Side Events

Conference Dinner

OEE Members’ Event

5K Run

Welcome Reception

B2B Meetings

ETIP Side Event

EuropeWave Side Event

Team Scotland Side Event

Exhibition Drinks – Vi Maris Award

Scottish Renewables Side Event

MARINERG-i Side Event

Site Visit – FloWave

Site Visit – EMEC

Tuesday 5  November, 19:30 – 22:30

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. 

Monday 4 November, 15:00 – 16:00

Join our traditional 5K run, this time in the natural beauty of the Scottish Highlands! 

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Monday 4 November, 16:30 – 18:00

Join the OEE secretariat for this exclusive members’ only event before OEE2024. We’ll discuss funding tips & tricks from previous winners and evaluators, as well as provide dedicated time to answer all your burning questions.

Session 1 – Ace your Horizon Europe bid: Insights from evaluators and winners
Gain valuable insights from evaluators discussing what makes a winning proposal and what drops them out of the game. You will also hear from recent Horizon Europe winners about their first-hand experience.

Session 2 – OEE office hours
Get some dedicated time with the OEE team. Ask questions, share knowledge and concerns and give feedback. A great moment to focus as an association before the conference fully kicks into high gear! 

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Monday 4 November, 18:30 – 20:30

Join the Ocean Energy Europe team for a welcome drink the evening before the official start of the conference!

Join the other delegates at Giovanni’s Restaurant at the Aviemore resort for a drink and officially kick-off OEE2024!

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Tuesday 5 November, 12:15 – 19:15

Wednesday 6 November, 09:20 – 16:20

Make the most out of OEE2024: plan a meeting!

During the event, a dedicated B2B meeting area will be available. When registering, be sure to create a clear and concise business profile, and mark yourself available for B2B meetings by selecting time slots on the agenda or availability pages on the event portal.

Meet new potential partners, clients and investors!

Tuesday 5  November, 13:45 – 15:15

This joint ETIP Ocean and OES-Environmental workshop will present the latest results of environmental research on ocean energy. Breakout groups will then focus on the most pressing topics such as collision risk and noise. Join the discussion about the next research priorities as the sector moves towards larger farms.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Tuesday 5  November, 15:15 – 16:45

This side event will feature the Phase 3 projects showcasing their current project work and sharing lessons learned during the final phase of the EuropeWave programme. An open-floor discussion will focus on the next steps to reaching wave commercialisation and the ideal support mechanisms to help the wave sector.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Tuesday 5  November, 16:45 – 18:00

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.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Tuesday 5  November, 18:00 – 19:30

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! 

Wednesday 6  November, 9:30 – 10:45

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.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Wednesday 6  November, 16:00 – 17:30

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.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Thursday 7  November, 14:00 – 15:00

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.

If you have already registered you can modify your registration to add this event in your Agenda.

Friday 8 November, 9:00 – 15:30

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