February 18, 2025
NAPA User Meeting 2025
Join us for the NAPA User Meeting 2025, returning to NAPA’s home base in Helsinki, Finland.
Save the date for May 2025 and step into the future of ship design technology with us!
The NAPA User Meeting is more than just an event – it’s a unique gathering of the brightest minds in ship design, shipbuilding, and maritime operations. This is where industry leaders, innovators, and experts from around the world come together to exchange insights, explore the latest trends, and experience the power of NAPA solutions firsthand.
Why Attend?
- Gain exclusive insights – Get firsthand insights from maritime leaders on the latest industry trends, regulatory changes, and innovations shaping the future. This year, we’re honored to welcome industry leaders, including Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Meyer Turku, Fincantieri, Ulstein, OMT-Odense Maritime Technology, Lateral Naval Architects, NMRI (National Maritime Research Institute Japan) and more.
- Networking with leading maritime experts in one place – Connect with maritime professionals, exchange ideas, and build relationships with them to discuss how we shape the future of ship design and operations.
- Interactive workshops & training – Workshop and training opportunities with NAPA solutions with NAPA experts are ready to elevate your expertise. Also you can explore with your hands at
- Experience the Helsinki archipelago – Enjoy beautiful May evenings with exclusive dinner options that take you through the stunning Helsinki seaside and archipelago by boat. A memorable Nordic experience awaits.
Don’t just take our word for it – see the highlights from last year’s event!
Dates
- 12th May 2025 evening: Opening party
- 13th – 15th May 2025: Seminars, workshops and trainings
Venue
Clarion Hotel Helsinki (Tyynenmerenkatu 2, 00220 Helsinki)
Ticket Price
€1,390 (VAT included)
Program Overview
Shaping the Future of Ship Design
The first day features presentations from NAPA and guest speakers, focusing on key maritime topics like energy transition and digitalization. This year, we’re honored to welcome speakers from Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Meyer Turku, Fincantieri, Ulstein, OMT-Odense Maritime Technology, Lateral Naval Architects, and more. In the afternoon, the dedicated presentation streams will focus separately on naval architecture and structure design-related topics. For the dinner event, we’ll invite you to the cozy island of Lonna, arriving in style aboard the historic cruise ship J.L. Runeberg.
The second day is dedicated to hands-on workshop sessions. 9 different workshops in total, focusing on various topics, provide a great opportunity for you to learn and see the new and existing solutions of NAPA in detail. The NAPA Showroom will be open throughout the day, giving you a chance to explore our latest and upcoming solutions, meet our developers, share feedback, and tackle real-world challenges together. The most of our teams and products will be represented there at various stations.
In the evening, we’ll invite you to dinner at HARBORE, where you can enjoy the beautiful seaside views of Helsinki right in the heart of the city.
The third day of the event will focus on detailed user trainings. The parallel training sessions will be a perfect opportunity to learn the software, in beginner and advanced user levels. It will be possible to prebook face-to-face meetings with the NAPA staff during and after the training sessions, providing an opportunity to discuss with us in-person.
We’re excited to welcome you to Helsinki for a memorable and enriching experience.
Looking forward to seeing you in Helsinki!
Experience the captivating highlights of NAPA User Meeting 2024!
Program
Monday, 12 May 2025
Opening Event at 19:00 at Clarion Hotel Helsinki
Tuesday, 13 May 2025
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:30 | NAPA News | NAPAShaping the Future of Ship Design | NAPANew and Future Solutions for Ship Design | NAPA |
| 10:30-11:10 | Break |
| 11:10-12:30 | Holistic Concept Design with NAPA | NAPAExtending 3D Workflow Towards Detail Design | NAPANAPA Steel at Chantiers de l’Atlantique : towards a new dimension for detail structural design | Chantiers de l’Atlantique (France) |
| 12:30-13:40 | Lunch Break |
| Time | NAPA Naval Architecture | NAPA Steel |
|---|---|---|
| 13:40 – 15:00 | Feedback from Adjoint CFD to Hull Form Design in NAPA | HSVA (Germany)NAPA – Swiss Knife in Ulstein | Ulstein (Norway)Advanced Tools for Analyses of Second Generation Intact Stability | NAPAUseful Scripts in NAPA Designer for Basic Users | HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (South Korea) | Taking Structural Design Beyond the Basic Design | NAPABridging the gap between detail design and production design | Chantiers de l’Atlantique (France)Enhancing Design Precision: Global&Fine Meshing in NAPA Steel for Finite Element Analysis | OMT (Denmark)Yacht Structural Design at Lateral | Lateral Naval Architects (United Kingdom) |
| 15:05 – 15:40 | Break | |
| 15:40 – 16:30 | Introduction to NAPA Flooding Simulation | NAPAExperiences on Using Flooding Simulation as a Design Tool | Fincantieri (Italy)Introduction to NAPA Drafting for Naval Architecture | NAPA | NAPA Viewer and model-based approval – One single source of truth | Meyer Turku (Finland), DNV (Norway), NAPA (Finland)Connecting NAPA Models with Production Simulation: Evaluating Productivity in Earlier Design Phase | National Maritime Research Institute (Japan) |
Wednesday, 14 May 2025
| Time | Subject |
|---|---|
| 09:00-10:20 | First workshop sessionsRule Compliance AnalysisThe Art of Hull Form ModelingNAPA Steel Integration with AVEVA & CADMATICNAPA Showroom |
| 10:20-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-12:20 | Second workshop sessionsNAPA Hydrodynamics unleashedLoading Conditions in NAPA DesignerPimp my Designer: An introduction to scriptingNAPA Showroom |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch Break |
| 13:30-15:00 | NAPA Showroom |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-16:50 | Third workshop sessionsHints & Tricks (Compartment modeling and stability analysis)NAPA Engineer: A node network approach to naval architectureNAPA FEMNAPA Showroom |
Thursday, 15 May 2025
| Time | Training Sessions | Other |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-10:30 | NAPA Naval Architecture: Intact Stability & Custom Criterion Checks in NAPA DesignerNAPA Steel: NAPA Drafting for Structural Plan Approval Drawings | Meetings with NAPA staff |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Training sessions cont. | Meetings with NAPA staff |
| 12:30-13:40 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:40-15:00 | Meetings with NAPA staff | |