The document provides information about an offshore support vessels conference to be held from 17-20 September 2012 in Dubai, UAE. The conference will discuss opportunities and challenges in the Middle East offshore support vessel sector towards renewed growth and recovery. It outlines the conference agenda, speakers, workshops, sponsors and participant demographics. Key topics to be covered include market dynamics and impacts of oil price fluctuations, regional customer characteristics, financing solutions, new technologies, and strategies for shipowners, shipbuilders and charterers. Pre-conference workshops will address redundancy concepts in offshore vessel design and drydock management. The post-conference workshop will examine offshore supply vessel chartering contracts.