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TUESDAY 10 MAY 2011 :

9:00 – 18:00 : Start of the 1st workshops

« IF&GIS », 5th international workshop on information fusion & geographic information systems: towards the Digital
Ocean» co-organized by the Research Institute of the Naval Academy (IRENAV), the Research Institute of St Petersburg
and the Russian Academy of Science.

« SAR / Search & Rescue », 4th International Workshop on technologies for Search and Rescue and other Emergency
Marine Operations, organized by IFREMER, the US coastguards and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

ARCOPOL «Improving compensation for local authorities after a maritime accident». European workshop led by the
CETMAR.

18:00 – 19:00 : Welcome of all the participants by the President of Brest métropole océane urban council

(Registrations)
Official standing reception at the Quartz Conference Centre

WEDNESDAY 11 MAY 2011:

10:30 – 11:00 : Participants welcomed

11:00 – 12:20 : Opening session of the Conference

Speeches :
- François CUILLANDRE, President of Brest métropole océane
- Pierre MAILLE, President of the Finistère General Council
- Isabelle THOMAS, Vice-President of the Brittany regional council
- A representative of the International Maritime Organization (IMO)
- A representative of the European Parliament
- Maria DAMANAKI, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (*)
- Jean-François TALLEC, French Secretary General of the Sea

12:20 – 12:30 : “From Safer Seas 2007 to the 2011 edition”

Introduction by Michel MORVAN, Commissioner General of Safer Seas

12:30 – 13:00 : Inauguration of the Trade show in the presence of international delegations : Mexico, Vietnam, China,
Québec…

13:00 – 14:30 : Lunch break

(*) To be confirmed

Strand 1 - Policies, regulations, technological innovations & operational

means: progress made in terms of maritime safety since 2007.

Witness: Willem DE RUITER, Director of the European Agency of Maritime Safety

14:30 - 16:00 : Session 1 – Oil shipping and beyond (current events, Gulf of Mexico)

Since 2007, oil spills from shipwrecks have seemed to be marking time, at least in Europe, which may attest to some progress in
the field. At the same time, the accidents of container-carriers raised awareness of new challenges for maritime security: the issue
of gigantism (container-carriers, passenger ships...), the transport of hazardous materials...
However, it is another sector, that of offshore oil production that was thrust violently into the spotlight, with the explosion of an oil
platform and the large-scale pollution of the Gulf of Mexico this engendered. That event has raised new questions and stakes,
which confirm the idea that the seeking of more effective regulations and the commissioning of many systems to control and
monitoring global shipping must be continued.

Philippe PAOLONTONI, Director of Maritime Affairs, French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable

Chairman
Development, Transports and Housing

Co chairmen Patricia MUNOZ, Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Center on sustainable development at
the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico - CIIEMAD
Moderator Christophe MARQUES, Directorate for the Sea - Brittany regional council
Centre of documentation, research and experiments related to accidental pollutions of water -
CEDRE
Bureau Veritas
 Speakers A representative of shipowners
The Director of the European Maritime Security Agency – EMSA
European Commission : DG MOVE
International Maritime Organization - IMO

16:00 - 16:30 : Break

16:30 - 18:00 : Two sessions held simultaneously

Session 2 – Technological responses

Systems to control and monitor shipping, as well as the marine pollution response system rely on developing technological
tools. On the European level, much progress can be noted since 2007, under the impetus of EMSA whether it be for regulations
(broadening the ranges of vessels, particularly fishing boats, which must be equipped with AIS - Automatic Information System) or
tools (developing networks like SafeSeaNet, CleanSeaNet, implementation of the EU's LRIT – Long Range Identification and
Tracking, etc.). At European and international levels, the trend is definitely to the integration of surveillance and observation
systems (knowledge of the oceans, sea forecasts, maritime activities…).

Chairman Dr Cherdsak VIRAPAT, Director of the International Ocean Institute - IOI

Co chairmen Professor Vasily POPOVICH, St Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation - SPIIRAS
Moderator Eric VANDENBROUCKE - Technopôle Brest Iroise Science Park
Météo France
Companies CLS, THALES, EADS, LUXSPACE and HELZEL
European Maritime Security Agency – EMSA
Speakers European Spacial Agency – ESA
Maritime Safety Agency, China – MSA
European Community Shipowners’ Associations – ECSA
International Federation of Shipmasters' Associations - IFSMA

Session 3 – Rescue at sea: comparative analysis

A comparison of different rescue systems over the world. Even though they obey to the same logics and international regulations,
operations of rescue at sea are organized differently from one State to another. This session will introduce systems from Europe,
North and South America, as well as the role of Rescue at Sea Coordination Centres (in France, CROSS aka Regional Operation
Centres for Rescue and Surveillance) and of the various public (French Etat en Mer, Chilean Navy...) and associative (French
SNSM, RNLI for the United Kingdom) stakeholders. Besides the main conference, workshop 8 “SAR: Search and rescue” will be
dedicated to this topic.

