Event Category: Ocean Visions Biennial Summit

Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025

Advancing Solutions for Ocean-Climate Restoration

Join us for the Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025! The Summit will be an exceptional opportunity to advance the sharing of knowledge and solutions to critical challenges at the ocean-climate nexus. During this action-oriented event, global and local scientists, policymakers, innovators, funders, and others will converge to explore solutions and strengthen partnerships that can help restore our ocean and stabilize the climate.

About the Summit

Date: March 25-27, 2025
Venue: Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, British Columbia
A discounted block of rooms has been reserved at the Hyatt Regency Vancouver. Please make your reservation here in order to take advantage of the special rate. Special rate available until hotel is full.

Program Agenda

We have crafted a robust program that will engage a wide range of people, disciplines, and sectors at the forefront of innovation at the ocean-climate nexus. The Summit is a one-of-a-kind opportunity to explore, develop, and build collaboration on a comprehensive, cutting-edge agenda to address dangerous climate change from an ocean perspective.

Together we can advance ocean-based solutions to slow and ultimately reverse the causes and impacts of climate disruption – the biggest threats to the future of the ocean. We hope you’ll join us!

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Key Themes

The ocean is under threat from a host of pressures, but none loom larger than those caused by greenhouse gas pollution, which drives overheating and acidification. In order to address this ocean-climate crisis, the world needs to generate and scale innovative solutions much more effectively and quickly.

Summit participants will share and discuss cutting-edge advancements in ocean sciences, engineering, policy, governance, and economics, and coordinate action on key priorities to advance innovative solutions for ocean-climate restoration across these key themes:

REDUCE

Ocean-Based Decarbonization: This track will cover high-leverage ocean-based opportunities to accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon economy

REMOVE

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: This track will provide the latest information, challenges and opportunities in the race to test and develop ocean-based pathways for cleaning up carbon pollution

REPAIR

Marine Ecosystem Repair: This track will cover emerging conservation tools and approaches that might help to rebuild the health of critical marine ecosystems while we work to cool the planet and the ocean via decarbonization and carbon dioxide removals

REACH

Expanding the Global Community of Solvers: This track will investigate social and governance dimensions and how we can significantly grow a diverse global community to innovate, test and develop ocean-climate solutions

Why Attend?

The Summit is designed to welcome and engage a multidisciplinary community. Highly interactive, the event will feature a mix of session types as well as ample opportunities to collaborate.

Opportunities include:

Sharing & Learning: Gain insights from inspiring keynote speakers and panel discussions on the forefront of ocean-climate research and innovation.
Workshops: Dive deeper with fellow attendees on challenges and issues of mutual concern.
Networking: Connect with leading experts, industry pioneers, and decision-makers shaping the future of ocean-climate health through time devoted to building and strengthening relationships.
Collaborating: Forge partnerships and collaborations to accelerate the impact of your work in ocean-based climate solutions through interactive, action-oriented sessions and activities.

Attendees will include those from across the following communities:

Researchers and scientists
Industry leaders and entrepreneurs
Policy makers and government officials
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and environmental advocates
Students and educators passionate about ocean conservation

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Ocean Visions and AGU are committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and staff. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, Ocean Visions and AGU staff, service providers, and others are expected to abide by this Meeting Code of Conduct. This Code of Conduct applies to all Ocean Visions Summit (OVS25) related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than Ocean Visions and AGU but held in conjunction with OVS25 events, in public or private facilities. Read the Code of Conduct.

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Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2023

What a thrill and honor it was for all of us at Ocean Visions to host the 2023 Biennial Summit! The event brought together nearly 400 “solvers” and “makers” from the ocean-climate community; people who are committed to developing and advancing a range of solutions that can restore both the ocean and the climate, and help humanity and nature survive climate change impacts. Get the highlights and watch the recorded sessions.

Ocean Visions Biennal Summit 2023

The Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2023 will be a significant opportunity to advance the sharing of knowledge and solutions to critical challenges at the ocean-climate nexus.

The ocean is under threat from a host of pressures, but none loom larger than those caused by greenhouse gas pollution, which drives overheating and acidification. Ocean heating is in turn causing deoxygenation, sea level rise, and disruption of critical marine ecosystem functions and services.

In order to address this ocean-climate crisis, the world needs to generate and scale innovative solutions much more effectively and quickly.

Summit participants will share and discuss cutting-edge advancements in ocean sciences, engineering, policy, governance and economics that support trajectory-changing solutions to the dangerous climate impacts on the ocean.

