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TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 09:30 - 11:00 SGT

Capt. Paul Gallie

Director Business Development

A.P.Moller Capital

Capt. Paul J. Gallie has extensive experience in the shipping and port industry. Following sea‐service up to the rank of Master, Paul moved ashore and has focused on port operations, refrigerated transport, project implementation, business development and investments, in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

He has previously worked for Chiquita Brands International, Hutchison Ports, APM Terminals and Mitsui/Portek holding positions as Cargo Superintendent, Stowage & Scheduling Manager, Business Development Manager for the Andean Region, Port General Manager, Country Manager for Colombia and Ecuador, Managing Director of Central America, Director of Port Investments for Asia and Head of Americas.

He operated his own shipping agency and stevedoring company in The Gambia, for a number of years.

In December 2018 Paul joined A.P. Moller Capital as Director, Business Development based in Dubai, focusing on port and transportation investment opportunities in Africa, South and South-East Asia.

He has spoken and moderated at numerous international industry conferences. He has a Diploma in Nautical Science and gained his Masters at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. He has continued his further education at the National University of Singapore. He is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Paul is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute. He was a founder member of the British-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, a Board Member of the American-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce and sat on the Executive Committee of the LatinPorts organisation.

Kenneth Lim

Assistant Chief Executive (Industry & Transformation)

MPA Singapore 

Kenneth is the Assistant Chief Executive (Industry) of Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) since 1 Jan 2021.

Kenneth has built up a strong network of maritime Singapore industry players including the digitalisation and HR innovators of shipping companies and the start-ups community. He currently is overseeing Maritime Strategy and Policy, International Maritime Centre, Business Capability Development as well as Innovation, Technology, and Talent Development. 

Kenneth was seconded from Government Technology Agency (GovTech) in 2017 as Chief Technology Officer. In GovTech, he was the Cluster Director tasked with harnessing info-communications technology and related engineering for public sector transformation covering 10 public agencies’ CIO teams.

Kenneth has over 25 years of technology-related experience, starting his career as a programmer in PSA, and becoming Vice President Technology Development, Trade & Logistics in CrimsonLogic and Senior Vice President in Energy Market Company before joining the public sector in 2011. His professional experience covers sectors in the Sea Port, Logistics IT and Energy industries.

Kenneth has also previously contributed his professional knowledge at various forums, including:

• Head of Singapore delegation to United Nation for Trade Facilitation

• Council member of Singapore IT Federation (SITF)

• Rule Change Panel Member of the wholesale Electricity Market

•  Advisory Council member to e-Commerce and e-Fulfilment

•  Steering Committee member of Pan Asia E-Commerce Alliance

Kenneth has been awarded the “Supply Chain Asia– Visionary of the Year” in 2019 and is a frequent speaker in many conferences and events advocating digitalisation. 

Tan Chong Meng

Group CEO

PSA International 

Tan Chong Meng is the Group Chief Executive Officer of PSA International (PSA), a leading global port group and trusted partner to cargo stakeholders around the world.

With flagship operations in Singapore and Antwerp, PSA’s global network encompasses more than 60 deepsea, rail and inland terminals in 26 countries, as well as affiliated businesses in distriparks, warehouses and marine services.

The PSA Group handles 1 in 10 global container movements annually, serving all major international shipping lines and key stakeholders in the global supply chain.

In November 2021, Chong Meng assumed the role of Governor Chair for The World Economic Forum’s Supply Chain & Transport Industry Community.

TUESDAY 29 November 2022

Time: 11:30 - 13:00 SGT

Ashna Mishra

Global Lead – Shipping, Strategic Engagement & Intelligence Group

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Ashna Mishra drives the engagement around S&P Global Commodity Insights’ Platts benchmarks for clean and dirty tankers, dry bulk and container routes globally.

Prior to this, Ashna has worked as a pricing editor for Asian petrochemical markets, where she covered polyethylene, solvent-mixed xylene, isomer-mixed xylene, and styrene monomer markets.

She also brings with herself an over six years of experience as a television and print journalist in India.

During her stint as a news reporter, Ashna reported on India’s finance, power, petroleum, commerce, food, and agriculture ministries.

She has also extensively covered agricultural commodities markets with a special focus on sugar. 

Jonathan Beard 

Vice President

Ernst & Young

Dr Jonathan Beard is an Executive Director of Arcadis and Asia Head of Business Advisory and Transportation.  He also co-chairs the Company’s “Belt Road Alliance” for Infrastructure Advisory Services.

A veteran with 20+ years’ industry experience, his expertise covers strategic master-plans, feasibility studies, national blueprints, M&As, PPPs, competition and regulation.  Jonathan has advised on transportation policy and related infrastructure development in over 25 countries, and directed the master-planning for some of the world’s largest and most successful ports. 

Recent work includes leading airport and port pre-feasibility studies in the Middle East, the development of Malaysia’s National Port Strategy, toll road PPPs in the Philippines, market advisory for a major e-commerce facility and cruise terminal due diligence.

Jonathan holds a BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, and is a Certified Management Consultant, a former President of the Hong Kong Institute of Management Consultants and Director of the Hong Kong Management Consultancies Association.

Jayendu Krishna

Director - Drewry Maritime Advisors

Drewry

Biography to be uploaded soon.

Alan Murphy

CEO & Founder

Sea-Intelligence

A deeply passionate liner shipping expert, Alan Murphy has 17 years of experience in container shipping research and analysis, providing insight and intelligence to a broad range of stakeholders in the logistics community, through quantitative research, econometric modelling, and database architecture development.

