Mikael Lind is the world’s first Adjunct Professor of Maritime Informatics and is engaged at Chalmers, Sweden, and the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE). He serves as an expert for World Economic Forum, Europe’s Digital Transport Logistic Forum (DTLF), and UN/CEFACT. He is a well-recognized trade press author, a co-editor of the two reference books 'Maritime Informatics', and co-author of the recently released 'Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation'. Together with Wolfgang Lehmacher he has been driving thought leadership by inspiring and helping the maritime industry to overcome the complexities of maritime decarbonisation through a number of articles published in the maritime and logistics trade press.Wolfgang Lehmacher is operating partner at Anchor Group and advisor at Topan AG. The former head of supply chain and transport industries at the World Economic Forum, Geneva and New York, and President and CEO Emeritus of GeoPost Intercontinental, Paris, is advisory board member of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, Singapore, ambassador of The European Freight and Logistics Leaders’ Forum, Brussels, advisor of GlobalSF, San Francisco, founding member of the think tanks Logistikweisen, Germany, and NEXST, Singapore, and co-author of the recently released 'Practical Playbook for Maritime Decarbonisation'.Robert Ward was Secretary-General of the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) until his retirement in late 2017. Prior to that he was Deputy Hydrographer of Australia. For more than 20 years he represented Australia and subsequently the IHO at the highest international levels and played an influential role in the development and implementation of globally implemented digital data exchange standards for nautical charting and e-navigation services. Together with Mikael Lind, he was one of four co-editors of the two reference books 'Maritime Informatics'.
