Program
The program below will be updated with any scheduling changes during the conference.
| 08.00 – 09:00 | Conference Registration |
| Room: Sirius Room | |
| 09.00 – 09:20 | Conference Introduction and Welcome to Country |
| 09:20 – 10:00 |
Keynote Speaker Katrina Maguire (DCCEEW) – via video link |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Morning Tea |
| Session 1 Sovereign Industry Chair: Chris Diassinas |
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| 10:30 – 10:50 | Generative AI and data assimilation for real-time ship route optimisation Shane Keating, countercurrent.ai |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Development of Ocean–Atmosphere Foundation Models Justin Freeman, Flowershift |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Ocean Data Collection and Sovereign Development Sam Ward, BlueOcean MTS |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Delivering coastal and ocean hazard information for the Australian Climate Service Claire Spillman, BoM |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Artificial Intelligence to improve operational forecasting, what is the key ingredient? Geoffrey Wake, Oceancomm |
| 12:10 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2 Partnerships and collaborations across disciplines Chair: Claire Grandison |
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| 13:00 – 13:20 | TBC |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Recent developments at ACCESS-NRI: from global to regional ocean modelling Dr Helen Macdonald, ACCESS-NRI |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Democratizing Coastal Ocean Observing Through Widespread, Low-Cost, High-Quality, Real-Time Ocean Data Collection Moninya Roughan, UNSW |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Establishing a coastal research infrastructure (CoastRI) for Australia Michelle Heupel, IMOS |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Interaction between Internal Tides and Waves: A Challenge in Predicting NWS Dynamics Ivica Janekovic, UWA |
| 14:40 – 15:10 | Afternoon Tea |
| Session 3 Data: needs and gaps Chair: Greg Williams |
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| 15:10 – 15:30 | From the Ocean to the Cloud – Now and the Future Mark Rehbein, IMOS |
| 15:30 – 15:50 | XBT real-time applications Ashley Parker, CSIRO Environment |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | New in Data Collection Michael Mitchell, Elysium EPL |
| 16:10 – 17:00 | Mini-panel on data sharing |
| 18:00 – 21:00 | Formal Dinner Room: Pleiades RoomSpeaker: National Marine Science Strategy Lyndon Llewellyn, The Australian Institute of Marine Science |
Thursday, 20 November 2025
