Abstract:

Digitalization brings promising opportunities to the maritime industry. Even though with lower pace than in other industries, digitalization has arrived in different areas of the maritime industry, and we are now able to include many digitalized components into solutions helping actors to respond to industry and global challenges. We have learned that technology cannot be detached from human agency. That's why collaboration is critical for successful digitalization bringing actors together in the self-organizing ecosystem of transport to extract the digital dividend. Furthermore, collaboration and digitalization need to operate in symbiosis to create both, economic and societal value. Building on the applied science of maritime informatics (www.maritimeinformatics.org) which focuses on digital collaboration, digital data sharing and decision-making, and data analytics, this talk demonstrates the value of digitalization and collaboration acting in symbiosis taking two examples: Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) and maritime decarbonization. 

About the Speaker:

Dr. Mikael Lind is the world’s first (adjunct) Professor of Maritime Informatics engaged at Chalmers and Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) and well-known expert in the field of digital collaboration and innovation frequently surfaced in international trade press. He is an expert contributor at World Economic Forum, Europe’s Digital Transport Logistic Forum (DTLF), and UN/CEFACT. He is co-editor of the first two books on Maritime Informatics, co-author of the Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation, co-editor of the book Maritime Decarbonization, and co-initiator and sponsor of the Virtual Watch Tower (VWT) network initiative. He has also been instrumental in setting up international ecosystem collaborations as well as co-founding collaborative decision making (CDM) initiatives for different transport and logistics settings.

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