Happy Holidays from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster! Click above for a holiday message from our CEO, Kendra MacDonald, and check out some of our 2024 highlights below. 🌊
- Regional events in Iqaluit, Victoria, New Brunswick, and Ottawa
- Major conferences across the country focused roundtable discussions, national steering committee work, all member events, and most recently our Indigenous Ocean Business Forum
- Co-delivered an Ocean AI conference with our partner Forum Oceano in Portugal
- Established an MOU with NOAA
- Represented Canada at Hanover Messe as a part of the Global Innovation Cluster program
- More than 30 new, collaborative projects approved focused on AI and AI Exploration, Sustainable Seafood, Marine Transport, Climate, and Innovation Ecosystem Development
- More than $8 million dollars in project announcements from our first-ever International Call for Proposals with Innovate UK
- Conducted the first-ever national research around the perceptions and pathways for youth in ocean careers in partnership with Sherry Scully
- Launched our On the Job campaign with Shawn Kanungo, now on track to reach more than three-million youth this year alone
- Began a pilot training program in Ocean AI and Technology Foundations for ocean industry professionals
- Established two national steering committees for:
- The development of a strategy for the Blue Bioeconomy in Canada
- A strategic approach for Ocean AI in Canada