Speakers Profile

Even Tronstad Sagebakken (b. 1977) holds a bachelor's degree as a general teacher with specialist training on children with special needs, as well as an Executive Master of Management with a specialization in school management at BI Norwegian Business School. He has professional experience from teaching positions, including leading roles as principal at primary and secondary school level.

His political background includes leading roles for the Norwegian Labour Party at local and regional level in the Agder County in Norway, and he is currently deputy leader of the Agder Labour Party and a member of the National Executive Committee of the Norwegian Labour Party. Even T. Sagebakken was appointed as state secretary for the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries on November 17, 2023.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Carlos Jahn is head of the Institute of Maritime Logistics at Hamburg University of Technology as well as of the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services in Hamburg.

At the beginning of his professional career Carlos Jahn served as a sailor and later on as an officer in the German Navy. He studied mechanical engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg and economics at the University of Hagen. As a research assistant at the Fraunhofer IFF Carlos Jahn obtained a doctorate at the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg.

Carlos Jahn held various management and staff functions in science and industry. In 2009, he accepted the offer of a full professorship at Hamburg University of Technology and was appointed head of the Institute of Maritime Logistics. The Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services was founded in 2010.

Among other things, he is Chairman of the German Society for Positioning and Navigation DGON e. V., a member of the Board of Trustees of Logistics-Initiative Hamburg (LIHH), Head of the "Fraunhofer Industrial Application Centre Quantum Computing Hamburg" (Fraunhofer IQHH) and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Transport (BMV), Berlin.

Hideaki Murayama is a Professor at the School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. He received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.Eng. degrees from the University of Tokyo (UTokyo), in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on digital twin technologies for ships and large-scale mechanical and offshore structures. He has been leading the development of model-based digital twin frameworks that integrate sensing, simulation, and data-driven approaches for monitoring, design, and operation of complex maritime systems. His work has also centered on structural health monitoring, composite structures, and advanced sensing technologies, particularly distributed optical fiber sensors for strain and vibration measurements in large-scale structures. He currently leads the Maritime and Ocean Digital Engineering (MODE) program at the University of Tokyo, an industry–academia initiative that promotes model-based development and digital engineering approaches for the maritime sector.

Dr Sumei Sun is the Executive Director of A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), and A*STAR’s Coordinating Executive Director for Hub of the Future (HOTF). She holds a joint appointment with the Singapore Institute of Technology, and an adjunct appointment with the National University of Singapore, both as a full professor.

With strong passion in industry-relevant research and technology creation, Sumei has authored and co-authored more than 400 technical papers. She is the inventor/co-inventor of over thirty patented technologies, with most of them licensed to industry.  She’s a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore (SAEng), Fellow of the IEEE, AI Industry Alliance (AIIA), and Asia-Pacific AI Association (AAIA). Sumei’s current research interests include next-generation communications, sensing-communications-computing-control integrative design, applied AI, and next-generation transportation systems. She’s recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award 2024, IEEE ComSoc Inaugural Asia Pacific Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award (2024), 2023 IEEE VTS Women’s Distinguished Career Award, and Singapore National Day 2022 Public Administration Medal (Bronze).