Program 2025
Explore the program for the LEC Sustainable Shipping Technologies Forum 2025 and discover the key topics shaping the future of green shipping. The forum will be moderated by Ulrich Walter.
Thursday, 26 June - Morning session
Welcome & Opening
09:00
Opening of the 6th Forum and welcoming of the participants
Willibald Ehrenhöfer, Styrian Minister for Economy, Labour, Finance, Science and Research
Thomas Jauk, LEC Large Engines Competence Center
Nicole Wermuth, LEC Large Engines Competence Center & Graz University of Technology
Jens Meier, HPA Hamburg Port Authority
Session I: Greening of Ports and Corridors
09:30
Green Corridors & Fuels
Jens Meier, HPA Hamburg Port Authority
09:50
Greening of Danube navigation - roadmap to an (almost)-zero emission Danube fleet
Manfred Seitz, Danube Commission
10:10
Renewables in Ports
Fredrick Hoffmann, HPA Hamburg Port Authority
10:30
Q&A
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break, Networking & Exhibition
Impulse speach & moderated panel discussion
11:00
Impulse speach
Helga Kromp-Kolb, BOKU University Institute of Meteorology and Climatology
11:20
Panel discussion with:
Helga Kromp-Kolb, BOKU University Institute of Meteorology and Climatology
Jens Meier, Hamburg Port Authority (tbc)
Ajoy Ramalingam, PTB
Manfred Seitz, Danube Commission
Sascha Gill, United Waterways
Moderated by Ulrich Walter
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break, Networking & Exhibition
Thursday, 26 June - Afternoon session
Navigating the Future: Pioneering Innovations for Sustainable Shipping
13:30
The Missing Link: Why Digitalization is Key to Green Shipping Corridors
Sjoerd de Jager, PortXchange
13:45
Insights from PLATINA4Action on regulations to unlock the energy transition of inland waterway transport in Europe
Martin Quispel, EICB
14:00
Advanced power conversion technologies based on onboard ammonia cracking through novel membrane reactors
Angela Mary Thomas, Tecnalia
14:15
The Role of Metrology in Green Maritime Shipping
Ajoy Ramalingam, PTB
Session II: Design and education for green transformation
14:30
Green fuels and solutions for maritime and inland navigation propulsion: challenges and opportunities
Joanne Ellis, RISE
14:50
Challenges in the training and further education of seafarers with regard to the use of sustainable ship technologies and renewable fuels
Rom Rabe, Wismar University of Applied Sciences
15:10
SYNERGETICS: demonstration of the use of digital tools and virtual assets in finding the optimal greening solution for inland vessels
Cristian Chirita, Viadonau & Gianluca Giurco, Marin
15:30
Q&A
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break, Networking & Exhibition
Session III: Enabler for technology implementation
16:30
Passenger vessels: decarbonisation and Innovation Fund
Sascha Gill, United Waterways
16:50
Decarbonisation strategies for ocean-going vessels
Maximilian Malin, LEC Large Engines Competence Center
17:10
Implementation of new technologies, Consultance for the ship ovner, financing
Prasana Colluru, Strider Carbon
17:30
Q&A