Today details of the event have been presented, for which nearly 900 attendees have already registered, which will bring together great experts and representative figures from the sector in Cádiz for three days.
Caja Rural, Fundación Cajasol, Petaca Chico, Telefónica, Puertos del Estado, Junta de Andalucía and Cádiz City Council collaborate in Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024
The granddaughter of the legendary Jacques Cousteau, who will open the meeting after the institutional inauguration, is a filmmaker, environmental activist and explorer and does great work in protecting the oceans
Ferrán Adriá will contribute his innovative perspective and creativity, in addition to his experience in the world of gastronomy linked to the Blue Economy
The delegate of the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, the rector of the University of Cádiz and president of the CEI·Mar Foundation, Casimiro Mantell, accompanied by the mayor of Cádiz, Bruno García, as a collaborator of the event, and the representatives of the sponsors, Caja Rural del Sur, Petaca Chico and Telefónica, have today announced the sponsors' panel and some relevant milestones of the programming of the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024, which will be held at the Cádiz Congress Palace from November 20 to 22 organized by Zona Franca, UCA, CEI-Mar and Incubazul. Puertos del Estado, Junta de Andalucía and Fundación Cajasol, which are also collaborators in the meeting, were unable to attend today's presentation.
In addition to confirming that nearly 900 people have already registered for the event, 166 of which come from four teaching centers and institutes in Cadiz, Fran González and Casimiro Mantell have revealed two of the great figures who will participate in the forum, Celine Cousteau and Ferrán Adria. Both will contribute with their presentations, data and visions of great value to the Blue Economy, environment, innovation and entrepreneurship sector.
The environmental activist, filmmaker, explorer and committed defender of the protection of the oceans Celine Cousteau, granddaughter of the legendary researcher and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, will be in charge of the opening speech of the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024 and will take place after the institutional inauguration . Cousteau's participation in the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024 is part of the Iberobio Project, in which the Cádiz Consortium participates and which is aimed at startups linked to biotechnology within the framework of the Blue Economy, a collaboration framed in the project 0041_IBERO_BIO_6_E , co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund ERDF within the framework of the Interreg VI program A Spain – Portugal (POCTEP) 2021-2027
Fran González has reported on Celine Cousteau's presentation, which will result in her committed message about climate change and the challenges and possibilities that the oceans in general and the Blue Economy in particular offer us, providing a valuable perspective on these opportunities in the current context emphasizing the importance of marine conservation and sustainable development.
Celine Cousteau has collected and expanded the testimony of her grandfather Jacques Cousteau, a great researcher of the underwater world who carried out enormous work to protect the oceans, spreading the value of life in the world's seas and promoting their conservation.
Casimiro Mantell, for his part, highlighted the presence of another great speaker, Ferrán Adriá, considered one of the best chefs in the world, and who has made innovation and the transfer of knowledge a constant exponent of his work, since With his innovative recipes he has broken all the rules and has built a universe of unusual flavors, textures and sensations, playing with combinations. Adriá will be at Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul on the morning of Thursday the 21st.
The well-known chef, businessman and popularizer, who participates in the event with the Telefónica Chair of the UCA, will offer, as usual, a highly creative and innovative perspective and his vision of gastronomy linked to the seas, which will provide a interesting vision and will greatly enrich the meeting with a presentation that will be aimed above all at a young, talented and entrepreneurial audience.
The delegate of the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, has highlighted the importance of the presence of figures with the relevance of Celine Cousteau and Ferrán Adriá, “who confirm that Cádiz and the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul are a benchmark at the national level and international, which attracts and concentrates interventions from prestigious experts and turns our city into the great forum of the sector. We have the responsibility to raise awareness about the Blue Economy and the improvement of the sector through technological innovation; promote and encourage entrepreneurship, mainly among young talent; and support the business fabric.”
The rector of the UCA has stressed the need to “reinvigorate collaboration between institutions, companies and innovation centers and universities to, among all the actors of the Blue Economy, lay the foundations for development and a social and economic model that has as buttresses are sustainability, knowledge and innovation, which are, he specified, the keys that have driven the UCA to become a reference university in teaching and research in this field, with the coordination, for example, of international alliances. such as CEI·MAR or SEA-EU. A leadership - he has recognized - that we must all lead to take advantage of all the opportunities that come to us from the sea and that we can and know how to champion from the south of the European continent."
For three days, Cádiz will once again be a center of reflection and knowledge around the Blue Economy with the help of the Free Trade Zone of Cádiz, Incubazul, the University of Cádiz and the Campus of Global International Excellence of the Sea (CEI·Mar), that this year they join their efforts to once again turn the capital of Cadiz into the great forum of the sector and bring together entrepreneurs, companies, institutions, experts, the scientific community and lecturers in the city. There will also be a stand area where you can attend live demonstrations of the different startups and exhibiting companies.
Last year, the first edition of the Blue Zone Forum, organized by the Cádiz Free Trade Zone, brought together more than a thousand attendees in Cádiz and turned the Cadiz capital into a forum for reflection on the transition towards a more sustainable socioeconomic model based , mainly, in the oceans and seas as a great opportunity for the future of the planet and the latest technological and scientific advances were shown.
An event that took the witness of the important impact of InnovAzul 2022, which, organized by UCA and CEI·MAR, was consolidated in its second edition as the International Meeting on Knowledge and Blue Economy with the participation of more than 2,200 people, more than 250 speakers and more than 200 participating companies.
Those interested in attending or learning about the Blue Zone Forum-Innovazul 2024 can access all the information about the event, the conference agenda and opt for registration at the following link: https://www.somoseconomiaazul.es/