Ocean Visions partnered with the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for event management. Full Summit details can be found on AGU’s Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2023 web portal.

Venue

The Summit will be held at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia from April 4-6, 2023. A virtual attendance option is also offered. We welcome a diversity of solutions-oriented participants, including scientists, academics, policymakers, innovators, and funders.

Program

The program is structured around five topical tracks:

Ocean-Based Contributions to Global Decarbonization: This track will focus on the ocean’s potential contributions to low or zero carbon energy, food, transport, and materials
Ocean-Based Contributions to Carbon Dioxide Removal: This track will feature the latest innovations and issues from practitioners advancing ocean-based pathways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as well as those working to build related governance systems and monitoring frameworks.
Ocean Ecosystem Repair and Regeneration: This track will explore what ocean conservation might look like in the mid-21st century as the climate crisis intensifies and ecosystems approach tipping points.
Human Adaptation to a Changing Ocean: This track will explore the array of responses necessary to support human adaptation to a changing ocean.
Building a Global Community of Solvers at the Ocean-Climate Nexus: This track will feature the social, technological, and economic innovations and solutions required to expand a global community of solvers at the ocean-climate nexus.

Session Types

The Summit program is designed for a multidisciplinary community to share knowledge and advance solutions to the twinned ocean and climate crises. The Summit will be highly interactive, with a mix of session types such as plenaries, lightning presentations, posters, an innovation showcase, and “connect and collaborate” opportunities to meet in small groups to discuss scientific topics, career paths, and more.

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2019 Οcean Visions Summit

2019 Ocean Visions Summit

The OceanVisions2019 – Climate Summit “Successes in resilience, adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability” was co-organized by researchers at Georgia Tech, The Smithsonian Institution, Stanford University, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography University of Georgia, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, The Georgia Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium and Birch Aquarium at Scripps, in coordination with the IOC-UNESCO, the Ocean Conservancy, and COMPASS. The goal is to highlight ocean-based science and engineering successes in the areas of resilience, adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability and promote scalable solutions across human, climate and ecological dimensions.

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RECORDINGS

Day 1: April 1, 2019

(Opening Ceremony and SESSION 1)

DAY 2: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 2 and SESSION 3)

DAY 3: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 4 and SESSION 5)

DAY 4: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 6 and Closing Ceremony)

OceanVisions 2021 Summit

Towards a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions

The Ocean Visions 2021 Summit May 18-21, 2021 “Towards a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions” will bring together a multi-sector community of researchers, innovators, decision-makers, funders, and more to develop roadmaps for solving great ocean challenges including ocean-based solutions to climate, equitable coastal solutions strategies for resilience and adaptation, marine circular economies, ocean & human health, and how to transform research from academia into sustainable businesses.

The Summit is held virtually on the campus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA, on May 18-21, 2021. The summit is linked and co-organized with satellite virtual campuses in Hobart, Australia, Cape Town, South Africa, Mindelo, Cabo Verde, and Kiel, Germany.

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Opening Ceremony Hosts & Panel

May 18, 7:00 AM – 7:30AM PD

Margaret Leinen

Director Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Susan Lozier

Dean, College of Sciences, Georgia Tech President of AGU

Peter de Menocal

President & Director Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Chairman Ocean Visions Director, Ocean Science & Engineering, Georgia Tech

Fiorenza Micheli

Co-Director, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions

Brad Ack

Executive Director & Chief Innovation Officer Ocean Visions Inc

Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) Hosts

May 18, 9:00 AM – 9:30 CEST/CAT (Icebreaker)

Delphine Lobelle

Europe Host
Co-Organizer Ocean Visions Summit Postgraduate Researcher Utrecht University

Erin Satterthwaite

Co-Founder, ECOP CalCOFI Coordinator Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Alfredo Giron

USA Host
André Hoffmann Fellow, Stanford Center for Ocean Solutions & World Economic Forum

Louise Gammage

Africa Host
Research Fellow, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Valeriya Komyakova

Australia Host
Associate Lecturer University of Tasmania

Daniel Kleinman

USA Host
CEO & Founder Seaworthy Collective

Sessions

Events

SESSION 1: Accelerating the Ocean's Power to Sequester Carbon and Reverse Climate Disruption

May 18, 7:40-10:40AM PDT

Co-chairs: David Koweek (Ocean Visions, Inc. & Stanford COS), Brad Ack (Ocean Visions, Inc.), Lydia Kapsenberg (CEA Consulting)

