Innovate UK's Smart Shipping Cafe will be taking place on 19th November 2025 from 10.30 - 11.30am online. 

The Smart Shipping Cafe brings together ports, researchers, and innovators to explore how emerging technologies are transforming the maritime sector. This month's theme is Autonomy.

Why attend?

• Hear from the University of Plymouth as they share how their Smart Sound testbed is being used to trial autonomous and sensor-driven technologies in a real-world marine environment.
• Gain insights from the Port of Felixstowe, including their current autonomy projects, the challenges of implementation, and what the future holds for one of the UK's busiest ports.
• Discover what autonomy really means for ports and vessels, how data, sensing, and AI underpin autonomous operations, and the opportunities for cross-sector collaboration.
• Connect with like-minded individuals and learn how innovators, researchers, and SMEs can get involved.

The is event will be useful for anyone working in maritime, transport, robotics, AI or emerging technologies.

Click here to register.