Event Description

Maritime Research Alliance Research Festival 2025

GRAND CHALLENGES, SECTORAL TRANSITION, AND THE ROLE OF RESEARCH

On 15 May 2025 Maritime Research Alliance is organizing a maritime research festival at University of Southern Denmark in Odense.

This is your chance to get inspired by the state-of-the-art in maritime research in Denmark:

• Meet the researchers at poster sessions and learn about ongoing research projects (see presentations below)
• Attend panel debates with experts from the maritime research community on hot topics such green transition, geopolitics and digitalization.
• Join us for the keynote soeak by economist, hisytorian, and journalist Marc Levinson  - author behind the book The box: How the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger
• Participate in the Maritime Research Alliance 5 years anniversary reception and the conference dinner.

Participation is free

When: 15 May 2025 from 9.00-16.15

Where: SDU, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, by the main entrance

PROGRAM: 

Grand challenges, sectoral transition, and the role of research

9.00 - 9.30       Registration and light breakfast

9:30 - 9:50       Welcome by Thomas Roslyng Olesen (MRA)

9.50 - 10.00     Introduction by Charlotte Harder (Shippingwatch)

10.00-10.30    Keynote speak by Marc Levinson

10.30-11.15    Poster session

11.15-12.15    Panel 1: Geopolitics - impact on the maritime sector

12.15-13.15    Lunch

13.15-14.15    Panel 2: Bio-diversity and the green transition in shipping 

14.15-15.00    Poster session

15.00-16.00    Panel 3: Digitalization and AI in shipping - challenges and potentials

16.00-16.15    Concluding remarks

16.15-17.00    MRA 5 years reception: Drinks, snacks and music

18.00-             Conference Dinner

At the poster sessions you can meet:

Agnieszka Nowinska and Gisele Msann (Aalborg University Business School) presenting "AI disruption in chartering"

Annette Skovsted Hansen (Aarhus University) presenting: "Global Ports and Shipping" 

Asli Arda (University of Copenhagen) presenting "Digital Pilotage"

Aurelian Dodis (SDU) presenting "Predictive maintenance and condition monitoring for marine combustion engines"

Casper Aaskov Drangsfeldt (SDU) presenting "A probabilistic machine learning framework for vibration-based structural health monitoring of ship gearboxes subjected to variable operational conditions"

Elma Ramic (SDU) presenting "Motion Sickness Among Wind Turbine Technicians Onboard Smaller Working Vessels"

Henrik Sornn-Friese (CBS) presenting "Port innovatino for the green transition"

Jonas Palmgren (SDU) presenting "Definition of optimum Electrical load balance"

Julia Pahl (SDU) presenting "The MISSION Project"

Kate Markhvida (CBS) presenting "Why does collaboration fail? Learnings from TradeLens in container shipping"

Komeyl Baghizadeh (SDU) presenting "Data-driven optimization od vessel operations for offshore windfarm maintenance"

Lisa Froholdt (SDU) presenting "If Popeye can do it, can Olive too? A case study of diversity at sea in the cargo segment"

Michael Barfoed (DTU) presenting "Transforming portsinto sustainable energy transition hubs: A technical review of renewable energy systems integration and alternative fuels"

Petar Sofev (CBS) presenting "Stakeholder dynamics in port cities"

And many more...