Jean-François TALLEC – French Secretary General of the Sea, President of the North Atlantic
Chairman
Coastguards Forum
Co chairmen Canadian authorities
Moderator Michel GIARD, writer and member of the National Society of Sea Rescuers - SNSM
The director of MRCC CROSS CORSEN
Salvamento Maritimo - Spain
Speakers The Canadian Coastguard - Canada
Maritime Safety and Operations - Chili
US Coast Guards - USA

Evening : Gala dinner at the Naval Academy

19:30 : Shuttle from the Trade Port to the Lanvéoc-Poulmic Naval Academy

22:30 : Back to Brest

THURSDAY 12 MAY 2011:

Strand 2 – Tomorrow's maritime safety policies to cope with the climate changes and
stakes

Witness : Francis VALLAT, President of the French Maritime Cluster

9:00 – 10:30 : Session 4 – New shipping routes

The melting of sea ice in polar zones, symptomatic of climate change, arouses major expectations which in their turn raise
numerous legal, economic and environmental questions. Therefore, these extreme areas are turning into the life-sized
laboratories of future maritime security policies. Session 4 will allow presenting the prospects of polar zones management and
exploitation, more specifically those associated with new arctic shipping routes, from the point of view of scientists, of regional,
national and international institutions, and of maritime industrials.

Chairman Yves FRENOT, Director of the Paul-Emile Victor French Polar Institute - IPEV
Christophe BOUVIER, Director of the United Nations Environment Program's Regional Office for
Co chairmen
Europe - UNEP
Moderator Frédéric LASSERE, Laval University – QUEBEC
Associated researcher to the University of Western Brittany – UBO
National Centre for Scientific Research - CNRS
Bureau Veritas
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs - MAEE
Speakers
The Canadian, American, Chilean and Norway coastguards
Russian authorities
Representatives of carriers, shipowners and offshore industries
International Maritime Organization– IMO
10:30 – 11:00 : Break

11:00 – 12:30 : Session 5 – The ship of the future: a cleaner, safer and more economical vessel

Those involved in ship design and ship building are working on the "ship of the future" which must be a "clean, economical and
safe vessel". It will have to reduce its discharges of oily water and waste waters, its ballast water which can contain invasive
species, its green house gas emissions, while reducing its fuel consumption, and in the near future, its noise pollution. To do so,
using new energy sources, designing new propulsion processes and developing "smart" navigational aids must be envisaged. For
this approach, information technologies will play an absolutely determining role.

Chairman Hervé MOULINIER, President of the Pôle Mer marine competitiveness cluster
Co chairmen Maritime University of Shanghai
Moderator Paul TOURRET, Director of the Superior Institute of Maritime Economy – ISEMAR
French Association of Shipmasters - AFCAN
Speakers Representatives of national and international ship builders
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées Bretagne – ENSTA Bretagne
Project EUROFLEETS - IFREMER

Witness : Jean-Marie POIMBOEUF, President of the French Naval Industry Group - GICAN, Secretary
general of the Orientation Council of Research and Innovation for the Naval Industry - CORICAN

12:30: Lunch

14:00-15:30 : Session 6 – The port of the future

At all latitudes, impacts can be expected in territorial management and particularly in designing harbors which will have to take
account of factors which are still poorly known, such as the rise in sea level and increasingly strong and frequent disturbances
induced by climate change. In any case, it deals with the conception of the sustainable port, considering all its aspects and
functions. From main international port cities to smaller ones, be it in civil or military ports, marinas, fishing harbors or commercial
ports, changes have been initiated. The diversity of these answers and experiences probably prefigures the Port of tomorrow.

