Keynote Speech: Automated Freight Vessel Operations

Dr. Angelos J. Amditis is Research and Development Director in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems and member of its Board of Directors. He is the founder and the Director of the I-SENSE Research Group. Since June 2018 he is the ERTICO-ITS Europe Chairman while he has been a member of ERTICO Supervisory Board since 2012. He is a member of the Executive Board of ETP-ALICE (Co-chairing the WG3 “ALICE Systems & Technologies for Interconnected Logistics”) and member of the Supervisory Board of ILME. He is the Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Hellenic Port Community System (HPCS). He is a former Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Athens Urban Transport Organisation (OASA) and former member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP S.A.). He is the Vice President and one of the founding members of ITS Hellas. He is participating to many EC Groups and Platforms. His current research interests in the field of ITS include Automated Transport Systems, Cooperative Systems, Electromobility, Smart Mobility both for people and cargo, maritime, logistics and supply chain applications, ICT for environmental and security applications, including cyber security and circular economy, etc. He has been the scientific responsible of more than 200 research projects in the last 30 years.