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
Ric Campo
Chairman of the Port Commission
Port of Houston Authority
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 Address: U.S. Maritime Administration – Beyond The Horizon
Rear Admiral, Ann C. Phillips, US Navy (Ret.)
Administrator
Maritime Administration/MARAD
U.S. Department of Transportation
10:00 – 10:30
Networking Break
10:30-11:00
A Vision of the Future – South Carolina Ports
Barbara Melvin
President & CEO
South Carolina Ports
11:00-11:30
Port Congestion
General Stephen R. Lyons (U.S. Army, Retired)
Port and Supply Chain Envoy
White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force
11:30 – 1:00
Networking Lunch
Track 1: Intermodal Connectivity
1:00-2:00
The Vision: A National Strategy for Port Expansion & Operations
John D. McCown
Non-Resident Senior Fellow
Center for Maritime Strategy
Barbara Melvin
President & CEO
South Carolina Ports
Roger Guenther
Executive Director
Port Houston
1:30-3:00
The Port System of The Future
Timothy Brown
Managing Director, Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Chelsea C. White III
Schneider National Chair of Transportation & Logistics
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Benoit Montreuil
Professor
Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Shashank Panchangam
Chief Product Officer
Crowley Solutions
3:00 – 3:30
Networking Break
3:30-4:30
Case Study: Expanding Capabilities of Inland Ports
Moderator – Margaret A. Kidd
Program Director/Instructional
Associate Professor, Supply Chain & Logistics
University of Houston
Pablo Bowen-Bobenrieth
Associate Partner & Business Development Manager Americas
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH
Christoph Schoppmann
Head of Terminal Planning and Logistics – Intermodal
Deputy Business Development Manager Americas
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH
Mike Hoffman
Port of Greer, SC and Port of Dillon, SC
Dorothe Görtz
Terminal Planning Expert
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH
4:30-5:30
Panel: America’s Maritime Highways
Moderator – Aimee Andres
Executive Director
Inland Rivers Ports and Terminals, Inc.
Timothy Pickering
Office of Ports & Waterways Planning
Maritime Administration
U.S. Department of Transportation
Lucy Fletcher
Business Development Manager
AGRIServices of Brunswick
Panelists TBA
Track 2 – Artificial Intelligence and the Automated Port of the Future
1:00-2:00
The Vision: AI and the Automated Port of the Future
Jeffrey DeCoux
Chairman
Autonomy Institute
2:00-3:00
Panel: Autonomous Vessels
Moderator – Captain Anuj Chopra
Co-founder & CEO
ESGPlus LLC
Brett A. Phaneuf
President
Submergence Group LLC
Geoff Douglas
CEO and Co-Founder
Mythos AI
Additional Panelists TBA
3:00 – 3:30
Networking Break
3:30-4:15
Case Study: Port Montreal Automated Systems
Panelists TBA
4:15-5:00
Panel: Automated Sensors And Systems
Moderator – Captain Keith M. Donohue
Deputy Commander, Sector Houston-Galveston
U.S. Coast Guard
Carles Civit
Director of Engineering
Pliant Energy Systems
Additional Panelists TBA
5:30
Closing of Day One
5:30-7:30
Networking reception in Exhibit Hall
6:15-7:30
Student Research Poster Contest Awards Ceremony
Presented by the International Propeller Club