Roboat is an innovative autonomous platform that is disrupting urban logistics and mobility on water. The guests of this episode is Ynse Hendrik Deinema - the project leader of Roboat. Majority of large cities are located near waterways or seashore and they all got similar issues when it comes to moving people, cargo, waste and parcels. Moving part of the logistical chains from road to water makes a lot of sense from multiple perspectives. Not to mention new leisure possibilities, new business models, physical internet...

The guests of this episode is Mr. Mohamed Saad Ibn Seddik. He is the founder of blkSAIL - a maritime autonomy startup from Boston. Mohamed holds a PhD in marine autonomy and has a decade of intense experience under his belt in this innovative and fast developing field. He is also a visiting instructor at MIT.

During our talk he answers, among other things, the following questions:

• What does it mean for a ship to be autonomous and how does it work?

Guests of this episode are Mr John Townsend (VP Technology Policy) and Mr Dieter Gabriel (Marketing Manager EMEA) of Velodyne. It is a US company famous for their iconic lidars called pucks. Listen to this episode and discover the working principle of this sensor, what are current application in the maritime industry where their lidars are used and more.

The guest of this episode is Ms Ann-Sofie Pauwelyn. She is the project lead of the Smart Shipping program from De Vlaamse Waterweg nv. As a key infrastructural stakeholder for the Flemish inland waterways they are actively working on adopting the regulatory framework and supporting testing of novel technologies.

The guest of this episode is Mr Dor Raviv. He is the CTO and Co-Founder of Israeli startup company called Orca.ai. Dor's story is one of those in which innovative engineers with entrepreneurial DNA scratch their own ich and create an amazing company and product. Stay tuned and hear how two friends started a company, how they raised capital, what product did they put on the market and much more.

The guest of this episode is Mr David Woudenberg. He is the Lead Autonomous engineer and Technical Lead at Dutch company Shipping Technology. Listen to this episode and discover how a leading Dutch AI firm joined forces with an experienced maritime company and how together they are creating practical and future-proof technology for inland shipping.

The guest of this episode is Mr Vegard Evjen Hovstein. He is the founder and managing director of Norwegian high-tech company Maritime Robotics. Over the last 15 years they have built an impressive technology stack for unmanned vehicles. In this insightful interview we touched upon may interesting subjects - from the early beginnings in developing aerial drones to latest products and services that they offer.