Giorno: 17novembre

The summit’s premier evening, in the historic seat of Genoa’s government.

Networking drinks in the exhibition area, open to all delegates.

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.

Maritime transport as the backbone of global trade: economic resilience, the energy transition, geopolitics, and the future of liner shipping, opened by a keynote from the head of the global trade body.

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

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.

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. A keynote opens the block and a panel of research institutes follows; the block also introduces the afternoon session hosted by the MSC Foundation, Regeneration of the Mediterranean Sea (panel composition being finalized).

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.

Entrepreneurship, leadership, and the forces shaping global trade and the maritime industry, seen through the journey of one of the world’s leading transportation and logistics groups.