In the digital age, submarine fiber optic cables have proven indispensable. An insatiable global demand for bandwidth, driven by an irrepressible appetite for online content, commerce, and other internet-dependent activities, continues to outperform the already bullish year-on-year market expectations.
Vocational learning and development is an area of human resource management that bonds all professionals, across all sectors. But for many of us, the acquisition of applied know-how and industry expertise is an on-the-job process.
This year’s International Cable Protection Committee (ICPC) Plenary was a virtual affair, held over two days, 26 – 27 April 2022. The theme for ICPC 2022, Installing, Operating and Maintaining Resilient Submarine Cable Infrastructure in a Rapidly Evolving Global Environment, drew close to 300 ICPC members and an impressive array of speakers—over 20 in all—to discuss the many factors currently shaping the state of the global subsea cable industry.
Ocean Specialists, Inc (OSI) welcomes Christian John Michaelis back to the team as a summer hire to help support company expansion plans. Returning for a second year as an intern, Christian will hit the ground running and assist OSI leadership with the design and development of marine projects, in the areas of mechanical, electrical, and SW engineering.
The last two years have been difficult for the conference industry. A new decade held such promise for the offshore sector, and international conferences were, once again, poised to offer the ideal platform for new and exciting business development opportunities.
Atlantic City, New Jersey was conference HQ for this year’s International Offshore Wind Partnering Forum (IPF), hosted by the Business Network for Offshore Wind from 25 – 28 April. This was the ninth edition of this now can’t-miss annual networking event and exhibition and, once again, a team from Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) was in full attendance.
As a welcome change to the “not-so-new-normal” requirement of virtual-only conferences, Capacity LATAM 2022 in Miami from 15-16 March 2022 was at long last an in-person affair, with organizers reporting an attendance of over 700 delegates from more than 40 countries at the Four Seasons Hotel Miami over the three days.