The world's largest maritime HR conference, offering networking opportunities with industry leaders and expert-led sessions on current maritime HR challenges. A vital gathering for global shipping HR professionals.
2026 Conference
The 2026 Spinnaker Maritime People & Culture Conference takes place in London on 13th & 14th May.
Over two powerful days, industry leaders, maritime professionals, and changemakers come together to explore the future of shipping through the lens of people, culture, innovation, and sustainability.
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Agenda & Speakers
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Location
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Awards
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The largest worldwide gathering of maritime HR & crewing professionals
This event is the largest worldwide gathering of maritime HR & crewing professionals. Taking place in London every year, the event is an excellent opportunity to network with senior leaders within the maritime industry, participate in informative sessions delivered by industry-renowned speakers and discuss the key issues facing HR, crewing and leadership teams in the maritime industry today.
This event has become an annual ‘must-attend’ for shipping HR & crewing professionals from all over the world, many of whom have been attending for over 10 years.
Gala Dinner
Spinnaker’s Maritime People & Culture Conference will feature not only 2-days of seminars and networking sessions, but also a 3-course Gala Dinner where we will be announcing the winners of the Best HR Initiative Awards.
The dinner is a preceded by a champagne reception which ticket holders are also invited to attend.
Agenda
Join us for 2 days of seminars and networking sessions covering topics from health & wellbeing, ESG, diversity & inclusion, leadership & future skills, attraction & retention, maritime trends and much more.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
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I wanted to congratulate you on this high quality event. You always find the way to get creative and resourceful in identifying interesting themes that will help us all become better business partners and that will therefore help the whole industry moving forward. We already see the progress that the industry has made in the past few years and I think you can proudly say you are part of making the movement happen.