The Ocean has been, and continues to be, dramatically disrupted by warming and acidification caused by decades of greenhouse gas pollution in our atmosphere. Removing this pollution, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), is becoming increasingly understood as an imperative for slowing, and later reversing, climate change. The Ocean holds enormous potential for CDR solutions at the needed global scale given their sheer size and their biological productivity. Thus, The Ocean may play an important role in helping to solve the climate crisis, instead of merely suffering its effects. In this session, we present results and lessons learned from a year-long Ocean Visions-led process of developing road maps for actionable progress on development, testing, and deployment of ocean-based CDR approaches. These road maps address technological, market, policy, and governance barriers to progress and propose paths forward to accelerate ocean-based CDR approaches. The road maps are intended to catalyze increased attention, engagement and action and lead to increased deployment of needed intellectual, physical, institutional and financial resources throughout the global community.

SESSION 2A: Equitable Solutions for Coastal Inundations and Sea Level Rise

May 18, 11:00 AM - 2:30 AM PDT

Co-chairs: Emanuele Di Lorenzo (Georgia Tech), Mark Merrifield (Scripps), Renee Collini (Mississippi State University), Laura Engeman (Scripps and Sea Grant), A.R. Siders (University of Delaware), Jill Gambill (University of Georgia, Marine Extension and Georgia Sea Grant), Kim Cobb (Georgia Tech), Nadia Pinardi (University of Bologna & CoastPredict), Gary Mitchum (University of South Florida), Théophile Bongarts (Ocean & Climate Platform)

Session 2a

Coastal flooding, inundations, and sea-level rise threaten infrastructure, economies, ecosystems, communities, and cultures. Adapting to these threats will require a holistic, coordinated, multi-sector approach to identify and implement systems-wide transformative solutions. To this end, national task forces are developing to link experts from numerous fields with one another and with coastal communities to facilitate knowledge exchange, promote cross-sector collaborations that meet local needs, and pursue optimistic visions for adaptation. Building on the Ocean Visions coastal solutions scoping workshop, this session will convene potential United States task force members from a wide range of sectors (e.g., insurance, engineering, social and physical sciences, humanities, journalists) towards establishing a national pilot program to implement a “Shared Roadmap for Equitable Coastal Solutions to Climate”. Coastal community leaders will meet with breakout groups to discuss their most pressing needs, and participants will develop an agenda with priority actions for the task force and a vision for an adaptable coast.

SESSION 2B: Equitable Solutions for Coastal Inundations and Sea Level Rise

May 19, 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

Session 2b

Coastal flooding, inundations, and sea-level rise threaten infrastructure, economies, ecosystems, communities, and cultures. Adapting to these threats will require a holistic, coordinated, multi-sector approach to identify and implement systems-wide transformative solutions. The Sea’ties initiative aims to identify and implement adaptation solutions and responses to climate change, based on scientific synthesis, peer-to-peer learning, and network sharing in five regions (Pacific, North & West Africa, US West Coast, and Europe). It will mainly focus on medium-sized cities and explore solutions and responses tailored to each regional context: hard & soft responses, nature-based solutions, relocation, and spatial recomposition. Based on scientific analysis and with the support of local referents, the project will mobilize a wide range of stakeholders and enable local experiences to be collected, analyzed, and shared. The main objectives are 1) to identify and promote key factors of success to accelerate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, and 2) to create and animate a dynamic network of medium-sized coastal cities.

SESSION 3A: Healthy Ocean – Healthy People

May 19, 2:30 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

Co-chairs: (3a) Fio Micheli, Michelle Tigchelaar and Collin Closek (COS), Jack Gilbert (Scripps), Anupa Asokan (Surfrider Foundation), Gretta Pecl (Centre for Marine Socioecology, Univ. of Tasmania), Sarah Allard (Department of Pediatrics and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD), Gertrude Ecklu-Mensah (Health Sciences, UCSD), Manu Prakash (Stanford University), Susanne Sokolow (Stanford University), (3b) Louise Gammage (University of Cape Town), Delphine Lobelle (Utrecht University), Amanda Schadeberg (Wageningen University and Research Center), Nina Rivers (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University), Marieka Norton (University of Cape Town), Jennifer Beckensteiner (University of Bretagne)

Session 3a

There is broad recognition that oceans bring wealth, through fisheries, aquaculture, minerals, energy, commerce, tourism, and more. They are a global, irreplaceable source of income and livelihood. There is an increasing awareness that oceans are also critical to health and well-being. This session has the goal of identifying opportunities and levers for promoting healthy ocean-healthy people. Through presentations, public participation and input, and small-group sessions we aim to: highlight key links between ocean and human health; showcase innovation in this space; identify pressure points, where action has the greatest potential to deliver solutions.

