22ND NAVIGATOR 2023 – THE SHIPPING DECISION MAKERS FORUM consists of 3 closed events (March, May, October) for Forum’s sponsors and distinguished invitees/speakers from Greek and Foreign Shipping Companies, International Shipping Organizations & Embassies and the 22ND NAVIGATOR 2023 – THE SHIPPING DECISION MAKERS FORUM that will take place on Thursday, 9th of November 2023, at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC), 10.00-14.00, where the main points discussed in the closed events will be presented.
The First Exclusive Roundtable Event was successfully completed on Tuesday 21st of March 2023, at Grand Hyatt Athens, under the theme #BeTheChange. A total of two hundred (200) distinguished executives from across the entire spectrum of the shipping arena took part in the closed roundtable event, where they met and discussed key issues that concern and affect both the industry and our society.
The Second Brainstorming Session, was also completed with great success on Thursday 25th of May 2023, at TATOI Club, under the theme #SeaTheChange. A total of 80 distinguished participants, from 40 companies, consisted only of representatives of our sponsors who participated in the closed discussions held on 21st of March 2023 and guests from shipowners/managing Companies, met to discuss about Decarbonisation, the Intersection of Human Performance-Technology and Training, Digitalization and ESG.
The Third Closed Event will take place under the theme #MasterTheChange on October 2023. Stay tuned for further information!
NAVIGATE THE CHANGE
The 22nd Navigator 2023 – The Shipping Decision Makers Forum under the theme #NavigateTheChange will take place on Thursday, 9th of November 2023, in Athens at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre (SNFCC), 10.00-14.00.
This year’s forum will be consisted by the following 3 panels:
1. Shipowners’ Panel which will be moderated byEdwin Lampert, Executive Editor / Head of Business Relations – Riviera Maritime Media & Petrospot
2. Organizations’ Panel which will be moderated byDespina Panayiotou Theodosiou, CEO – Tototheo Maritime, Immediate Past President – WISTA International,President at Electricity Authority of Cyprus
3. Mastering the Tides of Change: Navigating Through Experiments and Dilemmas:which will be moderated by Dorothea Ioannou, CEO – THE AMERICAN P &I CLUB
The mission of this year’s organization is to envision the “shipping industry of the next 20 years”. We are attending numerus of Forums and events discussing relevant issues. What we aspire to achieve within this Forum is to take into consideration that the next few years will be full of experiments & dilemmas…
BE THE CHANGE 29/3/2023
FIRST EXCLUSIVE ROUNDTABLE EVENT
21st OF MARCH, GRAND HYATT ATHENS
16.30 – 17.00: Registration / Welcome
17.00 – 18.00: Opening Remarks
– Manolis Koutoulakis, Secretary General for Insular Policy and Aegean -MINISTRY OF MARITIME AFFAIRS & INSULAR POLICY
– George Alexandratos, Vice President of Hellenic Chamber of Shipping
Welcoming Addresses by
–Yuri Arthur, Commercial Counselor – U.S. EMBASSY IN ATHENS
– François de Ricolfis – Head of the Economic Dpt. – EMBASSY OF FRANCE
– Christian Grotnes Halvorsen, Deputy Head of Mission – ROYAL EMBASSY OF NORWAY
Presentations by:
– Cyrille Bret, Representative Comite Maritime CCI FRANCE GRECE & General Manager in Greece at Naval Group
– George Vangis, Territory Manager – AMAZON WEB SERVICE
– Kal Petrov, Director New Market Development – DRONAMICS
18.00 – 20.00: Round Table Discussions among our sponsors and executives of Ship owning & ship Management Companies on the above mentioned subjects
20.00-20.30: Closing Remarks
20.30 onwards: Cocktail
MODERATORS
DECARBONISATION
Dimitris Anassis, Partner -Hill Dickinson John Tsogkas, Head of Bunkering & Trading – SEKAVIN SA George Teriakidis, Area Manager, East Mediterranean & Black Sea – DNV Miltos Messinezis, Sales Engineer – OCEANKING Steen Sander Jacobsen, Technical Director – General Manager – NJORD SOLUTION Achilleas Kavagias, Mechanical and Marine Engineer, Production Manager – PISR Antonis Assimakopoulos, Marine Service Manager – ABB Marine
Kostis Achladitis, Managing Director – GOLDEN CARGO Christos Bravos, General Manager- GOLDEN CARGO Dionysia Kelgiorgi, Senior Operations Executive- GOLDEN CARGO Pantelis Sarantis, Air &Sea Product Dev.Manager- GOLDEN CARGO Christoforos Tripolitis, Assurance And Quality Manager – GOLDEN CARGO Prof. Seraphim Kapros, Director – MBA in Shipping – UNIVERSITY OF AEGEAN Nikos Doukas, Editor & Journalist – NAFS Magazine Giannis Pontikos, CEO – MARINE SUPPORT Nikos Gaitanis, Sales Representative – MARINE SUPPORT
