Detailed program

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

Welcome and Introduction to the Digital Ocean Forum 2024

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

High-Level Interventions

Flanders Department for Economy, Science and Innovation

European Commission

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

Video: The European Digital Twin Ocean

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

Unveiling the European Digital Twin Ocean prototype

Kestutis Sadauskas

European Commission

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

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

Sara Pittonet Gaiarin

Simon van Gennip

Mercator Ocean International

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

9:20 AM10:00 AM

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

Margherita Cappelletto

Ministry of Universities and Research, Italy

Marilaure Gregoire

University of Liege

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

VLIZ - Flanders Marine Institute

Exploring the capabilities of the European Digital Twin Ocean

10:00 AM11:30 AM

Lunch break - Exhibition - Booths

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

11:30 AM11:40 AM

Keynote

European Commission

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

11:40 AM12:00 PM

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...

Tomasz Dabrowski

Marine Institute

Michalis Vousdoukas

Joint Research Centre

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

12:00 PM12:45 PM

Panel “an ecosystem of interoperable twins”

Representatives of national & international initiatives

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

Evangelos Spyrakos

University of Stirling - DOORS Project

A community vision for the European Digital Twin Ocean

12:45 PM1:15 PM

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?”

Francisco Campuzano

+ATLANTIC CoLAB - Pipeline-DITO

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

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

University of Leiden

Mercator Ocean International

Wilco Hazeleger

University of Utrecht - DestinE Scientific Advisory Board

SUBMON citizen science

Franziska Stressmann

European Citizen Science Association, OTTERS project

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

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

Breda University - ILIAD-MSP

Danish Meteorological Institute - NOrdic CryOSphere Digital Twin

Conclusion speech

European Commission