Europe’s seas, ports, and maritime industries are central to its competitiveness, security, and sustainable growth: how a stronger blue economy can support investment, industrial capacity, connectivity, and opportunity across the continent, and the political frame for the three days of the summit.

A one-on-one conversation with a leading figure of the global maritime industry on entrepreneurship, leadership and the forces shaping global trade.

Shore power as a lever for cleaner ports and port cities: technology, infrastructure, regulation, and business models for onshore power supply.

The Mediterranean as a crossroads of trade, energy, tourism, and connectivity, and how governments can work together to keep it secure, sustainable, and open for growth.

Protecting the Mediterranean requires science, policy, finance, and industry to move together: the sea-climate nexus, marine protected areas and ecosystem restoration, action on pollution, and the investment and innovation needed for a regenerative blue economy in the basin.

The blue economy as one integrated system of four verticals (infrastructure and assets; trade and freight; mobility and tourism; energy and data), the five disruptions reshaping it (AI and automation; execution bottlenecks; scarcity of human capital; the fuel transition; geopolitics and resilience), the priorities of each vertical, and the two enablers that unlock them, investment and coordination, with the Mediterranean as the lens.

Restoring and regenerating the Mediterranean: marine protected areas, biodiversity, and partnerships between industry, science, and civil society.

Maritime transport as the backbone of global trade: economic resilience, the energy transition, geopolitics, and the future of liner shipping.

Energy as the foundation of the blue economy: which policies and energy sources will power shipping, ports, and coastal industries through the transition, and the impact of current geopolitical tensions and new regulations on energy trade.