Presentation content:

This presentation explores the growing threats to maritime infrastructure, from sabotage and cyberattacks to maritime accidents and physical assaults on undersea cables and transformer platforms.

Protection is no longer optional. But true resilience goes beyond defense: it encompasses the ability to recover quickly from disruptions and to build long-term, economically viable structures.

Ultimately, without ramping up security and resilience, it will be hard to unlock offshore wind’s true potential and find the necessary investments to drive the energy transition Europe needs.

CV:

SZM is a senior project manager and senior maritime consultant with over 18 years of experience in the marine industry and the offshore wind sector.

His job portfolio as project manager, contract & claim manager and maritime logistics engineer comprises various tasks within the maritime managements such as selecting and contracting various special purpose offshore vessels, project integration, operational and strategic advisory, operational liaison between all shareholders (from advisory boards to offshore technicians, shipowners, authorities, lawyers, certifiers, etc.), ensuring fulfilment of performance expectations, adherence to schedules and continuous improvements.

In addition, SZM has a strong competence in the process of subsea power cable installation projects such as a maritime and technical consultant for logistics and transport concepts, load-out and installation operation, supply vessel planning as well as coordination of marine engineering, scheduling and supervision of operation.

He is dedicating his risk-controlling and -mitigating mindset is not only to his clients, but also to R&D projects, his master thesis and to DOC as he is acting as the IT & cyber security.