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.) (Invited)
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
Port Director and CEO
Port of Beaumont
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
Author and Container Shipping Expert
Panelists TBA
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
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
Mike Hoffman
Port of Greer, SC and Port of Dillon, SC
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
Dorothe Görtz
Terminal Planning Expert
HPC Hamburg Port Consulting GmbH
4:30-5:30
Panel: Advances in Smart Containers
Moderator – Alfred B. Henson, PhD
Instructional Assistant Professor
University of Houston
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
Additional Panelists TBA
3:00 – 3:30
Networking Break
3:30-4:15
Case Study: Port Gothenburg Automated Systems
Panelists TBA
4:15-5:00
Panel: Automated Sensors And Systems
Laurent Huenaerts
General Manager, North America
Unifly
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