Symposium on maritime cyber security and resilience
IMO and the University of Plymouth's Cyber-SHIP Lab jointly organized a Symposium on "Maritime cyber security and resilience" taking place on 13 and 14 November 2024 in person at IMO Headquarters, London.
The Symposium shared the latest international maritime cyber risk evaluation and mitigation research and explored how Governments, industry, researchers and NGOs can collaborate to build international maritime supply chain cyber resilience.
Industry, government, defence and academic expert speakers addressed topics across ship, port and maritime supply chain cyber security, including cyber security and safety of assets and people, new technologies, policy development and seafarers' training.
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Programme
Please find the programme here and below:
Day 1, Wednesday 13 November
09.00-09.30 - Opening remarks
Mr. Hiroyuki Yamada, Director of Maritime Safety Division, on behalf of the IMO Secretary-General, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez
University of Plymouth (UoP) - Professor Kevin Jones IMO
UK Government Parliamentary Under Secretary, Dept for Transport - Mike Kane
09.30-10.15 - Keynote: Update on Maritime Cyber Security Research
10.15-11.00 - Panel discussion 1 - Progress since last year
11.00-11.30 - Coffee/networking break
11.30-12.30 - Current state-of-the-art
12.30-12.45 - Q&A
12.45-14.00 - Lunch break
14.00-15.00 - Artificial intelligence (AI) developments
15.00-15.15 - Q&A
15.15-15.45 - Coffee/networking break
15.45-16.30 - Panel discussion 2 - Developing Tech for Maritime Cyber Security
16.30 - Day 1 End
Day 2, Thursday 14 November
09.00-09.25 - Registration/networking
09.25-09.45 - Keynote: IMO's Cybersecurity Framework for Global Shipping
09.45-10.30 - Panel discussion 3 - International Perspectives
10.30-11.30 - Coffee/networking break - Four key themed discussions
11.30-12.45 - UoP Interactive Tabletop Workshop
12.45-14.00 - Lunch break
14.00-14.45 - Industry Keynote
14.45-16.05 - Industry Focus
16.05-16.15 - Q&A
16.15-16.30 - Symposium wrap-up
Background
The Cyber-SHIP Lab is the University of Plymouth Maritime Cyber Threats Research Group's unique hardware-based maritime cyber-physical testbed facility. The Symposium is the fourth Cyber-SHIP Lab annual symposium and its third year hosted by IMO. It will build on the success of the 2021, 2022 and 2023 symposia that attracted an exceptionally wide range of expert international speakers and delegates.