Augmenting Coast Guard Capabilities through enhanced Cooperation & Technology Adoption
The
Coast Guard Capability returns in 2025, providing coastguards with a platform to share best practices and solutions in their primary tasks of coordinating search and rescue operations, monitoring shipping organising pollution clean ups around the coastline.
The role of coastguards is expansive and requires that they work alongside other agencies to tackle illegal smuggling of drugs, weapons, wildlife, and human beings, illegal immigration, IUU fishing and more. The importance of a nation's coast guard in boosting its blue economy also cannot be overstated. With representation from across coast guards, navies, interagency bodies, border forces, police and maritime security agencies and an international speaker line up speaking to the biggest challenges and concerns, the 2025 edition of this event promises to explore how these bodies are working together to achieve the shared goal of maritime security.
With newer threats to maritime infrastructure and security emerging (including attacks on underwater cables, the use of drones for nefarious activities). It is important be aware of the latest technologies being used to counter these threats. With the key challenges of tight budgets, limited human resource, training difficulties, and interagency competition and lack of collaboration, it is more important now than it has ever been for these organisations have a forum where the biggest challenges are tackled head on.
Coast Guard Capability 2025 brings together stakeholders from across the maritime security ecosystem from across all continents of the globe in a collaborative forum, designed to aid in addressing each nation's specific coastal needs and help foster interagency and international collaboration.
Why Should You Attend Coast Guard Capability 2025
- Understand how coast guards from different regions are implementing new and cutting-edge technology to maintain domain awareness through enhanced surveillance and protect ports and harbors from underwater threats
- Join discussions on how coast guards are being interoperable and collaborating with interagencies, with the shared goal of increasing maritime security
- Learn how coast guards are navigating the complexity of training personnel and adopting the tools that are helping overcome the challenge of lack of maritime expertise and building up a well-trained maritime workforce
- Hear how established coast guards from around the world accomplish their missions to combat illegal immigration, IUU fishing, and drug smuggling; and learn more about the trajectory of younger coast guards - in the earlier phase of their development
- Get updated on the techniques being used to ensure better safety at sea and more success during SAR missions
2025 Chairman
- Christopher Trelawny, Deputy Secretary General, INTERPORTPOLICE (International Organization of Airport and Seaport Police)
2025 Speakers
- Admiral Guillermo José Giménez Pérez, Commandant, Prefectura Naval Argentina
- Rear Admiral (UH) Valentino Rinaldi, Operation Commander, EUNAVFORMED IRINI
- Nicole Spencer, A/g Deputy Commissioner Strategy and Capability, Australian Border Force
- Mr. Alexandru Oae, Head & Police Chief Commisisoner, Romanian Border Police
- Francis Zachariae, Secretary-General, International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA)
- Gary Ivany, Assistant Commissioner, Canadian Coast Guard
- Aija Kalnaja, Deputy Executive Director for Capabilities (DED-CAP), FRONTEX
- Caroline Jupe, CEO, International Maritime Rescue Federation
- Mr. Martin Cauchi-Inglott, Project Director, CRIMARIO II
- Tony Long, CEO, Global Fishing Watch
- Dinesh Rempling, Director a.i. Capability Transformation Division, FRONTEX
- Crawford Allan, Vice President of Nature Crimes and Policy Advocacy, Wildlife Conservation, WWF - US
- Kamil Wozniakiewicz, Search and Rescue Mission Coordinator Planning and Analysis Specialist, Maritime Search and Rescue Service, Poland
- Chris Reynolds, Former Head of Irish Coast Guard and of European Union Capability Development in Somalia, EUCAP Somalia
- Roland Mckie, IMO Representative & SAR Adviser, International Maritime Rescue Federation
- Captain Ali Ashour FRINA, FIES PhD Researcher, PDRC-UoS, Senior Engineering Officer KCG, Ministry of Interior - State of Kuwait
- Captain Roberto D’Arrigo, MRCC Director, Italian Coast Guard Headquarters
- Commander Marco Chianella, Section Head, International Planning Branch, Italian Coast Guard Headquarters
- Chris Stockdale, President, CIMSEC (Center for International Maritime Security)
- Anne-Marie Weeden, Senior Research Fellow | SHOC Network Member - Researcher, RUSI
- Professor Erkan Oterkus, Director of The PeriDynamics Research Centre (PDRC) Director of Ocean Energy Res, Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering, University of Strathclyde
- Commander Edward Black, Royal Navy, First Sea Lord's Visiting Fellow, RUSI
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Venue
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London, UK
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