Symposium on maritime cyber security and resilience
IMO and the University of Plymouth's Cyber-SHIP Lab are jointly organizing a Symposium on "Maritime cyber security and resilience".
Date: 13 and 14 November 2024
Time: 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Place: in person at IMO Headquarters, London.
The Symposium will share the latest international maritime cyber risk evaluation and mitigation research and explore how Governments, industry, researchers and NGOs can collaborate to build international maritime supply chain cyber resilience.
Industry, government, defence and academic expert speakers will address 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.
Please find more information here.
Programme
Please find the provisional programme here and below:
Day 1, Wednesday 13 November
09.00-09.30 - Opening remarks
Arsenio Dominguez, Secretary-General, IMO
University of Plymouth (UoP)
Mike Kane, Parliamentary Under-Secretary, United Kingdom Department for Transport
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
Registration and participation
The Symposium is open to all Member Governments, UN agencies, IGOs, NGOs and other participants.
Member States, UN agencies, IGOs and NGOs wishing to attend the Symposium, please register using the IMO Online Meeting Registration System (OMRS). Participants who are not affiliated with an IMO delegation are requested to contact chloe.rowland@plymouth.ac.uk for specific registration procedures.
Media wishing to attend, please contact: media@imo.org
Please see all registration details here.
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.