Alan co-founded SeaIntel, now Sea-Intelligence, with industry legend Lars Jensen in January 2011, with an ambition to provide truly exceptional and insightful liner shipping analysis and advisory, always based on a clearly stated and comprehensive methodology. Prior to launching Sea-Intelligence, Alan was Senior Analyst of Maersk Line's Intelligence and Analysis section, at that time the industry’s largest customer of industry analysis, research, and market data. The frustration with poorly-sourced, back-of-the-envelope style of analysis often found in this industry, and a lack of comparable, verified benchmarks of liner performance, was the spark that would lead to the launch of Sea-Intelligence, which now covers Research & Analysis, Data Services, and Advisory Services.

Alan has a degree in business economics, and prior to joining Maersk in 2004, he worked as a Research Analyst, at the Dept. of Finance at the Copenhagen Business School. Alan is fluent in seven primary programming languages and has developed everything from simple business apps to full-stack enterprise database systems.

Privately, Alan is married to a Microbiology PhD Fellow, clearly outranking him on the nerd-meter, and they have two beautiful and troublemaking boys of 5 and 1 years. 

Indika Dassanayake

Chief Commercial Officer

CMA CGM Asia Pacific

Indika Dassanayake is the Head of Global Accounts and Commercial for CMA CGM is Asia Pacific Regional Office.

Indika has 28 years of experience in the shipping industry covering Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan before moving to Singapore.

He has held various management roles in Operations, Customer Service, Sales, Logistics and Geographies.
He helmed the commercial arm of APL prior to its acquisition by the CMA CGM Group.

The group provides global supply chain services in shipping and logistics covering over 160 countries globally. Indika is Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Shipbroker’s, London.

He is based in Singapore with his wife and son.

Remco Kolder

Head of Supply Chain Asia -Pacific

Kuehne+Nagel International AG

Over the last 130 years, Kuehne+Nagel has evolved from a traditional shipping company to a global logistics partner that offers highly specialised solutions for major industries worldwide.

Remco Kolder currently leads Kuehne+Nagel’s International Supply Chain division in Asia Pacific, enabling some of the world’s leading retailers, lifestyle companies and consumer electronics brands to fulfil demand, drive value and improve responsiveness.

Besides being responsible for service delivery, Remco is also responsible for the development of new business, products and physical infrastructure across Asia Pacific and supporting the development and implementation of next generation analytics and order management solutions.

Remco has been in the shipping and logistics industry for over 20 years and has held various management positions in The Netherlands, China, Indonesia and Singapore after graduating from the prestigious Maersk International Shipping Academy in 2004.

He holds a Six Sigma black belt and is obsessed with delivering progress to society through ensuring that people all over the world have access to what powers their businesses and lives.

TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 14:00 - 15:30 SGT

Andrew Zerk

Director

New Dimensionz

He has been a regular speaker and moderator for over a decade at TOC events in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Andrew offers insights from success in:

  • Setting strategic direction and developing realistic plans/roadmaps and contracts to match.
  • Leading generally complex, multi-discipline, multi-vendor and internationally dispersed teams’ transformation programs and projects.
  • Turned-around the well known AutoStrad joint venture, a world first, which ended up providing a $500M turnaround in value It still sets the international benchmark for safety, ROI, and ROCE/ROICE.
  • He has also been fortunate to lead the turnaround of another supply chain world first in fully dynamic and near real-time transformation of long planning, scheduling and day-of-operations which has direct impact on approximately 20% of Australia’s exports.
  • Served on Boards in executive and non-executive capability as well as two major Advisory Boards being:

o    The Australian Centre of Excellence the Automation and Autonomous Systems Advisory Board.

o    The BNSF Automation Advisory Board is a group of executives, representing a variety of companies that have diverse automation experience.

Andrew has both C-level executive and general management experience in leading edge container terminal companies, and major inland intermodal terminals.

Raoul Tan 

Senior Business Manager Digital Development - Port of Rotterdam International 

Port of Rotterdam

On a mission to build a global network of connected ports, strong believer that co-creating and collaboration are vital for sustainable port models, that doing business is about creating the most added value for your customers and taking efficiency measures is the first step in the transport and logistics industry towards reducing the carbon footprint and meeting global sustainability goals.

Holding a Master degree in Business Management from Nyenrode Business University and 10+ years of experience in generating business and setting up new business units which are aimed to enable organizations to utilize the full potential of data, digitalization and emerging technologies as key driver for business value and new business models.

Heading Port of Rotterdam’s blockchain start-up Naviporta; at Naviporta everything starts and ends with our mission: “Propel seamless global trade through the elimination of any waste in the global supply chain”.

We have a vision of a world where shippers and logistic service providers are empowered to make every (container) shipment easier, more efficient and more sustainable than the one before. Not an easy ambition to accomplish – however we’re not here for easy. We’re here for the better

 

Indranil Sen

Principal Consultant - Project Leadership & Consulting

NCS

Indranil is a Board Director & Senior transformational leader with 25+ years’ experience in Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, Industry 4.0 and Sustainability in Asia, Middle East and Africa, leading major transformation programs, including digital transformations, post-merger integrations, and carbon neutrality and energy transition initiatives.

He is currently Director of Global Operations at Accenture, leading the Supply Chain, IX and Sustainability offerings for Accenture’s Operations practice in AAPAC. Indranil has held leadership positions in the past with APRIL (a global leader in forestry products), FedEx and DHL.

Indranil has also won several awards including the prestigious LogiSym Lifetime Excellence Award and holds a patent for digital applications in Agriculture.

Indranil is a thought leader in the digital transformation of supply chains and responsible value chains and is always ready to share his knowledge and experience at forums like TOC Asia.

Nilesh Timbadia

Head of Information Technology

Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP)

Nilesh Timbadia joined PTP as Head of Information Technology Division on 4th May 2020.

