As part of the 2024 International Conference on Ocean Energy, the below side events and workshops are on offer to complement the program. Please register your interest to attend.
Career Networking Lunch:
Career Networking Lunch:
Bridging Futures in Ocean Energy
This event is specifically designed to connect and empower early-stage researchers, PhD students, and young professionals in the exciting and rapidly evolving field of ocean energy. Enjoy a delicious, complimentary lunch generously provided by our event sponsor Aurora Offshore Engineering.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to propel your career in ocean energy forward. Bring your enthusiasm, curiosity, and prepare for a lunch filled with learning, networking, and inspiration. We look forward to seeing you there and supporting you on your professional journey!
Technical Workshop:
Technical Workshop:
IECRE Certification of Marine Energy Converters through IEC Standards
This workshop will commence with an overview of IEC Standards and the IECRE conformity assessment system, as applicable to marine energy. The discussion will then gradually shift to focus on the requirements for an IECRE certification and the qualification activities that must be completed for a marine energy converter to receive a set of Feasibility and Conformity Statements as part of a certification process. The workshop will conclude with an outline of the various assessment activities that form part of the IECRE Prototype certification process.
Workshop:
Workshop:
Knowledge Gaps: Off-grid and Micro-grid Uses of Marine Energy
This workshop will share progress on research that supports off-grid and micro-grid uses of marine energy for remote communities and power at sea. We will seek to understand international industry’s current projects and interests as well as how off-grid applications are being developed internationally.
The session will include:
Breakout groups will include:
Discussion Session:
Discussion Session:
The role of Coordinated Strategic Environmental Research and Monitoring in De-risking the Consenting Process
Navigating uncertainty around the environmental impacts of marine renewable energy (MRE) projects remains pivotal for their sustainable development in Oceania. This uncertainty remains one of the key barriers to the sustainable development of the sector, particularly as the industry scales from demonstration projects and small arrays to larger arrays and explores a wider range of market applications.
Emulating models in Oceania holds promise in identifying sector-specific priorities and fostering a cohesive approach towards uncertainty reduction and risk mitigation. An overview of how these programmes have been setup and implemented in other jurisdictions, along with key lessons learnt and how a similar approach could be adopted in Oceania will be discussed in this informal interactive session.
12:40pm – Short introduction to the discussion topic
12:45pm – Facilitated group discussions over lunch
1:20pm – Close and next steps
Workshop:
Workshop:
Environmental Effects for Permitting Off-grid Marine Energy Applications
Most research and monitoring for marine energy devices has sought to understand effects that will drive permitting (consenting) and licensing decisions for large (grid-scale) machines. However, we know that many near term and likely long term uses of marine energy will be to power remote coastal and island communities, and for power at sea for offshore aquaculture, ocean observations and navigation markers, and other uses.
Please join Ocean Energy Systems – Environmental and Aquatera to explore what level of environmental effects might be expected from smaller scale (off-grid) wave, tidal, and other marine energy devices, and to determine what additional information is needed to streamline permitting for these devices.
We will explore these issues through 4 cases that include:
Energising Cross-Industry Networks:
Energising Cross-Industry Networks:
Activating Strategic Collaborations and Funding Pathways for Ocean (wave/tidal) Energy Solutions
Join Deloitte for a final networking opportunity at the wrap of ICOE 2024.
Are you playing a role to activate new market segments for innovative renewable energy or nature-based solutions? Are you in the Blue Economy and challenged by decarbonisation of the hard-to-abate sector?
We have local active renewable energy solutions industry participants lined up to join us, representing the value chains with representatives across the Blue Economy, project development and investment. We are keen to have you attend if you are high net-worth investors & philanthropists, renewable energy including microgrid developers, financing groups, energy industry R&D teams, impact investors, aquaculture owner/operators, engineering design and EPCM advisors, : Remote Community Microgrid Developers, Telecoms and Logistics companies.
Join us for networking activities, pitch sharing and brainstorming collaborations with those in the room. Participants are to prepare a “60 second pitch” in how they can contribute to building large-scale adoption of ocean energy in the most ambitious scenarios for Ocean Energy!
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