Attendees
Simon Crook
Senior Solution Specialist, SSI
Simon CEng FRINA, is a Senior Solution Specialist at SSI. Simon has over 20 years of experience as a Designer and CAD Manager at leading Shipyards. Simon can quickly relate to shipbuilding-specific challenges and help shipbuilders overcome with technology. He brings expertise in modeling, drawing generation, standards, CAD system implementation, management and integration, engineering processes and procedures, templates, catalog management, quality assurance, and project management.
Cory Zachrisson
General Manager - SSI Asia Pacific, SSI
Cory brings over 20 years of international shipbuilding expertise as SSI’s Client Relations Manager to Austal and Shipbuilding Consultant for the APAC region. Before joining SSI in mid-2022, he served as Senior Project Manager at Seaspan in Vancouver, Canada, where he led the design and construction of Canadian military vessels. A seasoned user of ShipConstructor and ShipbuildingPLM, Cory possesses a robust understanding of the challenges shipyards encounter in managing information and implementing PLM systems.
Meet SSI at Warship 2026
SSI is heading to Perth for Warship 2026: Scaling the Fleet – Delivering Added Mass with Affordable Minor Warships, an international forum bringing together naval architects, engineers, defence organizations and maritime technology leaders from around the world.
As the Name Badge Sponsor, SSI will join conversations around the technologies, design approaches and operational practices helping naval organizations scale fleet capability – from production and integration to availability and sustainment.
Meet Cory Zachrisson and Simon Crook at Warship 2026 to talk digital shipbuilding, vessel data and how better continuity of information can support the shipbuilding enterprise throughout the vessel lifecycle.
Connecting Today’s Fleet With the Shipbuilding Enterprise
Wednesday, September 30 | 11:20–11:40 AM
Stream 2: Naval Enterprise
What happens to valuable shipbuilding information after a vessel leaves the yard?
In Connecting Today’s Fleet with the Shipbuilding Enterprise: A Model-Based Sustainment Approach, SSI’s Simon Crook CEng FRINA, will explore the connection between today’s operational fleet and the shipbuilding enterprise through a model-based approach to vessel sustainment.
The session brings an important question to the wider conversation around scaling naval capability: how can the information created during ship design and construction continue delivering value once the vessel enters service?
Join Simon to explore what stronger digital continuity between shipbuilding and sustainment could mean for the fleets of today – and tomorrow.
Connect With SSI in Perth
Going to Warship 2026?
Look for Cory and Simon and connect with SSI to continue the conversation around digital shipbuilding, model-based sustainment and the future of the shipbuilding enterprise.