16th October 2025
Lisbon
coming soon
the event
Embark in the event that focuses on Prevention and Safety in the maritime market!
With a long and successful partnership in organizing leading events in the areas of Fire & Security and Health & Safety, CEDROS Lda. and Everlux Maritime (a brand of the Ertecna group) joined forces in 2023 to organize a new collaboration to organize a unique and innovative event in the country: the Onboard Safety Conference.
With the ambitious goal of launching this project with three events over a 12-month period, which took place between November 2023 and November 2024, the Onboard Safety Conference quickly established itself as a benchmark event in this sector, filling a gap in the maritime safety and prevention landscape. To this end, it promoted unique conferences featuring renowned national and international experts, providing important opportunities for intense networking among participants, both in-person and online, speakers, and exhibitors.
With a carefully designed program to delve deeper into critical maritime safety topics and meet the demands of a constantly evolving industry, the Onboard Safety Conference will establish itself as an annual event starting in 2025. This natural evolution reinforces its prominent position in the calendar of initiatives that promote technical and strategic debate on the maritime sector in the Iberian Peninsula and Portuguese-speaking countries, also gaining increasing relevance on the international stage.
The 4th edition of the Onboard Safety Conference will also mark a change of scenery, being held in a new location (to be announced soon), reinforcing the conference’s commitment to its founding mission: to promote a broad debate on the present and future of maritime safety, in its multiple aspects.
The theme of this edition, which will take place on October 16th, will be “The Ocean as Strategy: Shipping Industry, Energy, and Sovereignty”.
The Ocean as a Strategy: Shipbuilding, Energy, and Sovereignty
October 16, 2025
ORGANIZERS
CEDROS is a training and consultancy organization that has been operating for more than two decades. It operates in the national and international markets, both onshore and offshore. On the offshore CEDROS offers a range of products and services that meet the needs of this sector of activity, namely in the following areas: Maritime, Oil & Gas and Offshore Wind Energy. It is currently a certified training organization:
- By the DGRM – Directorate-General for Natural Resources, Safety and Maritime Services, to provide Basic Safety training within the scope of the qualification for seafarers – STCW/78 Convention and Amendments / STCW-F/98 Convention and Decree-Law no. 166/2019, of 31 October.
- By GWO – Global Wind Organisation, to provide training courses: Basic Safety Training, Basic Technical Training; Advanced First Aid, Advanced Rescue, Slinger Signaller.
CEDROS has the Safety Technical Training Centre, a centre for practical and technical training related to Safety at Work.
In this centre, among other activities, it is possible to carry out training in the offshore area, such as: HUET – Helicopter Underwater Escape Training; Helitransport Rescue Techniques; Rescue Swimmer; Survival at Sea.
CEDROS has acquired the know-how in the maritime/offshore industry from the several projects in which it has been involved. As one of the organizers of the Onboard Safety Conference, CEDROS main goal is to create the opportunity to share technical scientific knowledge in safety and health at work with the society and with the maritime/offshore market sector.
Everlux Maritime is part of the Ertecna, Lda group, that manufactures its products under the Sinalux and Everlux brands, internationally recognized as a benchmark for quality in photoluminescent safety signage.
Everlux Maritime is also the benchmark for quality and service in safety signage for the maritime market, with particular emphasis on the study, design, manufacture and installation of photoluminescent safety signage solutions.
Ertecna, Lda. has been on the market since 1989 and since then has been present in more than 90 countries, offering high-quality products and excellent technical and commercial customer service, with complete solutions in safety signage for the maritime market – including the onshore and offshore markets.
Everlux Maritime safety signage is the ideal choice for shipbuilders, shipowners and ship operators, meeting all the requirements demanded by IMO and other standards and legislation, guaranteeing a safe environment for crews and passengers.
Everlux Maritime has its services accredited by DNV and Everlux products are produced in compliance with international standards and laws – IMO Resolutions, SOLAS Convention and ISO standards (9001, 45001, 14001).
Its production and quality are recognized by independent certification bodies: MED Certification; Red Ensign [MER-UK Certification]) and also Lloyd’s Register Type Approval.
Globally recognized for its experience in the maritime industry, Everlux Maritime aim with the Everlux Maritime pretende, com a Onboard Safety Conference, to spread and deepen knowledge about prevention and safety at sea for all its professionals.
