Smart Maritime Network Athens Conference - 24 November, 2020

When first announced, SMN Athens was due to be held in April 2020. The plan for then was to review and discuss “the pace of progress” since SMN’s first-ever conference in May 2019, also in Athens. It was entirely appropriate that we planned to use our second visit to Athens to review the first year of Smart Maritime Network’s existence.

We were asking industry leaders to share their insights on how digital innovation had been embraced in the previous year and whether the argument of cost versus growth was still stuck in the same place. The key twin drivers of digitalisation and sustainability were to be the core focus of the event.