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Gold Sponsors
Awake.AI is a software platform company building an ecosystem for smart ports and shipping. Awake.AI’s mission is to lead the transition to sustainable and intelligent maritime logistics and reduce global shipping emissions with our ecosystem partners. The platform is the first of its kind, built from the ground up to accommodate seamless collaboration within the entire maritime logistics chain by sharing situational awareness and providing AI-supported predictions for future planning. The API’s and applications built on top of the Awake platform are available for customers and third parties using the subscription business model.
Mastercard’s Global Trade team accelerates inclusion, trust and resilience across the supply chain through the power of our network, technology, solutions and partnerships.
We leverage innovations and capabilities including digital payments, data insights, cybersecurity and blockchain to integrate payments with the flow of commerce, delivering enhanced payment experiences that provide full visibility and real-time insights across freight processing.
We’re working collaboratively to drive fair and affordable access to supply chain finance, increasing liquidity through enhanced access to credit and early funding models and ultimately helping to build a more resilient and sustainable future for players across the global supply chain.
Westwell, an artificial intelligence (AI) company founded in 2015 with HQ in Shanghai, provides full stack AI development to businesses across multiple industries.
Featuring WellOcean, the AI-driven smart port solution, and Qomolo, the green energy unmanned driving commercial vehicle solution, Westwell is consolidating more comprehensive, easy-to-implement, and cost-effective AI solutions for all industrial end users in specific usage and scenarios.
Westwell is now leading in the global market of autonomous-driving commercial solutions and of all-round AI implementation in container logistics. We have cooperated with more than 90 business clients globally.
Silver Sponsors
Esri, the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping, helps customers unlock the full potential of data to improve operational and business results. Founded in 1969, in Redlands, California, USA, Esri software is deployed in more than 350,000 organizations globally and engineers the most innovative solutions for digital transformation, the Internet of Things (IoT), and advanced analytics.
Bronze Sponsors
GISGRO is a complete smart port management system that helps SMPs, their clients, and their subcontractors work smarter. With the ability to view and utilize port operations and asset data quickly and easily, harbor masters gain the power to effectively oversee and optimize virtually all port operations. This makes GISGRO smarter not just for ports and their bottom line, but also for the local communities in which they operate, and society and the planet as a whole. And as our name implies, GISGRO can even help SMPs grow. GISGRO is developed by VRT Finland, a pioneer in 3D underwater inspections.
AllRead is a deep-tech spin-off providing a disruptive AI-based OCR software for ports and terminals, helping them optimize operations and security processes with automatic assets identification and monitoring in real time, even in the most challenging environments (night, blurriness, large and narrow distances, in high-speed motion…). It offers an accurate, intelligent code detection and reading, using Computer Vision and Deep Learning technologies, and it works from any camera or mobile phone, with minimal tech and infrastructures requirements.
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise helps seaport and logistics operators move from connected to smart port 4.0., enabling smarter services for their staff, customers and equipment. Our technology provides the building blocks to connect subsystems and provide ports with innovative services and applications. We deliver ubiquitous connectivity and real-time communications to support efficient interaction between people, processes and IoTs in a safe and green environment.
Our digital-age networking, communications and cloud solutions, tailored to ensure customers’ success, are offered with flexible business models; in the cloud, on premises, and hybrid. These solutions have built-in security and are designed to limit their environmental impact.
Exhibitors
ActiveMaps.Live from 3DEO is an interactive data visualisation platform that enables digital twin ambitions. Connect data from any system, sensor or device and display in a geographic context in real-time. Our clients use ActiveMaps.Live to convert data into meaningful information in visually engaging ways that help users to understand the root cause of a problem earlier, and make faster, better decisions. ActiveMaps.Live has application across the whole port, providing you with one consolidated portal for all your business data.
Magal Security Systems is a leading integrator of turnkey security and safety solutions, providing holistic physical and virtual platforms around the world.
For over 50 years, Magal Security Systems has provided large-scale, tailor-made solutions and has developed a diverse portfolio for a variety of sectors and industries, including Seaports, Oil & Gas, National Borders, and Critical Sites.
Magal combines design, integration, project management, software development, and sensor engineering with extensive experience and a strong foundation of in-house research and development, to deliver advanced end-to-end solutions that streamline operations and ensure business continuity, operational efficiency, and safety.
PortXchange is one of the leading tech startups in the maritime domain that provides digital solutions for predictable and sustainable shipping. Originating from the Port of Rotterdam, PortXchange was founded under the belief that collaboration, digitization, and sustainability will shape the future of the shipping industry.
PortXchange solutions utilize vast amounts of data to unlock operational efficiency for ports, shipping companies, terminals, service providers and reduce their carbon footprint. PortXchange combines industry standards and the latest technological developments, such as Machine Learning and artificial intelligence, to offer a holistic approach for improved efficiency and greater visibility. It is set to cater to different levels of digital maturity and all types of trade.
Delegate Bag Sponsor
TT Club is the established market-leading independent provider of mutual insurance and related risk management services to the international transport and logistics industry. TT Club’s primary objective is to help make the industry safer and more secure. Founded in 1968, the Club has more than 1100 Members, spanning container owners and operators, ports and terminals, and logistics companies, working across maritime, road, rail, and air. TT Club is renowned for its high-quality service, in-depth industry knowledge and enduring Member loyalty. It retains more than 93% of its Members with a third of its entire membership having chosen to insure with the Club for 20 years or more.