SPONSOR
MEDIA PARTNERS
AGENDA
The Ocean as Strategy: Shipping Industry, Energy, and Sovereignty
16 October 2025
08h15
Opening, Registration and Welcome Coffee
09h00
Welcome Message – CEDROS and Everlux
09h15
às
11h00
Panel I
Safety on Board – Implementation, Education and Training beyond the Requirements
Moderator | Álvaro Sardinha | C2EA – Centro de Competência em Economia Azul
The Challenges to Onboard Safety when Adapting to New Requirements
Conceição Gallis | DGRM
Safety – Work in a Maritime Environment
Ana Peralta | ETERMAR
Preparing Ports for the Future: ISPS Code and Risk Management in Transformation
Rui Serafim | Port of Lisbon
Debate, Questions and Answers
11h00
às
11h30
Coffee-break and Exhibition
11h30
às
13h15
Panel II
Offshore Wind Energy: Development, implementation, sustainability and safety strategies
Moderator | Diogo Moreira | Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo
The Azores as a Platform for Technological Innovation – Integration of Unmanned Systems in the Protection of Maritime Infrastructure
Ana Rodrigues | ADFMA – Associação para o Desenvolvimento e Formação do Mar dos Açores
Offshore Renewables in Portugal: Progress, Environmental Challenges, and Future Requirements
Inês Machado | WAVEC
Water Column iEPCI™ – De-risk Project Execution
Nuno Vaz | TechnipFMC
Ports as Strategic Infrastructures for Energy Transition
Eduardo Feio | Port of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz
Debate, Questions and Answers
13h15
Lunch & Exhibition
14h45
às
16h25
Panel III
Maritime Sovereignty and Portuguese Shipyards’: Contribution to the European Maritime Industrial Strategy in a context of Geopolitical Change
Moderator | Mário Pinho | AI NAVAIS
Smart Fleets, Secure Nations: The Role of Naval Design in Defense Readiness
Gabriel Braña | GHENOVA
The Role of Ship Repair on Maritime Sovereignty
Nuno Santos | Lisnave
Certification and Classification System for Military Ships
Paulo Viana | DNV
Ocean Patrol Vessel 3rd Series (NPO3S) – Project and Construction
Lieutenant Commander Manuel Dias Godinho | Portuguese Navy
Debate, Questions and Answers
16h25
Conclusions and Thank You Message – CEDROS and Everlux
16h35
Exhibition
17h30
Closing Ceremony
SPEAKERS
Eduardo Feio
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz
Ports of Aveiro and Figueira da Foz
Ana Rodrigues
Senior manager at Globaleda, which is part of the EDA Group
Association for the Development and Training of the Sea and School of the Sea of the Azores
Rui Serafim
Head of the Security Division and Port Security Officer at the Port of Lisbon (APL)
Porto de Lisboa
Conceição Gallis
Head of the New Construction Division
DGRM - Directorate-General for Natural Resources, Safety and Maritime Services
USEFUL INFORMATION
The venue
The Onboard Safety Conference 2025 will take place in the VIP Art’s II room at the VIP Executive Art’s Hotel, in Lisbon. This strategic location is close to the river and easily accessible by public transport and car.
In the foyer of the VIP ART’S II, participants will also find two exhibition spaces:
CEDROS exhibition: certified collective and individual protection equipment aimed at the maritime/offshore context;
Everlux exhibition: complete and certified safety signage solutions for the maritime market.
How to get to the venue?
VIP Executive Art’s Hotel address:
Avenida Dom João II, 47
1998-028 – Lisboa – Portugal
GPS
38.7727788511406, -9.097306304274587
Public Transportation
The event is being held in Parque das Nações, an area offering a range of public and private transport options.
The VIP Executive Art’s Hotel is located just 500m from Gare do Oriente station, which is accessible by train, metro or bus.
Where to park?
The hotel has a private parking, which does not require a reservation but costs €10 per day.
There are also numerous paid car parks on the same avenue.
Onboard Safety Conference – The Ocean as a Strategy: Shipbuilding, Energy, and Sovereignty
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Contacts
Diana Baptista – Everlux Tlm (+351) 969 008 504 Tlf (+351) 233 407 419
Sandra Castanheira – CEDROS Tlm (+351) 936 862 275 Tlf (+351) 210 868 855