to marine interests, he is committed to bringing value-added services to the commercial maritime industry.

Data is the new oil' is something Neil took quite literally when in 2017, after 8 years in the oil industry working with Chevron, Shell and Maersk Oil, he moved to the Data Science and AI team in the newly-formed Maersk Digital.

As Head of Asset Science, he leads efforts to turn data coming from Maersk's assets into insights and actions. The team is looking into areas such as predictive maintainance, cargo impact prediction and fuel optimisation.

L. P. Perera received the BSc (1999) and MSc (2001) degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Systems & Controls from the Oklahoma State University, USA and the PhD (2012) degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway. His research experience includes the SINTEF Ocean (2012-2017), Norway, Centre for Marine Technology and Engineering (2008-2012), Portugal and the Advanced Technology Research Center (1998-2001), USA. His academic experience includes the Naval & Maritime Academy (2005-2008), Sri Lanka and the Ocean University of Sri Lanka (2003-2005), Sri Lanka. Furthermore, Dr. Perera was a visiting lecture (2001-2005) for several academic institutes in Sri Lanka: University of Ruhuna, University of Moratuwa, Open University of Sri Lanka, Colombo International Nautical & Engineering College. His industrial experience includes Wartsila Finland, Finland (2012-2014).

Stian Knutsen studied BA (Hons) Business Finance at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh. After university he went straight in to Shipping, first at a ship agency in Bergen before he started in Rederiet Stenersen in 2013. At Stenersen, Stian started as a Marine Purchaser. But in 2016 he took over the newly created position as Environment, Project & Implementation Coordinator in the same company. After completing his studies in Edinburgh, Stian have also completed classes and courses at university and industry institutions related to his line of work.

Stian hope that he will be able to help shipping become greener by utilizing new technology and performance analytics. Stian is a strong believer that traditional shipping companies will not survive the future if they are not able to adopt and take chances on new solutions and technology.

Prior to entering shipping, Stian was involved in various sales & service jobs and was a youth politician, he held a position at the board of the youth political party he was involved with in his county.

Øystein Busch is the Head of IT in UECC. Coming from the software industry, he started working in Danish shipping companies located in Switzerland in 2002, before returning to Norway where the joined UECC in 2010. When not strongly focusing on standardizing, keeping eye on new trends which allowing a lean IT team to operate and develop larger systems, Øystein enjoys a good game of squash.

Peter joined Genscape Inc. on June 1 2017 and serves as Senior Director, Maritime Business Development.

Coming from Q88 LLC where he held the position of VP of Sales & Marketing, Peter brings more than 35 years of maritime domain expertise to Genscape’s Maritime Team.

Peter is responsible for maximizing the potential of partnerships, third party data, outbound market engagement, new market development and thought leadership internally and externally.

Prior to Q88 LLC, Peter held a number of positions within the maritime and software industries. He spent 12 years as the Head of Division at BIMCO. He also spent 5 years at Inchcape Shipping Services in various roles, including Senior Vice President, Global Services, Inchcape’s hub agency division.