Autonomous Inland and Short Sea Shipping Conference – AISS 2026

Conference 24–25 March 2026

Düsseldorf (Germany)

The next Autonomous Inland & Short Sea Shipping Conference will take place in March 2026 in Düsseldorf in conjunction with XPONENTIAL EUROPE. 

The Autonomous Inland and Short Sea Shipping Conference was established in 2019 as an annual conference. The conference promotes technical and scientific exchange among industry, academia and authorities in the fields of autonomous inland and short sea shipping as well as port logistics, smart waterborne logistics and related subjects. Contributions related to ship automation, remote operation and assistance systems, model-building, simulators and digital twins, smart port logistics, traffic planning and simulation, transport chain digitalization, emission reduction by assistance systems and automation, research platforms, test fields and infrastructure etc. are very welcome.