The Team

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Co-Director of Scenegraph Studios Ltd, an immersive, creative, experience, development company. 

Nicola's expertise lies in engineering the latest immersive development technologies, using a multitude of different game engines and upcoming practices.

Most recently she has created innovative, interactive 3D videos and audio, virtual reality and augmented reality experiences and 3D virtual tour websites.

With over 13 years of traditional application, mobile and web development experience she has had the privilege of working on the market leading reporting solution for Further Education and the industry standard web solution for hospitality operators. Her specialities in this area include application development (C#, ASP.NET, Javascript, SQL, VB, C++) and database design, creation and management.

Dr. Stavros Karamperidis is a Lecturer in Maritime Economics in the Department of International Shipping, Logistics and Operations at Plymouth University.

Stavros is also regularly invited to deliver guest lectures at various universities and Merchant Maritime Academies around the globe. Some of Stavros' recent funding that he has secured is from: 

1. Interreg North Sea Region  (PI) (North Sea CONNECT) 

2. Horizon 2020 (CoI) (Cyber preparedness actions for a holistic approach and awareness raising in the MARitime logistics supply chain)

3. Innovative UK (PI) (Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Box) 

4. EPSRC (CoI) (Decarbonising UK Transport Freight). 

He has been invited in various key commercial conferences to demonstrate his work on decarbonisation, physical and cyber security and on skills development in logistics and maritime transport sector. His primarily research interests are in shipping and ports logistics, maritime cyber and physical security, employability of millennials in logistics, indices development and maritime risk management (supply chain vulnerability for maritime operations). 

Before joining academia, Stavros worked in various companies ranging from SME’s to multinational companies. Stavros is regularly invited to chair several key European and UK commercial and academic conferences. Stavros is linked with Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in various occasions, he is a Chartered Member, chairman for Devon and Cornwall and Member of the Ports, Maritime & Waterways Sector Forum. He is a maritime cyber security expert for ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity) and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Further information could be found at the following link: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/stavros-karamperidis

Robert is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years  of global sales & marketing centric leadership across a board spectrum of technology verticals ranging from the aerospace and defence industry through to & including disruptive Information technology startups.

The last 10 years have been invested in developing and bringing to market technology ecosystems centred on addressing the burgeoning global environmental impact of the digital economy and the inherent inequities of the same.

Robert has captured his thinking and practice in the shape of value driven leadership development & consultancy programmes, delivering these to a broad spectrum of organisations  globally over the last 20 years, resulting in an extensive record of public presentation and speaking engagements.

Personally, Robert invests his time in various charities themed on addressing the education needs of society’s most vulnerable children, predominantly through “War Child”.

Kevin is the Head of Client Services at 3DEO.  He has a career spanning 27+ years in the Port Industry, starting out in Port Operations and moving into technology where he delivered strategic business solutions for a major UK Port Operator.  

After a short break, Kevin returned to the industry in 2019 as a Technology Consultant for an international engineering consultancy, advising ports and terminals around the world on the use of technology to solve business challenges.  

At 3DEO, Kevin is responsible for the design and delivery of Digital Twin technology for Smart Ports, Smart Cities, Utilities and Construction.

Matthew Napleton is CCO at Zizo with 17 years of IT sales & marketing experience. 

Matthew’s primary focus is to continually increase thought leadership and global brand awareness to deliver business results. Having worked with a number of data technologies and processes during that time, Matthew brings insight and expertise gained from delivering big data and analytics solutions to global clients across a wide range of sectors. Matthew also works closely with our key technology partners, Intel, ARM Pelion & Nvidia, to bring the Zizo technology and services to a global audience.

Chris brings more than two decades’ experience in the data centre, cloud, and managed services industry, including senior roles at Goonhilly Earth Station, Pulsant and iomart. 

His expertise lies in building high-growth cloud and software businesses via a mix of direct and indirect channels.

Most recently, Chris has focused on building out platforms optimised for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data workloads for clients in the Research, Academic and Space markets.

Chris is a renowned public speaker and has presented at many high-profile events including HPE Discovery, Data Centre Alliance events and has delivered lectures at several high-profile universities.

Chris has also consulted on several large public projects and has advised on local strategy for the public sector. Chris also regularly advises on mergers & acquisitions and funding for private entities.

Kevin is the founder of Maritime Digital Hub and CTO of Yonder Cloud. 

Kevin is a Passionate Technologist with twenty years of cross-industry experience in developing technology and business alignment strategies. 

His link to the maritime sector comes both from a professional involvement in advising shipping and logistics companies on technology strategy, and a personal love of the sea which came from growing up in Solent region. 

Kevin is currently focused on the research and development of cutting edge sustainable data processing solutions and Artificial intelligence applications. 

Dr. David Tully is the founder and co-director of Scenegraph Studios, an immersive creative experience development company. 

Dr. Tully is passionate about fixing problems with the use of interesting technologies such as Game Engines for the aim of teaching expertise in all domains. 

Dr. Tully left full time academia to focus on bringing emerging technologies to the business world. Dr .Tully has headed the creation of multiple products and services with the most recently being Pitch4D – Interactive 3D Presentations.

Dr. Adam Sobey is Associate Professor of AI for Marine Applications at the University of Southampton and is co-lead of the Marine and Maritime Group within Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute. He has developed cMLSGA, the co-evolutionary Multi-Level Selection Genetic Algorithm, and a number of unsupervised learning and machine learning approaches. These have been applied in a range of industrial applications with a focus on reducing emissions. 

In 2015 he was awarded the Royal Institution of Naval Architect’s Jeom Paik Award for his investigations into using soft computing approaches to improve the reliability of ship structures.

Dr. Gabriel Weymouth is Associate Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics at the University of Southampton and is co-lead of the Marine and Maritime Group within Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute.

Dr. Gabriel Weymouth's research focuses on the development of fast, accurate, and robust computational fluid dynamic predictions and application of those techniques to diverse elements of the marine and maritime environments. He develops methodologies for computational fluid mechanics and physics-based machine learning and consults for software developers in those fields.