Detailed program

The European Digital Twin Ocean: A leap in ocean knowledge & sustainable action

10:00 AM10:10 AM

Welcome and Introduction to the Digital Ocean Forum 2024

The European Digital Twin Ocean: A leap in ocean knowledge & sustainable action

10:10 AM10:40 AM

High-Level Interventions

European Commission

Flanders Department for Economy, Science and Innovation

EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters

Olivier Poivre d’Arvor

Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs

The European Digital Twin Ocean: A leap in ocean knowledge & sustainable action

10:40 AM10:45 AM

Video: The European Digital Twin Ocean

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

10:45 AM10:55 AM

Unveiling the European Digital Twin Ocean prototype

Kestutis Sadauskas

European Commission

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

10:55 AM11:20 AM

European Digital Twin Ocean Demonstrations and 3 visual showcases

EDITO: the European Digital Twin Ocean public infrastructure 1- Safeguarding marine environments and coastal communities from plastic pollution 2- Nature Based Solutions 3- Unravelling marine food...

Mercator Ocean International

Simon van Gennip

Mercator Ocean International

Sara Pittonet Gaiarin

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

11:20 AM12:00 PM

Panel “Digital Twin Ocean: a game changer for Ocean knowledge and action”.

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

Marilaure Gregoire

University of Liege

VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute

Margherita Cappelletto

Ministry of Universities and Research, Italy

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

12:00 PM1:30 PM

Lunch break - Exhibition - Booths

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

Keynote

European Commission

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

Current Digital Twins developments

3 TEDx-like pitches from initiatives selected through a call for expression of interest 1- Prediction and adaptation to rising seas and climate change (LISCOAST) 2- Monitoring water quality for...

Michalis Vousdoukas

Joint Research Centre

Tomasz Dabrowski

Marine Institute

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

Panel “an ecosystem of interoperable twins”

Representatives of national & international initiatives

Evangelos Spyrakos

University of Stirling - DOORS Project

Lodewijk Abspoel

Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management - Netherlands - Digitwin North Sea Project

Pier Luigi Buttigieg

Alfred Wegener Institute - UN Ocean Decade & ODIS

Grand Port Maritime de Bordeaux - JNDF project

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

Coffee Break - Exhibition - Booth

The future of the European Digital Twin Ocean: Your Ocean, Your Twin

Keynotes

European Commission

Florika Fink-Hooijer

European Commission

The future of the European Digital Twin Ocean: Your Ocean, Your Twin

Short pitches (I): “What will the future look like?”

Flanders Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Research – ILVO, ILIAD Fisheries

Francisco Campuzano

+ATLANTIC CoLAB - Pipeline-DITO

The future of the European Digital Twin Ocean: Your Ocean, Your Twin

Keynote: a vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

University of Bologna - DCC for Coastal Resilience

The future of the European Digital Twin Ocean: Your Ocean, Your Twin

Panel “The long-term vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean”

Early Career Ocean Professionals, citizen initiatives, societal and ethical aspects, users

Wilco Hazeleger

University of Utrecht - DestinE Scientific Advisory Board

Mercator Ocean International

University of Leiden

Franziska Stressmann

European Citizen Science Association, OTTERS project

SUBMON citizen science

The future of the European Digital Twin Ocean: Your Ocean, Your Twin

Short pitches (II): “What will the future look like?”

Danish Meteorological Institute - NOrdic CryOSphere Digital Twin

Breda University - ILIAD-MSP

Conclusion speech

European Commission