In the last 2 years in PTP, Nilesh has revamped the IT team to focus on future smart technology including IoT, AI and other smart technologies. His team has also successfully rolled out a complete suite of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that covers Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering and Human Resources modules. There has also been major upgrade to Terminal Operating System (TOS) and implementation of additional systems to look at productivity, process, operations and analytics as well as an Asset Digitization project which is able to monitor all assets on the terminal.

The focus in the coming years would be on various digital accelerators for PTP to continue to be Malaysia's Most Advanced Container Terminal. This will include in the areas of Data Analytics, Mobility Applications, Smart Technology and Internet of Things (IoT). Focus will also on how technology can support sustainability initiatives for PTP.

Nilesh holds a Master’s Degree in Information Technology (IT) from University of Sunderland, United Kingdom and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Communication from University of Wisconsin, USA.

Prior to joining PTP, he has more than 30 years of experience in IT, serving various industries ranging from the energy sector in Shell and Petronas; manufacturing and supply chain sector in Texas Instruments, British American Tobacco, DHL, Minolta, and Sanden as well as the Government sector in Royal Customs, Sabah Land & Survey Department and Malaysian Airports.

Jeremy Tan

Industrial Sector Director, Industry Solution Sales and Business Development, Asia Pacific

IBM 

Jeremy Tan is IBM’s TradeLens Regional Sales Leader for Asia Pacific. 

He works with clients to strengthens their supply chain operations with true end-to-end visibility of containerized freight and powerful trade document collaboration. 

He has more than 30 years of experience working with many clients across Asia Pacific on various solutions to transform their businesses.

Jeremy has a BSc (Eng) Hons in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University College London (UCL), MSc in Information Engineering from The City University, London and MBA from the University of Hull, UK.  

 

Jérôme Besancenot

Director of Digital Transformation

HAROPA PORT

Dr Jérôme Besancenot, PhD in Computer Science graduate from Paris University, is Digital Transition Project Director for HAROPA PORT (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris Ports).

Expert in maritime IT strategy and single windows, he developed a new generation of Port Community System (PCS) software designed to facilitate vessels and cargo transit through any port: S-WiNG ® (Single-Window Next Generation). This new concept improves the capacity of port organization to benefit from new trade facilitations while helping ports to succeed in their digital transformation toward “Smart and Connected Ports”; specially, in accelerating new technologies integration such as Big Data, AI, blockchain, 5G and IoT using a digital twin approach.

In this regard, ports digitalization also means to share and develop a cyber defense culture in the field of maritime, industrial and logistics activities. For this purpose, Jérôme Besancenot leads a community cybersecurity platform project for HAROPA PORT, a competitive advantage for the port in being recognized by customers as cyber third trusted party, therefore dealing smarter with digital transition.

Dr. Jérôme Besancenot is the Vice-Chairman of the international PROTECT Group inside IPCSA Family dedicated to port process EDI standardization. He is also a regular member of the International Association of Ports and Harbors (IAPH) and IMO FAL Committee.

Dr. Jérôme Besancenot has published into IT reviews several papers on computer science. He is also co-author of a book on transactional systems: concept, normalization and products.

TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 16:00 - 17:30 SGT

Andrew Zerk

Director

New Dimensionz

He has been a regular speaker and moderator for over a decade at TOC events in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

Andrew offers insights from success in:

  • Setting strategic direction and developing realistic plans/roadmaps and contracts to match.
  • Leading generally complex, multi-discipline, multi-vendor and internationally dispersed teams’ transformation programs and projects.
  • Turned-around the well known AutoStrad joint venture, a world first, which ended up providing a $500M turnaround in value It still sets the international benchmark for safety, ROI, and ROCE/ROICE.
  • He has also been fortunate to lead the turnaround of another supply chain world first in fully dynamic and near real-time transformation of long planning, scheduling and day-of-operations which has direct impact on approximately 20% of Australia’s exports.
  • Served on Boards in executive and non-executive capability as well as two major Advisory Boards being:

o    The Australian Centre of Excellence the Automation and Autonomous Systems Advisory Board.

o    The BNSF Automation Advisory Board is a group of executives, representing a variety of companies that have diverse automation experience.

Andrew has both C-level executive and general management experience in leading edge container terminal companies, and major inland intermodal terminals.

Jeroen Overbeek

   Maritime Civil Engineer

Waves Group

Jeroen Overbeek has worked on the design of infrastructure projects worldwide for over 30 years. A civil engineer by training he has worked on projects as diverse as the ‘Big Dig’ in Boston, parts of the high-speed rail line in the Netherlands and the biggest independent oil terminal in Singapore.

His speciality is in the design of marine infrastructure and he has been involved in planning pf new ports and design of many jetties and quays from concept level to advising on maintenance and repair.

Jeroen has been based in Singapore for 20 years and is currently Head of Maritime Design at BMT Singapore where he is responsible for work throughout South-East Asia collaborating closely with BMT’s other specialist teams and Australian operations.

Port and terminal upgrades and life extensions, accounting for changes in use and the environment, are a key area of interest for him and BMT.

 

Tom van Eynde

Director Terminal Investments 

TiL

Tom Van Eynde is the TIL Terminal Investment Director for North America.

After an earlier carreer as finance manager for several entities of the Maersk group, he has been working since more than 15 years for the TIL/MSC group.

In this capacity he has been part of the growth trajectory of the TIL group through his involvement in greenfield developments (such as in Santos, Brasil or Lome, Togo), acquisition of other entities (such as in Long Beach, USA or Umm Qasr, Iraq), tenders for new leases (such as Los Angeles, USA or Ashdod, Israel) and expansion projects of existing assets (such as Newark, USA or Long Beach, USA).

