SMi Group's Unmanned Maritime Systems 2020 conference takes place in London in May

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KEY REASONS TO ATTEND:
1. The leading event in Europe on unmanned
maritime systems
2. Hear the very latest from senior naval officers on
the development and integration of unmanned
assets into the world’s fleets
3. Listen to comprehensive briefings on unmanned
platform updates, anti-submarine warfare, mine
countermeasures, autonomy, and technological
innovation
4. Meet the leading solution providers for
unmanned systems and receive exclusive
product updates on cutting-edge projects
5. Meet and network with military and industry
decision makers in unmanned systems
CHAIRMAN:
Commodore (Ret’d) Richard Farrington CBE, Former
Commander Devonport Flotilla, Royal Navy
HOST NATION SPEAKERS:
Rear Admiral Andrew Burns, Assistant Chief of Naval
Staff (Capability), Royal Navy
Captain Chris Ling, Director NavyX, Royal Navy
INTERNATIONAL MILITARY AND EXPERT SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Vice Admiral Manuel Antonio Martinez-Ruiz, Director
of Engineering and Naval Shipbuilding, Spanish Navy
Vice-Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, Deputy
Planning and Coordination, Portuguese Armed Forces
General Staff
Commander Ian Danbury, Deputy Director NATO MUS
Innovation and Coordination Cell, NATO HQ
Commander Herman Lammers, Director, NATO Naval
Mine Warfare Centre of Excellence (NMW COE)
Commander Chris Taitt, Section Head – C4ISR, and
Remote and Autonomous Systems, Director Naval
Requirements, Royal Canadian Navy
Mr Reid McAllister, Director, Integrated Maritime Mobility
Systems at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock
Division, US Navy
Mr Eelco Harmsen, Senior Project Manager Navy,
MARIN
Mr Johan Wahren, Project Manager Underwater
Warfare Weapon Systems, FMV
SMi Group Proudly Presents the 4th Annual...
Transforming the Fleet with Robotic Systems
Copthorne Tara Hotel, London, United Kingdom
unmanned
maritime
systems
technology
13th - 14th
MAY
2020

