Program
PROGRAM
| TUESDAY 7 NOVEMBER – DAY 1 | ||
| Plenary - Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | ||
| 0940 – 1000 | Opening Ceremony and Welcome | |
| 1000 – 1030 | Opening Address Gwynne Lewis – CEO Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology |
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| 1030 – 1100 | Keynote Address Dr Todd Mansell – First Assistant Director General Technical Australian Submarine Agency (ASA) |
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| 1100 – 1130 | Morning Tea: Parkside Pre-Function | |
| Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | Meeting Room C2.5/C2.6 | |
| Session 1 – Panel Discussion Nuclear Powered Submarines |
Session 2 COMMERCIAL VESSEL TECHNOLOGY |
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| Session Chair: John Jeremy AM | Session Chair: Rob Gehling | |
| 1130 – 1200 | Panel Session Panellists: Ms Maree Weir Ms Venessa Barrins
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Upscaling and Design of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell System for Marine Applications (Refereed) Berend van Veldhuizen Delft University of Technology |
| 1200 – 1230 | Feasibility study of adopting hydrogen fuel cells for Australian ships BMT |
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| 1230 – 1300 | A hybrid diesel-electric power and propulsion system for commercial vessels (Refereed) Dmitry Miller Steve Mitchell Ampcontrol CSM |
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| 1300 – 1400 | Lunch: Parkside Pre-Function | |
| Session 3 Nuclear Powered Submarines |
Session 4 Ship Design |
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| Session Chair: Dr Stuart Cannon | Session Chair: Julie Mikhail | |
| 1400 – 1430 | Prioritising challenges and risks in aquaculture vessels for developing a code of practice (Refereed) Saeed Mohajernasab University of Tasmania |
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| 1430 – 1500 | Shipbuilding and sustainment - Roadmap for nuclear suitably qualified experienced persons Sammy Tweddle Bureau Veritas UK |
Challenges in delivering the next AIMS research vessel for Northern Australia Peter Thurling Gibbs & Cox Australia Dr Richard Brinkman AIMS |
| 1500 – 1530 | Accident investigation of the K-431 submarine reactor and the importance of a Nuclear Safety Culture Sammy Tweddle Bureau Veritas UK |
Designing a modern Research Vessel for the Australian Institute of Marine Science |
| 1530 – 1600 | Strategies for the effective management of safety at Australian nuclear submarine facilities Coras |
Advances in seaboat design Chris Howard Naiad Design. New Zealand |
| Session 5 Safety |
Session 6 Shipbuilding |
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| Session Chair: Don Moloney | Session Chair: Adrian Broadbent | |
| 1600 – 1630 | Assessing combat risk in naval vessels Ian Leaver Thornton Tomasetti Pty |
Best in class shipbuilding CAD tool. The roadmap to the success Leonie Wong Siemens Digital Industries Software |
| 1630 – 1700 | Innovative naval compartment fire boundary penetrations for the final fight Sarah Battenally me-innovations |
Adapting Australian shipbuilding to the new defence reality |
| 1700 – 1730 | Design and evaluation of a shock-mitigating marine seat Paul Zwaan Zetec Ltd |
Material data and the verification process for structural components for shipbuilding, using Wire-arc Additive manufacturing Brad Coulter AML3D Ltd |
| 1730 – 1800 | Innovations in friction stir welding for marine applications Kate Franklin TWI |
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| WEDNESDAY 8 NOVEMBER – DAY 2 | ||||||
| Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | ||||||
| 0830 – 0900 | Keynote Address Tim Speer – Design Development Manager at Austal Ltd |
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| Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | Meeting Room C2.5 | |||||
| Session 7 Autonomous Marine Vehicles |
Session 8 Naval Ship Seaworthiness |
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| Session Chair: Tauhid Rahman | Session Chair: Jim Black | |||||
| 0900 – 0930 | Uncrewed surface vessels for naval defence: The Australian context Nirman Jayarathne Navantia Australia |
The development of the Australian Naval Classification framework Colin Dagg Australian Naval Classification Authority |
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| 0930 – 1000 | A case study in interoperability & USV hosting of disparate autonomous systems Allen Stotz Gibbs & Cox Australia |
Ensuring future proof naval vessels –verified readiness Olaf Doerk Det Norske Veritas |
