-Outstanding international breadth and depth
-Topics are highly contemporary, forward thinking and diverse
The full programme for the 16th International Naval Engineering Conference and Exhibition (INEC 2022); incorporating the long-established International Ship Control Systems Symposium (iSCSS), is online at www.imarest.org/inec.
The duo of events is being held in Delft, the Netherlands from Tuesday 8 – Thursday 10 November 2022. The programme features over a hundred technical papers with authors speaking to the events’ themes – ‘Adapting and innovating to build resilience for Naval operations’ for INEC and ‘Human-machine teaming in ship control’ for iSCSS.
As INEC’s Conference Chairman Cdre Stuart Henderson RN, Ministry of Defence, UK explains: “The pace of world events is reminding us that naval capability needs to adapt and iterate much faster than our traditional procurement cycles allow. As navies we need to reinvent ourselves to remain competitive in the battlespace. The conference enables global Naval personnel, industry and academia to collaborate more closely in our shared endeavour to integrate emerging technologies, build resilience for Naval operations and manage the impact of climate change. INEC brings us together with rigorously peer reviewed technical papers to celebrate the leading edge of engineering and science thinking in the maritime environment.”
Cdr (E) dr. ir. Rinze Geertsma RNLN (Royal Netherlands Navy), Chairman of the iSCSS Technical Advisory Committee is pleased by the strong international contribution. “With the complexity of operations at sea continuing to increase and the availability of seagoing personnel further decreasing, society demands maritime operations to be intelligent, sustainable, and safe, both for naval and commercial operations. To achieve this, we need to grasp the opportunity technologies like autonomous systems and artificial intelligence provide, while ensuring we involve the human when needed. The symposium is an exciting event where decision makers, industry and researchers come together to solve these societal challenges with advanced ship control.”
Both Learned Society events are organised by IMarEST (Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology) and are being held at the AULA Conference Centre TU Delft, the Netherlands. A stunning example of 1960s “brutalist” architecture, the AULA Conference Centre is a multi-functional events centre, with state-of-the-art conference facilities, at the heart of the TU Delft campus.
Looking in more depth
The 100+ technical papers from over 15 countries, including papers entered for the Sir Donald Gosling Award, will be presented under the following sessions: Build Programme; Climate Change Response; Survivability; Autonomous Navigation; Power & Propulsion Control; Submarine; Auxiliaries; Power & Energy Management; Cyber Security; Support; Power System Digital Twins; Future Fuels; Autonomous Systems; Power & Propulsion; Design & Technology; Power Plant Design; Maintenance; Hull Form Design; Collaborative Autonomous Shipping Experiments (CASE); Electrical Design; Sustainable Ships & Systems; Digital Twins; Underwater Noise; Ship Design; Intelligent Control Systems; Human Machine Teaming; Platform Concepts; and Intelligent Platform Management.
The authors speaking at INEC/iSCSS 2022 include representatives of navies, companies from prime contractors to SMEs, and academia.
Strong support
The Principal Sponsor of INEC/iSCSS 2022 is L3Harris; BMT; GE; Rolls-Royce; TAS Global are all Major Sponsors. Supporting Sponsors are Lloyd’s Register, Wärtsilä, Damen, QinetiQ, Babcock, Speedgoat, Michell Bearings, Maritiem Kennis Centrum, RH Marine, OPAL-RT Technologies. Supporting organisations are UKNEST; National Maritime; Global Underwater Hub; Malaysian Society for Engineering & Technology (MySET); EduMaritime; SP’s Naval Forces. The Official Publication is the Marine Professional with Segurança & Defesa as Media Partner.
Looking back
Over 350 delegates from across the globe attended the 14th International Naval Engineering Conference (INEC 2018) held in Glasgow, UK in October 2018 with its theme of ‘Inspiring naval engineering’; the theme for the International Ship Control Systems Symposium (iSCSS 2018) held alongside INEC 2018 was ‘Revolutionary technology inspiring ship control’. 1,069 delegates from 56 countries participated in INEC/iSCSS 2020 which was held online with its theme ‘Tech revolution, not evolution’.
Further information
Information on all aspects of INEC and iSCSS is available at www.imarest.org/inec and events@imarest.org.
INEC and iSCSS 2022 Technical Advisory Committees
INEC and iSCSS 2022 Technical Advisory Committees are a group of experts formed from the defence industry, academia and navies worldwide and include:
Chair: Cdre Stuart Henderson RN, Ministry of Defence UK
Jens Ballé, Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, Germany
Amy Glover, Ministry of Defence, UK
Peter Deverill, Rolls-Royce, UK
Toby Drywood, BMT Global
Alistair Greig, University College London, UK
Ian Hassall, Defence Equipment & Support, UK
Ann Lowe, United States Department of Navy, USA
Cdre (Dr) R K Rana, India
Oliver Simmonds, BMT Defence & Security, UK
Robert Skarda, Steller Systems, UK
Klaas Visser, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Kujala Pentii, Aalto University, Finland
Eric Fusil, Adelaide University, Australia
Tamsin Dawe, Babcock International
Captain David Goldsmith RN, MOD UK
Cmdr Sean Feenan, Royal Australian Navy
iSCSS 2022 Technical Advisory sub-Committee
Chair: Cdr (E) dr.ir. Rinze Geertsma RNLN
Jeffrey Cohen, United States Department of Navy, USA
Toby Drywood, BMT Defence & Security, UK
Michele Martelli, University of Genoa, Italy
Suthakar Pakianathan, Department of National Defence, Canada
David Wetz, University of Texas Arlington, USA
Mehdi Zadeh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Rudy Negenborn, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Julian Lowe, L3Harris
Karl Schoder, Florida State University, USA
Krishna Kumar Nagalingum, Kongsberg
Andrea Coraddu, TU Delft, The Netherlands
