Cultivating Collaboration
Delivering engagements for Ocean Enterprise stakeholders globally to connect, exchange ideas, and develop the partnerships needed to advance ocean technology and market opportunities.
The Challenge
A key challenge for the Ocean Enterprise is bridging differences in priorities, timelines, and expectations across sectors while shifting perceptions of how public, private, and academic organizations can work together. The public sector advances the public good, the private sector drives innovation and commercialization, and academia and research organizations generate the science and knowledge that underpin ocean solutions. Aligning these strengths is essential to accelerating collaboration and building a more connected Ocean Enterprise.
The Opportinity
Strengthen Public-Private Exchange
Connect expertise across sectors to accelerate innovation and market growth.
Build Strategic Partnerships
Turn collaboration into action through stronger relationships and shared priorities.
Advance Data & Interoperability
Improve standards and data accessibility to enable a more connected Ocean Enterprise.
How the Ocean Enterprise is Cultivating Collaboration
Dialogues with Industry
Through highly curated virtual discussions, Dialogues with Industry is connecting experts from industry, government, academia, nonprofits, and research to tackle emerging challenges, identify market opportunities, and drive collaborative action.
With more than 1,000 participants representing over 50 countries, the Dialogues have become a unique global forum for strengthening partnerships, aligning priorities, and advancing innovation across the Ocean Enterprise.
BlueConneX
BlueConneX is building a more connected Ocean Enterprise by breaking down barriers to collaboration. By connecting organizations across the public, private, academic, and nonprofit sectors, BlueConneX enables users to discover market opportunities, partners, and build the strategic relationships that accelerate innovation, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and unlock new market opportunities.
MTS TechSurge Events - Moving Knowledge Forward
As a flagship program of MTS, the Ocean Enterprise Initiative is leveraging MTS Tech Surge events—branded workshops that move knowledge forward—to accelerate collaboration across the Ocean Enterprise.
TechSurge Events convenes leaders from industry, government, academia, and research around topics such as Ocean Biodiversity and Next Generation Maritime Autonomy to foster knowledge exchange, strengthen partnerships, and advance solutions to shared challenges.
MTS Professional Committees
Ocean Enterprise Initiatives connection to MTS provides a unique advantage: access to MTS Professional Committees that bring together leaders across the marine technology ecosystem. This network amplifies Ocean Enterprise Initiative, strengthens stakeholder engagement, and connects emerging ideas with the broader Ocean Enterprise community.
