The UK Maritime Autonomous Systems Regulatory Working Group is proud to announce its 10th conference, titled Maritime Autonomous Ship Systems (MASS) – Next Steps, which will take place on 15 & 16 January, 2025.

The free-to-attend online conference will be produced and directed by UKi Media & Events, the organiser of Autonomous Ship Expo.

Speakers have been hand-picked from leading organisations including the UK Department for Transport, Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO), UK Harbour Masters’ Association (UKHMA) and National Physical Laboratory (NPL) as well as industry, the legal profession and academia.

There will be a keynote speaker each day and the conference will focus on the following topics:

• UK maritime policy
• Large language models and machine-readable data
• UK maritime policy update
• Multimodal operations and how MASS fits
• Standards
• MASS operations in port areas
• US update on MASS
• MASS legal update
• Defence MASS technology update
• Neurodiversity
• HMI