Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit

UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit

Draft Agenda

(9:00-9:05) Special opening message: UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay

Opening

(9:05-9:10) Vladimir Ryabinin (Executive Secretary of IOC-UNESCO): Ocean Decade, Ocean Literacy

(9:10-9:15) Justin Wordland, moderator (Time Magazine journalist)

(9:15-9:25)  Keynote by Peter Thomson(UN Special Envoy for the Ocean): Why we need ocean action, and the role of ocean literacy  

(9:25-9:28) Video“The Earth has One big Ocean with many features”

(9:28-9:30) Panel 1:  Our ocean connects us …

• Ricardo Serrão Santos, Minister of the Sea of Portugal
• Thomas Remengesau Jr., President of Palau
• Chip Cunliffe, Head of Sustainability, AXA
• Helen Ågren, Ambassador for the Ocean, Sweden
• Tyler-Rae Chung, Member of the Early Career Ocean Professionals Group for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development

9:55-10:10 Debate with moderators

Debate – 10:10-10:20

10:20-10:25 Megan Rowling, moderator (Thomson Reuters journalist)

Panel 2: Our Ocean engages us…

• Margaret Leinen, Scripps Institute
• Kerstin Forsberg, Planeta Oceano
• Nina Jensen, REVOcean
• Jyotika Virmani, Schmidt Ocean Institute
• Markus Reymann, Alligator Head Foundation and TBA21 Academy
• Sylvia Spalding, IPMEN and NMEA

10:50-11:00 – questions with moderator

Debate with questions from the audience 11:10-11:15

Lisa Friedman, moderator (New York Time journalist) – 11:15-11:20

Video by Anne de Carbuccia, One Planet, One Future

Panel 3: Our Ocean inspires us

    Can Büyükberbere, Visual Artist
    John Canning, Interactive and MR Producer
    Görkem Hayta, Cultural Diplomacy Expert
    Lorenzo Bertelli, Head of Corporate Social Responsibility of Prada S.p.A.
    Alexia Barrier, International Monohull Open Class Association (IMOCA)

11:50-12:00 debate with moderator

Debate with audience – 12:00-12:10

12:10-12:15 Video message– EC Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius, The EU Ocean Literacy Initiative

12:15-12:20 Kenza Khallafi, Mohammed VI Foundation for Environmental Protection, a proposal for an Ocean Literacy Network in Africa

12:20-12:25 The way forward – OL as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development and looking forward to the 10 years we have to work together – Julian Barbière (IOC-UNESCO)

12:25-12:28 Teaser Demo of Panel 3 (featuring Tame Impala’s One More Year)

Closing remarks