The ECDIS Revolution

Looking for the answers – Time’s ticking

3rd Annual Conference and Exhibition

 

21st and 22nd November, 2012 – Venue tbc, London, UK

Event chaired by: Philip Wake, Chief Executive, The Nautical Institute

AGENDA (subject to change)

DAY ONE:

08.00 Refreshments, registration and exhibition

09.15 Conference organizer`s opening remarks

09.20 Welcome from the Chair – The ECDIS Revolution: another year on

  • Update on key issues surrounding ECDIS since last year`s conference
  • We’re into implementation – what’s the feedback
  • Lessons learned

Philip Wake

09.35 An overview to the intentions this year

  • It’s time to find some answers
  • Reviewing the previous key points
  • An explanation on the plan for this conference

Steve Monk – ECDIS Revolution.org

Session One: Training.  Led by a management company representative to generate debate

09.50 The Operators points of view

  • I transitioned from paper to electronic. Thoughts and opinions

Speaker tbc – A Junior Officer

10.10 The Trainers point of view

  • Amends to the course model
  • What’s the minimum acceptable training time and why?
  • Feedback from the classroom
  • Common issues and concerns

Speaker tbc - An ECDIS instructor

10.30 The legal point of view

  • What happens when it goes wrong
  • How you stop it going wrong
  • Out take on electronic navigation and training

Speaker tbc – A legal representative

10.50 Refreshments and Exhibition

11.15 Recap and Discussion – Points to resolve:

  • Does the present training programme / course work?
  • Standards worldwide – how do we improve?  Do we need to? Commonality and auditing.
  • Understanding from a Port State Controllers point of view.
  • Flag and Class contributions
  • Don’t forget the fundamentals of navigation.
  • Paper charts, they’re still relevant
  • Datums, SCAMIN
  • Do we need more regulations here?  Who’s going to implement and follow up?

 12.20 Summarise and points to take forward

Session Lead

 12.30 Lunch and Exhibition

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 13.45 Keynote Speaker – tbc

Session Two:  Management.  Led by an equipment representative to generate discussion and seek answers

 14.15 The procurement / shipping manager point of view

  • What do I have to contend with?
  • What’s my timeline to implement?

Speaker tbc – Shipping manager or procurement manager

14.35 The Fleet Trainer / Senior Captain point of view

  • Developing procedures and maintaining them
  • Audits

Speaker tbc – Senior Fleet Captain

 14.55 The Operators point of view

  • From a purely electronic chart perspective.  I never operated paper

Speaker tbc – Junior Officer who hasn’t used a paper chart since training

15.15 Refreshments and Exhibition      

15.40 Recap and Discussion – Points to resolve:

  • The timeline to procure, fit, train, develop and audit
  • Hurdles along the way
  • Procedural development and maintaining it
  • Lessons learnt and learning from them
  • What next?  Where do we go for help?
  • Monitoring from ashore.  Tracking ships as Big Brother
  • Do we trust the Captains?  How is morale and job satisfaction on board?
  • Promoting feedback, both good and bad
  • Chart management – paper and electronic.
  • Bridge Resource Management – Is it relevant

16.40 Summarise and points to take forward

Session Lead          

16.50 Options tbc

          1650 – 1710 Refreshments followed by Key Speaker

          1650 – 1710 Refreshments followed by roundtables of four key topics

ttbc Cocktail Party and equipment exhibition

ttbc + 1h 30m  End of conference Day One

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 DAY TWO: The Next Bit

08.00 Refreshments and exhibition

09.00 Chair to conduct review of yesterday’s discussions

 09.10 Keynote speaker – tbc

Session Three:  Equipment – Led by a Flag representative to generate discussion and seek answers

09.30 The Manufacturers point of view

  • What we’re trying to achieve
  • Are we satisfying the needs of the regulators, operators or share holders?

Speaker tbc – A manufacturing representative

09.50 The engineering developers point of view

  • What’s my understanding of the regulations?
  • How do I make it easy for the operator?

Speaker tbc – A software developer

10.10 The Chart developers point of view

  • ENC’s and their complexity
  • Maintaining standards
  • The legal nightmare

Speaker tbc – IHB or IHO representative

 10.30 Refreshments and Exhibition

10.55 Recap and Discussion – Points to resolve:

  • The Bluetooth effect – developing commonality and terminology
  • Basic displays, would it be easier
  • Basic features, keep it simple
  • Is the system even meeting the standards and is not, why not?
  • Why is standardisation so difficult?  Is the tail wagging the dog?
  • Helping the operator and training the trainer – properly
  • Software development and upgrades, when and how are these put on board?
  • Licences.  Is it a simple process?
  • SCAMIN and ENC loading / display
  • Pay and you go licences
  • Auditing everything
  • Listening to the operator – should we or not?
  • Firewalls.  Can we link to the comms and is it safe?
  • The operators gets their say but how far?
  • Useable operators manuals – develop some
  • Cost – why so high?

 11.15 Summarise and points to take forward

Session Lead          

11.25 Keynote speaker – tbc

11.55 Lunch and exhibition

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Session Four:  Regulations and Class – Led by a training representative to generate discussion and seek answers

13.15 The Flag / Class point of view

  • What we’re trying to achieve
  • What we expect to see

Speaker tbc – A senior Flag representative

13.35 The Investigators point of view

  • What we see too often
  • Areas for concentration
  • Helping the operator

Speaker tbc – MAIB

13.55 The P & I Club point of view

  • ECDIS is costing us more or less than paper assisted collisions and groundings
  • What we’d like to see

Speaker tbc – An insurance representative

 14.15 Exhibition and Refreshments

 14.40 Recap and Discussion – Points to resolve:

  • Do the regulations work?
  • Is the IMO 1.27 course model broken?
  • Insurance premiums – can we bring them down?
  • Effects on training and trainers
  • Is the user being listened to?
  • What’s legal got to say to all this?
  • Should we revert to paper?

15.50 Summarise and points to take forward

Session Lead           

16.00 Exhibition and Refreshments

Session Five:  Recapping and a way forward 

 16.25 Utilising the ECDIS Mindset

  • Training, support, audit, procedures and navigation

Royal Norwegian Navy

16.45 Pulling it all together

Speaker tbc

17.05 Sponsor speaking opportunity 1

17.15 Sponsor speaking opportunity 2

17.25 Questions and discussion

17.40 Chair’s closing remarks

  • The way forward
  • Points for action

Philip Wake

18.00 End of conference