SESSION 3B: Healthy Ocean - Healthy People

May 20, 2-:00 PM - 4:00 PM CEST/CAT
(May 20, 5:00 - 7:00 AM PDT)

Session 3b

There is broad recognition that oceans bring wealth, through fisheries, aquaculture, minerals, energy, commerce, tourism, and more. They are a global, irreplaceable source of income and livelihood. However, there is an increasing awareness that oceans are also critical to human health and well-being. This session aims to identify opportunities and levers for promoting ‘healthy oceans-healthy people’. Here, we continue the conversation started in the US hub’s Session 3 by taking a closer look at some of the challenges and opportunities related to the intersection of oceans and human health. During three simultaneous breakouts, namely ocean plastic solutions, connecting healthy oceans to human well-being and promoting sustainable fisheries, we ask the panellists and participants to provide multi-sector, forward-thinking transdisciplinary perspectives on ocean solutions in an interactive discussion.

SESSION 4. Marine Circular Bioeconomy: Sustainable Food, Bioenergy, and Biomaterials from the Sea

May 20, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

Co-Chairs: David Babson (ARPA-E), Halley Froehlich (UC Santa Barbara), Chuck Greene (Cornell University), Steve Mayfield (UC San Diego), Celina Scott-Buechler (Cornell University)

The primary goal of this session is to explore the potential of marine aquaculture for sustainably intensifying global food production. All forms of marine aquaculture will be considered, from micro- and macroalgae to fin- and shellfish. Sustainability issues to be quantified relative to the current global food production system will include reductions in greenhouse gases emissions, energy use, arable land footprint, eutrophication, and biodiversity loss. The secondary objectives of the session will be to consider the role of marine aquaculture in the coastal circular bioeconomy, with a special focus on the recycling of materials in algae-based wastewater treatment and the co-production of bioenergy and biomaterials. Bioenergy uses include microalgae-based liquid fuels for the transportation sector and macroalgae-based liquid and solid fuels for the transportation and power sectors, respectively. Biomaterial uses include microalgae-based petroleum product substitutes, such as plastics, foams, and carbon fiber. Possible Themes include the future of aquaculture and food from the sea, the future of algal biomaterials and energy from the sea, finding the ocean’s sweet spot in the climate, energy, food, and water nexus.

SESSION 5A: Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Ocean Solutions

May 20, 12:05 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

Co-chairs: Gwen Nero (Scripps), Millicent Pitts (Ocean Exchange), Miguel Granier (OneFive), Shally Shanker (AiiMs), Ann Carpenter (Braid Theory), Brad Ack (Ocean Visions, Inc.), Alexis Grosskopf & Stéphanie Canac (OceanHub Africa)

Section 5a

It is encouraging to see the amount of science and engineering innovation developing through university and research institutions. Given the great challenges of ocean health, climate disruption, coastal resiliency, sustainable energy/food/materials, and the ocean/human health nexus, how do we accelerate the final development of solutions that can be financed, scaled, and deployed for maximum positive impact? Join Session 5 to learn and be inspired. Our first panel will describe the paths from research to deployment with tips and tools for success. Following will be panel two with entrepreneurs whose solutions have moved from institution to marketplace. Finally, we will bring investors and philanthropists on stage to describe their view of philanthropy and impact/traditional investment scenarios for financing scalable solutions.

SESSION 5B: Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Ocean Solutions

May 21, 9 - 10:30 AM CEST/CAT
(May 21, 12 - 1:30 AM PDT)

Section 5b

It is encouraging to see the amount of science and engineering innovation developing through university and research institutions. Given the great challenges of ocean health, climate disruption, coastal resiliency, sustainable energy/food/materials, and the ocean/human health nexus, how do we accelerate the final development of solutions that can be financed, scaled, and deployed for maximum positive impact? Join Session 5 to learn and be inspired. We will showcase innovators from Africa and host three discussion groups on Ocean and Global Warming, Ocean Pollution, and Ocean Overexploitation.

