The Global Maritime Forum is an opportunity for academia, private industry, federal government agencies and international partners to highlight and discuss current and emerging technologies and efforts to enhance maritime domain awareness. Leading experts will facilitate panel sessons, which will be followed by group discussions designed to provide participants with an opportunity to explore topics of particular interest in depth.

Following up on 2015’s GMF theme of leveraging data to achieve effective understanding, and 2016’s GMF on the intersection of technology and policy as it relates to current and emerging technologies, this year’s theme will be "The Evolution of Big Data and Opportunities for the Maritime Domain: The Importance of Public-Private-Academic Partnerships."

Special topics for this year's event include:

Reports documenting the presentations and recommendations from previous GMF workshops are available for your reference.

The Global Maritime Forum Workshop will be held 13-14 November 2017 in Vallejo, CA on the Campus of California State University Maritime Academy (CAL Maritime).  The workshop will be held in the Compass Room of Building 15.

Click here to register for the 2017 GMF.
Registration closes at 1200 Pacific time on Monday, 6 November 2017.

REGISTRATION FEES

A Landing Fee of $70.00 (covers both days) includes:

• Breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks.
• All day coffee, tea and water service all day.
• Processing fees.

Note: Per diem should cover your landing fee for this event.

PARKING INFORMATION

Parking for this event is located in Lot O, which is near the main entrance to the campus.  There is a $7.00 parking fee, per day, at the Cal Maritime Academy. Please be prepared to pay for parking each day. The Compass Room is in the dining center (Building #15 on the campus map). 

A shuttle will be available to take attendees from Lot O to Building #15.

• Day 1: 0715-0815 and 1700-1745
• Day 2: 0730-0815 and 1700-1730

DRESS CODE

The dress code for this event is business casual. Military personnel should wear Navy Service Khaki or branch equivalent.

Tentative Schedule

MANAGING MARITIME SENSOR BIG DATA VOLUME AND VELOCITY:

Moderator of panel will set the stage by providing an overview of how the proliferation of sensors (ship-borne, land-based, airborne, undersea) creates Big Data Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (PED) issues in environmental impact assessments, state and non-state threats, IUU fishing, illicit trafficking, and threats to critical infrastructure. Panelists will help to highlight/provide current examples or future ideas of how we should go about managing the volume and velocity of Big Data.

• Unmanned (UAV, UUV, USV).   
• Broad Ocean (organic, satellite, acoustic, meteorological, SAR).   
• Ports and littorals (vessel management/vessel tracking systems).

INTEGRATING MULTI-SOURCE DATA IN THE MARITIME DOMAIN (BEST PRACTICES):

This Panel will explore best practices for multi-source data integration for operations support - what data needs to be integrated to support operations and how do we obtain access to data.

• Defend critical infrastructure.
• Defeat illicit trafficking.
• Enhance environmental disaster impact assessments.

POLICIES IMPACTING OPEN SOURCE AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION:

This Panel will explore the Security and Privacy issues related to maritime information exchange and policies.

• The Internet of Things and Its impact on security and privacy when connected to enterprise level data environments.
• Ethics and privacy concerns for personal identity information.
• Policies on the aggregation of data.
• Accessing social media for analytics.

DEVELOPING A MARITIME DATA LAYER CLOUD/ACCESS BACKBONE:

• Provide an enterprise environment to access existing data lakes.
• Methods for role-based / attribute-based access controls.
• How does data become available for analytics, both in the cloud and as a feed for tools at stakeholder organizations.

LODGING

Room blocks for hotel accommodations for the Global Maritime Forum have been made at the nearby Double Tree and Holiday Inn facilities.  Hotel reservations must be made by October 16, 2017 in order to take advantage of these special rates.

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel & Spa Napa Valley - American Canyon
3600 Broadway Avenue, American Canyon, California 94503
Phone number: 707-674-2550 Rate is $99.00/night
Website link : http://group.doubletree.com/globalmaritimeforum

Holiday Inn Express & Suites Napa Valley - American Canyon
5001 Main Street American Canyon, California 94503
Phone number: 707-552-8100
Rates are as follows: $99.00/night for king bed or $129.00/night for two queen beds.  Includes breakfast
Group Name: Global Maritime Forum
Group Code: GMF
Website link:https://www.hiexpress.com/redirect?path=hd&brandCode=ex&localeCode=en®ionCode=1&hotelCode=CCRED&_PMID=99801505&GPC=GMF&viewfullsite=true

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

From Hotels to Cal Maritime Campus

Take CA-29 S for about 3 miles.
Continue straight onto Sonoma Blvd for 4.4 miles.
Turn right onto Maritime Academy Drive and pull directly into lot O.
Shuttle service will be available to take you to the GMF venue.

LOCAL AIRPORTS

• Oakland International Airport - OAK: 30 miles from campus.
• San Francisco International Airport - SFO: 40 miles from campus.
• Sacramento International Airport - SMF: 60 miles from campus.
• San Jose International Airport - SJC: 70 miles from campus.