TIME

TITLE

OVERVIEW

Speakers / Panellists

8:00am

10:00am

Barista coffee cart & workshop registration open

8:00am

10:00am

Project meetings
See project meetings tab

10:00am

10:30am

MORNING TEA (30 mins)
Conference Foyer

10:30am

11:10am

Workshop Welcome
Acknowledgement of Country, welcome & overview

Presenters:

11:10am

12:30pm

Open Ocean Aquaculture (Part I)
Featuring seaweed production trials

Facilitator: Lindsey White, Blue Economy CRC / Auckland University of Technology

Presenters & Panellists:

12:30pm

1:30pm

LUNCH BREAK (60 mins)
Conference Foyer

1:30pm

3:00pm

Offshore Renewable Energy
Featuring the M4 wave energy converter

Facilitator: Jana Orszaghova, BE CRC / University of Western Australia

Presenters and Panellists:

3:00pm

3:05pm

Partner Showcase
Featuring BMT and Plant & Food Research

  • Seamus Miller and Nick Rozenauers, BMT
  • Peter Bell, Plant & Food Research

3:05pm

3:30pm

AFTERNOON TEA BREAK (25 mins)
Conference Foyer

3:30pm

5:20pm

Ocean Governance and Stewardship
Featuring Futures of Seafood and marine spatial planning studies 

Facilitator: Sarah Ulgade, Blue Economy CRC 

Presenters & Panellists:

5:20pm

5:30pm

Blue Economy Leaders of the Future
Introduction to the PhD poster session

Facilitator: Chris Carter, Blue Economy CRC

Presenters: 

5:30pm

7:30pm

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& PhD poster session in the
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