Jason Zuidema (PhD, McGill University) is Executive Director of the North American Maritime Ministry Association (NAMMA) and General Secretary of the International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA).

Mr. Stefan Vis has worked in developing and delivering maritime safety training for the last 15 years, having taught STCW safety training to crews from the cruise industry, shipping and offshore support vessels. Stefan has developed the combined STCW training refreshers, known as the 3-Combi, which has become the de-facto standard approach to delivering STCW refresher courses in the maritime industry in the Netherlands. Today, Stefan’s work focuses on ensuring that maritime crews have the proper competences consistently over time rather than only focusing on compliance and certifications. In RelyOn Nutec we support this by offering e-Learning, Competence management systems, innovative approaches to practical such as scenario-based custom training programs and much more.

Dr. Stefanos Chatzinikolaou is the manager of the Global Marine Training Centre of RINA and the head of RINA’s marine research projects in Southeast Europe. He is a graduate of the School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, where he also concluded his PhD in methodologies for assessing sustainability in the maritime transport sector. His professional background includes research (ten years of experience in EU funded research projects), professional maritime training, and consulting engineering. His main fields of work and interest are ship energy efficiency, ship life cycle assessment, ship air emissions, maritime safety, and human factors. In 2020, he was elected Assistant Professor in the Department of Maritime Studies of the University of Piraeus, Greece.