SMART SHIPPING
Vasilis Kamitsis, Regional Technical Manager – IRI/The Marshall Islands Registry Dimitris Sousoudis, Fleet Ops Sales Manager – MarineTraffic Michalis Sariklis, Marketing Director – WinguSuite Cloud Communications Platform George Kallianis, Founder / CEO – Kallianis Bros Shipping S.A Philip Uhrskov Nielsen, Co-Founder – ORIANI Philippos Gianakos, Area Sales Manager, Shipping Solutions, South Europe, Middle East & Africa – NAPA Kosntantinos Balampos, Business Development Manager – Fortune Technologies SA Andreas Symeonidis, Marketing Manager -METIS Cyberspace Technology Anastasia Alexaki, Senior Associate – HILL DICKINSON Jose Demostenes Racine, Chief of SEGUMAR Piraeus – Panama Maritime Authority Ioannis Tsioutsias – Senior Executive of Maritime Affairs, Segumar-Technical Office
INTERSECTION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY & TRAINING
Panos Theodossopoulos, Chief Digital Officer – OCEANKING Vicky Apostolopoulou, Business Development Executive School of Maritime Studies – METROPOLITAN COLLEGE Captain Nicholas Kritharis, Module Leader, Marine Operations Management Natalia Bury Loyal, Chief Governance Officer – TOTOTHEO Rodoula Kaloudi, HR Officer – BENEFIT SOFTWARE Costas Siliverdis – Client Service & Business Development Manager
HUMAN ELEMENT
Katerina Skourtanioti, Managing Director – VENLYS Maritime Specialisation Services, Dimitris Lambrinakos, Area Business Development Manager – MARICHEM MARIGASES George Alexandratos, Vice President – Hellenic Chamber of Shipping Capt. Kostas Karavassilis, Senior Loss Prevention Executive – Thomas Miller BV Greek Branch Nikos Themelaros, Vice Admiral HCG (r) & Head of Human Element Division at Palau International Ship Register Makram Daouk, Business Director – Crossworld Marine Niki Tigka, Claims Executive – THE AMERICAN P&I CLUB Georgia Papadogianni, Regional Crew Management Partner – V.Ships Greece Ltd. Marina Papaioannou, Regional Maritime Academies Manager – Maritime Service Center – DNV Panos Malliris, Business Development Manager – MARITA HELLAS
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL ASPECTS / ESG
Costas Constantinou, Managing Partner | Global Maritime Leader – MOORE GREECE Pinelopi Kassani, Governance, Risk & Compliance Partner – MOORE GREECE Dimitrios Koutsoukos – General Manager – SEKAVIN SA Foteini Mega, – Partner, Assurance – Ernst & Young (Hellas) Kiara Konti, Partner | Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader – Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe & Central Asia (CESA), Ernst & Young (Hellas) Anastasios Maraslis, President & Director – MARASCO MARINE Kostas Rokkos, Chairman & CEO – TST International SA Panayotis Bachtis, General Manager – NJORD SOLUTION
KNOW YOUR CLIENT (COMMUNICATION CHALLENGES BETWEEN CHARTERERS & SHIPPING COMPANIES)
Maria Yiassa, Senior Marketing Manager – The Swedish Club Greece
Danae Bezantakou, CEO – NAVIGATOR SHIPPING CONSULTANTS
George Alexandratos, Vice President of the Hellenic Chamber of Shipping #BeTheChange
Christian Grotnes Halvorsen, Deputy Head of Mission – ROYAL EMBASSY OF NORWAY
Manolis Koutoulakis, Secretary General | Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy
Yuri Arthur, Comercial Counselor – U.S. Embassy in Athens
Cyrille Bret, Representative Committee Maritime CCI FRANCE GRECE&General Manager Naval Group, Greece
François de Ricolfis – Head of the Economic Dpt. – EMBASSY OF FRANCE #bethechange
PHOTO ALBUM
SEA THE CHANGE 25/05/2023
SECOND EXCLUSIVE EVENT – BRAINSTORMING SESSION
25th OF MAY, TATOI Club
The event was closed and the audience consisted only of representatives of our sponsors who participated in the closed discussions held on 21st of March 2023 and guests from shipowners/managing Companies.
PROGRAM: 18.30-19.00: Arrivals 19.00-20.00: Speakers’ statements 20.00-20.30: Discussion with the participants 20.30 – 22.00: Cocktails
SPEAKERS
• DECARBONISATION:
Giorgos Pateras, Chairman – HELLENIC CHAMBER OF SHIPPING
• INTERSECTION OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE, TECHNOLOGY & TRAINING:
Kostas Kontes, Managing Director – V.SHIPS GREECE
• DIGITALIZATION:
Giorgos Poularas, CEO – ENESEL
• DIGITALIZATION:
Matthew Machiras, Vice President, A.M.I.M.TE.C – Association of Maritime Managers in Information Technology & Communications & CIO – METROSTAR
• ESG:
Costas Rokkos, Chairman & CEO TST International SA
MODERATOR:
Angelos Pantouvakis, Dean of the School of Shipping and Industry of the University of Piraeus
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