A discussion with: Andreas Povlsen, Founder, Breakwater Capital, Managing Director, Hayfin Capital Management

It took some time to get going, but today's secondary market for shipping loans remains active. In this session, active market players talk about the pipeline of future transactions and assess how buyers of loans and loan portfolios are managing the investments they have made.

From transparent freight pricing to Machine Learning-driven commercial management to real time trade and commodity surveillance, big data is changing shipping. In this session, an industry-leading technology innovator shares his vision for what will happen in the new decade

In this session, veteran New York shipping investment banker Chris Weyers brings you up to speed on private equity exits and capital markets transactions - and shares his vision for what to expect in the new decade.

With a growth rate of 500% last year and recent ventures with BlackRock and Citi, YieldStreet is using the momentum in FinTech to disrupt traditional ship finance.

Launched in 2019, the Poseidon Principles are a first step in commercial banks participating in the decarbonization of shipping. But like all innovation and disruption, buy-in from all stakeholders will be needed and the path to implementation may have some bumps along with the way

A spin off from Thenamaris Ships Management Company, The Signal Group is a tanker owner and commercial manager that’s leveraging internet age analytics to produce high-performance decision making support

In this session, the experts behind the report ESG in the Ocean Industries and ESG advisors to leading shipping investors and companies, tell shipping players what they need to know including key considerations, factors and how to access funding sources through ESG.

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Quick decision making. Counter cyclical investing. Smaller checks. Creative structures. Lower fees
and higher net returns to the investor. The fact is that direct private investment has always been a
successful source of capital for risk equity in shipping. In this session, an active private investor shares
his experience buying vessels and offers his advice for shipowners seeking private investment.

• By the Numbers: World Fleet, Capacity, Growth
• Idle Ships and the Scrubber Retrofit Rush of 2019-2020
• LNG and Dual Fuel Container Ships – What’s the Way to Go?
• What Comes After IMO 2020?
• The BIG Picture: Smart Ship, E-Ships or Hybrid, Zero Carbon Target 2050

Throughout the last decade, German shipowning has been transformed through a series of acquisitions, divestitures, business combinations, diversification and new funding sources. As we move into
the new decade, this evolution will accelerate thanks to catalysts like technology, access to cheap
capital, decarbonization and changing patterns of trade and energy production. In this session, learn
how German shipping leaders are positioning their businesses at today’s inflection point.

The start of the new decade appears to be an inflection point for sweeping change to the world economy - and the shipping industry. From decarbonization to deglobalization, reallocation of capital to ESG to digitization and AI, sanctions, trade wars, unsustainable consumption, peak population, income inequality, nationalism, rising deficits, cyber risk, zero interest rates, satellite surveillance, robotics and onshoring

The start of the new decade marks an inflection point for explosive change in the world economy -
and shipping and ship finance are at the epicenter. From deglobalization to decarbonization, changing
demands from Wall Street to Silicon Valley driven big data and Artificial Intelligence.

The “funding gap” is closed and fierce competition has returned to the market for secured loans. In this session, a dynamic mix of tradition and new market players discuss their funding sources, cost of capital, investment objectives, lending strategy and deal flow sourcing

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