Lisbon – The Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon will hos,t on Monday, February 23 at 7pm, at the auditorium of its headquarters a conference on “Pirates, shipwrecks and Ebola: more safety at sea thanks to the European technology.” The discussion will focus on applied computer and space technologies to the monitoring of maritime navigation. The keynote speaker of the conference is Andrea Pelizzari, engineer at the EMSA (European Maritime Safety Agency). Born in 1970 in Brescia, Pelizzari has been an official at European Maritime Safety Agency in Lisbon since 2007. Here, he deals with vessel traffic monitoring satellite systems, also used by the Italian coastguard and the Portuguese Navy. (9Colonne)
