Wednesday 26 November
9.30am – 9.55am
Silent Marine Operations with Azipod Propulsion
Session One: Engineering the Future of Naval Propulsion
9.55am – 10.20am
Power and Propulsion Plants for Highly Constrained Platforms
Session One: Engineering the Future of Naval Propulsion
11.15am – 11.40am
Leveraging Drone Technology for Enhanced Shipboard Fire Protection: Current Applications and Future Innovations in Maritime Safety
Session Two: Advancing Maritime Autonomy and Intelligent Systems
11.40am – 12.05pm
Smart Sea Revolution - Swadheen and Jaldoot Harnessing Autonomous Power for Maritime excellence
Session Two: Advancing Maritime Autonomy and Intelligent Systems
12.05pm – 12.30pm
Fielding a new generation of command and control centres for the conduct of Mine Countermeasures - How the UK is implementing an architectural approach to the system of systems integration of Maritime
Session Two: Advancing Maritime Autonomy and Intelligent Systems
12.30pm – 12.55pm
Platform System Selection through Surrogate Assisted Optimisation
Session Two: Advancing Maritime Autonomy and Intelligent Systems
2.15pm – 2.40pm
Striking a Balance: National Security, Environmental Protection, and Human Health in Maritime Warfare
Session three: Navigating Environmental Responsibility in Naval Engineering
2.40pm – 3.05pm
Design Options to Address the Low-Carbon Future Frigate
Session three: Navigating Environmental Responsibility in Naval Engineering
3.05pm – 3.30pm
Researching Residuals and Regulations
Session three: Navigating Environmental Responsibility in Naval Engineering
4.15pm – 4.40pm
Automated propulsion and generation flexibility for strategic naval warfare advantages
Session four: Breakthrough Technologies in Maritime Power Systems
4.40pm – 5.05pm
Generation IV (very) Small Modular Reactor technology for Future Surface Combatants
Session four: Breakthrough Technologies in Maritime Power Systems
Thursday 27 November
9.05am – 9.30am
Keynote: Challenges and Opportunities of International/European navy ship building programs
Keynote
9.30am – 9.55am
Security Considerations for Design, Deployment and Maintenance of future Wireless Technology networks in the Navy
Session Five: Securing and Scaling Naval Digital Infrastructure
9.55am – 10.20am
Transformer-Based Language Models for Malicious File Segregation in Naval Networks
Session Five: Securing and Scaling Naval Digital Infrastructure
10.20am – 10.45am
Integrating Commercial Off the Shelf Technology into Network Centric Warfare
Session Five: Securing and Scaling Naval Digital Infrastructure
11.40am – 12.05pm
Power to Command – what it means to generate and distribute power to maximise future maritime combatants’ lethality
Session Six: Smart Power Generation for Combat-Ready Fleets
12.05pm – 12.30pm
Variable speed generators for optimum efficiency across a vessels operational profile
Session Six: Smart Power Generation for Combat-Ready Fleets
12.30pm – 12.55pm
Engine dynamics - challenges and opportunities for naval DC distribution grids and variable speed generators
Session Six: Smart Power Generation for Combat-Ready Fleets
2pm – 2.25pm
Conversational AI for Maritime Diesel Engine Maintenance: A RAG-Enhanced LLM Approach
Session Seven: Accelerating AI and Digital Intergration in Naval Systems
2.25pm – 2.50pm
Current and Future Trends in Maritime AI
Session Seven: Accelerating AI and Digital Intergration in Naval Systems
4.15pm – 4.40pm
Enabling De-centralised Energy Storage through DC Network Architecture
Session Eight: Energy Storage and Microgrid Innovation for Naval Platforms
4.40pm – 5.05pm
Safe storage of hydrogen for power generation onboard naval vessels
Session Eight: Energy Storage and Microgrid Innovation for Naval Platforms
5.05pm – 5.30pm
A Bespoke Optimised Thermal Storage Tank Utilising Phase Change Materials
Session Eight: Energy Storage and Microgrid Innovation for Naval Platforms