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PROGRAMME

TimeProgramme
9.00am – 9.30am

SMI Forum Registration
Morning Coffee and Tea

9.30am – 9.45am

Welcome Address

  • Mr Kenneth Lim
    Assistant Chief Executive (Industry and Transformation)
    Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore
9.45am – 10.30am

TED Talk with Chief Executive, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA)

Facilitator:

  • Dr Chen Xinwei
    Deputy Executive Director, Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI)
10.30am – 10.45am

Letter of Award Signing Ceremony

10.45am –11.30am

Keynote Presentation: Data-Centric Engineering: New technologies to support efficient global shipping

  • Professor Adam Sobey
    Programme Director of Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute; Professor of Data-Centric Engineering in the Maritime Engineering group, University of Southampton; and
    SMI Distinguished Visitor 2024

Question & Answer

11.30am – 12.15pm

Panel Discussion 1: Digitalisation and AI for Maritime

Moderator:

  • Dr Daniel Tan
    Senior Deputy Director (Multi-Domain Capability Development Hub), Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

Panellists:

  • Professor Adam Sobey
    Programme Director of Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute; Professor of Data-Centric Engineering in the Maritime Engineering group, University of Southampton
  • Mr Ujjwal Kumar
    Lead Architect
    Microsoft Innovation Hub ASEAN

  • Dr Manuel Baeuml
    Head of Industries Asia Pacific, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Dr Fu Xiuju
    Senior Principal Scientist II and Director of Maritime AI Research Programme, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR
12.15pm – 1.00pm

Fireside Chat: Nurturing Research Talent

Facilitator:

  • Mr Ng Yi Han
    Director (Innovation, Technology & Talent Development) and Chief Transformation Officer, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore

Panellists:

  • Associate Professor Ng Szu Hui
    Head, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, College of Design and Engineering, NUS; and SMI Fellow
  • Dr Liu Ming
    Research Director, Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence, NTU; and SMI Fellow
  • Mr Sharul Baggio Mohamed Roslan
    Doctor of Engineering, Singapore Institute of Technology, SMI-MaritimeONE Postgraduate R&D Scholar
1.00pm – 2.00pm

SMI Research Showcase
Networking Lunch

2.00pm – 3.00pm

Research Presentations: Digitalisation and AI for Maritime

Safety 4.0: AI-Driven Ship Safety Management System

  • Assistant Professor Yuen Kum Fai
    Assistant Professor & Assistant Chair (Students), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University; and Co-Director, Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence

Voyage planning for fully electric harbour craft

Maritime Port Infrastructure using AI for Digital Twin with Parallel O2DES

  • Mr Riza Marhaban
    Senior IT Architect
    Centre of Excellence in Modelling and Simulation for Next Generation Ports

Big data driven and learning based tugboat transit fuel consumption optimisation

  • Dr Xiao Zhe
    Senior Scientist, Department of Systems Science
    Institute of High-Performance Computing, A*STAR
3.00pm – 3.45pm

Panel Discussion 2: New and Alternative Fuels

Moderator:

  • Mr Loh Yee Wei
    Senior Manager
    Singapore Maritime Institute

Panellists:

  • Mr Jan-Paul de Wilde
    Head, Decarbonisation, Energy Transition and Innovation, RINA Singapore
  • Professor Chang Young-Tae
    Professor Emeritus, Asia Pacific School of Logistics, Inha University, Korea
  • Professor Jason Xu Zhichuan
    President’s Chair Professor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University; and Centre Director, Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence
  • Dr Sze Jia Yin
    Head of Technology, Centre of Excellence in Engineering R&D, Kuok Maritime Group
3.45pm – 4.30pm

Research Presentations: New and Alternative Fuels

Methanol – Fuel Assurance and Fingerprinting

  • Dr Yeoh Keat Ping
    Research Fellow
    Maritime Energy & Sustainable Development Centre of Excellence

Dispersion Analysis and Simulations for Handling of Future Fuels

  • Dr Nguyen Vinh-Tan
    Senior Principal Scientist
    Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR

Infusing Immersive Technologies to enhance training for new fuels handling

4.30pm

Closing Remarks

  • Dr Chen Xinwei
    Deputy Executive Director
    Singapore Maritime Institute
*Programme is subject to possible changes.