SMARTSEA representatives will attend the 17th International Symposium Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence 2020 will be held in L’Aquila, Italy, on the 7-9th of October 2020 (http://www.dcai-conference.net). They will also chair the special session entitled Surveying & Maritime Internet of Things Education (SMITE 2020). This is a forum for sharing ideas, projects, researches results, models, experiences, etc. linked to Maritime & Surveyor IoT applications.