SESSION 6: A Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS)

May 20, 4:05 - 6:05 PM PDT

Co-chairs: Anna Zivian (Ocean Conservancy), Erin Satterthwaite (California Sea Grant & Scripps/UCSD), Karen Evans (CSIRO)

To overcome the persistent gap between research and solutions, we are establishing a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS) in support of the UN Ocean Decade. The mission of GEOS is to “establish a vibrant, global ocean solutions community of researchers, innovators, investors, decision-makers and other stakeholders to co-design and co-deploy equitable, durable, and scalable ocean-based solutions for climate change and ocean grand challenges”. The GEOS strategy for action is (1) to deploy new multi-sector processes that enable the generation and transition of scientific knowledge into co-developed ocean solutions (2) to address ocean grand challenges in climate change and the ocean that require system level (e.g. multi-sector and interdisciplinary) use-inspired research and action. This session will be devoted to the development of the implementation phase of GEOS. You can learn more about GEOS here:

AFRICA Campuses Event

Coastal Ecosystem Monitoring (Cabo Verde & South Africa Collaboration)

May 19, 2-3:45 PM CEST/CAT (May 19, 5-6:45 AM PDT)

Co-organizers: Corrine Almeida (UTA), Maya Pfaff (DEA& UCT), Björn Fiedler (GEOMAR), Vito Ramos (OSCM), Cordula A. Zenk (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany & Ocean Science Centre Mindelo, Cabo Verde)

This event will bring together experts and projects that are engaged in systematic ecosystem observations in order to improve local knowledge about the marine coastal environment and the development of coastal solutions for South Africa, Cabo Verde, and similar regions. We will share experience towards establishing standards for coastal monitoring programs. How to best develop human capacities at the stakeholder level, strengthening university programs and furthering institutional capacities while improving data accessibility? What are good training schemes for coastal communities and stakeholders to improve observation capacity as well as the use of data and data projects for the benefit of different sectors. Are existing projects ready to become by co-creation methods the cornerstones for coastal ecosystem monitoring programs that can be operated by local investigators and technicians on their own and can be expanded to other regions.

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AUSTRALIA Campuses Events

Facilitating human well-being of marine communities in a conflicted world

May 20, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM AEDT
(May 19, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT)

Co-organizers: Gretta Pecl (Centre for Marine Socioecology, Univ. of Tasmania), Maraa Fudge (Univ. of Tasmania)

Oceans underpin marine communities around the world, supporting cultures, fisheries, aquaculture, minerals, energy, commerce, tourism, and more. Oceans are also critical to health and well-being. This session builds of the broader Ocean Solutions summit theme of ‘Healthy Ocean-Healthy People’ to unpack what this means for the island state of Tasmania, and surrounding regions, with the goal of identifying opportunities and levers for promoting healthy ocean-healthy people in a local on-the-ground context. Through e-posters, lightning talks and Q&A panels this session aims to highlight what is needed at a local scale to facilitate and strengthen the links between ocean and human health, and help identify what actions have the greatest potential to deliver solutions.

ATTENTION: In-person Option on Hobart (AU) Campus

The event “Facilitating human wellbeing of marine communities in a conflicted world” has an in-person option on the Hobart Australia campus. Due COVID safety regulations the number of attendees is restricted. If you would like to attend in-person please submit an application here.

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Ocean solutions: what is needed for success in Tasmania?

May 21, 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM AEDT (May 20, 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT)

Co-organizers: Karen Evans (CSIRO), Valeriya Komyakova (Univ. of Tasmania),

Following on from the special event introducing the Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions (GEOS) program, this session comprising e-posters, presentations, and discussion groups will focus on the elements needed to develop, design, and deliver solutions to ocean challenges with a focus on Tasmania. What is needed to bring ocean stakeholders including decision-makers and expert knowledge holders across research, business, industry, civil society, and community groups together to identify and develop pathways that will facilitate practical solutions towards sustainability that are applicable to the Tasmanian context? What is needed to then scale and tailor those solutions to regions beyond Tasmania?

ATTENTION: In-person Option on Hobart (AU) Campus

The event “Ocean Solutions: What is Needed for Success in Tasmania?” has an in-person option on the Hobart Australia campus. Due COVID safety regulations the number of attendees is restricted. If you would like to attend in-person please submit an application here.

