Turquois X Summit: Accelerating Blue-Green Innovation
Date: 26–28 March 2025
Venue: MiHub, Av. Olof Palme, 35500 Arrecife
Las Palmas, Lanzarote, Spain
About Turquois X
Accelerating Blue-Green Innovation:
Urgent action is required to conserve the ocean’s ecosystems and to develop sustainable ocean use. How can we innovate for a sustainable blue-green economy? The Turquois X Summit will host experts, innovators, and change-makers from ocean science, marine conservation, start-ups, industry, government, and investment communities to explore how we can accelerate sustainable ocean innovation. Turquois X will showcase sustainable ocean projects and applications being developed in the Canary Islands, Macaronesia, and internationally. It will provide a forum to develop future collaboration and transformation projects for a blue-green economy in the region in a focused and interactive format.
Key topics:
- Enabling ocean research, observation and conservation
- Blue-green economy and sustainable development
- Innovating sustainable ocean tourism
- Decarbonising maritime transport, ports and marinas
- Integrating marine renewables and sustainable infrastructure
- Scaling sustainable multi-platform offshore utilities
- Advancing smart and sustainable marine aquaculture and biotechnology
- Catalyzing blue-green ventures
- Marine robotics and AI
Programme
A detailed programme find here.
Speakers
More information about the speakers find here.
Registration
If you are interested in participating, please register here: https://eveeno.com/turquoisxsummit
Background
Turquois X is an initiative to establish an innovation accelerator to advance sustainable ocean applications and technologies based in Lanzarote, Canary Islands. Working with ocean science, marine conservation, industry and start-ups the focus is on connecting ocean research to applied marine innovation and to host a living lab for a sustainable blue-green economy. Turquois X collaborates with a range of local and international partners and with PLOCAN, the Canary Island Oceanic Platform and the Marina Innova Hub in Lanzarote to grow an innovation ecosystem for sustainable ocean use and smart green transformation. The initiative is kindly supported by the Research Institute For Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ.
Lanzarote
The island of Lanzarote has a unique tradition of pursuing social and environmental sustainability, embodied by visionary artist and early ecologist, César Manrique. As a UNESCO biosphere reserve, it is actively developing innovation strategies for sustainable development and ocean use.
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands, an autonomous region of Spain, are a hub for tourism, shipping and the marine economy, as well as for ocean research and conservation. PLOCAN on Gran Canaria is an important platform for marine research and maritime innovation in the Atlantic. The islands host exceptional cluster of research and development institutions in the area of marine sciences, renewable energy, desalination, astrophysics and space observation. The Canary Islands are a top destination for global digital nomads and attract a range of start-ups.
Macaronesia
Macaronesia, comprising the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands and Cabo Verde, is a unique ocean region at the strategic interface of Europe, Africa and the Atlantic. The region, including also the coastal areas of Morrocco, Mauretania and Senegal, features a major tropical ocean upwelling, influencing global ocean circulation and climate, is rich in biodiversity and an important fishery. The GEOMAR Ocean Science Center on Mindelo is an important hub for ocean research for the region. Macaronesia has a unique opportunity to innovate sustainable solutions to address challenges of climate change, tourism, migration, energy transition, security and resilience.