Today, Mr Van Eynde manages the portfolio of all TIL assets in North America, recently securing new leases in Los Angeles and Baltimore. 

Mr Van Eynde has a Master in Economy, is a Certified European Financial Analyst and did a MBA at Vlerick.

Marco Neelsen

Chief Executive Officer

Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) 

Marco Neelsen joined Pelabuhan Tanjung Pelepas Sdn Bhd (“PTP”) as Chief Executive Officer on 7 November 2016.

A certified and trained navigational officer, Marco holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Maritime Transport and a Master Mariner in Maritime from Germany.

Prior to joining PTP, Marco Neelsen served Buss Port Logistics GmbH & Co. KG in Hamburg/Germany as its Chief Executive Officer, leading a Portfolio of 12 Terminals (General Cargo, Offshore, Contract Logistics, Bulk and Shortsea Container) in Germany, Netherlands and Turkey.

He also spent almost 10 years in Middle East in various Operations and Executive position within the A.P. Møller Terminals Group in places like Salalah/Oman/Aqaba/Jordan and being the last one CEO of APM Terminals Bahrain. He also worked a short while in Lagos/Nigeria at the APM Terminals facility.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the Maritime Industry, predominantly in Ports within Europe and Asia and more than 9 years in Business Leadership roles, Marco Neelsen is set to bring PTP forward.

Aasim Siddiqui

Chairman

All Pakistan Shipping Association (APSA)

Aasim Siddiqui has actively developed and financed various transport and logistics projects in Pakistan in the last 20 years.

He is currently the Group Managing Director of Marine Group of Companies, which is the biggest and most diversified business group in the shipping, logistics and cargo handling industry in Pakistan. He is also on the board of directors of other 14 companies of the group.

The signature projects of Mr. Siddiqui include; Pakistan International Container Terminal (PICT), the only public listed container terminal of Pakistan, which is now operated as part of ICTSI terminals; Pakistan International Bulk Terminal (PIBT) the first modern coal/cement terminal also a public listed company in the Karachi stock exchange and Pakistan Intermodal Ltd. (PIL), Pakistan’s first private freight train operator connecting the ports with the inland container depots through rail-road linkages which is going to be commissioned in 2016. 

WEDNESDAY 30th November 2022

Time: 10:00 - 11:00 SGT

Capt. Paul Gallie

Director, Business Development

A.P. Moller Capital

Capt. Paul J. Gallie has extensive experience in the shipping and port industry. Following sea‐service up to the rank of Master, Paul moved ashore and has focused on port operations, refrigerated transport, project implementation, business development and investments, in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

He has previously worked for Chiquita Brands International, Hutchison Ports, APM Terminals and Mitsui/Portek holding positions as Cargo Superintendent, Stowage & Scheduling Manager, Business Development Manager for the Andean Region, Port General Manager, Country Manager for Colombia and Ecuador, Managing Director of Central America, Director of Port Investments for Asia and Head of Americas.

He operated his own shipping agency and stevedoring company in The Gambia, for a number of years.

In December 2018 Paul joined A.P. Moller Capital as Director, Business Development based in Dubai, focusing on port and transportation investment opportunities in Africa, South and South-East Asia.

He has spoken and moderated at numerous international industry conferences. He has a Diploma in Nautical Science and gained his Masters at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK. He has continued his further education at the National University of Singapore. He is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Paul is a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Logistics & Transport, an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and an Associate Fellow of the Nautical Institute. He was a founder member of the British-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, a Board Member of the American-Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce and sat on the Executive Committee of the LatinPorts organisation.

     Professor Lynn Loo
CEO
Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD)

Prof. Lynn Loo is the chief executive officer of the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD), a not-for-profit organization based in Singapore.
Established by six founding partners from the maritime industry and supported by the Maritime & Port Authority of Singapore, GCMD’s mission is to help the sector accelerate its decarbonisation efforts through shaping standards, deploying solutions, financing projects, and fostering collaboration across sectors.

Lynn is also the Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, currently on leave from Princeton University.

Before GCMD, she was Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, where she commissioned the Rapid Switch Initiative and the Net-Zero America Study that has provided unprecedented temporal and geographic granularity on transition pathways. S

he also founded Princeton E-ffiliates Partnership, a flagship corporate partner program to engage industry and she launched Princeton’s first executive program in partnership with the World Economic Forum to contextualize the complexities of the energy transition for business leaders.

WEDNESDAY 30th November 2022

Time: 11:30 - 12:30 SGT

Professor Setyo Nugroho

Lecturer & Researcher

Institut Teknologi Sepuluh (ITS)

Moderator biography to be uploaded soon. 

Dr Shahrin Osman

Head of Maritime Advisory APAC

DNV

Speaker biography to be updated soon. 

Francois Xavier Accard

Managing Director

CMA CGM International Shipping Company

François-Xavier Accard is Managing Director of CMA CGM International Shipping Company, responsible for the safety and operational excellence of the CMA CGM Group’s Singapore fleet of vessels.

In his previous role with Bourbon Subsea Services as Head of Fleet Operations and Performance, he oversees fleet performance which includes the financial results, corporate strategies and policies.

With over 15 years of logistics and shipping experience, Mr Accard ensures fleet operations are optimised for efficiency and profitability with safety as a main driver. He graduated from ENSTA Bretagne with an engineering degree in Naval Architecture and Offshore Engineering in 2005.

Shane Balani

   Decarbonisation Consultant

Lloyd's Register

Shane Balani is a Decarbonisation Consultant and representative of the Lloyd's Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub in Singapore.

Shane is a mechanical engineer working to enable and accelerate the sustainable decarbonisation of the marine & offshore industry, with a background in the technical assessment and certification of global marine assets as a classification surveyor.

