Agenda

Thursday, 5 October 2017, Plenary Conference Room

7:30 – 9:00 DELEGATION ARRIVALS / REGISTRATION Welcome coffee

9:00 – 9:30 OUR OCEAN - AN OCEAN FOR LIFE, WELCOME & OPENING REMARKS (video)

Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission (speech)
Karmenu Vella, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (speech)
His Excellency Dr. Joseph Muscat, Prime Minister of the Republic of Malta
Video message from His Excellency António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations

09:30 – 09:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS (video)

His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales
His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco

09:45 – 10:05 SCENE SETTER PANEL: EXPLORING AND SUSTAINING AN OCEAN FOR LIFE (video)

Sylvia Earle, Mission Blue
Emily Penn, eXXpedition (speech)

10:05 – 10:35 BREAK

10:10 – 10:15 FAMILY PHOTO FOR HEADS OF DELEGATION

10:35 – 10:45 SPECIAL ADDRESS

Adrian Grenier, Actor, Founder of the Lonely Whale Foundation (video)

10:45 – 12:15 PANEL SESSION: MARINE POLLUTION and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Afroz Shah, Lawyer, Environmental Organiser

Moderator: Ayana Johnson, Founder of Ocean Collectiv, Adjunct Professor at New York University (speech)

Isabella Lövin, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for International Development Cooperation, Kingdom of Sweden (speech)
Barbara Hendricks, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Federal Republic of Germany (speech)
Shuxian Sun, Deputy Minister, State Oceanic Administration of China (speech)
Virginie Helias, Vice President of Sustainability, Procter and Gamble (speech)
Nicky Davies, Programme Director, The Plastic Solution Fund (speech)

12:15 – 13:30 BUFFET / LUNCHEON

13:30 – 13:45 Ellen McArthur Foundation Innovation Prize (video)

13:45 – 15:15 PANEL SESSION: MARINE PROTECTION and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Dr. Enric Sala, Marine Ecologist and Explorer, National Geographic (speech)

Moderator: His Excellency Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Chile

His Excellency Henry Puna, Prime Minister, Cook Islands
Dominic LeBlanc, Minister for Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, Canada (speech)
Dalton Tagelagi, Minister for Natural Resources, Niue
Jeremy Darroch, Chief Executive Officer, Sky Corporate (speech)
Wietse van der Werf, Chief Executive Officer, Sea Ranger Service (speech)

15:15 – 15:45 BREAK

15:45 – 17:15 PANEL SESSION: MARITIME SECURITY and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Sir James Burnell-Nugent, Senior Fellow, Oceans Beyond Piracy (speech)

Moderator: His Excellency Robert Dussey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Togolese Republic

His Excellency Danny Faure, President, Republic of Seychelles
Susi Pudjiastuti, Minister of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Republic of Indonesia
Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (speech)
François Lombard, Senior Vice President Head of Intelligence Business, Airbus Defence and Space

18:00 SOCIAL EVENT

Friday, 6 October 2017, Plenary Conference Room

7:30 - 09:00 DELEGATION ARRIVALS / NETWORKING

Welcome coffee

09:00 - 9:05 WELCOME by Karmenu Vella, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (video) (speech)

9:05 - 09:15 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco (video)

09:15 - 10:45 PANEL SESSION: BUILDING THE SUSTAINABLE BLUE ECONOMY OF TOMORROW and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Hans Bruyninckx, Executive Director of the European Environment Agency

Moderator: Pascal Lamy, Former Member of the European Commission, Former Director General of the WTO, Former Global Ocean Commissioner and President Emeritus of the Jacques Delors Institute

Neven Mimica, Member of the European Commission, responsible for International Cooperation and Development
Laura Tuck, Vice President for Sustainable Development, World Bank (speech)
Jonathan Taylor, Vice President, European Investment Bank (speech)
Adam Goldstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Caribbean Cruises
Julien Marchal, Vice-President, Naval Energies
Maria Damanaki, Global Managing Director for Oceans, The Nature Conservancy

10:45 - 12:15 PANEL SESSION: SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Opening address: Steven Adolf, Author and Researcher (speech)

Scenesetter: Dr. Sloans Kalumba Chimatiro, Focal Country Director, WorldFish (speech)

Moderator: Steve Trent, Executive Director, Environmental Justice Foundation (speech)

Premdut Koonjoo, Minister of Ocean Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping, Republic of Mauritius (speech)
Ana Paula Vitorino, Minister of the Sea, Portuguese Republic
José Graziano da Silva, Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization
Guy Ryder, Director-General, International Labour Organization
Arthur Min, Vice President, Vulcan
Lasse Gustavsson, Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Oceana Europe (speech)

12:15 - 13:35 BUFFET / LUNCHEON

13:35 - 13:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan (video) (speech)

13:45 - 15:15 PANEL SESSION: CLIMATE-RELATED IMPACTS ON THE OCEAN and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, Director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland (speech)

Moderator: José María Figueres, Former President of Costa Rica, former Co-Chair of the Global Ocean Commission, co-founder of Ocean Unite and President of the Carbon War Room

Thorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir, Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture, Iceland
Simon Stiell, Minister of Blue Economy and Education, Grenada
John Frank, Vice President of Government Affairs, Microsoft (speech)
José Soares dos Santos, Chairman, Oceano Azul Foundation
David Dingle, Chairman, Carnival UK (speech)

15:15 - 15:40 BREAK

15:20 - 15:25 FAMILY PHOTO FOR HEADS OF DELEGATION

15:40 - 15:45 Daniela Fernandez, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Oceans Alliance: Report from the Youth Event (video)

15:45 - 17:15 OUR OCEAN LEADERSHIP and ANNOUNCEMENTS (video)

Scenesetter: Kristina Maria Gjerde, Senior High Seas Advisor to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Global Marine and Polar Programme (speech)

Moderator: His Excellency John Kerry, Visiting Distinguished Statesman, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former US Secretary of State, United States of America (speech)

His Excellency Tommy Remengesau, President, Republic of Palau
Her Excellency Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Ghana (speech)
Vidar Helgesen, Minister of Climate and the Environment, Kingdom of Norway (speech)
Arif Havas Oegroseno, Deputy Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Republic of Indonesia (speech)
Katuska Drouet, Minister for Aquaculture and Fisheries, Republic of Ecuador (speech)

Message from His Holiness Pope Francis

17:15 - 17:25 CLOSING KEYNOTE SPEECH

Frans Timmermans, First Vice President of the European Commission (video) (speech)

17:25 - 17:30 CLOSING REMARKS

Karmenu Vella, Member of the European Commission, responsible for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (video) (speech)