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XI International Forum and Fair on Maritime Security 

Date/Time

Monday, September 4, 2017 - Thursday, September 7, 2017  |  8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Location

Hotel Hilton Puerto Vallarta Resort

The ISPS Mexico International Network, works as an international non-governmental organization (NGO), whose propose is to carry out activities directed to people with a common interest, in order to contribute to the effective implementation of international instruments to increase maritime security and environmental protection, facing threats of the present world that generate concern in the exterior commerce, multimodal transport, logistics, maritime tourism and port activities.

This year the ISPS Mexico International Network S.A. and the Secretariat of the Inter-American Committee on Ports (S/CIP) of the Organization of American States (OAS) organize the XI International Forum and Fair on Maritime Security, to be held on September 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th, at the Hilton Hotel Convention Center, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The event promotes the identification of the development state of maritime and port security and protection at an international level.

Some of the preliminary topics include:

  • Port activity and cruise tourism;
  • Port security, emphasizing cybersecurity;
  • Environmental Protection;
  • Participation of Women in the port sector;
  • Simulation exercise of port security crisis management.
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Agenda and Presentations
Agenda and Presentations

Sunday, September 3rd 

Hilton Resort Puerto Vallarta

  • 19:00 – 20:00 - Welcome Cocktail

Monday, September 4th 

Convention Center, Hilton Puerto Vallarta

  • 8:30 – 9:00  - Registration and accreditation
  • 9:00 – 09:30 - Inauguration of the XI International Forum and Fair on Maritime-Port Security
  • 09:30 – 10:00 - Official Group Photo
  • 10:00 – 10:30 - Coffee Break
  • 10:30-11:30 - Keynote Speech by the Maritime Authority of Mexico
  • 11:30 – 13:00  - Panel: Threats and challenges of the Maritime industry. The Vision of the Maritime Authorities of the Americas
    • Moderator: Representative of the Maritime Authority of Mexico
  • 13:00 – 14:30 - Lunch
  • 14:30 – 15:00 - Keynote Speech IMO: The Maritime Transport and Ports Protection
    • Javier Jasnikouski, Head of Maritime Security, International Maritime Organization (IMO) 
  • 15:00 – 16:15  - Panel: The implementation of the ISPS Code for the Protection of Port and Maritime Transport Activities
    • Moderator: Cap. Walter Vera Tudela de la Gala. DICAPI – Peru. 
      • Tatiana Tello, Port Security Official, Maritime Authority of Panama, Panama 
      • Mario Miranda, Executive Director, Maritime Port Authority, El Salvador 
      • Otto Noack Sierra, Executive Director, Central American Maritime Transport Commission 
      • Q&A 
  • 16:15-16:45  - Coffee break 
  • 16:45-18:15  - Panel: Technological Innovations 
  • 19:15 – 20:00 - Oceans Union Ceremony 
  • 21:00  - Authorities Dinner

Tuesday, September 5th 

Convention Center, Hilton Puerto Vallarta 

  • 9:00 – 10:45 - Panel: The challenge of ports towards greater competitiveness 
    • Moderator:  Rafael Lobeto Lobo, Secretary General Foundation Phillipe 
      • Jorge Durán, Chief of the Secretariat, Inter-American Committee on Ports (CIP), OAS 
      • Gonzalo Davagnino, General Director, Puerto Valparaíso, Chile 
      • Miguel A. García Beltrán, Director General, API of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 
      • Q&A 
  • 10:45 – 11:15 - Coffee break 
  • 11:15 – 12:30 - Panel: Port activity boosting foreign trade
    • Moderator: Jorge Durán, Chief of the Secretariat of the CIP, OAS.
  • 12:30-13:00 - Special Speech: Illicit Drug Trafficking by Sea, José Mazzitelli, representative in Mexico, United Nations Office on drugs and crime 
  • 13:00 – 14:30 - Lunch
  • 14:30 – 15:00 - Keynote Speech: Establishment and Operation of Maritime Technology Cooperation Centers (GMN), Rodolfo Sabonge, Director of the Maritime Technology Cooperation Centers for Latin America 
  • 15:00 – 16:15  - Panel: Opportunities for ports to increase cruise tourism
    • Moderator: Miguel A. García Beltrán Director General, API Puerto Vallarta. 
  • 16:15 – 17:40 - Guillermo Hernández, Global Diving & Sakvage, United States 
  • 16:40 – 17:00 - Coffee break 
  • 17:00 – 18:30 - Panel: Experience and best practices in port security 

Wednesday, September 6th 

Convention Center, Hilton Puerto Vallarta

  • 9:00 – 10:30 - Panel: Environment protection: climate change, Green ports.
    • Moderator: José Luis Almazán – Universidad Tecnológica de Madrid.
  • 10:30-11:00 - Jorge Antonio Hernández Valencia, Director General of Citizen Security and Municipal Transit of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico 
  • 11:00-11:30 - Coffee break 
  • 11:30-13:00 - Panel: Participation of Women in the Port Sector 
  • 13:00-15:00 - Lunch
  • 15:00-17:00 - Panel: “Maritime Activities Legal and Regulatory Framework” 
    • Moderator: Captain David Alejandro Ker Elizondo 
      • Carlos Manuel Trueba and Norberto Z. Gutiérrez “Responsabilidad funcional y civil de los Oficiales de Protección de las Instalaciones Portuarias” 
      • Rafael Lobeto Lobo, Report on the establishment of the Maritime Transport International Institute for Mediation and Arbitration 
      • Larry Stephen Cox, Chief, U.S. Coast Guard International Port Security Program Legal Section 
      • Q&A 
  • 17:00-17:30 - Closing of the conferences cycles. Announcement of the 2017 ISPS Forum venue

Thursday, September 7th 

Convention Center, Hilton Puerto Vallarta

  • 09:00 – 11:00 - Simulation Exercise of Port Crisis Management 
  • 11:00 – 11:30 - Coffee Break
  • 11:30 – 13:30 - Continuation: Simulation Exercise of Port Crisis Management
    • Implementation of the theoretical practice.
    • Brief analysis of the results of the theoretical practice.
    • Comments from observers.
    • Introduction of the practice to be held in the port (SEMAR)
  • 13:30 – 15:00 - Lunch
  • 15:00 – 17:00 - Live Practice in the port facilities of the Integral Port Administration (API) of Vallarta. Coordinator: Captain Javier Mendoza (SEMAR) 
  • 17:00 – 17:30 - Final Conclusions of the Forum 
  • 20:00 – 23:00 - Closing Dinner