PROGRAMME
5 November 2026
The Terminal Hub
9:00
Opening
Felipe Carrasco, Regional Secretary for Industry and Consumer Affairs of the Generalitat Valenciana.
Alberto Conejero, Vice-Rector for Students and Entrepreneurship at the UPV.
Francesc Pons, Director of The Terminal Hub.
Norberto Martínez, Director of Smart Business Lab.
9:30
Keynote speech
Oliver Ashford, researcher at the World Resources Institute – Ocean Panel and PhD from the University of Oxford.
10:30
Talk: Port of Valencia
11:00
Coffee Break
11:30
Round table: Smart Ports
Moderator: Alfredo Alcayde, lecturer at the Higher School of Engineering of the University of Almería and principal investigator of the Computing, Optimisation and Sensing in Engineering and Energy group.
In the port and maritime field, he researches the decarbonisation of maritime transport, green hydrogen, floating photovoltaics and the selection of renewable energy sites in ports and shipyards.
- Port electrification
- Data and Artificial Intelligence
- Energy, marine fuels and decarbonisation
- Logistics and supply chain
- Circular economy
12:30
Round table: Sustainable Territories and Oceans
Moderator: Mabel Sáez, coordinator of the International Campus of Excellence in Marine Science (CEIMAR) and researcher in aquaculture and blue biotechnology.
- Sustainable tourism
- Coastal ecosystem regeneration
- Marine biotechnology
- Fishing and aquaculture
- River channel management
13:30
Official closing
Antonio García Celda, Director General of the European Green Capital Office of Valencia City Council.
13:45
Networking Cocktail
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