The OEE2024 exhibition hall is a who’s who of the ocean energy sector. This year’s exhibition brings not only the event’s sponsors and most important ocean energy companies, but also a Tech Trail with 8 pieces of ocean energy technology.
Join the exhibitors, OEE and Team Scotland in a drinks reception, where the next winner of the Vi Maris award will be announced!
Stuart Black took up this position in 2022 having previously held the role of Interim Lead Area Manager.
Originally from Inverness, Stuart is a graduate of the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, where he gained a doctorate in town and regional planning.
Stuart began his career with the University of Aberdeen, before joining HIE for the first time in 1996, as head of economics. Between then and 2008, he held several posts covering different parts of the organisation’s remit. These included Local Enterprise Company Chief Executive, Director of Strengthening Communities, and Director of Global Connections.
From 2008 to 2020, he was a member of the senior team at the Highland Council, initially as Director of Planning and Development, and later as Executive Chief Officer for Transformation and Economy.
Matthijs Soede studied at the Delft University of Technology and has a PhD in Chemical Engineering. He began his career at the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the Netherlands, as specialist in international research cooperation.
In 2008 he joined the European Commission in DG Research and Innovation as policy officer in Industrial Technologies and moved in 2012 to Clean Energy Transitions being responsible for offshore renewables.
He is a member of the IEA Renewable Energy Working Party, and since 2023 Chair of the executive committee of the IEA Technology Collaboration Programme on Ocean Energy Systems.
Dr Alasdair Allan MSP grew up in the Scottish Borders and now lives in the Isle of Lewis. He attended Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, gaining a PhD in Scots Language in 1998.
Alasdair was elected MSP for the Western Isles in 2007. He became Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland’s Languages in 2011 and was then Minister for International Development and Europe from 2016 to 2018.
Prior to becoming an MSP, Alasdair was senior media relations officer for the Church of Scotland, and was named Gaelic journalist of the year in 2006. He was the National Secretary of the SNP from 2003 to 2006.
When time allows, he sings with the Back District Gaelic Choir in Lewis, with whom he has competed in the National Mod.
Join Scottish Renewables’ side event on Scottish wave and tidal project finance as projects near commercialisation. Hear from leading industry speakers as we discuss deliverability at scale for marine technologies, project economies and consenting lessons learned from offshore wind.
Team Scotland take an in-depth dive into the economic benefits which can be captured from ocean energy, highlighting new reports from Crown Estate Scotland, Scottish Enterprise and Wave Energy Scotland. Hear about the scale of opportunity in Scotland and further afield for all aspects of the supply chain. Join the discussion as the sector moves to deployment of array size projects.
Join us for drinks and dinner: Network with your peers and colleagues, catch-up with old friends and make new connections!
Set in the beautiful Aspects Restaurant of the Aviemore Resort, this year’s dinner will feature drinks, delicious fresh food and fun activities in a relaxed atmosphere.
Please note that the conference dinner is a ticketed event. If you have already registered for OEE2024, you can request to add the dinner by emailing here.
Established in 2003, the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) Ltd is the world’s first and leading facility for demonstrating and testing wave and tidal energy converters – technologies that generate electricity by harnessing the power of waves and tidal streams – in the sea.
This site visit will include a visit to the grid-connected Fall of Warness tidal test site and an onshore tour of EMEC’s tidal energy substation, green hydrogen R&D facilities and vanadium flow batteries
The FloWave Ocean Energy Research Facility is a unique wave and current test basin, based at The University of Edinburgh’s King’s Buildings campus.
This tour will demonstrate the facility in operation, and allow visitors to meet the team to learn about FloWave projects from the past, present and future.
MARINERG-i aims to create an integrated European Distribute Research Infrastructure (DRI) in Europe, for delivering Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) technologies to the market. It will be a long-term, sustainable partnership between the highest quality testing facilitates, providing a coordinated set of services that meet current and future end-user requirements.
Join us at this project launching event to learn more what this future world’s leading distributed infrastructure will offer to the ORE sector.