With 8 years of international experience in the industry, Shane has developed technical and commercial expertise working in a wide variety of roles.

Shane has a First Class masters degree in mechanical engineering and routinely represents Lloyd’s Register at international events

WEDNESDAY 30th November 2022

Time: 14:00 - 15:00 SGT

Dr Nils Kemme

Managing Director

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting

Dr Nils Kemme is Managing Director and Partner with HPC Hamburg Port Consulting.

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting is an internationally renowned consulting firm with long-standing experience in the global port, transport, and logistics sector. In 45 years of excellence, HPC has delivered more than 1,700 projects across 130 countries, providing leading-edge professional expertise with a clear operations/owner’s perspective towards ports, intermodal terminals and airports.

With over 15 years of experience, Nils’s primary focus has been on strategic development and sustainable optimisation of ports and terminals. In recent years, he has delivered more than 40 development plans and optimisation projects on six continents. Using HPC’s proprietary simulation tools, which Nils established and developed together with his team, he ensured optimal investments, increased capacity, and performance, and reduced operating costs and emissions by double-digit percentages.

He also is a renowned speaker at international events of the port and transport industry and has published several books and articles in this area.

Sahar Rashidbeigi

Head of Decarbonisation

APM Terminals

Biography to be uploaded soon.

Renske Schoenmaker

Senior Business Manager Containers Deepsea

Port of Rotterdam

Moderator biography to be updated soon.

Budi Cahyono

Vice President Director

Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT)

PT. Jakarta International Container terminal (PT. JICT)

Positions:

Vice President Director

November 2020 – Present

Finance Director

July 2015 – October 2020

Senior Manager Financial Management and Control

Senior Manager Financial Accounting and Service

October 2012 – December 2014

Senior Manager Financial  Controller

February 2012 – September 2012

Deputy Project Leader

July 2009 – January 2012

Senior Manager Supply Chain

2007 – 2009

Purchasing Manager

2005 – 2007

Tax and Financial Planning Manager

2001 – 2005

PT. British American Tobacco (2000 – 2001)

Marketing Finance Supervisor

Siemens Telecommunication Project Office (1999 – 2000)

Tax Accountant

Tax Office (1992 – 1998)

Tax Auditor

 

  Education

Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom

Post graduate: MSc International Financepassed with merit in 2011

Brawijaya University, Malang

Bachelor: majoring Accounting (1998)

Sekolah Tinggi Akuntansi Negara (STAN), Jakarta

Diploma: majoringAccounting (1992)

WEDNESDAY 30th November 2022

Time: 15:30 - 16:30 SGT

Ashna Mishra

Global Lead–Shipping, Strategic Engagement & Intelligence Group

S&P Global Commodity Insights

Ashna Mishra drives the engagement around S&P Global Commodity Insights’ Platts benchmarks for clean and dirty tankers, dry bulk and container routes globally.

Prior to this, Ashna has worked as a pricing editor for Asian petrochemical markets, where she covered polyethylene, solvent-mixed xylene, isomer-mixed xylene, and styrene monomer markets.

She also brings with herself an over six years of experience as a television and print journalist in India.

During her stint as a news reporter, Ashna reported on India’s finance, power, petroleum, commerce, food, and agriculture ministries.

She has also extensively covered agricultural commodities markets with a special focus on sugar. 

Shivaprakash  Rao

Head of Consulting Critical Infra & Energy Transition, Asia Pacific

BMT

Shivaprakash heads the Consultancy and Energy transition in BMT.
He is responsible for initiatives related to Energy Transition, which includes a pivot towards offshore wind, maritime decarbonization and hydrogen.

With over 28 years of experience in the Energy Sector, he has executed projects in various industries, such as LNG, bulk liquid storage terminals, FPSO, gas platforms, petrochemicals, refinery, specialty chemicals, pharmaceutical bulk drugs and port development.

His areas of expertise are Market Studies, Economic Appraisal, Project Management, Process Engineering, Piping Engineering, Risk Management, Capital Planning and Advisory services.

Shivaprakash is passionate about climate change, renewable energy and decarbonization.

He has been a speaker at many industry events, including ASEAN Wind 2020, JACKS Forum 2021, EIC Wind Energy 2021, SMW Singapore 2021 and OTC KL 2021.”

Kohn Yong Ping

Chief Executive – Marine & Offshore

Bureau Veritas Marine

Biography to be uploaded soon.

Xiaowei Jiang

Key Account Manager - Port Technology

VAHLE South East Asia

Since 2004 studied in Germany and start carrer as an Engineer in VAHLE China for various ERTG/ Contactless power supply/ EMS project for ZPMC / Volkswagen/ Airbus

2014 he moved to VAHLE South East Asia as the Key account manager to develop the port market such as HPH Laem Chabang ARTG project, NPICT in Jakarta from PSA/MITSUI, Mundra T2 , Kattupalli ARTG in ADANI


TECH TOC Conference  

TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 11:00 - 12:30 SGT

Dr. Nils Kemme

Managing Director

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting

Dr Nils Kemme is Managing Director and Partner with HPC Hamburg Port Consulting.

HPC Hamburg Port Consulting is an internationally renowned consulting firm with long-standing experience in the global port, transport, and logistics sector. In 45 years of excellence, HPC has delivered more than 1,700 projects across 130 countries, providing leading-edge professional expertise with a clear operations/owner’s perspective towards ports, intermodal terminals and airports.

With over 15 years of experience, Nils’s primary focus has been on strategic development and sustainable optimisation of ports and terminals. In recent years, he has delivered more than 40 development plans and optimisation projects on six continents. Using HPC’s proprietary simulation tools, which Nils established and developed together with his team, he ensured optimal investments, increased capacity, and performance, and reduced operating costs and emissions by double-digit percentages.