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| 1000 – 1030 | Insights from the TAS DCRC Regulatory Pathfinder Project – Using real life exemplars to inform Defence’s approach to the trusted, explainable and effective development and deployment of autonomous capability Clare East Trusted Autonomous Systems DCRC |
Product assurance in the submarine supply chain Matthew Palmer Lloyd’s Register, UK |
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| 1030 – 1100 | Smart sustainment of autonomous systems in the future naval force John Best Thales Australia |
Using commercial design best practice to improve naval ship safety Philip Dovey Frazer-Nash Consultancy |
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| 1100 – 1130 | Morning Tea: Parkside Pre-Function | |||||
| Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | Meeting Room C2.5 | Meeting Room C2.6 | ||||
| Session 9 - Panel discussion Autonomous vs Non-Autonomous Marine Vehicles |
Session 10 Hydrodynamics |
Session 10A Miscellaneous |
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| Session Chair: Jim Black | Session Chair: Dr Gregor MacFarlane | Session Chair: Adrian Broadbent | ||||
| 1130 – 1200 | Panel Session Panellists:
Emily Hilder Robert Dane Emily Hughes Sarah Brown Hudson Institute, USA |
Validation of a novel smoothed particle hydrodynamics approach to model ship structural response to surface waves (Refereed) Bruce Cartwright University of Newcastle |
Enhancing Collins Class Submarines to prevent a capability gap Ishan Samjeva Daniel Solomon DST Consulting |
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| 1200 – 1230 | Hydrodynamic performance of small high-speed planning catamarans during turning. |
Hullform impact on whole-of-ship performance Joel Hogan DSTG |
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| 1230 – 1300 | A methodology for estimating the turn radius of an underwater vehicle Alexander Cameron QinetiQ |
Modelling and simulation as a risk assessment tool to support warships in harbour Rhys Centin Thornton Tomasetti |
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| 1300 – 1400 | Lunch: Parkside Pre-Function | |||||
| Meeting Room C2.2/C2.3 | Meeting Room C2.5 | Meeting Room C2.6 | ||||
| Session 11 Autonomous Vehicles |
Session 12 Ship Sustainment |
Session 13 Ship Systems |
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| Session Chair: Dr Daniel Solomon | Session Chair: Geoffrey Fawcett | Session Chair: Assoc Prof Warren Smith | ||||
| 1400 – 1430 | Autonomy in warfare: What can we learn from the war in Ukraine? |
Designing submarines for through-life performance Will Maidstone Copper Alloys Ltd |
Next Gen Mission Bay Handling Systemsc Robert Andrè Breivik Kongsberg Maritime AS |
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| 1430 – 1500 | Harnessing the Power of Data – What we should learn from the maiden voyage of the Mayflower Autonomous Ship (MAS). Tobias Brand-Sassen IBM |
Optimising dry dock operations: a case study in block arrangement Ian Manchester University of Sydney |
Platform Performance of a Hypothetical Corvette with Varying Integrated Mission Packages for Naval Operations. Cooper Woods UNSW Canberra @ADFA |
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| 1500 – 1530 | New products in underwater long-lived unpiloted untethered robots |
Data and analytics for the naval enterprise Hayden Lee Navy Engineering. Department of Defence |
Modularisation of maritime payloads and the development of a common maritime interface specification Levi Catton Gibbs & Cox Australia |
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| 1530 – 1600 | Flexible, autonomous coordination of teams of UxVs in the maritime domain Paul Scerri Platypus Australia |
Contemporary sustainment cost drivers and ageing for naval vessels Andrei Ezergailis ASC Pty Ltd |
Whole of ship performance impacts of a thermoelectric generator waste heat recovery system Jemma Twelftree DSTG |
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| Session 14 Human Factors in Systems |
Session 15 Environmental Protection |
Session 16 Ship Structures |
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| Session Chair: Bruce Howard | Session Chair: John Lewis | Session Chair: Karl Slater | ||||
| 1600 – 1630 | The maritime RobotX challenge and building the future autonomous workforce |
Pollution prevention in a Defence context, could an International Naval Ship Pollution Prevention (NAVPOL) Code be feasible? Jonathan Branch Invicta Maritime Solutions |
The impacts of operational environments on blast survivability and operability performance (Refereed) Blake Burgess DSTG |
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| 1630 – 1700 | Designing for Humans in Complex Maritime Systems: Lessons for Advanced Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomy Ben Schwartz Dr Erica Barhorst-Cates Monterey Technologies, Inc |
