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PROGRAM 2026

The program will be continually updated with new information!

LECTURES

MARINE ROBOTICS - MAROB

Thomas Glotzbach
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM), Germany

Usage of Marine Robotics in Undergraduate Education at Universities of Applied Sciences

Cathrin Schröder
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM), Germany

Usage of Marine Robotics in Undergraduate Education at Universities of Applied Sciences

Klaus Pechan
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen (THM), Germany

Usage of Marine Robotics in Undergraduate Education at Universities of Applied Sciences

Kostas Alexis
NTNU, Norway

Unified Autonomy across Air, Land, and Sea

Eleni Kelasidi
NTNU, Norway

Toward Robust Autonomy in Field Robotics

Ignacio Carlucho
Heriot-Watt University and The National Robotarium, UK

Marine Robots for the Energy Transition

Itzik Klein
University of Haifa, Israel

Neural-Aided Strategies for Seamless AUV Navigation

MARINE OCEANOGRAPHY - MAROCEAN

Oskar Glowacki
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

When Glaciers Meet the Ocean: Sensing Ice Loss in Polar Fjords

MARINE BIOLOGY - MARBIO

Shyam Madhusudhana
UNIZG-FER, Croatia

Unmasking the deep: Foraging trends of beaked whales (Ziphiidae) across the Australian Northwest Shelf

MARINE TECHNOLOGY - MARTECH

Ioannis Kyriakides
Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute (CMMI), Cyprus

Integrated Marine Technologies for Sensing, Coordination and Situational Awareness

John Potter
NTNU, Norway

What Can You Do With 50,000 Hydrophones?

Patrizio Mariani
Technical University of Denmark

From Surface to Seafloor: Technologies for Ocean Observation and Mapping

MARINE ARCHEOLOGY- MARCH

Helen Farr
University of Southampton, UK

Multidisciplinary Approaches to Studying Seafaring in Deep Time

Mate Parica
University of Zadar, Croatia

Submerged Neolithic Sites in the Adriatic Sea: Potential for the Preservation of Wooden Boat Structures

BtS THURSDAY - SHIELD PROJECT

Jeff Neasham
Newcastle University, UK

Low power autonomous detection of thruster noise for subsea security

Thomas Corner
Newcastle University, UK

Low power autonomous detection of thruster noise for subsea security

Lutz Lampe
The University of British Columbia, Canada

Energy Harvesting from Underwater Acoustic Signals: An Exploration

Paolo Casari
University of Trento, MANTA Lab. Italy

The Digital Shadow of a Mobile Underwater Source Localization System

Ivan Lončar
UNIZG-FER, Croatia

Listening on an Energy Budget: A Detecting Floater Platform for Underwater Acoustic Surveillance

Norberto E. Rivera Gómez
UNIZG-FER, Croatia

Listening on an Energy Budget: A Detecting Floater Platform for Underwater Acoustic Surveillance

Marijan Vonić
UNIZG-FER, Croatia

Listening on an Energy Budget: A Detecting Floater Platform for Underwater Acoustic Surveillance

MARINE POLICY & PRACTICE

Massimo Caccia
National Research Council of Italy (CNR-INM), Italy

From Vision to Implementation: Structuring the EOREA CREP on Marine Robotics & New Sensors

Elena Paifelman
National Research Council of Italy (CNR-INM), Italy

From Vision to Implementation: Structuring the EOREA CREP on Marine Robotics & New Sensors

Xenia I. Loizidou
AKTI Project and Research Centre

Bridging Innovation, Policy, and Market Uptake in Blue Technology and Marine Robotics: Lecture and Interactive Gaps and Needs Process

TUTORIALS

IN2 d.o.o.

Designing Cross-Border Information Systems: The ECDB Case Study

Brigite Švec

University of Limerick (CRIS)

Mapping Marine Plastics from Above

Tom Dorian

University of Limerick (CRIS)

Practical UAV Multispectral Mapping: From Flight Planning to Habitat Classification

Marco Moreno

DEMOS

NUMAR (THM)

From Vessel Design to Autonomous Recovery: Maritime Robotics with NUMAR

Thomas Glotzbach, Cathrin Schröder and Dirk Meyer

Centre of Excellence MARBLE

Smart Mussel Farm

Univerity of Padova and SubSeaPulse SRL

Exploring Underwater Acoustic Communication: Techniques, Standards, and Operational Use Cases

Filippo Campagnaro (Assistant Professor), Davide Costa (PhD Student), Diego Spinosa (PhD Student), Vincenzo Cimino (PhD Student), Jacopo Lazzarin (PhD Student), Filippo Donegà (Engineer), Nicolas Ferraresso (Master Student), Pietro Trabuio (Master Student), Federico Marin (Master Student)

RUĐER BOŠKOVIĆ INSTITUTE

Automated fish counting & species recognition with ai video analysis

Neven Cukrov, Antonia Jelena Lučev, Marin Lovrić

UNIVERSITY OF MONTENEGRO

ECHO-GATE: A Multi-Protocol Gateway for Reliable Underwater-to-Terrestrial Connectivity

Aleksa Albijanić and Slavica Tomović

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Puffin: An Affordable µAUV for Environmental Monitoring

Kaveh Najafian

UNIZG-FER

Micro-ROV MIMISK

Fausto Ferreira and Waseem Akram

COMPANIES PROGRAM

dive-IT 

Željko Pavlaković

SeaCras

Robert Šulc and Josip Karadža

IQUA Robotics

Natàlia Hurtós Vilarnau

MEPECO

Roberto Balistrieri and Paolo Cattaneo

Hydrocord

Ivan Lončar and Marijan Vonić

Social program

Registration
Sunday, 18.10.

16:30 – 18:00

Welcome drink
Sunday, 18.10.

18:00 – 19:30

IEEE OES PARTY
Monday, 19.10.

From 20:30

(Inter)national night
Tuesday, 20.10.

From 20:30

Pub quiz
Thursday, 22.10.

From 21:30

Closing ceremony
Friday, 23.10.

19:30-20:00

Gala dinner
Friday, 23.10.

20:00-21:00

Karaoke party
Friday, 23.10.

From 21:00

Field trip
Saturday, 24.10.

08:30-17:30

Breaking the Surface