He also is a renowned speaker at international events of the port and transport industry and has published several books and articles in this area.

Nidhi Gupta

CEO

Portcast

Nidhi Gupta is CEO and Co-Founder of Portcast, a Singapore-based logistics tech start-up that aims to make global supply chains dynamic and efficient using cutting-edge technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) and geospatial data. Portcast is committed to building the next generation of logistics operating systems in order to make highly accurate predictions on how cargo moves across the world.

As an experienced strategy and logistics professional, Nidhi has over a decade of leadership and C-level consulting experience in Asia Pacific with the Deutsche Post DHL group. In her most recent role as Senior Director of Engineering & Manufacturing Sector she was responsible for developing the growth strategy of the sector and leading transformational supply chain strategies for customers across Asia Pacific.

Bringing with her a wealth of experience, Nidhi is passionate about digitisation and innovation in the supply chain and logistics industry. In 2017, she was Entrepreneur in Residence at Entrepreneur First – the world’s leading talent investor – in Singapore where she met her business partner and co-Founder, Dr Lingxiao Xia. Realising they had a mutual appreciation of global logistics, they started Portcast in 2018.

A mother of one, in her spare time Nidhi enjoys experimenting in cooking and painting. Having recently been introduced to energy and visualisation techniques, she uses meditation and other practices to help navigate her – both personally and professionally.

She holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science Engineering from Punjab Engineering College. About Portcast: Portcast improves supply chain profitability by accurately predicting cargo flow

Henrique Oliveira

Technical Consultant, Integrated Crane Projects

Siemens, Netherlands

Henrique graduated as mechatronics engineer in Brazil and has 10 years of experience in engineering and commissioning of cranes for Siemens on various continents.


Henrique is specialized in automation of quay side gantry cranes and yard cranes as technical consultant.

Daniel Yan

Executive Director

Shanghai BiNY Electric Co., Ltd

Daniel is the founder of BiNY and currently the observer to China State Port Standardization Committee.

He has been focusing on the research of industrial lighting and Industrial Internet of Things for 2 decades.

He has jointly drafted 3 national standards in Port and is now chairing the panel to draft the state industry standard of IIoT in Port. 

TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 13:30 - 15:00 SGT

Sagar Chandra

VP –Americas/ APAC

Rajant Corp.

Mr. Sagar Chandra has worked for more than a decade with various container ports in the Americas to help improve real-time connectivity with the mobile fleet, which in turn, helps the ports take appropriate decisions to improve efficiency and lower costs.

Mr. Chandra currently holds the position of VP Sales for Americas and APAC regions with Rajant Corporation.

Jon Lau

Senior Manager - MCCtec Division, Ship & Port Cranes

Liebherr

Jon has been with Liebherr for the last 12 years taking care of South East Asia region. 

He has vast experiences in river port operations, Greenfield Port projects and transshipment operations. 

He had supported numberous greenfield river ports projects in Myanmar and also the first privately owned LNG Terminal in Indonesia. 

During the coal peaked era, he was also involved in coal transshipment projects providing optimized solution to the vessel operators and the coal owners.

Chin Guan Tan

Solutions Sales Director - SSEA

Kalmar

Chin Guan has more than 15 years of experience in the field of automation and high technology projects in the container handling equipment and marine industries. He joined Kalmar in 2012 and currently holds the position of Solution Sales Director, South and South-East Asia, Kalmar. He leads a high performance team geared towards pursuing exciting green equipment opportunities in the region.

Chin Guan started his career with Singapore Technologies Marine in the automation field in 2005. During his time with Kalmar between 2012-2021, he oversaw the sales and project delivery of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) and Navigation Systems to PSA Singapore. Before his current role at Kalmar, Chin Guan held the role of Account Director APAC at Navis.

Chin Guan is an Electrical and Computer engineer by training, with an MBA from Melbourne Business School.

Lars Meurling

Vice President - Marketing

Bromma

Mr. Lars Meurling is a member of the management team at Bromma, the world leader in crane spreaders, where he serves as Vice-President, Marketing.

Prior to joining Bromma, Mr. Meurling worked in the technically advanced biotechnology industry for 17 years, both as a Sales Director and Business Unit Director.

Mr. Meurling is also the chairman of the PEMA (Port Equipment Manufacturers Association) Safety and Environment Committee.

Mr. Meurling holds the MSc degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden. 

He is based at the Bromma office in Stockholm, Sweden. 

Kinya Ichimura

Manager, Head of Strategic Planning 

Mitsui E&S Machinery Co., Ltd

Mr. Kinya Ichimura, P.E. is a Manager for the Planning & Development dept. of the Material Handling Machinery Factory in Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. (MES) with over 25 years of experience in crane engineering and as a material handling systems researcher.

In the 1990’s, he joined the commissioning of automated cranes and AGVs at the Southeast Asian container terminal.
Since the 90’s, he has been involved in the research and development of the state of the art terminal, and recently he is spending effort to adopt ICT, IoT, and other new technologies to the container terminal, as well as terminal automation.

Mr. Ichimura holds a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering awarded by the Nagaoka University of Technology in 1992.

TUESDAY 29th November 2022

Time: 15:30 - 17:00 SGT

Paul Lim

Founder & President

Supply Chain Asia

Paul has worked for more than 30 years in the retail, logistics, supply chain and smart technologies industry, gaining experience covering operations, business development, corporate and strategic management as well as IT and supply chain solutions.

He started his career in Retailing in 1988 when he joined Isetan and has worked with various multinationals including TNT Worldwide Express, EGL Global Logistics (now known as CEVA), Menlo Worldwide Logistics and YCH Group, a Singapore home-grown logistics solutions provider.

