Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, are organising Oceans 2022 Conference and Exposition, the bi-annual event for Global Marine Researchers, technologists and engineers, students, and policymakers, till 24 February.
This conference is being organised in India for the first time and is being coordinated by the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras.
According to a press release, they are organising the event on behalf of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Ocean Engineering Society (IEEE OES) and Marine Technology Society (MTS). The conference is being held in hybrid mode.
This event is for global maritime professionals to learn, innovate, and lead in the protection and utilisation of the worldās largest natural resource ā Oceans.
Congratulating NIOT and IIT Madras for getting this prestigious conference to India, Madhu Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, Cochin Shipyard Ltd, told the Inaugural Session, ‘It is also heartening to note that this Conference has been dovetailed into āUN Decade of Ocean events.ā We will discuss this over the next three days. The Key Theme of āInspire-Innovate-Sustainā is also important for todaysā Generation, which is extremely connected to the environment and speaks clearly about sustainability.’
Prof V Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras, said, ‘Oceans 2022 is an Institute by itself, touching on a broad array for areas. It is strongly inter-disciplinary in nature and that has also been a core focus for IIT Madras in the past decade. IIT Madras is very committed to development of Ocean Technology. We are setting up a large ocean centre at our Satellite campus – Discovery – in Thaiyur (near Chennai).’