PROGRAM 2024
Program Outline 2024
BLUE WATER SUMMIT 2024 - LEADERSHIP by AMBASSADORS AND GUARDIANS OF THE OCEANS
9:00 am: Opening Address followed by Welcome to Country (native title)
Introduction: Greg Reitman, Blue Water Institute
Welcome to Country / Indigenous Blessing (TBA)
9:30 am: Keynote
Secretary-General/Secretaria General
POLE TO POLE – our oceans
10:00 am Panel organizer – TBA
Large-scale ocean circulation and its influence on regional & global climate
OCEAN RESTORATION PROGRAMS
11:00 am Panel Organiser (Invited) – Jacquie Riddell, CEO Take 3 for the Sea
Ocean health is our Health: Foreshore; seagrass beds and Reef Restoration Projects – the accelerating efforts to restore natural habitats.
Take 3 is working to create a world where the over-use and mismanagement of plastics is not tolerated
12:00 pm Ocean Ambassador – Stories from an Individual for whom the ocean is life
Paul Watson
Captain Paul Watson Foundation
Defending sea life and preventing illegal operations across the Ocean.
12:30 pm Lunch break
PLANET VS PLASTIC
01:30 Panel Organiser – ANZPAC Plastics Pact Program at Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) OR CSIRO
Addressing the GPGP- great pacific garbage patch and other waste dumps;
Plastic impact in the food web and the impact to humans
YOUTH PROGRAMS
02:30 pm Panel Organiser – Mark Haver North America Regional Representative Global Policy Advisor Sustainable Ocean Alliance (SOA)
Youth Advisory Council (Members) -YPAC is a group of Young Ocean Leaders who work together on a mandate to ensure global ocean policy initiatives reflect youth perspectives from around the world.
03:30 pm Ocean Ambassador – Stories from an Individual for whom the ocean is a way of life
Sarah Ward, Dalian Marine University
Underwater and maritime cultural heritage
Sarah WARD has been recognized by UNESCO as one of Asia Pacific’s most distinguished and experienced experts in the field of Underwater Cultural Heritage
MUSIC CLOSING CEREMONY
04:30 pm
Andrew Stevenson, Director of “Where the Whales Sing”
Film maker and Humpback whale authority
MOVIE NIGHT
06:00 pm
The Great Ocean
Inside Green Peace
Deep Rising
BLUE WATER SUMMIT AUSTRALIA 2024 – Day 2
09:00 am Introduction to day 2
Introduction: William Ehmcke, Blue Water Institute Australia
09:15 am Introduction: Ocean Ambassador, as 10 minute flim-clip
Peter Thomson, UN General Assembly President at United Nations
09:30 am Keynote
Lisa Blair – Sails the World, who in 2017 became the first woman to sail solo around Antarctica. Author Facing Fear an inspiring true story.
INDIGENOUS LAND & SEA
10:00 am Panel Organiser (Invited) – Ian Hamm, Chairperson, Indigenous Land & Sea Corp
How have indigenous groups rare acquiring and managing rights and interests in land, salt water and fresh-water country, in order to achieve a sustainable vision.
Thinking about the future of food
11:00 am Panel Organiser (Invited) – Chris Carter, Professor University of Tasmania Program Leader for Seafood and Marine Products | Blue Economy CRC , IMAS
Experts present on sustainable food souvces to provide a range of ideas about the future of food from international, national and local perspectives.
GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES AND ACTION PLANS for AUSTRALIA
12:00 pm Panel Organiser (TBS) – Fed Govt Dept of Climate Change, Energy & Environment & Water
Covering Australian sustainable ocean plans and associated State initiatives
01:00 pm Lunch break
MUSICIANS FOR THE OCEAN
02:00 pm Panel organizer (Invited) – Rhoda Roberts AO Creative Director National Institute of Dramatic Art
Discussing Indigenous song of the seas, including Johathan Swartz – “The Sea” ;
And bands Cruel Sea & Coloured Stones
The Power of Media for the Oceans
03:00 pm
Greg Reitman, Filmmaker, and Founder & CEO, Blue Water Institute and Cyrill Gutsch, Founder and CEO, Parley for the Oceans
How media is impacting and supporting the Voice of the Oceans
BLUE WATER AWARDS - KING OF THE OCEANS
04:00 pm
Chris Hemsworth Blue Water honors Chris Hemsworth – King of the Oceans
CLOSE
04:30 pm Summit Closing Remarks
