The maritime sector is entering an increasingly complex decision environment shaped by decarbonisation pressures, alternative fuels, digital systems, traceability requirements, and growing expectations around compliance, evidence, and verification. Decision-making is no longer only about selecting technologies, but about demonstrating that choices are safe, credible, and operationally viable in practice.
This seminar explores how maritime decision-making is evolving in this context, focusing on how regulation, data, digital tools, and organisational capability can support more robust, transparent, and timely decisions. It aims to move beyond high-level ambition and examine what can realistically be deployed, scaled, and trusted across the sector.
Structure
The session will hold a moderated panel discussion aiming to cover the following topics:
- Theme 1: Future horizons – ambition, evidence, and readiness
The maritime sector is facing an expanding set of options, including alternative fuels such as ammonia, methanol, hydrogen and even nuclear, alongside autonomy, digital systems, and new vessel designs. However, growing ambition has not necessarily translated into deployable solutions at scale. This theme explores whether the industry is converging on credible pathways, or accumulating options without clear routes to implementation, and how evidence, safety and regulatory readiness shape this process.
- Theme 2: System bottlenecks for scaling under real-world constraints
The transition is not limited by technology, but by system-level constraints including fuel availability, port infrastructure, regulatory processes, workforce readiness, investment priorities and fragmented data. These challenges are often addressed in isolation, leading to misalignment across stakeholders. This theme examines which constraints are most critical in practice, and how they interact to prevent scaling.
- Theme 3: From innovation to approval to deployment
Many promising technologies remain trapped between demonstration and real-world deployment. Innovation, regulation, safety assurance, infrastructure, digital tools, finance and workforce readiness are still treated as separate agendas. This theme explores how these elements can be integrated into coherent pathways that enable safe, scalable implementation, and how early alignment between innovators and regulators can accelerate deployment.
- Theme 4: Decision-making under uncertainty – resilience and confidence to act
In a context where regulation, technology, infrastructure and markets are evolving at different speeds, resilience is increasingly about making robust decisions under uncertainty. The challenge is no longer only technical, but organisational: how to act confidently while maintaining flexibility, compliance, and financial discipline. This theme explores how data, AI-enabled tools, and verification mechanisms can support better decisions and reduce perceived investment risk.
Registration
Participation is free for all Posidonia attendees.
There is no reservation system in place but attendees are encouraged to register using the link provided below.