Energy efficient naval ships Philip Dovey Frazer-Nash Consultancy |
Mitigating welding-induced distortion, and residual stresses through numerical simulations Ondrej Muransky ANSTO |
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| 1700 – 1730 | Solar containership powering ocean carbon removal and green methanol Dan Barbulescu Energy Storage Rights P/L |
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| 1800 – 1930 |
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| THURSDAY 9 NOVEMBER – DAY 3 | ||
| Meeting Room C2.6 | ||
| 0830 – 0900 | Keynote Address Associate Professor Warren Smith – University of NSW, Canberra at ADFA |
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| Meeting Room C2.5 | Meeting Room C2.6 | |
| Session 17 Submarine Hydrodynamics |
Session 18 Research Facilities |
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| Session Chair: Assoc Prof Jonathan Duffy | Session Chair: Dr Greg Bain | |
| 0900 – 0930 | A Tiered Approach to Quantifying the Dynamic Stability of a Submarine on the Surface Paul Crossland QinetiQ, UK |
The AMC Towing Tank: Four decades performing maritime hydrodynamic experiments and recent capability enhancements Thomas A. Rehrmann Australian Maritime College University of Tasmania |
| 0930 – 1000 | Correlation allowance on full-scale CFD resistance and wake predictions (Refereed) Hien Nguyen DSTG |
Development of wave making capability in UNSW Canberra SIET Flume Brett Murray UNSW Canberra |
| 1000 – 1030 | Investigation into the influence of Reynolds number on the wake features of a sail of an underwater vehicle (Refereed) Yieng Teen Huong Australian Maritime College University of Tasmania |
Development of an Australian sovereign shock testing and assurance capability - Part 2 Warren Reid Thornton Tomasetti |
| 1030 – 1100 | Hydrodynamic loads acting on an underwater vehicle operting near the free-surface (Refereed) Alexander Conway DSTG |
ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Biofilm Research and Innovation Sophie Leterme Flinders University |
| 1100 – 1130 | Morning Tea: Parkside Pre-Function | |
| Session 19 Ship Procurement |
Session 20 Ship Structures |
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| Session Chair: Dr Dall'Armi-Stoks | Session Chair: Craig Boulton | |
| 1130 – 1200 | The use of wargaming as a naval concept exploration tool Professor David Manley University College London |
Comparison of structural and seakeeping conditions in the southern ocean and north atlantic. (Refereed) Dr Richard Stubbing Sally Garrett Defence Technology Agency, New Zealand |
| 1200 – 1230 | Hunter Class Frigate Project – the path to designing and building an Australian ASW Frigate |
Detailed local stress analysis of a large ship structure under wave loading using sub-structure methods (Refereed) Allen Chhor University of New South Wales |
| 1230 – 1300 | Understanding the importance of tonal audibility in underwater radiated noise signatures for modern naval warships Murray Snaith BAE Systems Maritime Australia |
Full scale instrumentation of a large high-speed catamaran during normal operations as a passenger ferry Mark Francis Warren University of Tasmania |
| 1300 – 1400 | Lunch: Parkside Pre-Function | |
| Session 21 Electronic Systems |
Session 22 Autonomous Vehicles |
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| Session Chair: Dr Dall'Armi-Stoks | Session Chair: Tauhid Rahman | |
| 1400 – 1430 | Operational implications of multiple adversarial OTH radar surveillance of the South China Sea Stuart John Anderson University College London, UK |
Navigating to smoother regulatory waters for Australian commercial vessels capable of autonomous or remote operation Rachel Horne Queensland University of Technology |
| 1430 – 1500 | The effects of climate change on ocean hydroacoustics and sonar Rhys Kissell Adroita |
Assurance of unmanned marine systems safety Anderson Chaplow Lloyd’s Register, UK |
| 1500 – 1530 | Development of low-effort, high-impact GNSS alternative navigation solutions for uncrewed marine vehicles Rory Findlay Nortek |
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| 1530 | Closing Ceremony Meeting Room C2.6 |
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For further information regarding the IMC 2023 International Maritime Conference contact the Conference Secretariat at:
IMC 2023 International Maritime Conference Secretariat
PO Box 339
NORTH GEELONG VIC 3215
Email: imc@amda.com.au
4-6 NOVEMBER 2025, INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE SYDNEY, NSW, AUSTRALIA
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