Distinguished Conference Line-Up At Oi0825/02/2008 |
| One of the global energy industry's most respected leaders is to deliver the Distinguished Lecture at the marine science and ocean technology community's largest event, Oceanology International 2008 (Oi08), which runs from 11-13 March at London's ExCeL. Lord Browne of Madingley FRS FREng, President of The Royal Academy of Engineering and the former group Chief Executive Officer of BP plc, will deliver his presentation at the conference being held under the overall mantle of 'Technology, Sustainability and the Oceans'. |
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Keynote speakers on Day 1 at Oi08 will include Prof Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director at the European Environment Agency; Capt. Dana Goward, Acting Director for Transition; Assistant Comdt for Policy & Planning, and Director, Maritime Domain Awareness Program Integration at the US Coast Guard; Dr Leo Roodhart, Vice President, GameChanger Group, Shell Technology Futures; Prof Robert Watson, the UK government's Departmental Chief Scientist, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra); and John Westwood, Managing Director, Douglas-Westwood Limited. All set the scene for the focused technical and scientific sessions that follow during the three days of the event.
Oi08, with its exhibition featuring over 500 suppliers from more than 20 different countries, is organised by Reed Exhibitions, with the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), and the Society for Underwater Technology (SUT) taking responsibility for the agenda-setting conference.
Oi08 will see four special awards made at the show - the 'Oi Lifetime Achievement Award', the 'Alan Greig Memorial Prize', the 'Bob Barton Memorial Award'; and the 'AMSI Business Person of the Year 2008 Award'.
The Lifetime Achievement award is a prize awarded to an individual selected by a panel of international experts honouring the lifetime achievements of someone acknowledged as an international expert in the field of oceanology and marine science. The other awards are respectively for an outstanding contribution to commercial operational oceanography; young specialist journalist, and Business Person of the Year.
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