Key speakers

	Hito BRAGA DE MORAES, Brasil
	NinShu MA, China View CV Prof. Ninshu Ma who was born in 1961 is the senior engineering in JSOL and a professor working in research center of welding science in the Osaka University. He has been studied and worked in Japan for more than 20 years. He had rich experience in analog computation related to the evaluation of car impact strength, metal plastic working, the mold strength analysis, welding mechanics and other relevant fields. In the recent 10 years, more than 200 papers have been published by him in famous International journals and International major conferences. He applied 9 patents, participated in writing a book and developed two software which were named as JSTAMP and JWELD.
	Hidekazu MURAKAWA, Japon View CV Prof. Murakawa graduated from Department of Naval Architecture, School of Engineering, Osaka University, in 1973. He received Master degree also from Osaka University. He conducted research work in School of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Georgia Institute of Technology, and received Ph.D. in 1978. After working in Georgia Tech. as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, he joined Hitachi Research Lab. in 1980. In 1983, he moved to Joining and Welding Research institute, Osaka University, as a Research Assistant. From 2001 till 2016, he served as a Professor in Osaka University. After retirement, he is continuing his research works as a Professor Emeritus. His major research fields are Computational Nonlinear Mechanics and Computational Welding Mechanics. Since 2007, he has been a leader of Global Collaborative Research Center for Computational Welding Science (CCWS) in Osaka University for almost 10 years and promoted research activities in this field.
	Salvador NAYA, Spain University of A Coruña, A Coruña View CV Salvador Naya is professor in Statistics at UDC. His teaching has been carried out mainly in the Polytechnic Higher School of Ferrol of the UDC, being professor of different subjects of statistics in naval and industrial engineering. I also collaborate as a teacher in the Interuniversity Master's in Statistics Techniques being professor of the course "Statistical Quality Control" and as professor of the International Master in Complex Materials with the University Paris Diderot. He is a researcher of the Research Group of Modelling, Optimization and Statistical Inference (MODES) and the CITIC and ITMATI centers of this University, authoring more than 80 publications on Statistics and Materials Science topics. Elected Educator of the year 2013 by the "Juarez-Lincoln-Martí" Project for its dissemination of Statistics in Latin America. He is also an Elected Member of the ISI (International Statistical Institut) and is also a member of the Industry Statistics Committee (ISBIS). Currently holds the position of Vice Chancellor of Scientific Policy, Research and Transfer of the University of A Coruña.
	Stephen GIRVIN, Singapur National University of Singapore Ver currículum Professor Stephen Girvin is a tenured full Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore and MPA Professor of Maritime Law. He was appointed as the first Director of the Centre for Maritime Law in 2015. He taught previously at Aberdeen, Nottingham, and Birmingham Universities and has also been a Visiting Professor at Cape Town, Sydney, Queensland, FGV São Paolo, Zhejiang University, and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London. Stephen is author of Carriage of Goods by Sea 2nd ed (Oxford, 2011), and a co-author Marsden’s Collisions at Sea 14th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2016), and Carver on Charterparties (Sweet & Maxwell, 2017). He is a contributor to The Rotterdam Rules in the Asia-Pacific Region (Shojihomu, 2014), A New Convention for the Carriage of Goods by Sea: The Rotterdam Rules (Lawtext, 2009), and Liability Regimes in Contemporary Maritime Law (Informa, 2007). He is a contributor to the International Maritime and Commercial Law Yearbook, published as part of Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly (Informa), Singapore correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime & Commercial Law Quarterly, and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Lawtext). Stephen speaks regularly at international conferences, in recent years in Beijing, Dalian, Hong Kong, Seoul, Shanghai, Sydney, and Tokyo, and in Aberdeen, Bergen, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Stockholm. He is a member of the Singapore Maritime Law Association and the British Maritime Law Association and a Supporting Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association.
	Naoki OSAWA, Japón View CV ACADEMIC BACKGROUND 1984 BSc in engineering, Osaka University 1988 MSc in engineering, Osaka University 1997 DSs in engineering, Osaka University 1988 Technical Officer, Structure Mech. Div., Ship Research Inst., M.O.T., Japan 1993 Research Associate, Dept. of N.A. & O.E., Osaka University, Japan 1997 Associate Professor, Dept. of N.A. & O.E., Osaka University, Japan 2006 Professor, Dept. of N.A. & O.E., Osaka University, Japan FIELD OF PRINCIPAL INTEREST Fatigue strength of ship structural materials Ship fabrication technique Anti-corrosion technologies for ship structures PRESENT POSITION Professor, Dept. Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering, Osaka University, Japan RELEVANT ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ISSC (International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress) 2018 Committee V.3 member IIW (International Institute of Welding) Commission XIII (Fatigue of Welded components and Structures) Japanese national delegate.
	Newton PEREIRA, Brasil Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brasil View CV Newton Narciso Pereira is an Adjunct Professor at Federal Fluminense University-School of Industrial Engineering Metallurgical in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro. He has been dedicated to research in the area logistics and transport, port operations, ballast water, ship recycling, humanitarian logistics and sustainability. He is Coordinator of Center for Sustainable System Studies – CESS
	Adalberto TOKARSKI, Brasil