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SEAMLESS Webinar: Safe and Intelligent Maritime Navigation Solutions for Short-sea and Inland waterway environments

  • 10/03/2026

SEAMLESS is pleased to invite you to participate in the SEAMLESS Webinar “Safe and Intelligent Maritime Navigation Solutions for Short-sea and Inland Waterway Environments”, taking place on 20 March, from 10:00 to 11:30 CET.

This session will present how SEAMLESS advances the integration of rule-awareness, semantic technologies, and fault-tolerant control solutions – including virtual sensors – into the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems of automated vessels. By embedding intelligent digital capabilities into navigation systems, SEAMLESS supports seamless interoperability between short-sea and inland waterway environments, while enhancing safety, resilience, and operational reliability.

The webinar will also address the certification challenges associated with these advanced systems. As digital technologies become integral to vessel operations, safety assurance frameworks must evolve to assess digital and hardware components holistically, including their failure modes, risks, and hazards. The adaptation of established methodologies, such as Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) analysis, will be discussed as a key step towards enabling the safe deployment of next-generation waterborne transport solutions.

Bringing together expertise in control engineering, digital innovation, and maritime safety assurance, the session will explore concrete pathways for the development, validation, and certification of intelligent navigation systems for inland and short-sea operations.

Preliminary Agenda

  • Welcome and introduction – Tomasz Dowgielewicz (ALICE)

  • Intelligent, Rule-aware, and Fault-Tolerant Solutions for Seamless Short-sea and Inland Waterway Navigation – Nikos Kougiatsos (TU Delft) & Vasso Reppa (TU Delft)

  • Discussion session

  • Identifying Risks for Waterborne Digital Systems: Challenges of Applying Established Techniques in New Contexts – Konstantinos Louzis (NTUA)

  • Discussion session

  • Closing remarks – Tomasz Dowgielewicz (ALICE)

Register here.

We look forward to welcoming you to this important discussion on the future of safe and intelligent waterborne navigation.