Keynote Speakers

Marcelien Bos-de Koning (Top Sector Water & Maritime)

Egbert van der Wal (PoR)

dr. Dirk Koppenol (SmartPort)

Announcement of a new collaborations between TU Delft and PoR

Coffee break

Session 1: Nautical traffic, capacity and safety

prof. dr. M. van Koningsveld (TU Delft): Analyzing capacity and performance of water transport networks under changing conditions

Roelof Weekhout (RWS): Climate impacts on the transport capacity on the Dutch Inland Waterway Network

Khalid Tachi (EICB): Energy transition on the Rhine-Alpine corridor

Yvonne Koldenhof (MARIN): Safety analyses of inland and maritime shipping (AIS analyses)

Lunch (meet the researchers)

Session 2: Sediment management and accessibility

dr. Alex Kirichek (TU Delft): Port accessibility and dredging

Edwin Hupkes (PoR): PRISMA 2030: towards sustainable maintenance dredging

Nino Ohle (HPA): The Nautical Depth project of the Port of Hamburg – An overview of the research & development activities

Marcel van den Heuvel (Van Oord): Soft soils in dredging; the Daidalus & Icarus bandwidth

Break

Session 3: Port and waterway infrastructure

prof. dr. Ken Gavin (TU Delft): Collaborative research on hidden safety of pile foundations

dr. Alfred Roubos (PoR): Trends in quay-wall engineering in the Port of Rotterdam

Andrés Figuero (UD Coruña): Port operability and AI-based decission-making tools: moored ship motions combined with maritime climate forecast

Arne van der Hout (Deltares): Propeller jet research – Optimizing design guidelines for bottom protection at quay walls

Networking and drinks

Conference Dinner at Museum Prinsenhof (Delft)

Session 4: Sustainability in ports and waterways

prof. dr. Stefan Aarninkhof (TU Delft): Nature based solutions and new engineering philosophies

prof. dr. Tjeerd Bouma (NIOZ): Opportunities for reef development

dr. Chris Doropoulos (CSIRO): Coral research and upscaling of restoration

Remment ter Hofstede (Van Oord/TU Delft): The drive for nature based solutions from a contractors perspective

Coffee break

Session 5: Digitalization in ports and waterways

dr. Fedor Baart (Deltares/ TU Delft): The research field: Data-driven ports and waterways research

prof. dr. Rudy Negenborn (TU Delft): Smart Shipping: Perspectives & Challenges

Chris Karman (DigiShape): DigiShape: precompetitive datascience innovation in the watersector – some examples

dr. Remko de Lange (Microsoft): Planetary Computer and its usage for Environmental Digital Twins

Lunch 

Delft city tour - The Boat tour starts at 14:15 near Koornmarkt 113 (Delft)

Inauguration of prof. dr. Mark van Koningsveld