2. Register online at www.umsconference.com
Day One | 13th May 2020
unmanned maritime systems technologY
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SPONSORSHIP AND EXHIBITION OPPORTUNITIES
SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition, advertising and branding packages, uniquely tailored to complement your company’s marketing
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discussion specific to your industry. Should you wish to join the increasing number of companies benefiting from sponsoring our
conferences please call: Luke Teachen, Sponsorship Sales Manager, on +44 (0) 207 827 6130 or email lteachen@smi-online.co.uk
MEDIA PARTNERS
08.00 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Commodore (Ret’d) Richard Farrington CBE, Former Commander
Devonport Flotilla, Royal Navy
OPENING KEYNOTE BRIEFINGS
09.10 Royal Navy Unmanned Systems Development and Future Fleet Design
• Overall RN strategic context and future vision
• Role of unmanned systems in the future Royal Navy fleet
• Unmanned systems in the carrier strike group
• Autonomy as a force multiplier for traditional maritime operations
Rear Admiral Andrew Burns, Assistant Chief of Naval Staff
(Capability), Royal Navy
09.50 Technological Challenges of Unmanned Maritime Systems in a
Fully Digitalized World
• New technologies are at the same time capabilities and threats
• Digitalization of UMS
• Artificial Intelligence for UMS: is it realistic?
Vice Admiral Manuel Antonio Martinez-Ruiz, Director of
Engineering and Naval Shipbuilding, Spanish Navy
10.30 Morning Coffee
RN UNMANNED SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT
11.00 Session Reserved for Intrepid Minds
Mr Adam Smith, Managing Director, Intrepid Minds Ltd
11.40 Royal Navy Unmanned Systems: NavyX Update
• NavyX aim and objectives
• Current projects
• Future activities and aspirations to accelerate the introduction
of autonomous systems into the RN
Captain Chris Ling, Director NavyX, Royal Navy
12.20 Session Reserved for Elmo
Mr Gary Busby, Managing Director UK & Ireland, Elmo Motion
Control UK
13.00 Networking Lunch
ACCELERATING UNMANNED SYSETEMS DEVELOPMENT
14.00 Unmanned Aircraft Systems Program in the Royal Canadian Navy
• Canadian naval requirements relating to UAS
• Current UAS procurement efforts
• Future UAS challenges and concepts
Commander Chris Taitt, Section Head – C4ISR, and Remote
and Autonomous Systems, Director Naval Requirements, Royal
Canadian Navy
14.40 U.S. Department of the Navy Strategic Roadmap for Unmanned
Systems
• U.S. DoN Unmanned Systems Vision
• U.S. DoN Unmanned Systems Employment Concepts
• Objectives for the U.S. DoN Unmanned Systems Enterprise
• Actions to create the DON UxS of Tomorrow
Mr Reid McAllister, Director, Integrated Maritime Mobility Systems at
Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, US Navy
15.20 Portuguese Navy Unmanned Vehicles Operational
Experimentation Unit: Creating an Innovative Environment for
Unmanned Systems Research and Development
• The technological elephant in the room
• Analysis of the current technological environment and future
trends
• The ever-growing gap between Moore and Martec’s Law
• How to thrive in a technological transformation era
• The concept of Operational Experimentation (OPEX) and the
Lean approach to it
• The Technological Guerrilla Mindset (focus on UxS rapid
prototyping, testing and OPEX for the development of
innovative CONOPS, TTP and competitive user-oriented
defense industry products)
Lieutenant Tiago Lanca, COO of Unmanned Vehicles Operational
Experimentation Unit, Portuguese Navy
16.00 Afternoon Tea
UMS FOR MCM OPERATIONS
16.30 Leading-Edge S&T As An Enabler For Future Autonomous Mine
Countermeasures
• The use of artificial intelligence for automatic target
recognition has demonstrated a step-change in
performance as an aide for operators. This talk will provide
details of these performances during exercises and offer a
view into future technological potential
• Automatic seabed characterization is achievable and is
learning on the fly. The more data is collected the better the
vehicle is at recognizing the environmental picture
• The development of high resolution and high performance
sensors combined with the advance of computing power
and GPUs enables an autonomous vehicle to turn large
amounts of data into actionable information by the vehicle,
the MCM operator and the command and control
Dr Samantha Dugelay, Program Manager Autonomous Mine
Countermeasures, NATO Centre for Maritime Research and
Experimentation
17.10 Interoperability; Essential for an Effective MCM Capability by
Autonomous Systems
• Naval Mine Warfare operations are a combination of
effort that requires more than the technical ability to work
together.
• In order to counter the present and future mine threat and
make use of sea mines for NATO’s own strategic operational
or tactical purposes, there must be cooperation between
Multinational, Joint and Combined Forces as well as
maritime industry, research and educational institutions.
• Autonomous does not mean without humans. With present
and future autonomous systems, human interaction with
these systems is still vital in order to make it an effective
MCM capability.
Commander Herman Lammers, Director, NATO Naval Mine Warfare
Centre of Excellence (NMW COE)
17.50 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One
Commodore (Ret’d) Richard Farrington CBE, Former Commander
Devonport Flotilla, Royal Navy

