Cruise Ships of the Future – Sustainability for the entire Shipbuilding Ecosystem
A warm welcome to the Cruise Ships of the Future – Sustainability for the Entire Shipbuilding Ecosystem S4M seminar on Thursday the 23th of April 2026.
In this seminar you will hear about the future of cruise ships, shipbuilding and shipping and the role of the shipbuilding ecosystem plays in the sustainability of the industry. The English language seminar will be held in the Cave theatre at the Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki in Turku and is free of charge to all who are interested.
Speakers include Markku Ollikainen, professor Emeritus and Research Director at University of Helsinki and Navonil Mustafee, Professor of Analytics and Operations Management at Centre for Simulation and Analytics in the University of Exeter Business School. More speakers and the preliminary agenda to follow soon!
Register for the seminar at https://link.webropol.com/s/s4mcruiseshipofthefuture by the Wednesday the 15th of April.
Programme:
9.00-9.15 Morning coffee and light breakfast outside the CAVE theatre
9.15 Welcome words
Heli Aramo-Immonen, S4M principal investigator, Turku University of Applied Sciences
9.20 Opening remarks – How can shipping promote solutions to climate and biodiversity challenges?
Markku Ollikainen, Professor Emeritus and Research Director, University of Helsinki
9.45 Speaker TBC
10.15 Coffee break
10.30 Advancing Sustainability and Competitiveness in the Shipbuilding Supplier Network Through a Maturity Model
Heli Aramo-Immonen, Principal Lecturer, ICT and Industrial Engineering, Turku University of Applied Sciences
10.45 Software concepts for sustainable material management in shipbuilding
Kimmo Tarkkanen, Senior Lecturer, Degree Programme Leader, ICT and Industrial Engineering, Data Engineering and AI technologies, Turku University of Applied Sciences, WP2 leader in the S4M project
11.00-12.00 Lunch at Mauno
12.30 The role of digital shadows in the value chain – results from the S4M tracking experiment
Janne Siivonen, Senior Lecturer, Senior Researcher, ICT and Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Common studies, Turku University of Applied Sciences, WP3 leader in the S4M project
12.45 Analysing Trade-offs in Container Loading: Combining Load Plan Construction Heuristics with Agent-based Simulation + Q&A
Navonil Mustafee, Professor of Analytics and Operations Management, Centre for Simulation and Analytics, University of Exeter Business School
13.00 Panel discussion on the future of cruise ships and the role of the ecosystem
Moderator: Leena Jokinen, Education Manager, Finland Futures Research Centre (FFRC), University of Turku
Panelists TBC
14.00 End of seminar
Programme is subject to change
The S4M Sustainable Material Management Maturity Model research project is funded by Business Finland.