Iliad Symposium

Oceans 2025 Brest

Monday 16th June - Thursday 19th June, 2025, Brest, France

The Iliad Symposium and General Assembly is scheduled to take place from Monday, 16 June to Thursday, 19 June 2025, in Brest, France. This event will be held alongside the OCEANS 2025 Brest conference, offering a unique opportunity for collaboration, knowledge exchange, and networking within the marine and oceanographic research community. Participants can look forward to engaging presentations, discussions, and workshops focused on advancing ocean science and technology.

The OCEANS 2025 Brest conference is a premier event dedicated to the advancement of maritime technologies and sustainable ocean practices. Hosted at Le Quartz in Brest from 16 to 19 June 2025, it brings together global maritime professionals to explore innovative solutions for utilising and protecting the world’s oceans.

The conference offers an unparalleled platform for knowledge sharing and networking, with over 800 attendees expected to join industry experts, engineers, policymakers, and researchers. Attendees will have access to a wealth of expertise through the presentation of more than 400 technical papers covering cutting-edge research and practical applications in marine science and technology.

The Iliad Symposium, held in conjunction with OCEANS 2025, aims to foster collaboration among experts in ocean science, technology, and policy.

Participants can anticipate a comprehensive programme featuring:

Technical Sessions: Presentations on the latest research findings, technological advancements, and innovative methodologies in oceanography and marine engineering.
Workshops: Interactive sessions designed to address current challenges and develop actionable strategies for sustainable ocean utilisation and conservation.
Networking Opportunities: Events facilitating connections among professionals, academics, and industry leaders to encourage partnerships and collaborative initiatives.

More information will be available shortly.

Iliad and Blue Cloud 2026 Joint Workshop @ OCEAN 2025

16 June 2025 10 am - 6 pm CEST

Services and solutions for thematic and local digital twins of the ocean

Second Federation and Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability Joint Workshops

The workshop will include both one demonstration oriented solution track and one technical services track and joint sessions for both tracks.

Introducing a federated and interoperability focused approach, where research infrastructures and technological providers make their services available to the community via agreed data management principles (GEO, FAIR, CARE, TRUST) and Open Science technology, can add that extra contribution to the sharing of knowledge, ultimately stimulating uptake of services and the development of new tools and products. The services can include one or more steps of a digital twin pipeline from observations and sensors, to data management through data spaces and data lakes including support for semantic interoperability, data discovery and access, to digital twin engine and processing services with orchestration of workflows and support for virtual research and analysis environments with AI/Machine learning and predictions/what-if analysis to visualisation and interaction.

Blue-Cloud 2026 and Iliad cordially invite you to join the combined second Federation and second Digital Twins of the Ocean Interoperability (DTO-INTEROP) workshops to present your digital twins of the ocean related technologies, services and tools to the broad marine community gathered in Brest for OCEANS2025. We will welcome presentations of best practices and demonstrations of implementations of these services and tools into local, thematic and regional digital twins of the ocean. In particular we welcome presentations of approaches that will combine data and models from various domains such as biodiversity and socio-ecological ecosystems with metocean data, including federation and interoperability with EMODNet, CMEMS and EDITO, for various thematic and local digital twins of the ocean.

See links to the first Federation and first DTO-INTEROP workshops.

Abstract submission

Your abstract should be a maximum of 2 pages in PDF format, providing a brief description of your service, tool or product, how it can be used or is suited to be used in a digital twin of the ocean, including data, technologies and interoperability approaches, along with an outline of what you will present or demonstrate at the workshop.

Abstract deadline: 1st March 2025

Type of presentations: Demonstrations, oral presentations and posters

Workshop organizing committee

Sara Pittonet Gaiarin, Rita Meneses, Dick M.A Schaap (Blue-Cloud 2026) Bente Lilja Bye, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Garabet Kazanjian, Simon Keeble, Simon van Dam, Menelaos Chatziapostolidis (Iliad)

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