Innovation to Impact: Road Diaries # 2 | What’s Really Holding Maritime Innovation Back? (SMW)

At Singapore Maritime Week, we spent time speaking with operators, startups, and industry leaders to understand a simple question: What’s actually holding innovation back? This episode of Innovation to Impact: Road Diaries captures a raw, on-the-ground reflection from the week — not focused on new technology, but on the real challenges behind adoption. Across conversations, a few themes kept coming up: A lack of trust across the industry Endless trials without decisions The difficulty of balancing impact with competitiveness The challenge of taking that first step As one of the key takeaways from the week: “no one in the industry really trusts each other” And perhaps more importantly: “you just need to get going” At Safetytech Accelerator, we focus on closing the gap between innovation and real-world adoption — working across safety-critical industries to turn ideas into measurable impact. This is the first in a series of Road Diaries recorded live from global industry events.