Conference Agenda Day One
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April 4, 2023
7:00 – 8:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
7:00 – 6:30
Technologies and Solutions Exhibits
8:30 – 8:40
Welcome Remarks and Administrative Announcements
Kevin Clement
Conference Director
College of Technology
University of Houston
8:40 – 9:00
Welcome Remarks: Port Houston
Speaker TBA
9:00-9:30
Latin American And The Caribbean: Port Development Challenges
Jorge Duran
Chief of the Secretariat
Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP), Organization of American States (OAS)
9:30-10:00
Keynote: U.S. Maritime Administration – Beyond The Horizon
Speaker TBA
10:00 – 10:30
Networking Break
10:30-11:00
Port Director’s Vision Of The Future
Speaker TBA
11:00-12:00
Panel: U.S. Strategic Ports – The Imperative To Modernizing Infrastructure
Panelists TBA
12:00 – 1:00
Networking Lunch
Track 1: Intermodal Connectivity
1:00-1:30
Port Congestion
Speaker TBA
1:30-3:00
Panel – Collaboration To Enhance Intermodal Connectivity
Panelists TBA
3:00 – 3:30
Networking Break
4:15-5:00
Panel – TBA
Panelists TBA
Track 2 – Artificial Intelligence and the Automated Port of the Future
1:00-1:30
THE VISION – WHAT COULD BE…
Jeffrey DeCoux
Chairman
Autonomy Institute
1:30-3:00
Panel: Autonomous Vessels
Panelists TBA
3:00 – 3:30
Networking Break
3:30-4:15
Case Study: Port Gothenburg Automation Initiative
Panelists TBA
4:15-5:00
Panel: Automated Sensors And Systems
Laurent Huenaerts
General Manager, North America
Unifly
Additional Panelists TBA
5:00
Closing of Day One
5:00-6:30
Networking reception in Exhibit Hall
5:15-6:30
Student Research Poster Contest Awards Ceremony
Presented by the International Propeller Club