Take a look at our confirmed speakers:

Kęstutis Sadauskas
Deputy Director-General European Commission – Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Armin Reinartz
Head of Directorate-General “European and International Cooperation in Education and Research”,  German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

Paloma Aba Garrote 
Director, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency

Philip Ackermann
Plastic Pirates – Go Europe! Coordinator, DLR Project Management Agency, Germany

Margaret Gold
Coordinator of the Citizen Science Lab at Leiden University

Ana Catarino
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium

Gudrun Obersteiner
Institute of Waste Management and Circularity (ABF-BOKU), Austria

John Hanus
Policy Officer, European Commission – Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Janyl Moldalieva 
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Brussels Office

Fedra Francocci
National Research Council (CNR), Italy

Elisabetta Balzi
Head of Unit Ocean, Seas and Waters, European Commission – Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Ágota Dávid
Science and Technology Attaché – Permanent Representation of Hungary to the EU ERA Forum, Hungary

Petra Siegele
Head of Public Science, OeAD Austrian Agency for Education and Internationalisation

Sandra Soares 
Plastic Pirates Coordinator, Ciência Viva, Portugal

John Bell (video message)
Director Healthy Planet, European Commission – Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

Evelyn Coral Paredes
Policy Officer, European Commission, Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

Richard Sempéré
Director of Aix-Marseille University 'Ocean Sciences Institute'