1st time in India: IIT Madras and NIOT bring OCEANS Conference

IIT Madras and NIOT have started OCEANS Conference, the Bi-Annual event of Global Marine Researchers, in India for the first time.

Indian Institute of Technology Madras and National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT), Chennai, are organizing the OCEANS 2022 Conference and Exposition, the Bi-annual event for Global Marine Researchers, technologists and engineers, students, and policymakers, from February 21-24, 2022.

This conference is being organized in India for the first time and is being coordinated by the Department of Ocean Engineering, IIT Madras. They are organizing the event on behalf of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineering Ocean Engineering Society (IEEE OES) and Marine Technology Society (MTS). The Conference is being held in Hybrid Mode.

This event is for global maritime professionals to learn, innovate, and lead in the protection and utilization of the world’s largest natural resource Oceans.

‘Inspire-Innovate-Sustain’ is the main theme of the conference. The delegates will be sharing their experiences on topics related to climate change, global warming, the vagaries of weather, combating coastal erosion, marine pollution and microplastics through nearly 400 presentations.

Congratulating NIOT and IIT Madras for getting this prestigious conference to India, Madhu Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, Cochin Shipyard Ltd, told the Inaugural Session, “It is also heartening to note that this Conference has been dovetailed into ‘UN Decade of Ocean events.’

We will discuss this over the next three days. The key theme of ‘Inspire-Innovate-Sustain’ is also important for today's generation, which is extremely connected to the environment and speaks clearly about sustainability.