Paul founded and launched Supply Chain Asia, and has been leading the organisation as a volunteer since September 2005.

Supply Chain Asia is a community that brings logistics and supply chain professionals in Asia together to network and learn from one another.

Paul is a graduate of the National University of Singapore and holds an MBA (with distinction), specialising in Retail Distribution, from the University of Stirling in Scotland. 

WEDNESDAY 30 November 2022

Time: 11:30 - 13:00 SGT

Laurence Jones

Director of Global Risk Assessment

TT Club

Laurence Jones is a qualified engineer with over 40 years experience.

His skill areas include general management, operations, maintenance, design, construction, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, industrial relations, safety, environment, risk assessment and auditing.
His industry experience includes bulk materials handling (terminals, open cut mines and underground mines), container terminals, logistics (rail and road), manufacturing (steel) and insurance.

He worked 26 years for BHP Billiton in the steel, open cut and underground mining industries, and engineering design and construction.

The last 15 years with BHP was in bulk materials terminals. He then spent 8 years in container terminals with P&O Ports and attained the role of General Manager Global Engineering and Asset Management.

After assisting with the integration of P&O Ports and DP World, he joined the TT Club in December 2006 as Director Global Risk Assessment.
His role in the TT Club covers internal advice and support in underwriting decisions and claims assessment, and externally he works proactively with clients and industry to identify areas where risks may be reduced.

He is Director of Thomas Miller (Australasia), Deputy Chair of ICHCA International and an Alternate Director of ICHCA Australia.
He is a member of ICHCA’s ITP (Technical Experts Panel), a member of the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) Safety & Environment Committee, Automation & Control Technology Committee and the Equipment Design & Infrastructure Committee.

He is also a member of the International Ports and Harbours (IAPH) Safety, Environment, Security and Legal Committee.

Dr. Zack Lu

Senior Project Manager

TBA Group

Zack Lu (Dr.) is a senior project manager and principal consultant at TBA Group, a consultancy and software company serving global port, terminal and warehousing markets to optimise operations and automation. 

Zack Lu has been involved in numerous container terminal design, planning, and optimization projects in Asia, Europe, North and South America, and Oceania – by means of advanced dynamic tooling such as simulation, and – for all kinds of terminal handling systems ranging from manual, semi-automated to fully-automated systems for small and large port operations.
In addition, he has been also involved in emulation and software projects, including TOS training, and implementation of Equipment Control System (ECS) for automated terminals.

At TOC Asia, Zack Lu will highlight what the current situation is of automation implementation, and using selected case studies, the key pillars of why - or why not - terminals should choose for automation.

Zack Lu holds a PhD degree and an MSc degree in transport engineering, and logistics planning, from Delft University of Technology (Delft, Netherlands). 

Sammi Piittisjärvi

Manager, Product Management - Port Services

Konecranes

Sami Piittisjärvi leads the Port Services product portfolio team at Konecranes.

The team’s chief responsibility is continuous innovation in the development of aftermarket products and enhancements for port equipment.
The team is tasked with finding new ways to optimize the operations of Konecranes’s global port customers through highly productized services products.

These range from preventive and predictive maintenance technologies to the provision of inspections. The team also develops advanced digital services including automation and operator assist retrofits and modernizations.  

Before joining the product portfolio team, Sami held several engineering positions ranging from R&D and product testing to managing teams of electrical engineering capabilities.   

Peter Fielder

Projects Director

Patrick Stevedores

Mr Fielder has over 35 years’ experience in the engineering, ports and logistics industries. He is the founder and CEO of Fielder Engineers, a mid-sized multidisciplinary engineering firm, that has been recognised for infrastructure project design and delivery across the port and logistics sector over the past three decades.

Mr Fielder joined Patrick in 2017 as Projects Director with responsibilities for automation and infrastructure maintenance and development. He is currently the Project Director responsible for the design and delivery of the $190 million Patrick Sydney AutoRail Terminal, a global first fully automated rail terminal that directly interfaces with the Patrick Terminals – Sydney AutoStrad operations.

He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Technology (Sydney) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management. Mr Fielder was nominated as a fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australian for his achievements in the port and harbour sector.

Hannes Myllärniemi 

Sales Director - Automation

Kalmar

Hannes Myllärniemi, Sales Director, Kalmar Automation Solutions, has worked for Kalmar since 2007 in various sales and product management roles, all of which have had a strong automation focus.

Over the years, Hannes has contributed to numerous successful Kalmar automation sales projects for customers across the globe with a focus on ECS software and crane automation systems. In the beginning of 2022 his role shifted from the commercial product management of the Kalmar One automation system to automation sales. 

Gabriel Ong

Regional Sales Director – Asia Pacific

Navis

Gabriel Ong is the Regional Sales Director for Navis Asia Pacific, with the responsibility for new business acquisitions and account management in the region.

Gabriel has over 25 years of experience in sales & commercial management experience in enterprise technology and industrial experience.

He holds an Executive Master in Technology Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from Nanyang Technological University Singapore.

WEDNESDAY 30th November 2022

Time: 14:00 - 15:30 SGT

Laurence Jones

Director of Global Risk Assessment

TT Club

Laurence Jones is a qualified engineer with over 40 years experience.
His skill areas include general management, operations, maintenance, design, construction, mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, industrial relations, safety, environment, risk assessment and auditing.

His industry experience includes bulk materials handling (terminals, open cut mines and underground mines), container terminals, logistics (rail and road), manufacturing (steel) and insurance.

He worked 26 years for BHP Billiton in the steel, open cut and underground mining industries, and engineering design and construction. The last 15 years with BHP was in bulk materials terminals.
He then spent 8 years in container terminals with P&O Ports and attained the role of General Manager Global Engineering and Asset Management.

