Dr.Tristan Smith, Lecturer at UCL Energy Institute

Tristan is a Reader at the UCL Energy Institute and is the director of the Research Council UK funded project…

Bud Darr, Executive Vice President, Maritime Policy and Government Affairs, MSC Group

An experienced global maritime leader in the areas of policy, government, and related law, Bud Darr previously served in the…

Vladimiro Bonamin, VP Global Business Development Manager, SGS

Dr. Vladimiro Bonamin was appointed Vice President Global Business Development Manager of Environmental, Health and Safety Services Division of SGS…

Chris Hughes, Global Lead, Shipping Markets at Lloyd’s Register

Trained as a Naval Architect, Chris has more than 20 years experience in the shipping industry spanning both technical and…

Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché

Anil Srivastava serves as CEO of Leclanché since June 2014. He was the Chief Executive of Areva Renewables and a…

Bertrand Piccard

Bertrand Piccard is the initiator and visionary behind Solar Impulse, the very first airplane capable of flying perpetually without fuel….

Matthias Classen, Commercial Manager, Proman Shipping

Murali Srinivasan, VP & Head of Ammonia Trade and Shipping, Yara Switzerland

Florence Schurch, Secretary General, STSA

Florence Schurch has been nominated by the Executive Board as General Secretary of STSA Swiss Trade and Shipping Association starting…

Frank Beckmann, Senior Sales Manager, Siemens Marine Solutions

Frank Beckmann is Senior Sales Manager, working for Siemens Marine Solutions since 2012. He has more than 20 years experience…

Florent Violain, Head of Professional Services, e-Odyn

Florent develops eOdyn services for shipping and offshore energy industry, supporting emissions reduction and efficiency improvement in maritime operations. Prior…

Jan Hoffmann, Chief, Trade Logistics Branch at DTL, UNCTAD

Jan joined UNCTAD in 2003 and was appointed Chief of the organization’s Trade Logistics Branch, Division on Technology and Logistics,…

Anne-Cécile Turner, Chair

Anne-Cécile is an award-winning, Harvard-educated, sustainability expert. Experienced in driving positive change through international platforms, her work is supported by…

Marcel van den Berg, Business Development Manager at Shell GTL Fuel

Marcel is working for Shell for more than thirty years and has been active in numerous logistical- and sales roles….

Julien Bec, Vice President, LNG as Fuel Division at GTT

Julien Bec holds a Double Degree in Mechanical Engineering and Physics from Ecole Centrale Paris. After having worked 8 years…

Dean Jennings, Vice President at Leclanché SA

Dean Jennings is an accomplished marine industry executive with more than 25 years’ engineering, business development and management experience. He…

Gavin Allwright
, Secretary General at International Windship Association

Gavin Allwright is the Secretary General of the International Windship Association (IWSA). Established in 2014, this grouping of maritime wind…

Heino Salge, Senior Sales Manager, Siemens Marine

Heino Salge has over 25 years of experience in the field of electric propulsion and automation for ships. After studying…

Renaud Bañuls, Founder, bañulsdesign

Renaud Bañuls is the founder of bañulsdesign, a naval architecture and engineering company. For the past two decades, Renaud has…

Brian Boserup, Founder, Blue Technology

Matthew Williams, Principal Specialist, Strategic Regulatory Projects at Lloyd’s Register

Following operational appointments at sea, and work as a business and risk manager in the UK Royal Navy, Matthew joined…

Benoît Gaillard, Chairman of the Board at CGN

Benoît Gaillard served as Communications Director and then Senior Advisor in the canton of Vaud’s ministry of infrastructure between 2012…

Sébastien Haye, Managing Consultant, E4tech

Sébastien is a managing consultant at E4tech, a strategic consultancy specialised in sustainable energy and transport. Since 1997, E4tech built…

Alessio La Rosa, Global Head of Freight, COFCO International

Alessio La Rosa is Global Head of Freight at COFCO International, the international trading arm of COFCO Group. He joined…

Jacob Norrby, Newbuilding Project Manager, Stena

Vincent Bernatets, co-founder & CEO, Airseas

Vincent started his career as an engineer Arts & Métiers (ENSAM) specialized in advanced automatic controls at Sup’Aéro (ISAE) and…

Fraser Bennie, Marine Director, LNG & Hydrogen, Chart Industries Inc.

Fraser gained a Mechanical Engineering Honours Degree in his native Scotland and finished his studies in a French engineering school….

Madadh MacLaine, Secretary General at ZESTAs

Madadh MacLaine, is the Founder and Secretary General of the Zero Emissions Ship Technology Association (ZESTAs), CEO of Zero Emissions…

Hervé Lapierre, Director of Innovation, Louis Dreyfus Armateurs (LDA)

Hervé LAPIERRE is Director of Innovation of LOUIS DREYFUS ARMATEURS, French shipowner active in numerous sectors, from straight bulk carriers…

Helmut Behrens, Head of Sales, Siemens Marine

Helmut Behrens is Head of Sales at Siemens Marine since 2015. He is with Siemens Marine since more than 30…

Nicolas Siohan, Senior Engineer at Gurit

With more than 15 years of experience in the composite industry, Nicolas has managed the structural design of innovative projects…

Sofien Kerkeni, CEO, D-ICE Engineering

With a formation in Applied Mathematics and Control Systems, Sofien started his career by joining Sirehna as marine control engineer…

Maxime Dupuy, Head of route optimization dpt, D-ICE Engineering

After a MSc degree in hydrodynamics, Maxime worked in oceanography and weather forecast before starting developing the route optimization activity…

Xavier de Montgros, President at AFBE (French Association for Electric Boating)

Xavier de Montgros has developed his competencies in global High Tech, with more than thirty years of experience as Manager…

Mark Bamford, Director Ship Finance at Credit Suisse

Olivier Taillard, CTO at Syroco

Olivier Taillard is Syroco’s CTO, he leads the technical side of all projects – moonshots and lab. A passionate engineer…

Marc Van Peteghem, Owner at VPLP

Born on January 9, 1957 in Paris, Marc Van Peteghem studied at Southampton Solent University where he became a naval…

Rustin Edwards, Head of Fuel Oil, Euronav

Rustin has been in the oil industry for 20 plus years. He is currently the head of fuel oil procurement…

Richard Watts, President, The Propeller Club Geneva

Richard has extensive experience in shipping, trading, insurance, finance and legal matters relating to physical commodities. Richard started his trading…

Frank Nieuwenhuis, Co-owner at Econowind

Frank Nieuwenhuis was trained as mechanical engineer. After 5 years as R&D manager he worked for 6 years in sales…

Bernard Schopfer, CEO at MaxComm Communication

Holder of a degree in political science at the University of Geneva, Bernard Schopfer has 25 years of experience within…

Raphael Gerard, Engineer at Gurit

PhD from the Université de Nantes on Slamming and Fatigue of sandwich structures. Raphael Gerard is a structural engineer specialised…

Christian Dumard, Meteorologist and Router

Christian Dumard has been doing weather routing for tug boats, racing boats, super yachts and many expeditions for more than…

David Baur, Co-founder and CTO at Aeler Technologies SA

With a Master degree at EPFL on Microengineering and Management, Technology & Entrepreneurship, David Baur first worked at Jaeger-LeCoultre for…

Francis Hueber, Founder at Caponnetto / Hueber, Naval Architect