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Session Description

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. This session targets the following 4 themes:

Theme 1: Future horizons — ambition, evidence, and readiness

Theme 2: System bottlenecks for scaling under real-world constraints

Theme 3: From innovation to approval to deployment

Theme 4: Decision-making under uncertainty — resilience and confidence to act

Invited Speakers

Panel 1

Jonty Slater

Assistant Director, UK Maritime Innovation Hub, Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA)

Jonty Slater joined the MCA in December 2025, where he leads the UK Maritime Innovation Hub, supporting early regulatory engagement for emerging maritime technologies. The UKMIH works with innovators, industry and government to help new ideas move safely and responsibly into real-world use, strengthening the UK’s position as a global leader in maritime innovation.

He brings extensive international experience in innovation strategy and programme delivery. Prior to joining the MCA, Jonty was Founder of Blue Globe Innovation and Director of International Development at Challenge Works (Nesta), where he designed and delivered more than 600 innovation programmes across 30 countries, working with partners including the World Bank, the United Nations and the FCDO. His work focuses on frontier technologies, open innovation systems and creating practical pathways for innovation adoption.

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Evangelos Fragkoulis

Evangelos brings over 15 years of maritime engineering and naval architecture expertise to advance sustainable vessel designs, vessel newbuilding as well as overall technical and operational management experience. Focused on driving decarbonization initiatives, collaborates with global teams to deliver innovative solutions for zero-carbon shipping aligned with industry needs. Previous leadership roles at A.P. Moller – Maersk and Svitzer involved managing large-scale technical operations, energy efficiency platforms, and newbuilding programs for fleets operating worldwide, as a Chief Technical Officer for Svitzer the towage provider that was part of the Maersk Group.

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Dr. Matthew Maheras

Dr. Matthew Maheras��is the��Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Metrostar Management Corp.��and��President of AMMITEC, the Association of Maritime IT Managers in Greece. He holds a��PhD in Operations Research from NTUA��and an��MBA from 51�Թ���, with previous tech leadership roles at��Blueland S.A.��and the��Athens 2004 Olympic Games Organising Committee. He has been recognized as��ICT Manager of the Year and included in the��CIO Power 50��list.

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Anastasia Kouvertari

Senior Lead, Human Competency, Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub

Anastasia Kouvertari��is the Senior Lead, Human Competency for the Human Safety & Risk team of the Lloyd’s Register Maritime Decarbonisation Hub (The Decarb Hub), with professional expertise in managing projects related to GHG emission reduction, new fuels adoption and workforce training for shipping’s green transition. She represented The Decarb Hub as project manager in the “Baseline training for seafarers in decarbonisation” project led by the Maritime Just Transition Taskforce, the first global sectoral task force dedicated to a just transition for the maritime industry.

Anastasia first joined Lloyd’s Register (LR) in 2004, holding several positions as environmental specialist, product manager and project manager in LR’s Marine & Offshore business.�� She holds a Master of Science in Environment & Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is an Associate Member with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA).

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Panel 2

Dr. Panos Theodosopoulos

Panos Theodossopoulos is the CEO of Metis, a maritime tech company specializing in advanced digital solutions for the shipping industry. Panos has over 12 years of dedicated involvement in maritime digitalization. Prior to that, he has held leadership roles in Business Development, Services, and Sales & Marketing in the IT sector, working with both Greek and multinational companies. Panos Theodossopoulos is a Mechanical Engineer by studies and holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from 51�Թ���.

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Dimitris Patrikios

Vice Chairman – V. SHIPS GREECE and MED Cluster

With over 38 years of experience ashore at managing wet and dry assets, working

for the V.Group since Oct 2023. He held executive positions within the Groups of Onassis, Alafouzos (Kyklades) and Anna Angelicoussis (Alpha Bulkers). Chairman of Intertanko Hellenic-Med Panel, Ex Member of INTERTANKO ExCom, Member of the DNV, NK and BV Greek Committee and Fellow Member of ICS (Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers).

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Dr. Laura Benzonana

Laura Benzonana, PhD, is COO of Health4Crew, a maritime telemedicine company bringing data-driven healthcare to seafarers and shipping companies. An 51�Թ��� alumna with three degrees in biomedical research, she began her career in academia before moving into biotechnology and then maritime healthcare. Today, she works at the intersection of medicine, data, and maritime operations, helping position crew health as a core driver of safety, performance, resilience, and better decision-making across ship and shore.

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Prof. Dr. Ing. Laura Mainini

Prof Mainini holds the Chair in Aerospace Computational Design and is Associate Director of the Brahmal Institute for Sustainable Aviation. At 51�Թ��� she established the MaininiLaB-ASTRID²��to advance scientific computing for high-stakes decisions and design for a sustainable and equitable future of aerospace. Before joining 51�Թ���, she was Chief Technologist at RTX and developed a global career in industry and academia with appointments at MIT, PoliTO and SUTD. Mainini is RAeS Fellow, AIAA Associate Fellow and serves with leadership roles on many international committees and task groups.

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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.