Chaired and organised by Joey Fisher and the DP Asia Technical Committee, the 6th Annual DP Asia Conference took place in the Ramada hotel in Singapore on the 30th and 31st May 2016. The event (DP Asia 2016), supported by the MTS DP Committee and IMCA was a success with close to 100 attendees. Despite the difficult market conditions, there were international representatives from all areas of the DP community including the supporting organisations, main equipment vendors and regional ship owners.  Denis Welch, the IMCA Asia Pacific Director chaired the first session which had a focus on DP Vessel Industry Dynamics. Keynote addresses were delivered by Venkatraman Sheshashayee, the CEO of Miclyn Express Offshore and Suman Muddusetti; a member of the MTS DP Technical Committee and Chairman of the MTS DP Sub-Committee on Guidance and Standards. This was followed by a panel session which included representatives from shipyards, major equipment suppliers, ship owners and oil companies. There were sessions on DP sensor technology and the afternoon on day 1 was devoted to presentations, panel discussions and a workshop on Annual DP Trials that was chaired by Joey.  The first morning session of Day 2 was devoted to DP training and certification and included key representatives from Singapore, India, UK, Norway and Ukraine, including the Nautical Institute and DNVGL. The afternoon topics included ASOG development, lessons learned from DP incidents (from an owners perspective) and an update from Andy Goldsmith on the IMCA developments for DP Incident / Event Reporting. On a Neutral platform, MTS DP and IMCA agreed that there were common objectives with regard to DP risk management and incident reporting.  An interactive workshop on the MTS DP Committee LFI (Learnings from Incidents) TECHOP that was chaired by Suman concluded the conference.  Joey, the technical committee and the organisers ‘AP Energy’ thank all who made the journey and all who contributed and provided their input during this event, including the sponsors / supporting organisations and in particular the operators and ship owners; Shell, Brunei Shell Petroleum, Swire Pacific Offshore, POSH, MEO, Greatship, Supura Kencana and Supura Acergy. More details to follow from the MTS DP and we look forward to DP Asia 2017 and hope to see you there. [gallery link="file" ids="501,2109,2108,2107,2110"]