Day 1

8:30-9:15 Opening Remarks         

Welcome: Peter Philips, Publisher, Pacific Maritime Magazine

Introductory Comments: Bob Moore, Conference Program Director

Keynote –Captain Robert McCabe, FNI.  Vice President, The Nautical Institute

9:15-12:00 Session I – Governmental Projects and Regulatory Update
(coffee break from 10:00-10:30)

In keeping with the practice of previous conferences this Session provides information about current and planned regulatory actions and government projects affecting the maritime community, with emphasis on shipboard navigation and information systems as well as the applications supported by the data such systems generate.  The session will be moderated by Mr. J. Michael Sollosi of the U. S. Coast Guard’s Office of Navigation Systems.  Topics will include:

• AIS Regulations, an update – Mr. Jorge Arroyo, U. S. Coast Guard
  
  
• Electronic Chart Systems; Where are things going, and will there be a domestic standard?  And, if so, what should it be? – Mr. Ed LaRue, Chief of the Navigation Standards Branch, U.S. Coast Guard Office of Waterways Management
  
  
• An update of the status of Radionavigation systems (Loran and DGPS) – Lieutenant Commander Bob Manning, USCG. Loran Program Manager, and Lieutenant Lee Hartshorn, USCG, Differential GPS Program Manager, both of the Electronic Navigation Branch, USCG Office of Waterways Management.
  
  
• The Coastal and River Information System:  System goals, current status, future plans – Mr. Michael F. Winkler, Research Hydraulic Engineer, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
  
  
• The COSCO BUSAN Allision and its Aftermath – Commander
  Brian Tetreault, USCG.  Chief, Vessel Traffic Services, U.S. Coast Guard
  

12:00-2:00 Luncheon: E-Navigating on St. Lawrence River with NavSim – Integrating Technology, Data and People – Mr. Piotr Waclawek, President and CEO, NavSim Technology Inc.

2:00-5:00 Session II – Technology
(coffee break from 3:00-3:30)

The Technology Session will examine key technological developments which will be subsumed within or support the eNavigation initiative as well as topical issues such as the use of Portable Pilot Units (PPU).  The PPU issue has been elevated because of language in the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2008 (H.R. 2830) which would grant authority to the Coast Guard to require pilots on most vessels to carry and utilize them.  The Session will be moderated by Mr. R. L. Markle, President, Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services, and topics include:

• “What can AIS really Deliver to the Mariner?”, including a discussion of AIS functionalities directly supporting navigation – Captain Robert McCabe, FNI, Deputy Head of Marine Commissioners, Commissioners of Irish Lights
  
  
• Expanding the use of AIS within Vessel Traffic Services:  Developing binary messaging to reduce voice communications and workload – Ms. Irene M. Gonin, U.S. Coast Guard Research & Development Center
  
  
• AIS Data Transmission;  Solving the bandwidth constraint – Mr. Fred Pot, Principal, Marine Management Consultants
  
  
• Pilots’ Experience with Portable Pilot Units (PPU)  – Captain Jorge Viso, Tampa Bay Pilots.  Chair of the American Pilots Association’s Committee on Navigation and Technology
  
  
• PPU options available for use by Pilots – Mr. Paul Stanley, FNI.  Managing Director, Navicom Dynamics (New Zealand)
  
  
• A Programmable, Pulse Compression, X-Band Radar – Mr. David Vacanti, Aerospace Fellow, Honeywell Corporation

Day 2

8:30-11:00 Session III – An eNavigation Update
(coffee break from 10:00-10:30)

The primary purpose of this Session is to provide conferees with the current status of the IMO’s eNavigation initiative and the plans for the immediate future.  Secondarily (and perhaps more important in the long run), is to begin the development of an understanding of eNavigation's potentially broad impacts upon mariners/ship operators, commerce and coastal zone stewardship.  We are fortunate this year to have impaneled speakers who are at the heart of eNavigation development.  Mr. William R. Cairns, Chair of the IALA eNavigation Committee moderates the session.  Topics are include:

• Implementing eNavigation:  Defining User Needs within the context of an overall strategy for implementation – Mr. David Patraiko.  Nautical Institute.  Chair, Working Group on Strategy and Operations of IALA’s eNavigation Committee
  
  
• Marine Information Overlays (MIOs) as a component of eNavigation, what they are and the information and data that comprise them; and the Marine Electronic Highway (MEH) Project – Dr. Lee Alexander, University of New Hampshire
  
  
• eNavigation communication issues – Mr. Alan Stewart. Northern Lighthouse Board (UK)
  
  
• Japan’s preparations for eNavigation and the Maritime Safety Bureau, Ministry of Land and Infrastructure, Transportation and Truism. – Mr. Eiichi Masuda, Chief, International Affairs Section, Administration and Planning Division, Maritime Traffic Department, Japan Coast Guard
  
  
•   Integrated Navigation Standards (INS):  INS as a shipboard component of eNavigation, providing  the mariner with a better presentation of navigation information and improving the ship-shore information exchange – Mr. Florian Motz, Research Establishment for Applied Science (Germany)
  
  
• The Legal Perspective:  Some Things to Think About – Mr. Alan M. Weigel, BlankRome LLP

11:00-5:00 Session IV – eNavigation Applications
(Luncheon 12-2:00pm, coffee break 3:00-3:30)

The Session discusses ongoing and potential applications of eNavigation and related technologies, providing conferees with information about what is being done and encouraging thought about how the technologies might be applied to their particular segment of the maritime community.  Session Moderator is Captain Lynn Korwatch, Executive Director of the Marine Exchange of the San Francisco Bay Region.  Topics will include:

• River Information Services come of Age – Shaping Tomorrow’s Inland eNavigation with intelligent Infrastructure.  A presentation of the application of the River Information System (RIS) to European rivers – Mr. Mario Sattler, Senior Project Manager for River Information System Development, via-donau (Austria)
  
  
• “Coastal States’ Information Needs” - Mr. Michael P. Lynch, MNI, Senior Investigator, Spill Prevention Section, Spills Program, Washington State Department of Ecology
  
  
• Information and River Port Efficiency, including a discussion of SmartLock and the Upper Ohio River and Tributaries Navigation Technology Pilot Program – Mr. James McCarville, Executive Director, Port of Pittsburg
  
  
• The San Francisco Bay Initiative –Mr. Bobby Winston, Proprietor of Bay Crossings
  
  
• How e-Navigation will change ships’ navigation and communications equipment, its impact on vessel operations and management, and the potential benefits that e-Navigation will bring to those who manage or operate ships – Mr. Cormac Gebruers, Coordinator, Transas E-Navigation Task Force, Transas Ltd.