After assisting with the integration of P&O Ports and DP World, he joined the TT Club in December 2006 as Director Global Risk Assessment.
His role in the TT Club covers internal advice and support in underwriting decisions and claims assessment, and externally he works proactively with clients and industry to identify areas where risks may be reduced.

He is Director of Thomas Miller (Australasia), Deputy Chair of ICHCA International and an Alternate Director of ICHCA Australia.
He is a member of ICHCA’s ITP (Technical Experts Panel), a member of the Port Equipment Manufacturers Association (PEMA) Safety & Environment Committee, Automation & Control Technology Committee and the Equipment Design & Infrastructure Committee.

He is also a member of the International Ports and Harbours (IAPH) Safety, Environment, Security and Legal Committee.

Ethan Goh

Senior Market Product Engineer

SICK

Ethan is an IIoT specialist responsible for SICK’s portfolio of value-added software, digital services, and data solutions.

With digitalization consultancy & solution services, Ethan helps customers across Southeast Asia to navigate the Digital Transformation journey for a more resilient business.

Ethan is an IIoT specialist responsible for SICK’s portfolio of value-added software, digital services and data solutions.

Based in Singapore, Ethan provides Digitalisation consultancy & solution services to support the Digital Transformation journey of customers across Southeast Asia.
This involves a robust methodology combining SICK's industry expertise in Sensor Solutions (OT) and Digital Solutions (IT) to solve the pain points of the user's business process, increasing efficiency and profitability for a more resilient business.

SICK is a market leader in Industry 4.0 technology with a portfolio of over 40,000 products generating data which impacts human life. By offering software and digital services as a Trusted Solution Partner for Industry 4.0 implementation, SICK offers concrete added value for our customer’s applications beyond the sensor itself – for their machine, their plant or their entire business process.

In his free time, Ethan builds computers and is trying to learn to code in Lua. 

 Alex Artjomov

Sales Director

Visy Oy

Aleksandr got MBA degree at American InterContinental University in London. After the university he returned to his home country Estonia where he was involved in development of the only specialised container terminal. He took active part in bringing RTG+Shuttle Carrier technology to this terminal which was unique at the time for such small terminal. He was involved in CTQI (Container Terminal Quality Indicator) certification of Muuga Container Terminal by developing and implementing CTQI processes and procedures.

Aleksandr has great experience in development of container and Ro-Ro terminals while working in container industry for more than 15 years. Deep knowledge of container terminal needs, and specific problems now helps Aleksandr to find solutions using OCR technology that Visy Oy providing globally for many marine and dry terminals.

Today, Aleksandr is involved with almost every project Visy Oy have either by consulting or making 3D model of the terminal for the customer to have better understanding how and where Visy equipment such as OCR Portals at the gates or TrainGate shall be installed at the terminal to make most efficient impact on terminal productivity. 

Chantharan Ramasamy

Country Manager - Director & Regional Product Manager, Reels Technologies

Cavotec

Mr. Chantharan Ramasamy has more than 25 years of experience working in the ports and maritime industry. He is an experienced an able person who shows great interest in deep technical discussion and is very systematic in his approach towards final output to ensure that the customers’ requirements are met.

Chantharan is well verse when it comes to selection of power systems transmission from stationary power feed to mobile equipment. This includes his vast knowledge in the shore power to ships, cable management system providing power to port cranes and vessels from low voltage to medium voltage power scheme.

In his current role, Chantharan is leading the product management of reels technologies for the region. His aim is to share new technologies and solutions from Cavotec that will enhance automation, connection technology and electrification in the ports and maritime industry paving the way for a safer and cleaner environment for all.

Chantharan is also the local director of Cavotec in Singapore who is regularly working with industry and chambers of commerce promoting cleantech solutions.

Ronald van der Meer

Director, BOXBAY 

Global Engineering, DP World

Ronald J. van der Meer was the Project Director for the High Bay Store (HBS) proof of concept at DP World UAE T4. He has been involved in the HBS developments from the initial studies, the creation of the BoxBay JV and the realization of the first running facility.

He joined DP World head office in 2016.

Prior to this, Ronald was working as Project Director for Rotterdam World Gateway (RWG) the first fully automated container terminal in the world. Ronald involved in the RWG project from the early design stage until the final hand-over the operational organization.

Ronald started his shipping career in 1989 when he joined Europe Container Terminals in Rotterdam. During he was closely involved with the development and start-up operations of the Sea-Land Delta Terminal Project, the first semi-automated container terminal in the Ports Industry.

This was followed by assignments for ECT (later part of Hutchinson) in different jobs from Terminal Manager via IT Manager to Manager Technic & Engineering.

Martin Aufschläger

Member of the Board of Directors

BOXBAY

Martin Aufschläger has more than 15 years of experience in the Industrial Goods & Services sector. Martin started his career with the leading international strategy consulting firm Bain & Company before joining SMS group in 2012 where he has held different management positions.

Martin is a business graduate from University of Siegen, Germany, and holds a Master in International Business from Macquarie University Sydney, Australia.

Within SMS group Martin is responsible for the port logistics business. This also includes the roles of Member of the Board of Directors of BOXBAY and Member of the Managing Board of AMOVA, the logistics specialist within SMS group.

Daiel Hoffmans

Global Sales Director

Dellner Bubenzer GmBH

Daiel Hoffmans studied at the University of Rijswijk and has a Bachelor degree of Engineering.

He has been in the port business for almost two decades and has served in several management positions.

Within the DELLNER BUBENZER Group he holds the position of Global Sales Director – Material Handling for the Asian region.