The focused panel sessions at the Society of Naval Architects and Engineers Annual Meeting and Expo (October 21-23 at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, Rhode Island) will feature four timely topics: Electric Ships; Renewable Energy from the Oceans; Unmanned and Autonomous Ships of the Future; and Ship Efficiency in the Greenhouse Gas Era.
Each two-hour panel session will be chaired and moderated by experienced SNAME members. Each session will have three leading experts who will make thirty minute presentations on their area of expertise, followed by a moderated thirty minute discussion period which will include questions and answers from the audience.
Two of the panels will be held in parallel sessions to begin the technical program on Thursday, October 22 from 8:30 am to 10:30 am and two parallel sessions will conclude the 2009 technical program on Friday, October 23 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm.
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