Speakers
Claire Depré |
Head of Unit for Sustainable & Intelligent Transport, DG MOVE, European Commission |
Frederick Kenney |
Director, Legal and External Affairs at International Maritime OrganizationMr. Kenney is Director of Legal and External Affairs at the London based International Maritime Organization (IMO), the United Nations specialized agency with responsibility for regulating the global shipping industry. He is responsible for advising the IMO Secretary General on all legal issues associated with the functioning of IMO, with special emphasis on matters of treaty law and the law of the sea; provides legal counsel to staff supporting IMO’s committees and subcommittees and has particular responsibility as Secretary for the Organization’s Legal Committee. He oversees IMO’s role as depositary for the 53 multilateral conventions adopted under its aegis. Prior to joining the IMO Secretariat in 2014, Mr. Kenney served as The Judge Advocate General and Chief Counsel of the United States Coast Guard, attaining the rank of Rear Admiral. He also served as the Coast Guard’s Chief of Maritime and International Law and was seconded to the US Department of State in the Office of Oceans Affairs. Mr. Kenney served on a polar icebreaker and conducted law enforcement and security operations during nearly five years at sea. Mr. Kenney also served as a judge on the Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals. Mr. Kenney holds a juris doctor from the University of San Francisco School of Law and a B.A. in Economics from Michigan State University. Mr. Kenney has published several law review articles, has lectured widely, and was an adjunct professor of maritime law at Georgetown University Law Center and the US Defense Institute for International Legal Studies. He currently is a visiting lecturer at the World Maritime University in Malmo Sweden and the International Maritime Law Institute in Malta.
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Haris Boko |
EUbusinessDr Boko has 25 years of energy related practice across all continents in the spanned areas of business development, strategic planning, due diligence, valuation, privatization, initial public offerings, restructuring and transactions. Haris holds Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and has managerial schooling from Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He was Senior Fellow with the London School of Economics and Political Science, engaged with development of emerging markets. Professor Boko lectured at Berkeley and Stanford universities, and has been the Dean and professor of strategic management at the internationally accredited MBA School. Haris is the President of the EUbusiness, an international initiative that involve cutting edge technologies and advanced financial instruments with leading human capital to facilitate sustainable development of the European Union. Haris chairs the European Union’s panel on EU law and energy. He was Vice- President of Liberal international and contributed to numerous bodies of European Commission. He governed the Nordic Chamber, took part in AmCham, Keidanren, has been keynote speaker and chaired international gatherings at global think-tanks including Economist Intelligence Unit, Davos World Summit, The Trilateral Commission, German Marshall Fund, Aspen Institute, Wilton Park, Chatham House, Cleveland Club and Atlantic Council.
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Souichirou Kozuka |
Gakushuin UniversitySouichirou Kozuka (PhD, Tokyo) is Professor of Law at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. He specializes in commercial law and researches in comparative law studies. He edited a volume “The Implementation of the Cape Town Convention and the domestic laws of secured transaction” (Springer, 2017). Internationally, he is active as correspondent of UNIDROIT and Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). In Japan, he serves on several governmental committees,including the Conference toward the AI Network Society, which recently published the AI R&D Principles and AI Utilisation Principles. |
Hrvoje Lisičar |
University of Zagreb |
Mario Jurač
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Croatian Air Navigation Service ProviderMario Jurač is an Airspace Manager and Airspace Management systems development expert at Croatian Air Navigation Service Provider – Croatia Control Ltd (CCL). He is one of the CCL’s experts in the field of RPAS/UAS Air Traffic Management integration. Prior to joining Croatia Control Ltd. he was an active military officer with over 10 years of experience as a flight instructor of the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence.
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Dieter Schwampe |
Arnecke Sibeth DabelsteinAdmitted to the German Bar in 1985, joined Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein in 1985. Advice in all areas of insurance, specifically maritime insurance law (drafting of terms, cover issues, legal representation, recourse actions ) and maritime law (freight contracts, bills of lading, collisions, salvages, general average), and transportation law (road, air, inland water transport ), regularly appointed as arbitrator, more than 100 lectures and presentations at national and international events. Memberships: German Maritime Law Association, (DVIS), Hamburg Association of Insurance Sciences , German Association of Insurance Science (DVV), German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA), German Institute of Arbitration (DIS), German-Japanese Bar Association (DJJV). Chairman – German Maritime Law Association; board member of the Hamburg Association of Insurance Sciences, member of the advisory board of the Hamburg Association for Promoting the Insurance Industry(HGFV); member of the executive council – Comité Maritime International (CMI); vice chairman of the Working Party on Marine Insurance – Association International de Droit des Assurance (AIDA); member of the Legal & Liability Committee – International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI). Leading German expert in transport insurance law. Awards: Chambers Europe: Leading Individual 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 (Band 1); Lawyer International: Maritime Lawyer of the Year 2018; Who’s Who Legal: Most highly regarded Practitioner Transport Law Germany 2018; Legal 500: Leading Individual 2017; Best Lawyers/Handelsblatt: Recognized in the areas of Maritime law and Insurance Law in 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, Transportation Lawyer of the Year 2016 und 2014; Client Choice Awards 2015 Insurance. |
Jasenko Marin |
University of ZagrebProf. dr. sc. Jasenko Marin holds courses in Insurance Law and Transport Law at graduate and postgraduate studies at Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. He has published textbooks in transport law and insurance law, as well as several dozen scientific and expert papers in transport-insurance field, in domestic and foreign publications. In the period of 2014-2018 he has served as the Insurance Ombudsman within the Croatian Insurance Bureau. He was one of the founders and served as the first president of Croatian Association for Insurance Law. Marin is a member of the academic advisory board with the European Institute for Transport Law, as well as a member of the supervisory board with the Croatian Transport Law Association. He serves as an arbitrator at the Permanent Arbitration Court at the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (domestic and foreign arbitration). In addition, he serves as an arbitrator with the Shanghai International Arbitration Centre. Marin gave lectures at numerous international and domestic conferences and seminars in the transport law and transport insurance law field.
