Maritime Makers
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsConversations with maritime leaders about innovation, transformation and disruption in our industry. Become better at harnessing disruption to grow your business and your career.
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#16 - Dan Ng. Maritime cyber security and building startups in the maritime space.
April 06, 2022 07:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBDan Ng is CEO of CyberOwl, a disruptive startup helping maritime asset operators gain visibility of the cyber risks to their distributed, remote assets. CyberOwl helps fleet operators understand what they have onboard, keep it secure and prove they have secured it. Before building CyberOwl he was Associate Director at KPMG, where he focused on the Defense, Security and Industrial sectors. During that time, he worked extensively developing propositions, market entry and commercial strategies ...
#15 - Claus Nehmsow. Techstars, AI, robotics, and drones in the maritime space.
March 21, 2022 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBWe talk about startups in the context of accelerators, specifically Techstars that partners with Eastern Pacific Shipping. AI, robotics, and drones are key technologies that are being brought to bear in shipping by several highly innovative startups in Singapore. They have the potential to significantly reduce harmful emissions and increase profitability.
#14 - Steffen Knodt. Underwater Autonomous Vechicles and unveiling the mysteries of the ocean.
February 18, 2022 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBDr. Steffen Knodt is the head of the Sustainable Ocean Business Center at Fraunhofer in Rostock / Germany. He has worked in various senior management roles in applied research and industry, recently focusing on impact entrepreneurship and venturing. He's a board member and a mentor to startups. Currently, he serves in the German Committee for the UN Ocean Decade of Science for Sustainable Development, as well as a member of the board of the German Association for Marine Technology GMT. He di...
#13 - Gerald Kane. The Technology Fallacy and how people are the real key to digital disruption.
January 21, 2022 16:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBGerald Kane is the author of "The Technology Myth: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation", published by MIT Press. He is also the Faculty Director of the Edmund H. Shea Jr. Center for Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Information Systems at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He is a senior editor at MIS Quarterly, the most prestigious academic journal on information systems. For "The Technology Fallacy" , he surveyed over 20,000 executives worldwide and in...
#12 - Raghu Ravinutala. Conversational AI platforms for better customer experience.
December 01, 2021 07:00 - 42 minutes - 29.4 MBRaghu Ravinutala was bitten by the entrepreneurial bug long before he co-founded yellow.ai in 2016 with a vision to make customer and enterprise interactions more effective and effortless. Previously, he worked for 16 years with leading tech companies such as Texas Instruments and Broadcom, taking leadership roles in engineering, product management and business development both in the Bay Area and India. He is an alumnus of NIT Warangal, enjoys a game of squash every now and then and believe...
#11 - Bjørn Højgaard. The value of strategic partnerships.
November 12, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBBjørn Højgaard is CEO of Anglo Eastern Univan Group, one of the world’s leading ship management companies. He’s been director at Thome Ship Management, Brigantine Group and A.P. Møller Singapore, as well as manager of operations, efficiency & IT for APM Terminals. Before moving into shore-side management, he was a master mariner with A.P. Møller - Maersk, commanding one of the shipping group’s largest container vessels at the time. He is the present chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Ass...
#11 - Bjørn Højgaard. The value of strategic partnerships.
November 12, 2021 13:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MBBjørn Højgaard is CEO of Anglo Eastern Univan Group, one of the world’s leading ship management companies. He’s been director at Thome Ship Management, Brigantine Group and A.P. Møller Singapore, as well as manager of operations, efficiency & IT for APM Terminals. Before moving into shore-side management, he was a master mariner with A.P. Møller - Maersk, commanding one of the shipping group’s largest container vessels at the time. He is the present chairman of the Hong Kong Shipowners Ass...
#10 - Michael Stolarczyk. Why planning is more important than plans.
October 29, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MBMichael Stolarczyk is Senior Vice President and CFO of CakeBoxx Technologies. He has held various C-level roles with companies like Ports America, Kontane Logistics, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, and he spent 17 years with the A. P. Moller Maersk Group. In 2002, his efforts led to Maersk’s quantum growth in Central Europe, and he was named to Fast Company magazine’s debut “Fast 50" list of Global Innovators. Michael published his first book, “Logical Logistics – A Common Sense Primer...
#9 - Bent Erik Bjørkli. Succeeding with disruption through partnerships.
October 15, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBBent Erik Bjørkli is vice President and Head of the Kognifai Partner Program, Digital Ocean, at Kongsberg Digital. He believes in a more efficient, collaborative and transparent maritime industry, using digitization as a tool to make it happen. He sees it as his job is to offer the best combined solutions through external partnerships with the early adopters in offshore and shipping. His background is from the Norwegian Naval Academy and submarine services, followed by various customer supp...
