Session 1 - 10:00 am - 10:30 am (EDT) (Virtual)
RTCM Opening Session
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Chris Hoffman
RTCM Chairman of the Board
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Welcome and Introduction to
RTCM Annual Meeting
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Ed Wendlandt
RTCM President
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Assembly Overview
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RTCM Standards Updates
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Session 2 - 10:30 am - 12:30 pm (EDT) (Virtual)
RTCM Technical 1 - Autonomous Shipping
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Captain Michael H. Trent, USN (Ret.)
Managing Director,
MARITECH USA
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Session Introduction by Moderator
- RTCM Member and founder of MARITECH USA
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Ørnulf Jan Rødseth
Senior Scientist, SINTEF AS and General Manager, Norwegian Forum on Autonomous Ships
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Autonomous ships: Why, How and When?
- Ornulf is an SME and prolific writer on the subject of autonomous ships
- The discussion will include his views on the future of e-Navigation and the interactions of autonomous, remote-controlled and conventional ships
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Brett Phaneuf
Director, Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS) Project and President, Submergence Group, LLC
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The Mayflower Autonomous Ship – A New Era In Ocean Research
- To discuss the planned trans-Atlantic sailing of this scientific vessel
- Focus to be on communications, monitoring and control of the vessel, and edge computing
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Dor Raviv
Chief Technology Officer, ORCA AI
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Autonomous Navigation for Ships
- Dor served in the Israeli Navy and has led the development of Orca AI’s solutions for safe navigation, collision avoidance and their AI/ML/DL engine
- The discussion will include ORCA’s unique approach to dealing with navigation in congested ship traffic, harbor approaches and port entry using ML/DL
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Domenic Carlucci
ABS Director, Machinery, Electrical and Controls
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Classification of Autonomous Vessels
- Domenic’s group has been leading the effort by ABS to define industry methods for implementing and classifying autonomous functionality and systems
- ABS has published 4 documents on novel concepts, smart functions, qualifying new technologies and autonomy over the last 3 years
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