Meet the ABS Team
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Agenda
General Events
Monday, June 1
Tuesday, June 2
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Industry Insights
Hudong Sterntubeless Vessels project
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
Speaker: George Koutsoumpas, Senior Engineer Technology
12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Core Power Conference
Nuclear in Maritime: Powering Next Generation Shipping and Strengthening Energy Security
Location: Posidonia Seminar Room 2A
Speaker: Spyros Hirdaris, ABS Manager, Global Ship System Center
12:00 p.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Industry Insights - Fireside Chat ABS Wavesight
Topic: What Complex Fleet Operations Demand from Fleet Management Technology
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Wavesight: Pantelis Skinitis, Director, Business Development ABS: Jesse Lashbrook, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing
1:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
TwinShip
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speakers:
Alexandros Magkouris, Project Manager CRAD
Demetres Armanes, Manager, Technology, SIM Center
NTUA: Professor Kostas Belibassakis
1:45 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Industry Insights
FleetFor55
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speakers:
Konstantinos Voutzoulidis, Director Business Development CRAD
Alexandros Magkouris, Project Manager CRAD
HYDRUS: Astrinos Papadakis, Senior Innovation Hub Manager, Head of Department
3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
Industrial Transition Advisory - Shipyards
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
Speaker: Themis Vagiakos, ABS Sustainability Director
3:35 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.
Tradewinds Shipowners Forum Greece at Posidonia 2026
Location: Metropolitan Expo
Speaker: John McDonald, ABS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Wednesday, June 3
11:35 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.
SAFEeCRAFT EU
SAFs and Energy Effieciency Technologies towards Decarbonization: Challenges, Opportunities and Lessons Learned
Location: Seminar Room 1B, Metropolitan Expo
Speaker: Konstantinos Voutzoulidis, ABS Director Business Development CRAD
12:00 p.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
ABS and NTUA Hydrogen Platform Onboard Seawater Electrolysis
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Dr. Chris Leontopoulos, ABS Vice President Technology
NTUA: Professor Christos Papadopoulos
1:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
Session 1: ABS and Flyability Drone Demonstration and Presentation
Topic: AI Coating Breakdown Detection
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Dr. Chris Leontopoulos, ABS Vice President Technology
Flyability: Matteo Sagglia, Marketing Manager Flyability
ShipReality: Stavros Siamantas, CTO
200 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.
Industry Insights
ABS and NT-Tao Ltd.
Fusion Project
Join Patrick Ryan, ABS CTO, and Oded Gour-Lavie, nT-Tao CEO and Co-Founder, to hear about nT‑TAO’s compact fusion technology and its potential applications for maritime energy and propulsion systems.
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS:
Patrick Ryan, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
Minas Diacakis, Senior Engineer Technology
NT-Tao: Oded Gour-Lavie, CEO, Co-Founder nT-tao
2:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Industry Insights - Panel Event
Nuclear at Sea: From Ambition to Delivery
Join ABS and NEMO members as we discuss the potential of nuclear energy at sea.
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS: Patrick Ryan, ABS Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer NEMO: Virginia Crosbie, NEMO Managing Director
MIT: Prof. Themis Sapsis, Head of the Ocean Engineering Group
newcleo: Giulio Gennaro, Executive Director Marine Applications, newcleo
Followed by a reception.
Thursday, June 4
10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
MARTECMA
Carbon Capture Systems Forum: From Concept to Commercial Reality
Topic: Class and Regulatory Perspective on OCCS
Location: Conference Hall, Metropolitan Expo
Speaker: Stamatis Fradelos, ABS VP Regulatory Affairs
11:00 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Industry Insights - Fireside Chat ABS Wavesight
Topic: What Complex Fleet Operations Demand from Fleet Management Technology
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Wavesight: Pantelis Skinitis, Director, Business Development
ABS: Jesse Lashbrook, Senior Director, Strategic Marketing
12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m.
5th Trading in U.S. Waters Seminar: U.S. and Greek Approaches on Today’s Maritime Challenges
Location: Posidonia Seminar Room Central
Session 2: Navigating the Future: AI in Global Shipping
Speaker: Joshua Divin, ABS Senior Vice President, Marine Business Development
12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
5th Trading in U.S. Waters Seminar: U.S. and Greek Approaches on Today’s Maritime Challenges
Location: Posidonia Seminar Room Central
Session 3: Optimizing Energy in Shipping: Technologies, Efficiency and the Path Ahead
Speaker: Themis Vagiakos, ABS Director, Global Sustainability, Global Sustainability Center Greece
1:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
CRAD - BlueBARGE
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker:
Konstantinos Voutzoulidis, Director Business Development CRAD
Katerina Vasileiadou, Project Manager Europe Contracted R&D
HYDRUS:
Astrinos Papadakis, Senior Innovation Hub Manager, Head of Department
Alexandros Giannakis, Senior Innovation Hub Engineer
1:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
Industry Insights
ABS PLATOTM
ABS Plato is a powerful AI chat assistant that transforms how users find and navigate ABS class rules and statutory requirements, delivering fast, intuitive and reliable answers in seconds.
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Stamatis Fradelos, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs
ABS Group: Olivia Northrop, AI Solutions Architect
2:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
ABS and NTUA Fatigue Lifetime Assessment
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Vassilis Zouzoulas, Senior Engineer Technology
NTUA: Professor Evangelos Christoforou
2:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Industry Insights - ABS Training
Demo of Safety Focused Immersive, Simulated Training
ABS Training will demonstrate its use of interactive gameplay to improve training and assessment effectiveness for safety critical operations. Join us to see how simulated environments are being put to work in ISM Auditor and Passenger Evacuation training, and to identify navigational risks amongst their fleet through simulated COLREG scenario-based assessments.
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Nikos Psomas, Senior Manager, Training Product, Hellenic Training Solutions
3:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
Sustainability Readiness Office (SRO)
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Themis Vagiakos, ABS Director Global Sustainability
4:00 p.m. to 4:15 p.m.
Industry Insights
Session 2: ABS and Flyability Drone Demonstration and Presentation
Topic: AI Coating Breakdown Detection
Location: ABS Booth 3.101
ABS Speaker: Dr. Chris Leontopoulos, ABS Vice President Technology
Flyability: Matteo Sagglia, Marketing Manager Flyability
ShipReality: Stavros Siamantas, CTO
Join ABS at Posidonia
June 1–5, 2026
Athens Metropolitan Expo S.A. Athens International Airport "El. Venizelos", 19019 Spata, Attica