Event App Sponsor
Nokia creates technology that helps the world act together.
As a trusted partner for critical networks, Nokia are committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Nokia create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs.
Adhering to the highest standards of integrity and security, Nokia help build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable and inclusive world.
Nokia’s maritime industry solutions provide a platform for modernizing container terminal, port and shipping operations. They help you get the most from digital transformation by enabling you to streamline your processes, improve safety and security, add new levels of automation and stay a step ahead of changing technologies and demands.
Supporting Partner
SDP 2021 (Spring Edition) Event Sponsors
Official Headline Sponsor
The objective of the Port of Rotterdam Authority is to enhance the port’s competitive position as a logistics hub and world-class industrial complex. Not only in terms of size, but also with regard to quality. The Port Authority is therefore leading the transition to sustainable energy and it is committed to digitalisation in order to make the port, and the supply chain, more efficient. The core tasks of the Port Authority are to develop, manage and exploit the port in a sustainable way and to deliver speedy and safe services for shipping.
Official AI Partner
INFORM specializes in AI and optimization software to improve operational decision making. Based in Aachen, Germany, the company has been in the optimization business for over 50 years and serves a wide span of logistics industries including ports, maritime, and intermodal terminals. With a broad range of standalone and add-on software modules, INFORM’s unique blend of algorithmic based software expertise, rich industry experience, and big world thinking delivers huge value for their customers.
Platinum Sponsor
Connecting over 100 years of polymer engineering expertise with a smarter approach to port and terminal equipment optimization Trelleborg’s marine and infrastructure operation helps ports, terminals and vessels deploy smart engineered solutions for port approach, berthing, docking and mooring in a sustainable way.
Trelleborg’s innovative SmartPort offering deploys the latest in marine technology applications to help ports and terminals optimize their operations. Trelleborg’s SmartPort portfolio is a technology platform that powers the critical interface between ship and port, on land and at sea, allowing users to analyze asset performance and apply data insights, to improve day-to-day decision making and long-term operational efficiencies.
Gold Sponsor
The Port of Virginia is a key East Coast gateway and the premier rail port on the East Coast. In 2019, CNBC ranked Virginia as the #1 state for business. In a larger sense, The Port of Virginia is doing everything necessary to become the U.S. East Coast’s leading gateway for global trade for the next several decades, and to make Virginia the #1 place for businesses in the country. Between 2015 and 2025, the port will have invested $1.5 billion in its infrastructure – creating a network of six terminals that can handle any type of cargo. Dredges hit our waters in late 2019 and our deepening and widening efforts are in full swing. By 2024, we’ll once again be the deepest port on the US East Coast with 55’ channels and two-way traffic for the largest vessels calling our coast
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise helps seaport and logistics operators move from connected to smart port 4.0., enabling smarter services for their staff, customers and equipment. Our technology provides the building blocks to connect subsystems and provide ports with innovative services and applications. We deliver ubiquitous connectivity and real-time communications to support efficient interaction between people, processes and IoTs in a safe and green environment.
Our digital-age networking, communications and cloud solutions, tailored to ensure customers’ success, are offered with flexible business models; in the cloud, on premises, and hybrid. These solutions have built-in security and are designed to limit their environmental impact.
Over 100 years of innovation have made Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise a trusted advisor to more than 830,000 customers in 100 countries around the world. The privately-owned company with headquarters in France has over 2900 direct business partners worldwide, achieving an effective global reach with a local focus.
Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on over 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it’s freight, transit, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people – together – are accelerating the future of transportation. Our Port Optimizer™ solution enhances supply chain performance and predictability by delivering real time data-driven insights through a single portal to partners across the supply chain. Integrating data from across the port ecosystem, combining machine learning and deep domain expertise, it helps the supply chain monitor and respond to dynamic conditions, align people and resources, and proactively communicate across functions.
Silver Sponsors
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting operates as an independent logistics consulting company specialised in planning, simulating, implementing a large range of transformation services for ports, marine terminals and intermodal rail.
Since establishing in 1976, the Hamburg-based consulting company has delivered more than 1,600 projects across 120 countries spanning six continents along the full port project development cycle.2025.
Wärtsilä Voyage transforms how vessels perform their voyage by leveraging the latest digital technologies to deliver a step-change in safety, efficiency, reliability, and emissions. We are committed to creating a Smart Marine Ecosystem, whereby every vessel can connect to digital services that make voyaging safer and greener. With the broadest Smart Marine portfolio in the market, we are well positioned to lead the industry towards becoming digitally connected across the entire value chain and to be the first partner of choice when leveraging the latest digital technologies.
Lorenz Technology utilize drone technologies to provide the intelligent solution designed for ports to digitalize their operations and automate work processes. With the edge-computing device Lorenz AI-Link® and the web interface of Lorenz Hive® drones and mobile robots can be utilized as autonomous data collectors providing insights for actionable approvements in real-time.
Data gathering and management becomes easier with the intelligent solution built to operate on ports and serve the maritime industry with data gathered by drones. The AI-driven solution is presented by Kristian Skaarup, CEO, Monday 29th 5:15 at “Interpreting the Data from your Smart Technologies to Create Meaningful Business Decisions”.
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