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Day Two | 14th May 2020
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MARKETING OPPORTUNITIES
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08.30 Registration & Coffee
09.00 Chairman’s Opening Remarks
Commodore (Ret’d) Richard Farrington CBE, Former
Commander Devonport Flotilla, Royal Navy
OPENING KEYNOTE BRIEFINGS
09.10 Unmanned Systems for the Portuguese Navy
• The importance of unmanned systems for the future navy
• The Portuguese Navy’s unmanned systems development
plan
• Progress towards integrating and operating unmanned
systems
Vice-Admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, Deputy Planning and
Coordination, Portuguese Armed Forces General Staff
09.50 NATO MUS Initiative to Enhance NATO Maritime Capability
• Outline of the NATO MUS Initiative and the rationale of its
existence
• Progress to-date, including challenges, standardization
and operational experimentation
• Engagement with industry partners
• Looking ahead to the future of the initiative
Commander Ian Danbury, Deputy Director NATO MUS
Innovation and Coordination Cell, NATO
10.30 Morning Coffee
OPERATIONS WITH UMS
11.00 AUVs for ASW Training – Current and Future Capabilities and
Level of Autonomy
• Brief overview of the Swedish AUV program for ASW training
• Developing new capabilities for multi role use of modular
AUV-systems
• Enhancing autonomous behavior – man on the loop, in the
loop or outside the loop
Mr Johan Wahren, Project Manager Underwater Warfare
Weapon Systems, FMV
11.40 Maritime Unmanned Systems (MUS) Contribution to NATO
Maritime Operations
• MUS in support of NATO Maritime Situational Awareness
(MSA)
• MUS in support of NATO maritime operations
• MUS development and experimentation
Commander Antonio Anjinho Mourinha, Maritime Situational
Awareness SME, NATO MARCOM
12.20 Networking Lunch
AUTONOMY FOR UMS
13.20 Enrolling Autonomy in Modern Underwater Warfare
• Integration of autonomous underwater systems as scalable
capability enabler
• Autonomous decision-making: which is the best way
forward?
• Role of autonomous system in the future tactical
development
Mr Matteo Perrone, Project Manager R&D Underwater
Systems, FMV
14.00 Long Range Marine Autonomous System Operations for
Marine Science
• Current vehicle capabilities, limitations and typical mission
types
• Building the long range fleet command and control
infrastructure and data pipeline
• Next steps in extending the vehicle’s capabilities: improving
onboard control, adding new sensors, and automating
vehicle piloting
Dr Maarten Furlong, Head of Marine Autonomous and
Robotics Systems, National Oceanography Centre
14.40 Afternoon Tea
FUTURE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
15.10 A Modular AUV: Exploring New Mission Capabilities
• The concept explained
• Challenges & Opportunities
• Collecting use-cases
Mr Egbert Ypma, Team Leader/Research Program Manager,
Performance at Sea, MARIN
Mr Eelco Harmsen, Senior Project Manager Navy, MARIN
15.50 Marine Autonomous Systems: Research and Applications
• Research in Autonomous Marine Systems Research Group,
Plymouth in AI techniques
• Future Autonomy at Sea Technology (FAST) Cluster and our
involvement
• Some of the key issues in marine autonomy and future works
Dr Sanjay Sharma, Head of Autonomous Marine Systems
Research Group and Associate (Reader) Professor in Intelligent
Autonomous Control Systems, University of Plymouth
16.30 Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day Two
Commodore (Ret’d) Richard Farrington CBE, Former
Commander Devonport Flotilla, Royal Navy

4. SPONSORS
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Elmo, a leading provider of cutting-edge
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Intrepid Minds Ltd are a UK based SME
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Minds are keen innovators ourselves and
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and dissemination of data, development
of new waterborne technologies,
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Minds to have unique access to a wide
range of specialist components that allow
development of our own technologies
to support the future of maritime systems.
In 2018 Intrepid Minds took the decision
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SMi offer sponsorship, exhibition,
advertising and branding packages
uniquely tailored to complement
your company’s marketing strategy.
Prime networking opportunities exist to
entertain, enhance and expand your
client base within the context of an
independent discussion specific to
your industry.
Should you wish to join the increasing
number of companies benefiting from
sponsoring our conferences please
call: Luke Teachen, Sponsorship Sales
Manager, on +44 (0)20 7827 6130 or
email lteachen@smi-online.co.uk

6. UNMANNED MARITIME SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
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