Explore Insights from Previous Engagements
Access to Resources
Gain valuable insights from our previous engagements and past Dialogues with Industry events through a curated collection of resources. Within these archives, you’ll find presentations, recordings, and reports that capture key discussions, expert perspectives, and emerging industry trends. These materials not only showcase collaborative efforts between government, industry, and academia but also highlight their shared mission to advance ocean technology and innovation.
By exploring these resources, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of the challenges, solutions, and opportunities shaping the Ocean Enterprise. Whether you’re looking for policy updates, market trends, or the latest advancements in technology, these materials provide essential knowledge. Stay informed and engaged by revisiting past conversations that continue to influence the future of the blue economy
Blue Finance Convening at EarthX 2026
Ocean Enterprise Initiative, in collaboration with the NOAA Ocean Enterprise Program and the World Ocean Council, hosted the Blue Finance Convening and Workshop at EarthX 2026. This event brought together leaders from across the blue finance space to align on strategies to grow the U.S. blue economy and elevate ocean enterprise in global conversations.
Conversations highlighted the need to address fragmentation across the ocean sector, improve coordination between public, private, and philanthropic funding streams, and strengthen pathways for ocean technology startups to scale from research to commercialization.
Panelists emphasized the importance of better storytelling, clearer valuation of nature-based solutions, and modernized investment and governance frameworks to attract broader capital and accelerate innovation across the ocean enterprise.
Stay tuned for the full synthesis report.
Oceanology International (OI) 2026
The Ocean Enterprise Initiative team attended Oceanology International 2026 in London this March, connecting with global leaders across the ocean technology and observing space.
The team offered an early soft launch of BlueConneX, showcasing the platform’s vision and capabilities ahead of its launch. Ocean Enterprise Initiative’s Senior Director, Hans VanSumeren led a panel discussion alongside the LINKIT SYSTEMS development team and industry partners, who shared perspectives on how BlueConneX could support real-world decision-making across the ocean enterprise.
In addition, the team hosted a BlueConneX workshop and open networking lunch, creating space for deeper engagement with attendees and live demonstrations of the platform’s potential.
Throughout the event, the team met with a wide range of industry stakeholders on the exhibition floor—listening to use cases, identifying challenges, and exploring how BlueConneX can help deliver clearer market insights, stronger connections, and more informed action across the sector.
Ocean Science Meeting (OSM) 2026
Dialgogues with Industry: Ocean Observing of the Future
Background Paper – Download Background Paper >
Dialogue 1 Report – Report 1 | Session Recording
Dialogue 2 Report – Report 2 | Session Recording
Dialogue 3 Report – Report 3 | Session Recording
Summary Report – Download Summary Report >
Dialogues with Industry: Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
Previous Engagements
HABs Background Paper: Download Background Paper >
Dialogue 1: Challenges and Opportunities for Sensor and Platforms for Detection and Early Warning and Achieving a Multi-Sectoral Ocean Architecture (Jan 15, 2025) – Report 1 | Session Recording
Dialogue 2: User-Driven Ocean Information: Downstream Services and Growing the Market through Impact and increasing the Demand (Jan 29, 2025) – Report 2 | Session Recording
Dialogue 3: Advancing Control Mechanisms (Feb 12, 2025) – Report 3 | Session Recording
HABs Summary Report – The Summary Report provides a strategic overview of current challenges, market opportunities, and shared insights from each Dialogues. It is designed to connect the key outcomes of discussions while mapping back to the Roadmap Challenges. Download Summary Report >
Past Participants: Around 18-25 participants were invited to attend each dialogue and represented the public and private sectors along with specific disciplines for each session. The moderator interacted with the participants via discussion and chat functions, and the participants provided their input to the post-dialogue reports.
Past Observers: Up to 500 observers were able to participate in the dialogues through the chat function and then verbally for the last 30 minutes. The draft of the post-dialogue reports were available for observers to provide comments.
Past Organizing Committee:
- Marc Suddlesn (NOAA, NCCOS)
- Greg Doucette (NOAA, NCCOS)
- Tiffany Vance (NOAA, IOOS)
- Laura Brenskelle (NOAA, NCCOS)
- Maggie Broadwater (NOAA, NCCOS, IOOS)
- Henrik Enevoldsen (GOOS IOC/UNESCO)
- Yun Sun (GOOS IOC)
- Hans VanSumeren (MTS)
- Caisey Hoffman (MTS)
- Zdenka Willis (MTS)
- Tim Moltmann (MTS)
AGU Workforce Development
December 8-13, 2024
OCEANS 24 Halifax
Oceanology International (Oi) 2024
March 12-14, 2024
Ocean Enterprise Initiative Dialogues: Action Pathways – Standards (March 12, 2024) – Session Info
Ocean Enterprise Initiative Dialogues: Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (March 12, 2024) – Session Info
The UK Ocean Enterprise Position Paper & Dialogues with Industry Roadmap (March 12, 2024) – Session Info
UN Ocean Decade 2024
April 9, 2024
Technologies in Sustainable Ocean Observations – from Low Cost to New Technology Development
Expert Panel:
- Patrick Gorringe [SMHI]
- Jess Sandoval [Ocean Discovery League]
- Patricia Lopéz-Garcia [National Oceanography Centre]
- Thanos Gkritzalis [Flanders Marine Institute]
- Peer Fietzek [Kongsberg Discovery]
- Emma Heslop [GOOS]
- MODERATOR: Brendal Townsend [MTS]
Dialogues with Industry: Inaugural Dialogues
Previous Engagements
Dialogue 1: Instrument Provision: Supply and Development of Sensors and Platforms (Sep 14, 2022) – Report | Recording
Dialogue 2: Multi-Sectoral Ocean Architecture: Integrating New Observing Networks and Business Models (Oct 13, 2022) – Report | Recording
Dialogue 3: User Driven Ocean Information Services: Core and Downstream Services (Dec 7, 2022) – Report | Recording
Dialogue 4: Looking Ahead: New Technology for the Ocean Decade (Jan 11, 2023) – Report | Recording
Past Participants: Around 25 participants were invited to attend each dialogue and represented the public and private sectors along with specific disciplines for each session. The moderator interacted with the participants via discussion and chat functions, and the participants provided their input to the post-dialogue reports.
Past Observers: Up to 500 observers were able to participate in the dialogues through the chat function and then verbally for the last 30 minutes. The draft of the post-dialogue reports were available for observers to provide comments.
Past Organizing Committee:
- Emma Heslop (GOOS IOC/UNESCO)
- Donna Kocak (MTS/L3Harris)
- Zdenka Willis (MTS)
- Brittany Croll (NOAA)
- Peer Fietzek (Kongsberg Maritime)
- Indi Hodgson-Johnson (Integrated Marine Observing System)
- Michelle Heupel (Integrated Marine Observing System)
- Ralph Raynor (London School of Economics)
- Boris Kelly-Gerreyn (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
- R Venkatesen (MTS India), Sebastien Boulay (SoFar)
