Maritime Technology Demo Day 

Johann has nearly two decades of experience in the shipping industry. He began his career as a shipping merchant apprentice at Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG in Hamburg. In 2009, Johann transitioned to Howe Robinson, where he worked as a Handysize/Supramax Dry Cargo Broker in both Hamburg and Tokyo. In 2014, he returned to Peter Döhle Schifahrts-KG, bringing a wealth of experience in chartering. He started in the Dry Bulk Chartering Department and was promoted to Head of Dry Bulk Chartering in 2017.
Subsequently, Johann shifted his focus to ship management. After serving as Director of Ship Management, he joined the Executive Board as Managing Director of Peter Döhle Schiffahrts-KG in 2022. In this role, he oversees the Peter Döhle Group’s global ship management operations in Germany, the Isle of Man, Slovenia, Poland, Romania, and the Philippines. Alongside his global team, Johann manages over 130 vessels and a pool of approximately 5,000 seafarers from more than 15 different nationalities.
Johann is a graduate of the Shipping Merchant School of Hamburg, a former member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, and holds an MSc in Shipping, Trade & Finance from Cass Business School at City University in London.

Florian Heinemann leads the team of Analysts, Data Engineers, and Data Scientists across Germany and Poland. He supports colleagues across the globe with the data and insights they need to take strategic and tactical decisions. Florian drives new analytical and AI/ML approaches for some of the industry’s toughest problems, and works to turn Hapag-Lloyd into the data leader in the industry.

Torsten Barenthin is the Director of Research & Development Department of Oldendorff Carriers.
The primary objective of the research and development department of Oldendorff Carriers is to identify and support the exploitation of technological developments for the continuous improvement of the company’s commercial success, environmental protection, and improved efficiency in all aspects of its operation.
As the Director Research & Development he’s a senior member of the Global Engagement & Sustainability Department, with principal responsibility for exploring, investigating, truthing and when agreed, implementing new environmental and sustainability related technologies for the Fleet. He is responsible for implementing and overseeing research agreements with external parties and leads a team of internal and external advisors and experts.
Torsten joined Oldendorff in January 2020 as Director of Innovation and was responsible for newbuilding, retrofits & conversions and assumed his current role in July 2023. Prior to this he was working as a consultant for Oldendorff for 18 months.
Torstens’s background is ship design. He has more than 15 years of experience in designing various merchant vessels, working for shipyards and shipowners in Germany, Europe, Singapore & China.
He led the machinery and piping department at Neptun Ship Design, Germany’s largest independent ship design company, for a decade.
Torsten studied design engineering at the University of Rostock, where he also made his PhD. He worked there as an assistant professor for six years, teaching students in design engineering and doing research in fields of shaft bearings.

Dan is CEO of CyberOwl, a company specialising in maritime cyber risk management. Before building CyberOwl he was Associate Director at KPMG, where he focused on the Defence, Security and Industrial sectors. During that time, he worked extensively with global security, defense, technology and engineering companies such as Northrop Grumman, Atos and BP. Dan is also actively involved in sector-wide activities, including as Council Member of the Digital Technology Group of the UK Society for Maritime Industries and Steering Committee Member for the Operational Technology Cyber Security Alliance.

Hendrik Kramer is the Co-Founder and CEO of FERNRIDE, which offers a scalable solution for autonomous, electric trucking. He co-founded FERNRIDE in 2019 with Dr. Maximilian Fisser and Jean-Michael Georg in Munich. Before launching FERNRIDE, he specialized in Entrepreneurship and Autonomous Driving in his Master's program at TU Munich and Stanford University. He started his first company at 16 and scaled it to become a successful international business. In 2024 he was featured at the top of the prestigious Forbes 30 under 30 list for Manufacturing & Industry.