DAy 1 - Tuesday, March 24
7000-0800: check-in, NetworkinG & Breakfast
(Onsite and included in registration price.)
Start the conference off with a hosted breakfast as you check in and meet fellow attendees. This opening networking window offers an excellent opportunity to connect with maritime professionals from across the country, explore exhibitor displays, and settle into the venue before the program begins.
We recommend you arrive as early as possible during this time period to ensure you are able to check in, get breakfast, find a seat for the day, and have time to meet fellow attendees.
0800-0810: WELCOME & KEYNOTE
- Welcome Remarks and Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Patrick Gallagher, Chair Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee and Executive Director of the Marine Exchange of Puget Sound
- Keynote remarks and presentation of the Distinguished Harbor Safety Committee Award: Admiral Kevin Lunday, Acting Commandant (invited)
- Keynote remarks: Senator Maria Cantwell (invited)
0910-0940: Break
0940-1100: Federal Agency Perspectives
This session will provide a high-level scene-setter through federal perspectives on the most pressing challenges within the Marine Transportation System. Speakers will share individual agency perspectives, as well as highlight work they are doing collaboratively as part of the U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System. Anticipate discussion of Administration priorities (e.g., relevant Executive Orders) as well as things local port communities can do to help address the nation’s most pressing challenges.
Panel Moderator: Ashley Chappell, Executive Director U.S. Committee on the Marine Transportation System
Panelists:
- Rear Admiral Wayne R. Arguin Jr., Assistant Commandant for Prevention Policy, U.S. Coast Guard
- Stephen Carmel, Prospective Administrator, U.S. Maritime Administration (pending invite)
- Nicole R. LeBoeuf, Assistant Administrator, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (invited)
- Major General Jason E. Kelly, Deputy Commanding General for Civil and Emergency Operations, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1105-1130: Understanding Alternative Fuels
Speaker: Claudia Beumer, Membership and Communications Manager, Society of Gases and Marine Fuels
The International Maritime Organization (IMO)’s goal of reducing emissions from vessels has ship owners and operators looking to alternative fuels to fuel their fleets, and each type of alternative fuel presents its own unique risks and challenges to understand, mitigate, and manage. This session will provide information on the risks associated with different alternative fuel types (e.g., liquified natural gas, methanol, ammonia, hydrogen, nuclear, and lithium-ion batteries) and insight into how companies think about these issues when making decisions for their vessels and/or fleets.
1130-1300: Lunch
(Onsite and included in registration price.)
1300-1515: Advancing Shipboard Fire Safety: National Strategies, Local Action
This session will provide a national-level overview and highlight local initiatives implemented to improve the response to shipboard fires. The U.S. Coast Guard’s Office of Marine Environmental Response Policy will provide a briefing on the efforts of the Salvage and Marine Firefighting Task Force and other initiatives underway to support prevention and planning. This will be followed by a panel discussion to share the efforts of several port communities that have taken action to improve shipboard fire preparedness.
- USCG Representative: CAPT Kirsten Trego (USCGR, ret.): Acting Chief, Office of Marine Environmental Response, U.S. Coast Guard
- Panel Moderator: Dan Smiley: Executive Director, Washington State Maritime Cooperative; Participant, Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee
Panelists:
- Bill Burket: Senior Director, Maritime Incident Response Team and Business Continuity, Port of Virginia; Member, Virginia Harbor Safety Committee
- Curtis Cannizzaro: Executive Director, Maritime Fire and Safety Association; Executive Director, Merchants Exchange of Portland; and Member, Lower Columbia Region Harbor Safety Committee
- CAPT Jim Elliott (USCG, ret.): Chief Operating Officer, T&T Group of Companies; Past President, American Salvage Association; Executive Committee and Managing Board Member, Lone Star Harbor Safety Committee
- Capt. Tony Heeter: Operations Supervisor, Blue & Gold Fleet; Chair, Ferry Operations Work Group, Harbor Safety Committee of the San Francisco Bay Region
- Aaron Patterson: Lieutenant, Seattle Fire Department; Participant, Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee
1515-1545: Break
1545-1700: Harbor Safety Committee Challenges
This session will focus on key management and administrative topics (e.g., membership, recruitment, and funding) local Harbor Safety Committees have identified as challenges. Following a short briefing to provide an overview of challenges and approaches at the nation level, this session will include a panel discussion featuring representatives from local Harbor Safety Committees that can share specific strategies and tactics that have worked for them.
Panel Moderator: Noel Jones, Harbor Safety Committee Program Manager, U.S. Coast Guard
Panelists:
- Patrick Gallagher: Executive Director, Marine Exchange of Puget Sound; Chair, Puget Sound Harbor Safety Committee
- CAPT Paul Mehler (USCG, ret.): Senior Port Captain – Alaska, Marathon Petroleum; Chair, Cook Inlet Harbor Safety Committee
- Christine Titus: Port Operations, Louisiana Maritime Association; Treasurer, Greater New Orleans Port Safety Council Harbor Safety Committee
- Scott White: CEO, Montserrat Maritime, LLC; Secretary, Massachusetts Bay Harbor Safety Committee
