Discussion topics:

- Assessing the current stage of aluminium use in shipbuilding
- Opportunities related to developing new alloys, and aluminium welding technologies
- Experience of using prefabricated thin-walled panels and friction welding with mixing when creating the world’s largest civil hovercraft Khaska-10.
- Perception of new opportunities by design bureaus and industry when planning construction of series-produced items  

Invited participants:

• Yevgeny Alifirenko, Head of Laboratory Prometey CRISM
• Alexander Kudryavtsev, Chief Designer CDB Neptun
• Nikolai Korneychuk, Technical Director SiTekh LLC
• Valery Blokhin, Chief Designer CDB R. Ye. Alekseyev SEC
• Yevgeny Malov, Deputy Chief Designer RV LLC
• Viktor Sokolov, chief designer of the Krylov SRC
• Alexander Bondin, Technical Director Gorky Zelenodolsk Plant
• Yury Shamanin, Deputy Director of Aerokhod LLC
• Vladimir Buklin, Head of the Almaz CDB ME
• Representatives from PEI CVE Morskiye sistemy, FAI RMRS, UC Rusal