This event welcomes usiness leaders, industry experts, policymakers, innovators, development experts, and ocean technology entrepreneurs from across Canada and around the world to St. Andrews by-the-Sea from May 21-24, 2024.
Join industry experts and thought leaders at the forefront of the sustainable blue economy as they share actionable insights and best practices that can help unlock the full potential of the marine economy.
Among others, the following themes will be examined, across multiple industry sectors:
- Ocean climate solutions and decarbonization
- Corporate Ocean Responsibility
- Blue finance and private capital allocation
- Blue bioeconomy and innovations in aquaculture
- Canada’s Blue Economy Strategy
- Sustainability and quadruple bottom line in the blue economy
- Ocean clusters and digital entrepreneurship
- Ports, maritime trade, and supply chains
- Export financing and ocean SME internationalization
- Investible opportunities and blue asset classes
- Social equity and Indigenous economic engagement
- Preservation of coastal cultures for sustainable blue impact
- Canadian development assistance and Small Island Developing States
