Shipping Industry Conferences & Events

Grant Hunter, BIMCO's Director of Standards, Innovation and Research, is hosting this webinar with guest speaker Niels Nuyens, our Program Director. Join them for a "fireside chat" in the second of BIMCO's Digital First webinar series.

The WCO Technology exhibition will showcase customs digital transformation, safe, secure and sustainable cross-border e-commerce, robots and drones, artificial intelligence and machine learning for automated threat detection and more. At this event, our Chief Product Officer, Henk Jan Gerzee, will join the panel "Capturing and exploiting data from across the trade ecosystem."

Organised annually by SWIFT, Sibos brings together thousands of business leaders and experts to collectively shape the future of the financial sector. Our Program Director, Niels Nuyens, will join the panel “Are Electronic Bills of Lading the key to unlocking a digital world?”

Organised annually by SWIFT, Sibos brings together thousands of business leaders and experts to collectively shape the future of the financial sector. Our Chief Product Officer, Henk Jan Gerzee, will join the panel "What's next for the Global Trade Ecosystem?".

Niels Nuyens, our Program Director, will participate to the panel discussion: Fuelling Global Trade through Standardisation.

DCSA will participate in this conference for transport and logistics professionals in Ghent, Belgium, in the panel 'Digital Standards – The Key to a better shipping experience'.

The pandemic has been a catalyst for digitalisation of container terminal operations. Christian Gyntelberg, our Director of Programmes, will join this online panel to discuss port data standards, just-in-time programmes and how they can boost data exchange, visibility & predictivity.

DCSA's Chairman Andre Simha will take part in this European Commission event in Lyon, debating digitalisation of freight and passenger transportation in terms of sustainability, interoperability and planning for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

Danielle Tap, DCSA's Director of Partner Programs will be participating to the workshop "Modernizing the shipping container industry to meet international trade, business, and sustainability goals".

DCSA’s COO Henning Schleyerbach will join the "Harmonizing Digital & Automation Standards" panel alongside experts from ITPCO, IPCSA, TIC 4.0 and Portbase. Topics will include maritime trade terminology and procedures, plus the challenges of measuring the ROI for industry stakeholders around standardization in this area.

This year, the Logistics & Industry congress at SIL Barcelona, will focus the sessions on the Supply Chain Challenges as the Resilience, the sustainability, the talent, as well as last breakthroughs on Digitalization and 4.0 Industry. Our CEO, Thomas Bagge will join the panel "Maritime Disruption and Global Perspectives". This is an hybrid event, so you can also access all the conferences online.

During the Hackathon you will be asked to build solutions to enhance cargo products using the ONE Record Data Sharing standard by multimodal means. We will ask you to address at least one of the related challenges by using at least one of the APIs available at the event. In parallel, you will be able to attend some of the workshops that will take place remotely and gain access to mentors that will support you through the Hackathon experience.

Niels Nuyens, our Program Director, will be joining the panel "Digitalisation Fuelling Global Trade" to discuss about: "Collaboration to harness digital solutions". The technical, legal, and regulatory frameworks needed to break the silos between the global supply chain and financial institutions. And how has the pandemic impacted the digital transformation of global trade, and how the use of blockchain can help ease logjams ?

Semi-annual Forums of UN/CEFACT. This event brings together experts from the public and private sectors to work on trade facilitation recommendations and e-business standards on a global scale. Two of our experts, Dominique and Emilio, will join the session “Transport and Logistics Domain Presentation” with other experts from IATA, SMDG, BIC, IPCSA and more!

André Simha, DCSA's chairman, and other panellists will be discussing during this online conference the learnings from JIT developments in 2021, cross-industry track, trace, and efficient document and regulatory clearance process and JIT vs JIC.

Thomas Bagge, DCSA's CEO, will join this Digital Trade Conversation panel to discuss digital trade, standards and interoperability.

André Simha, DCSA's chairman, and other panellists will share a view on existing and post pandemic supply chains and trade, discuss opportunities arising from supply chain disruption and challenges, and answer the burning question: how could digitalisation of ports and ships help improve supply chain resilience?

Alan Broady, Senior Solution Architect at DCSA, will join a conference gathering software developers to discuss how data standards and interoperability that entities have developed and how developers can use them?

André Simha, Chairman at DCSA will discuss with Michele Sancricca, Head of worldwide technology for supply chain and logistics at Amazon Web Services, the constraints and opportunities of driving true standardisation in an industry that has long fought such initiatives. What’s holding the industry back, and in what functional areas will adoption of standards bring the industry closer to the vision that Simha described?

Our CEO, Thomas Bagge, will be participating to the JOC webcast and will be discussing about figuring out the elusive standardisation problem in global logistics.

Niels Nuyens, a Program Director at DCSA, will join the session "Streamlining the maritime environment" to talk about standards and adoption of electronic bill of lading.

Ellen Sun, DCSA's CMO will be joining the panel session "Is digitalisation the future of the logistics industry?".

Thomas Bagge will be speaking during this event about "Looking Back and Building Forward".

Thomas Bagge, DCSA's CEO will be joining the panel session "The unsung hero of trade digitization".

Thomas Bagge, DCSA's CEO will talk about the role of standardisation and collaboration in the future of shipping.

Thomas Bagge will be speaking at the CSCMP Edge event about transforming the digital future of container shipping, highlighting use cases that will bring significant benefits to customer and partners of container shipping lines. More details about the agenda will be filled in throughout July on the event site.

Take on the IATA / DCSA Hackathon challenge - solving the digital identity challenge for container shipping.

Thomas Bagge, DCSA's CEO participated to the plenary 'Pioneer Industries developing open standard processes and protocols: Practical Examples.' and talked about how digital standards transform customer experience.

Niels Nuyens, Program Director at DCSA, discussed the importance of digital standards for track and trace and/or eBill of Lading.

This BIMCO webinar explored the challenges that lie between the current “hurry up and wait” regime and Just in Time Arrivals regime where a ship’s arrival time is adjusted to meet a specified date when the berth will be available on arrival.

Our CEO, Thomas Bagge, and R3's Alisa DiCaprio will be live to discuss the big (formerly) stuck ship, the need for standards in international trade, trade finance and consortium building.

Marcel van de Pol will join other maritime experts to discuss "Data Analysis and Visualization - The Lighthouse for Maritime Situational Awareness".

Our Program Director, Marcel van de Pol joined the panel session: Digital platform evaluation - Latest updates.

Henning Schleyerbach joined the panel to discuss the outlook for port efficiency and port call optimisation and the roadblocks that remain to effectively leverage these promising areas to reduce emissions and improve profitability.

At the World Economic Forum, our CEO Thomas Bagge discussed the impact of COVID-19 on the global supply chain and present the DCSA case study. Read the summary here.

Listen to Henning Schleyerbach discuss how container shipping industry leaders are positioning to withstand  today’s unprecedented trading challenges.  

Watch Henning Schleyerbach discuss "Digitalisation and data standardisation: time for the maritime industry to act".