Chairman Torsten ALBIG, Mayor of KIEL - Germany

Co chairmen Xia GENG, Mayor of QINGDAO - China
Jean-Yves LE VEN, Executive Manager of the Institute for Maritime and Inland Waterways -
Moderator
CETMEF
French Marinas Federation – FFPP
Worldwide Network of Port Cities - AIVP
Speakers
Representatives of French (Dunkerque), European, Chinese, Vietnamese, Moroccan and American
port authorities

15:30-15:45 : Demonstration of a security platform and innovative tools for crisis management by the SDIS 29 (Brittany
Fire and Rescue Department)

15:30 – 16:00 : Break

Strand 3 – The geo-strategic context & maritime safety: sensitive issues

16:00 – 17:30 : Two sessions held simultaneously

Session 7 – Port security

Confronted to a rise in illegal or even terrorist activities, ports are strategic areas concentrating and integrating the means of
controlling and monitoring land-sea exchanges. Regulation evolutions (in particular the ISPS code) led ports and national
authorities to invest into increasingly sophisticated means to improve constantly the control and monitoring of cargoes and ships,
to detect unusual targets (fast, submarine, human), while ensuring the fluency of port activities. Based on feedbacks and
experiments from Europe, from the USA or from Asia to reinforce the safety of port areas and of their access, the session will allow
confronting operational, technological, legal and economical points of view to initiate a debate over the prospects and needs in
terms of research and development.

Chairman European Sea Ports Organisation - ESPO

Co chairmen Port authorities of Singapour
Moderator Thierry HOUETTE – KARGUS SEA INTERCONNECTION
The Maritime Gendarmerie Command
French Naval Industry Group – GICAN
A representative of a French port’s commanding officer
Speakers French Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transports and Housing
European Commission: DG MOVE
Maritime Security Forum and port authorities of San Diego (USA), of Matosinhos (Portugal) and of
Constantza (Romania)
International Maritime Organization - IMO

Session 8 – Action against illegal activities at sea : the case of piracy

This session will grant a particularly important place to piracy. The crossing of views over different international approaches and
the exchange of experiences between port authorities, sailors, industrials and training centres will draw a state-of-the-art in this
field. Historical, geographical, economical and geopolitical approaches will be presented and proper responses related to various
sectors considered: ship design, protection and formation of crews, means of monitoring and intervention, inter-States
cooperation…
The issues of illegal fishing, illegal immigration or drugs and weapons smuggling will however also be mentioned, together with the
necessary strengthening of national systems adapted to the type of traffic, the adaptation of the international law at sea, as well as
the resources dedicated to cooperation and their role.

Chairman Christian MENARD, Deputy of Finistère, Secretary of the parliamentary Commission Defense and
 Chairman
Army
Co chairmen Afriican authorities
Moderator Eric FRECON, Nanyang Technologic University of Singapore - NTU
Representatives of ship owners in services, fisheries and maritime transport
Representatives of la Réunion, Singapore, Djibouti and other African states
European Commission: DG MOVE
European Confederation of Shipmaster’s Associations - CESMA
French Ministry of Foreign affairs – MAEE
Speakers THALES, CLS
French Navy
International Chamber of Commerce, International Maritime Bureau Piracy reporting Centre – ICC-
IMB
Speech by Jack LANG, Special Adviser on Legal Issues to the United Nations'
Secretary-General (*)

(*) To be confirmed

18:30 : Speech by Amiral Pierre-François FORISSIER, Chief of Staff of the French Navy

19:30 : Cocktail at Océanopolis

FRIDAY 13 MAY 2011:

Concluding sessions – Maritime safety at the core of regional, European and global
concerns and interactions
10:00 – 11:15 : Session 9 – Examples of institutional, scientific and technical cooperation, from local to global

Session 9 will conclude this third edition of Safer Seas by underlining the innovative potential that lies within institutional
cooperation, international networks of scientific research, science parks, regional maritime clusters and networks of professionals.

Chairman Corinne LE PAGE, Deputy at the European Parliament (*)

Co chairmen International Maritime Organization - IMO
Patrick ANVROIN, Director «Europe of the Sea» of the European Conference of Peripheral Maritime
Moderator
Regions – CPMR
The Maritime Prefecture of the Atlantic and the Spanish General Direction of the Trade Marine
The European partners of the ARCOPOL project
Québec Maritime Science Park and the Green Alliance
Speakers United Nations Environment Program – Caspian Sea (UNEP)
European Commission : DG RTD
International Hydrographic Organization – IHO and Hydrographic and Oceanographic Department
of the french Navy - SHOM : "The international aspect of hydrography, 90 years of cooperation"

11:15 – 11:30 : General summary

by Elie Jarmache, Secretariat General of the Sea

11:30 – 12:15 : Closing session of Safer Seas 2011

Speeches :
- François CUILLANDRE, President of Brest métropole océane
- Jean-Yves LE DRIAN, President of Brittany regional council, President of the CPMR
- A representative of the Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization
- Nathalie KOSCIUSKO-MORIZET, Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development, Transports and Housing (*)

(*) To be confirmed

Safer Seas 2011 Draft program, updated on the 24 Feb. 2011

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