
Please find below the agenda for the Naval Experts Symposium 2025.
General information:
Throughout the symposium, complimentary transfer services will be provided between our partner hotels, the RENK headquarters, and the evening event venues.
The meeting point for all departures is located outside the main entrance of each hotel.
Transfer will be clearly marked with a RENK sign.
Dress code:
Get-Together: Business Casual
Day event: Business, no tie
Gala-Dinner: Business, no tie
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Monday, 26th of May, 2025 - Get-together
If you arrive the night before, we kindly invite you to our reception before the official Symposium starts.
from 18:30 | Transfer from our partner hotels to restaurant "N8Stallung" Restaurant "N8Stallung" Johannes-Haag-Str. 36 | Meeting point outside the main entrance - the bus is marked with a RENK sign 18:30 Hotel Dorint to "N8Stallung" 18:45 Hotel Maximilian´s to "N8Stallung" |
19:15 | Welcome & Get-together | Dr. Alexander Sagel CEO RENK Group AG |
22:30 | Official end/Transfer back to the hotels | Transfer back from RENK to Hotel Dorint and Maximilians´s |
Tuesday, 27th of May, 2025 - Symposium day 1
from 08:30 | Transfer from our partner hotels to the event venue RENK headquarters Augsburg Goegginger Str. 73 | Meeting point outside the main entrance - the bus is marked with a RENK sign 08:30 Hotel Maximilian´s to RENK 08:45 Hotel Dorint to RENK |
09:00 | Arrival & Registration | Including flying breakfast buffet |
09:25 | Welcome speech moderator | Lisa Hofmann Moderator |
09:35 | Welcome speech RENK | Dr. Alexander Sagel CEO RENK Group AG |
09:45 | Keynote speech incl. Q&A | RAdm Axel Schulz "Indo-Pacific-Deployment 2024 – Commander Task Group perspective." |
10:10 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Dr. Markus Schneider Institute Saint-Louis, France "Electromagnetic railgun: selected integration aspects." |
10:35 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Joachim Wacker Vice President Sales & Product Strategy SVE, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, Germany "Parent ship designs – Challenges between proven vs. customized solutions." |
11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:20 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Gennaro Falcone/Giuseppe Ladu/Franco M. Perla PPA Programme Division, OCCAR, Italy "PPA – Multirole Patrol Ship – The next generation ship." |
11:45 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Zafer Elçin STM - Savunma Teknolojileri Mühendislik, Turkey "Evolution of the Turkish MilgemClass." |
12:10 | Lunch | |
13:10 | Guestspeech | Alessandro Papapicco/Loïc Lefebvre Deputy Program Director/Propulsion Architect, NAVIRIS S.A.S., France "European Patrol Corvette: Building European Naval excellence." |
13:35 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Dott. Ing. Andrea Millerani Trapani Program Manager, OCCAR Programme Division/MMPC, Italy "OCCAR - Delivering European Defence” |
14:00 | Coffee Break | |
14:20 | Display | Guided shop tour in groups |
16:00 | Conclusion of the day | Lisa Hofmann Moderator |
approx. 16:15 | Transfer | Transfer back from RENK to Hotel Dorint and Maximilians´s |
Tuesday, 27th of May, 2025 - Dinner event
from 17:30 | Transfer from our partner hotels to the event venue | Meeting point outside the main entrance - the bus is marked with a RENK sign 17:30 Hotel Maximilian´s to Parktheater im Kurhaus 17:45 Hotel Dorint to Parktheater im Kurhaus |
18:00 | Start evening event Parktheater im Kurhaus Göggingen Klausenberg 6 | |
19:00 | Welcome Speech | Dr. Emmerich Schiller COO RENK Group AG |
19:45 | Dinner with keynote speech | Prof. Dr. Carlo Masala Professor of International Politics, University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich, Germany |
23:30 | Official end/Transfer back to the hotels | Meeting point outside the main entrance - the bus is marked with a RENK sign 22:30 Parktheater im Kurhaus to Hotel Dorint/Hotel Maximilian´s 23:30 Parktheater im Kurhaus to Hotel Dorint/Hotel Maximilian´s |
Wednesday, 28th of May, 2023 - Symposium day 2
from 08:30 | Transfer from our partner hotels to the event venue RENK headquarters Augsburg Goegginger Str. 73 | Meeting point outside the main entrance - the bus is marked with a RENK sign 08:30 Hotel Maximilian´s to RENK 08:45 Hotel Dorint to RENK |
09:00 | Arrival & Registration | Including flying breakfast buffet |
09:30 | Welcome speech moderator | Lisa Hofmann Moderator |
09:35 | Welcome speech RENK | Nils Oesterlen Head of Marine RENK Group AG |
09:40 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Junseok Choi Team Leader, Naval & Special Ship/Electric Design, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, Korea "Propulsion system configuration of HHI`s standard naval ships" |
10:05 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | CDR Leonidas Ntinakis Deputy Officer of Gas Turbine Workshop at Naval Base Salamina, Hellenic Navy, Greece "RENK Gearboxes and their application within Hellenic Navy" |
10:30 | Coffee Break | |
10:55 | Guestspeech | Dr. Edgar Schmidtke Head of Business Unit, German Navy - Technical Center for Ships and Naval Weapons - WTD 71, Germany "Shock resistance – Still a challenge." |
11:15 | Guestspeech incl. Q&A | Florian Haringer Expert Marine Acoustics, RENK Group, Germany "Low noise designs for ASW optimized frigate and destroyer propulsion systems" |
11:45 | Lunch | |
12:45 | Conclusion, Goodbye and Farewell | Nils Oesterlen Head of Marine RENK Group AG |
13:30 | Official end/Transfer back to the hotels | Transfer from RENK to Hotel Dorint and Maximilians´s |

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