From June 4th to June 7th 2013, Navarino attended one of the worlds largest Maritime exhibitions, Nor-Shipping in Oslo. Both Marina Angler and Christian Vakarelis were in Norway for the exhibition which brought together representatives from the leading Scandinavian and international shipping companies for three days of seminars, forums and events. Of particular interest was the Digital Ship CIO forum, which addressed the issues and trends that shipping technology professionals face in an increasingly changing and continuously developing business environment. It examined the strategic and practical challenges which all companies are facing in current times:
How to drive business value in the form of growth as well as increased efficiency and productivity?
• How to build a better case for business value?
• How to foster innovation?
• How to gain internal support and buy in?
• How to build platforms that the customer will benefit from?
All these questions and more were covered in depth by some of the satellite communication industry’s leading CIOs, making for a worthwhile and valuable debate on the state of the market.