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North America Campus Events

Climate Policy for Ocean Solutions, Looking Towards COP26

May 21, 7:30 AM- 9:00 AM PDT

Co-Organizers: Kelly Swiech
Panelists: Dr. Margaret Leinen, California Senator pro Tem Toni Atkins, Dr. Gideon Henderson

One of the most meaningful ways we can combat climate impacts, and accelerate the implementation of ocean solutions, is through effective policy. It is critical that policy decisions be rooted in science at local, national, and international levels. Observing programs provide long-term data which allows us to understand the rate at which changes are occurring and the impacts they may have on human health, safety, ecosystems, and the overall functioning of earth systems. In this session, we will explore key contributions to ocean, earth, and atmospheric observing systems and discuss why these observations are critical to informing climate policy. In addition, we will discuss the importance of collaborations between academia and policy, and how the UNFCCC COP26 climate conference can accelerate the implementation of ocean solutions through international collaborations and policy.

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UC San Diego Triton Innovation Challenge

May 21, 10 AM- 12:00 PM PDT

Co-organizers: Gwen Nero (Scripps), Karen Jensen (Rady School of Management), Dennis Abremski (Institute for the Global Entrepreneur)

From algal farming microbusinesses to sustainably-powered ocean buoys, student and scientist innovators compete for cash prizes before a panel of investment professionals and the public. The Triton Innovation Challenge, now in its ninth year, is a business competition focused on fostering creativity and bringing to the spotlight commercially promising, environmentally focused technologies generated by the finest minds at the University of California San Diego. Supported through the generosity of The William and Kathryn Scripps Family Foundation Inc., the program is presented through a partnership of the Rady School of Management, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Jacobs School of Engineering.

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Conversations with Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPS)

Co-organizers: Delphine Lobelle (Utrecht University), Erin Satterthwaite (California Sea Grant & Scripps/UCSD)

ECOP will host informal interactive events to share their perspectives on ocean solutions around the summit’s main sessions, as well as cross-cutting themes that emerge throughout the program. Outputs from these conversations with be posted on live e-boards that will be available and updatable during the whole summit. The goal is to enable collaboration between participants from around the globe and promote interactions in the ECOP network around ocean solutions.

Event Category: Ocean Visions Biennial Summit

Ocean Visions Biennial Summit 2025

About the Summit

Program Agenda

Key Themes

REDUCE

REMOVE

REPAIR

REACH

Why Attend?

Opportunities include:

Attendees will include those from across the following communities:

Information on Visas

Meeting Code of Conduct

2025 Ocean Visions Summit Platinum Sponsors

2025 Ocean Visions Summit Gold Sponsors

Ocean Visions Biennal Summit 2023

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RECORDINGS

Day 1: April 1, 2019

(Opening Ceremony and SESSION 1)

DAY 2: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 2 and SESSION 3)

DAY 3: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 4 and SESSION 5)

DAY 4: April 2, 2019

(SESSION 6 and Closing Ceremony)

OceanVisions 2021 Summit

Towards a Global Ecosystem for Ocean Solutions

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Opening Ceremony Hosts & Panel

Margaret Leinen

Susan Lozier

Peter de Menocal

Emanuele Di Lorenzo

Fiorenza Micheli

Brad Ack

Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) Hosts

Delphine Lobelle

Erin Satterthwaite

Alfredo Giron

Louise Gammage

Valeriya Komyakova

Daniel Kleinman

Sessions

SESSION 1

SESSION 2

SESSION 3

SESSION 4

SESSION 5

SESSION 6

Events

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EVENT

SESSION 1: Accelerating the Ocean's Power to Sequester Carbon and Reverse Climate Disruption

May 18, 7:40-10:40AM PDT

SESSION 2A: Equitable Solutions for Coastal Inundations and Sea Level Rise

May 18, 11:00 AM - 2:30 AM PDT

SESSION 2B: Equitable Solutions for Coastal Inundations and Sea Level Rise

May 19, 7:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT

SESSION 3A: Healthy Ocean – Healthy People

May 19, 2:30 PM - 5:15 PM PDT

SESSION 3B: Healthy Ocean - Healthy People

May 20, 2-:00 PM - 4:00 PM CEST/CAT (May 20, 5:00 - 7:00 AM PDT)

SESSION 4. Marine Circular Bioeconomy: Sustainable Food, Bioenergy, and Biomaterials from the Sea

May 20, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

SESSION 5A: Harnessing Innovation to Accelerate Ocean Solutions

May 20, 12:05 PM - 4:00 PM PDT

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May 20, 2-:00 PM - 4:00 PM CEST/CAT
(May 20, 5:00 - 7:00 AM PDT)

May 21, 9 - 10:30 AM CEST/CAT
(May 21, 12 - 1:30 AM PDT)

May 20, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM AEDT
(May 19, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT)