Four Days of Dialogue and Co-Creation
Over four days, participants will move from global framing to practical pathways, exploring themes that span ethics, transdisciplinarity, observation, deep-sea exploration, biodiversity, and policy innovation.
The Symposium will host around one hundred invited participants (scientists, policymakers, innovators, and early-career researchers) selected to ensure diversity across disciplines, generations, and regions. Plenary keynotes, interactive discussions, and facilitated working sessions will provide the structure for collective reflection and action.
Breakout Working Groups
At the heart of the Symposium, five interdisciplinary Breakout Working Groups will run throughout the event to identify grand challenges, transformative methods, and concrete priorities for action. Each group, co-led by international experts, will guide participants through dynamic sessions that move from individual ideas to shared recommendations.
The process is designed to be creative and inclusive: participants will collectively define what the key challenges are, how they can be addressed through innovative tools and ethical frameworks, and where action and collaboration should focus in the coming decade. Outputs from these discussions will feed directly into the White Paper on Transformative Ocean Science for the Ocean Pact.