As challenges pertaining to safety across AI, decarbonisation, and cyber security in the shipping industry continue evolve, a brand-new, free-to-attend conference stream at CMA Shipping 2025 will bring this important topic to life, with participation confirmed from leading industry names including Shipman & Goodwin, Marlink, West of England P&I Club, SWCA Environmental Consultants, WeatherGuy, and DNV Maritime Advisory.
This year’s CMA Shipping will take place April 1 – 3 2025 at Hilton Stamford Hotel & Executive Meeting Centre in Connecticut, USA, which will also mark a 40th year as North America’s cornerstone maritime event. The introduction of this new conference stream, which will take place on the Expo Stage, which will run alongside the usual conference programme, will ensure more professionals have access to essential insight and expertise that can inform future strategies and protect operations amidst emerging challenges and threats to safety and risk mitigation.
“While researching the conference agenda for this year’s edition of CMA Shipping, the importance of ensuring insights into safety and technical innovation across the shipping industry are readily available became increasingly clear,” said Joanna Crisan, Senior Conference Producer at Seatrade Maritime, who is also programming this year’s CMA Shipping conference.
This new content experience will take place on the Expo Stage, which will be located within the Supplier Expo. Sessions will be part of a stream titled “Technical, Innovation, and Deep Dive”, and will run across April 2 – 3 2025. Featured sessions include:
- Oil Be There for You: A Deep Dive into U.S. Spills, Natural Resource Damage Claims and Slick Solutions
- Maritime Cyber Threats Unmasked: What the Data is Telling Us
- Decarbonising Through Operational Costs Reduction
- What’s Next – Ready for Safe Operation
- An Update on the Role of Nuclear Energy in-Maritime
- AI Weather and the Mariner
- From Threats to Insights: Integrating Cyber Threat Intelligence into Maritime Security Operations
“We believe that is in the interest of the wider CMA Shipping audience to be part of such conversations, and by extension, the broader maritime community, and have some fantastic experts confirmed to lead these sessions, including Dr. Ralph Markarian, Principal in Charge of Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Toxicology, SWCA Environmental Consultants, and Rick Shema - Certified Consulting Meteorologist (CCM), WeatherGuy, LLP,” continued Crisan.
Access to the Expo Stage is included in all registration types for CMA Shipping 2025, which is now open for registration. CMA Shipping been connecting maritime professionals in North America since 1985 and has earned an enviable reputation for serving content that connects attendees with the most important industry issues and trends. To find out more about CMA Shipping, which is bought to the industry by Connecticut Maritime Association and organised by Seatrade Maritime - Informa Markets, visit the CMA Shipping website.