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Tim Howse |
Vice President, Gard |
Hrvoje Pauković |
Director, Croatian Insurance Bureau |
Gen Goto |
University of Tokyo |
Naoe Fujisawa |
University of Tsukuba |
Rino Siffert |
Deputy Director, Swiss Federal Registry of Commerce
Ph.D. / Attorney-at-law and Public Notary / LL.M. (Cornell) / Certified Computer Scientist NDL |
Thomas Birch Reynardson |
Birch Reynardson & CoTOM BIRCH REYNARDSON is a solicitor based in London specializing in international arbitration. He was trained at the specialist maritime firm, Holman Fenwick and Willan, and qualified in 1983. He became a partner of that firm in 1987 and was hired by Herbert Smith in 1989. In 1997 he moved to DLA Piper and in 2007 he set up Birch Reynardson & Co, a specialist international arbitration firm. Tom’s practice is mainly involved with international dispute resolution. During his time as a solicitor he has acted in a very large number of cases in the Commercial Court, Court of Appeal, House of Lords and Privy Council, many of which have been reported. He has also acted in many international arbitrations and mediations. Tom has written numerous articles for various legal and trade journals, and has lectured at University College, London and the London Shipping Law Centre. He is a member of the British Maritime Law Association, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the London Court of International Arbitration and the London Shipping Law Centre and is a trustee of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) Trust which promotes the education of young people in international law. He chairs the CMI International Working Group on Unmanned Ships and represents the CMI on this subject on the Maritime Safety and Legal Committees at IMO.
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Damir Bezik |
Croatian Civil Aviation AgencyDamir Bezik is Aviation Safety Inspector in Croatian Civil Aviation Agency, competent civil aviation authority of Republic of Croatia. He is in charge of certification and continued safety oversight of aircraft operators, including operators of unmanned aircraft systems. He is one of the authors of national regulation on unmanned aircraft systems operations and other national legislation in the field of civil aviation. He actively represents Croatian Civil Aviation Agency in international meetings, workshops and conferences and is full team member of European Aviation Safety Agency operations standardization inspections. He is also involved in international cooperation projects of support to underdeveloped civil aviation authorities around the world by providing consultancy and training services. His just under 30 years of international experience covers ground and flight operations in airlines and aerodromes, air traffic control, international aviation organizations and finally inspector’s position in a state regulatory body.
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Lina Wiedenbach
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Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein· Shipping lawyer at German based law firm Arnecke Sibeth Dabelstein with focus on marine casualties and insurance · Rapporteur of the CMI International Working Group for Unmanned Craft · Doctorate Studies at Max Planck Research School for Maritime Affairs, Hamburg, Germany · Alumni of the UN Summer Academy at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany · Master of Law, University of Lund, Sweden
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Igor Vio |
University of Rijeka |
Jeppe Skovbakke Juhl
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Maritime Technology & Regulation, BIMCOJeppe Skovbakke Juhl is educated as naval architect and holds a position as manager in the BIMCO department for Maritime Technology & Regulation for the past 7 years. Mr Juhl is responsible for co-ordinating BIMCO’s initiative on a large variety of technical related matters. His core competencies cover maritime flag state administration (flag state implementation, Goal- and functional-based regulation, Risk-based approval process), risk assessment (Formal Safety Assessment methodology), ship stability (intact and damage) as well as in-depth technical knowledge on maritime air emissions and Autonomous ships. Jeppe Skovbakke Juhl has previously been working at FORCE Technology with research and innovation projects for 8 years and at the Danish Maritime Authority for another 8 years. BIMCO is now the world’s largest international shipping association, with more than 2,100 members globally. The organization provide a wide range of services to our global membership – which includes shipowners, operators, managers, brokers and agents. BIMCO is also recognized worldwide for the clarity, consistency and certainty of its standard maritime contracts.
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Tihomir Šašić |
IN2Mr. Tihomir Šašić is currently employed as head of the program for business solutions with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the company IN2 working on applying machine learning and computer vision on UAV collected data. He is initiator and executive director of the largest regional unmanned vehicle conference Dronefest http://dronefest.in2.hr/ (2016. & 2017.) that gathered more than 350 relevant local and regional experts in the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). He promotes the use of drones at various conferences and actively participated at the leading European Conference of the Commercial UAV EXPO Europe 2017. in Brussels on the subject of drone applications in precision agriculture. He is an Executive Committee member at Croatian Unmanned Systems Association (HUBS). Before joining the IN2 he has spent 17 years in Microsoft Croatia where he has worked on the development of a Microsoft Partner network and various management positions in the business development department for Small and Medium business companies. He received Microsoft Gold Star Award for his contribution and achievements for regional Microsoft business development. Prior to joining Microsoft, he spent more than 5 years in sales positions in several Croatian IT companies.
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