About this event
North Sea Port and the COOCK Smart Ports 2025 consortium invite you to an inspiring workshop on how data connectivity and Artificial Intelligence can lead to innovative logistic services for the port and its stakeholders. In an interactive session, speakers from academia, private companies and port authorities will share their view and expertise. There will be ample opportunity for questions, answers and networking.
PROGRAM
Confirmed speakers
- Bart Braem (imec-IDLab- UA): Coock Smart Port 2025 - The Smart port and its applications.
- Karel Saey (North Sea Port): Connect 2025 - customer partnership as the foundation for digitalization with focus.
- Ben Rohner (Riverguide-Port of Rotterdam): The application for planning and guidance for a safe, smooth and smart inland navigation journey.
- Nicolas Maes (Port+): Smart solutions for optimizing port calls and port stays.
- Joeri Ruyssinck (ML2Grow): How AI can create impact in a connected port.
- Pieter Audenaert (imec-IDLab-UGent): The logistics chain as a complex network full of uncertainties.
- Joris Finck (imec-EDIT): Data sharing as an accelerator in the realization of synchromodal transport: from concept to practical application.
The meeting will end with a networking reception.
FOR WHOM
Logistic service providers, operators, companies with logistics activities or departments, port authorities, technology companies and anyone interested in improving efficiency and competitiveness of port logistics.
INFORMATION
The session is free and open to the public, upon registration. The venue is the House of the Free Skippers at Graslei 14, Ghent. Parking Sint-Michiels is the most nearby parking lot.
This event is organized in the framework of the COOCK Smart Port 2025 project. This three-year program, funded by VLAIO, aims at disseminating the vast knowledge that the University of Antwerp and Imec have in terms of Artificial Intelligence, to the port and logistics community in Flanders. As part of this project, The Beacon is organizing activities and events at which tech companies, port, and logistics operators, and academia are represented.
