Innovating to green the Blue Economy.
📅 Tuesday, 21st October 2025 📌 Hyatt Regency Sydney, Australia
About the Conference
MERC’s Discover Maritime Innovations conference brings the climate change challenges of the maritime sector to businesses, innovators, students, and academics in order to inspire research and development into new products and solutions that will make it easier to decarbonise maritime operations and promote resiliency.
Held conveniently in Sydney, one of the world’s greatest natural harbours, Discover Maritime Innovations will tap into the many marine businesses, innovation ecosystems, and universities from the Greater Sydney, Hunter, and Illawarra regions.
Key Features
The conference will include an exciting full day program, filled with useful content around the maritime sector and innovations. Two one-hour sessions will split into streams across the many maritime sub-sectors, with panels of experts from each sub-sector talking about the key decarbonisation and climate change adaptation challenges and opportunities in that sub-sector. Innovation sessions will introduce delegates to existing solutions and innovators.
Sponsors
TBC
About MERC
MERC is a regional innovation cluster uniting leading organisations in the maritime, manufacturing, energy, finance, government, and education sectors to drive emissions reduction in the Australian maritime industry for a greener, more sustainable future.
📅 Tuesday, 21 October 2025
📌 Hyatt Regency Sydney, Australia
Industries Represented
The conference includes panels covering the following maritime sub-sectors:
Marine Tourism
Water-based Transport
Ports & Supporting Services
Offshore Wind & Marine Construction
Defence (Navy/Army)
Commercial Fishing & Aquaculture
Marinas & Boating Infrastructure
Ship/Boat Building & Repair