#9 - Bent Erik Bjørkli. Succeeding with disruption through partnerships.
October 15, 2021 08:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBBent Erik Bjørkli is vice President and Head of the Kognifai Partner Program, Digital Ocean, at Kongsberg Digital. He believes in a more efficient, collaborative and transparent maritime industry, using digitization as a tool to make it happen. He sees it as his job is to offer the best combined solutions through external partnerships with the early adopters in offshore and shipping. His background is from the Norwegian Naval Academy and submarine services, followed by various customer supp...
#8 - Sven-Eric Brooks. IoT and augmented workspaces.
September 29, 2021 08:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBSven-Eric Brooks is a business manager and IoT evangelist. He has studied at the University of Warsaw and holds an executive MBA in shipping and logistics from Copenhagen Business School. He has over 20 years of experience in the maritime industry with expertise in integrated bridge systems, smart and connected vessels and chip operations. He was business director at Northrop Grumman Sperry marine before joining KVH in 2020 as senior business development director, IoT. He lives with his wife...
#7 - Levine Naidoo. Reducing supply chain friction.
September 15, 2021 08:00 - 47 minutes - 30.4 MBLevine Naidoo is a frictionless supply chain executive with the IBM Sterling business unit. His passion is to reduce business friction within supply chain and compliance related disciplines. He is an active member of several international standards, technical committees, and has a wealth of experience in driving mass market adoption of standards and technological change. We talk about how to reduce friction in supply chains and business in general. We discuss the role of AI and automation. ...
#6 - Nakul Malhotra. Open innovation in the maritime industry.
September 01, 2021 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBNakul Malhotra is Vice President, open innovation, marine products for Wilhelmsen Ships Service. He is an advocate of applying an open innovation philosophy to solve the big challenges of the maritime industry. He believes in ecosystem thinking, and the ability to collaborate with what he calls permeable organizational boundaries. He has been in the marine industry for 25 years covering marine engineering, business management, and even actual seafaring experience. Nakul is an advisory board ...
#5 - Carsten Bullemer. Succeeding with maritime startups.
August 18, 2021 13:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBCarsten Bullemer is a serial entrepreneur and holds a diploma in logistics and computer science. He has started various companies in the field of digitalization and maritime operations, like vesseltracker.com, trusteddocks.com, searoutes.com and portcall.ai. He also organizes conferences like seadevcon, and the AIS summit, gives talks and hold seminars to bring the ideas of the blue economy into shipping and maritime. We talk about startups in the maritime industry, how hard it is to trans...
#2 - Sjoerd De Jager. PortXchange and just-in-time arrival.
August 04, 2021 12:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBSjoerd de Jager is managing director and co-founder of PortXchange. He has (co) founded several start-ups and worked for large corporations including Phillips and DSM before joining the Port of Rotterdam in 2017. We talk about the huge potential and challenges of transforming the port industry, specifically just-in-time arrival (JIT) and how increased collaboration, AI and data sharing are necessary to harness future disruptions.
#4 - Patrick Ryan. Digital transformation in classification society ABS.
August 04, 2021 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.8 MBPatrick Ryan is Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology for ABS, one of the largest classification societies in our industry, whom he is leading through their digitalization. He has authored seven U.S. and international patents on industrial augmented reality technology, and in 2017, Smart Industry Magazine named him one of the “Top 50” industrial innovators in Smart Technology. We talk about digital transformation and machine learning in the classification industry. Specifical...
#3 - David Ansley. Platform business models and network effects.
August 04, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MBDavid Ansley is an entrepreneur and advisor with a strong focus on digital disruption. He is owner of Ansley and Associates and director of management consulting company ACG global. He has coached more than 100 leaders on Digital Disruption and advised many startups and corporate commercialisation projects over the past 20 years. He lives in Sydney, loves surfing, skiing and red wine. We talk about platform business models and how to build and exploit network effects. We discuss paradigm...
#1 - Steen Brodsgaard Lund. RightShip and transformation in the maritime industry.
August 04, 2021 10:00 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBSteen Brodsgaard Lund is the CEO of RightShip and has a wealth of experience in the maritime industry - including 21 years with AP Moeller, advisory roles on digital transformation and as a startup founder. He has also been CCO and CDO at Executive Ship Management. We talk about several critical aspects and challenges of innovation, transformation and disruption in the maritime industry, the role of startups such as RightShip, and some major waves of disruption including AI and machine lear...