Speakers
Costas Kadis
European Commissioner for Fisheries and Oceans
Nicodemos Damianou
Deputy Minister of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy (DMRID)
Theodoulos Mesimeris
Acting Permanent Secretary of the Shipping Deputy Ministry
Zacharias Siokouros
CEO of the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI)
Diafontos G. Hadjimitsis
Managing Director of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence
Wiebke Pankauke
Deputy Head of Unit “Ocean, Seas and Waters”, Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Vicente Fernandez Lopez
Policy Officer at the Directory-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE)
Karina von Schuckmann
Senior Advisor, Ocean Science for Policy, at Mercator Ocean International
Sheila Heymans
Executive Director of the European Marine Board
Kate Larkin
Head of Secretariat, European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet)
Tatiana Der Avedissian
Head of Business development, World Ocean Initiative, The Economist Group
Susan Gourvenec
Deputy Director of the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI)
Siri Granum Carson
Professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology-NTNU Oceans
David Menier
President of Université Bretagne Sud (UBS)
Nicolas Pade
Executive Director of the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC)
Christodoulos Mettas
Department Coordinator of the Resilient Society of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence, Project Manager of the Marine Spatial Planning sector of the Cyprus University of Technology & Eratosthenes CoE
Renuka Badhe
Secretary General of EuroGOOS
Richard Sempéré
Director, OCEAN Sciences Institute, AMU
Christos Arvantides
CEO of LifeWatch ERIC, Spain
Lina Mtwana Nordlund
Associate Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden
Pantelis Katharios
Founder, Aquatic Biologicals and Researcher at Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece
José Luiz Moutinho
Consortia and Network Development Advisor, KAUST National Transformation Institute (NTI), Saudi Arabia
Peter Haugan
Chair of JPI Oceans
Martin Zimmer
Co-Leader of Research Program Area "Ecosystem Co-Design", Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research, ZMT Bremen
Florin Timofte
Scientific Director of NIMRD “Grigore Antipa”
Fernanda Ferreira
Sea at NOVA School of Law, Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) representative
Prabhat Jha
Group Managing Director and CEO of MSC Shipmanagement Ltd Cyprus
Jaap Gebraad
Secretary General, Waterborne Technology Platform
Nikolaos Milionis
Member of European Court of Auditors
Mathieu Poupon
Postdoctoral Researcher at CNRS–LOCEAN (IPSL, Sorbonne Université), Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP) representative
Nick Rich
Director Fleet Management at Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement Ltd
Antonella Autino
Programme Manager Partnership for Research & Innovation in the Mediterranean area (PRIMA)
Mario Sprovieri
Research Director, CNR ISMAR
Rym Benzina
President, La Saison Bleue
Anna Demetriou
Head of Marine Culture Heritage Centre
Giuseppe Provenzano
Project Manager for Research and Innovation at the Union for the Mediterranean
Fraser Sturt
Director of Southampton Marine & Maritime Institute (SMMI)
Liam Lacey
Director of Irish Maritime Development Office (IMDO), Marine Institute, Ireland
Philippos Patsalis
President of the National Board for Research and Innovation of Cyprus and CEO of Optima Genetics
Demetris Skourides
Chief Scientist for Research, Innovation & Technology of the Republic of Cyprus
Ioannis Tsakiris
European Investment Bank
Frank Schweikert
Founder and Director of German Ocean Foundation
Spyros Kouvelis
Member of the Board of the EU Mission ‘Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030’
Dilya Bakhtieva
Economist in the Maritime Innovation, Marine Knowledge and Investment unit of DG for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission
Ruben Maciel Correia Ribeiro Eiras
Secretary-General (CEO) Fórum Oceano
Yiannis Ieropoulos
Chair in Environmental Engineering, Head of Civil, Maritime and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Southampton
Francesco Camonita
European Policy & Project Officer at Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions (CPMR)
Darko Manakovski
Founder & CEO, MNK Global; Board Member, EU Mission “Ocean & Waters”; Executive Director, Funders Forum
Nil Angli
Space Solutions Maritime Lead, European Space Agency (ESA)
Stavros Stavrou
Cyprus Chamber of Commerce and Industry
André Almeida Santos
Partner at Indico Capital Partners
Christina Deligianni
CEO, Verimpact
Paolo Favali
Consultant Wsense srl
Konstantina Bereta
Director of Research Labs, Kpler
João Rito
Founding Partner at SEAentia
Rana Abu Alhaija
Managing Director at Cyprus Subsea Consulting and Services Representatives from Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute
Kyriacos Themistocleous
External Affairs & Business Development Director, ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence – EXCELSIOR Project
Michalis Mavrovouniotis
Coordinator of Big Earth Data Analytics
Raluca Ioana Man
Founder, RSEVEN | Strategic Advisor, Board Consultant & Startup Ecosystem Mentor