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This is the SMi Group’s second 2nd Maritime Reconnaissance and Surveillance Technology Conference and the event will be held in Rome on the 30th and 31st of January 2017.

This high level meeting will bring together senior military leadership, project decision makers, technical experts and cutting edge industry solution providers to explore future endeavours that will enhance the security and stability of the world’s oceans.

SPEAKER LINE-UP

• Rear Admiral Valter Zappellini, Head of C4 and Security Department, Italian Navy
• Rear Admiral Nicola Carlone, Head of Plans and Operations, Italian Coast Guard
• Rear Admiral Bob Sharp, Director National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office, US Navy
• Brigadier General Manlio Scopigno, Chief of Staff, EU Naval Force
• Guy Thomas, President, C-SIGMA
• Captain William Ellis, Commander CTF-67, US Naval Forces
• Wing Commander Richard Berry, SO1 Capability Delivery P8A, Royal Air Force
• Commander Sacha Bailly, Officer in Charge Protection and Safeguarding Capability Plans and Programs, French Navy
• Commander Hannes Schroeder-Lanz, Command Support/C4I – Missions & Operations, German Navy
• Lieutenant Commander Chad Kabatoff, Project Director Polar Epsilon 2, DG Space, Canadian Armed Forces

Visit the website to view the full line-up of expert speakers.

The 2017 programme will:

• Provide a wider regional focus outside of the Mediterranean where challenges are also persistent
• Feature high ranking military personnel involved with the enhancement of maritime surveillance platforms and systems
• Present a running theme on the importance of information sharing as operations are increasingly conducted at an international level
• Include Informal networking time to talk to peers and colleagues also shaping and influencing Maritime ISR programs today
• Allow learning on how other nations are developing their maritime surveillance and reconnaissance provision from past experience and cutting edge research and development
• Get to the heart of challenges faced by modern maritime forces such as capability gaps and what requirements they now have

Gold Sponsor: PAE

Sponsored by: exactEarth, Horizon Technologies, Pole Star Global, Sentient Vision Systems, Kongsberg Satellite Services, Orbcomm, DeepOcean Engineering, MDA Systems, e-GEOS and Sitep Italia.

HOW TO REGISTER

Online Registration: for SMi Conference or email James Hitchen on
jhtichen@smi-online.co.uk. Use code SMI56IV for £200 discount. Use code: SMI56IV
View SMi Conference details and program.
View C-SIGMA Post Conference workshop hosted by C-SIGMA President, Guy Thomas

More details regarding C-SIGMA VII to follow soon!

Check back here soon for more details on the scheduled events and C-SIGMA VII program outline.

C-SIGMA Members can avail of discounted rate.

C-SIGMA VII Call For Papers:

C-SIGMA VII, the 11th International conference* using unclassified space systems for global maritime awareness, will be hosted by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), Lisbon Portugal, on 21st-23rd February. This comes as a virtual tidal wave of new capabilities, both in space and in the cyber world, with new satellites and processing systems being announced seemingly every week.

Building on the success of the last four held in Italy, ireland, Tokyo, and London, this conference will focus on how this explosion in technology is being used to assist the world address its challenged in the security, safety worlds as well as protecting the environment and resources of the maritimes domain.

People and organisations who wish to present at C-SIGMA VII should forward an abstract on their subject to g.guy.thomas@C-SIGMA.org info gguythomas@gmail.com

It is anticipated registration will within the coming weeks at www.C-SIGMA.org

Please submit your abstract (shorter is better) to:

Guy Thomas, Program Chairman, at g.guy.thomas@C-SIGMA.org

info Julia Duff, Conference Coordinator, at julia.duff@nationalspacecentre.eu

Deadline for submission:  TBC

Selection will be completed by TBC

Early submission is encouraged.

• The first 4 meetings were called Technical Exchange on Ais via Satellite (TEXAS)

Downloads for the 2014 Workshop Presentations are now available in PDF form to conference attendees.

Please contact us if you have not received access details and were a conference delegate.

C-SIGMA Members can access this via the My-C-SIGMA Dashboard

Following a successful 2013 C-SIGMA IV hosted in Cork by National Space Centre, the 2014 workshop is set to take place in Tokyo, Japan on 8 – 10 December 2014.

C-SIGMA is an international initiative intended to foster wider cooperation and exchange in the use of and access to satellite based maritime surveillance information at global level.

C-SIGMA workshops are key to the C-SIGMA project. Participants from organisations across the globe come together to advance plans for integration of existing satellite resources into real maritime benefits.

Four workshops have been held to date in the following locations:

C-SIGMA I: 21-23 June 2011, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy

C-SIGMA II: 16 – 18 May 2012, NURC, La Spezia, Italy

C-SIGMA III: 7 – 8 November 2012, Canadian Embassy, Washington, USA

C-SIGMA IV: 26 – 29 June 2013

Contact 2014 Hosts

Download full Program and Speakers list. Click Here