Callum Beaumont
85 episodes listed below
Practical voices in maritime technology.
Maritime SoftwareHub is an interview-led look at the companies turning maritime work into software, data, automation, and sustainability services. Conversations stay practical, moving from career paths and sales motions into adoption barriers, procurement friction, hiring, and operational value.
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Maritime SoftwareHub is a people-first interview series about digital change in shipping, marine operations, trade, and adjacent industrial markets. It is narrow in the best way. The show is not trying to cover every technology trend; it spends time with the commercial leaders, founders, and operators who have to make those tools understandable, buyable, and usable. Recent episodes map a clear pattern. Sustainability software is discussed through customer expansion, consulting work, and life cycle assessment rather than broad climate language. Maritime discovery platforms are framed around the messy pre-implementation stage, where operators need to understand what exists before committing time and budget. Data conversations focus on procurement friction and latent demand. Autonomous marine software is described through sensors, perception, AI, and unmanned vessel growth. The sales episodes are especially practical. Long-cycle industrial markets, go-to-market design, partnerships, and non-dilutive funding are treated as daily operating problems, not abstract business-school themes. Hiring also comes up often, especially in conversations about engineering teams, AI-assisted work, internships, and the difficulty of finding people who can move fast inside specialized markets. The show has a live trade-conversation texture. Questions start broad, then narrow quickly into implementation, adoption, integration, or customer behavior. Guests are given room to explain, and the interviewer often restates the point in business terms before moving forward. That rhythm makes technical topics easier to follow without flattening them. Vessel software, maritime data, cybersecurity, climate consulting, startup fundraising, and vessel maintenance all sit inside the same larger question: how does an industry with long relationships and serious operational risk actually modernize? Maritime SoftwareHub is most useful when it stays close to that question. It gives maritime technology professionals a candid view of how products reach the market, where buyers hesitate, and what kinds of people are building the next layer of industry infrastructure.
Made for: For maritime, logistics, trade, energy, and software professionals who want grounded conversations about digital adoption. It also suits commercial teams, founders, recruiters, and operators tracking how specialized industrial technology reaches buyers.
What sets it apart: The show connects product, people, and go-to-market detail in one conversation. Instead of treating maritime digitalization as a trend, it follows the adoption path through sales, procurement, integration, hiring, and operational trust.
Welcome to Maritime SoftwareHub, the people-focused Podcast for professionals that are passionate about digitalization across the maritime, trade, and satcoms space. Hosted by ex-shipbrokers and talent acquisition leaders Callum Beaumont and Daniel Duggin, of Cordell Beaumont - Digital Search & Recruitment. Each episode will feature highly influential figures within the digital shipping space and will showcase their particular role specialisms and career journey. We aim to discuss key functions and career opportunities across Software Sales, Product Management, Marketing, Cybersecurity, C-suite, Data Analysis and much more... So thank you for joining us, and please enjoy Maritime SoftwareHub…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Maritime SoftwareHub makes maritime digitalization concrete by tracing how software gets selected, implemented, funded, staffed, and used.
Maritime SoftwareHub follows technology onto vessels and into the businesses around them, with Callum Beaumont interviewing company leaders about software adoption, data protection, sustainability work, and company-building.
Maritime software meets the old logbook, and you get the useful question: who will actually adopt it?
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A practical look at sustainability as a commercial discipline, with a clear explanation of LCA and how client needs shape the work.
The discussion treats sustainability less like a slogan and more like a business line. It stays on commercial roles in climate technology, customer growth, and the way consulting, software, and data support clients.
A practical look at why maritime tech adoption often breaks down before implementation begins.
The episode treats maritime technology adoption as a discovery problem as much as a software one. Gail Mardell, co-founder and director of Seacraft IT, keeps the emphasis on helping maritime professionals find, compare, and adopt tools before implementation gets costly.
A practical maritime conversation about cybersecurity, hiring, and using AI to speed work without handing over judgment.
Cordell Beaumont Maritime Podcast keeps the focus on practical work: maritime cybersecurity, digitalization, leadership, hiring, and what shipping and global trade may look like next.
A practical maritime software conversation about tracking, maintenance history, and getting crews to adopt better tools.
Maritime Software Hub offers a grounded founder-led look at what it takes for maritime teams to actually use software well. Brian Hagen speaks from direct operating experience in boat and jet ski rentals, later in insurance administration, and as someone who acquired Vessel…
A grounded founder conversation about fundraising, investor influence, and building while the company is still in motion.
Ivan, ShipX Data's CEO, carries this Maritime Software Help the People episode with a grounded look at building a startup while the work is still unfolding.
Crypto as infrastructure, argued carefully.
Freight news with the brakes off.
Workforce change, explained at executive altitude.
Drew Oviedo, director of Marine Solutions at Siemens Energy, describes his move from naval architecture and boat design to selling vessel electrification while advising maritime sensor and autonomy startups.
Maritime Software Hub’s Ep 84 features Nicole Mohotra, Wilhelmsen Group’s VP of Emerging Opportunity Portfolio, drawing on more than 30 years in maritime work.
TidalIQ founder Andrew Balfour says EU emissions pooling can turn a ship’s surplus carbon credits into revenue rather than a deficit penalty.
Youssef Elberi talks about selling sustainability and what commercial roles actually look like in the climate technology and climate economy.
Callum speaks with Gail Mardell, co-founder and director of Seacraft IT, about rethinking how maritime operators discover and adopt technology.
This episode features an interview with Rory Proud, co-founder of Maritime Data, discussing how improving data accessibility can unlock latent demand in the maritime industry.
This episode features an interview with Andrew Rains from Takara Blue discussing their AI-powered perception software for autonomous maritime systems and unmanned marine growth.
This episode features an interview with Tanner Berrand, VP of Strategic Growth at Edgecom Energy, discussing go-to-market strategies and team building in long-cycle industrial markets.
Cordell Beaumont talks with James, CEO of Hypersphere Technologies, about data protection in maritime.
Brian Hagen joins Maritime Software Hub to tell the story of how he went from running jet ski and boat rentals in Iowa to leading Vessel Vanguard.
Ivan Tkachenko joins Maritime Software Help the People podcast to talk about ShipXData and the realities of startup life.
This episode features an interview with Matthew Costello, CEO of Voyager Portal, discussing how technology is transforming demurrage management and operations costs in the global maritime shipping industry.
This episode discusses managing multicultural crews in the maritime industry, focusing on well-being, diversity, and how technology can improve communication between ship and shore.
This episode explores how technology streamlines chartering and vessel operations, featuring insights from Arto Viitanen, VP of Product at Seaber, on their product offerings and the role of a product manager.
This episode features an interview with John Wills, VP of Product at ShipNet, discussing opportunities for transparency in the commercial maritime shipping industry.