The Coastal Futures conference provides the most comprehensive annual review, briefing and pointer to future trends for coastal and marine practitioners.
Coastal Futures 2025 – The path to 2030
29th & 30th January, London and online
All ticket types are now on sale here.
Coastal Futures is the largest ocean conference of its kind in the UK and the 2025 edition will provide delegates with wide-ranging coverage of the critical current and future issues. The conference provides unrivalled knowledge sharing, networking, promotion, and training opportunities.
This year’s theme is ‘The Path to 2030’. The date is etched across international goals, government policies, and legal targets. The UK has a new government, and this parliamentary term will take the country to the brink of 2030.
Politicians, NGOs, industry, and government agencies, all have 2030 fixed firmly in their sights as the year when the world should have achieved many of the most important aims and ambitions of our time.
There are just five years until 2030. Is the UK and the world on track to reach these ambitions?
View the outline programme here
Coastal Futures conferences offer unparalleled networking opportunities with over 750 delegates from 200 organisations across two-days in January every year. Current and forward-looking issues are presented and debated by leading professionals and practitioners. We collectively look to the future to care for our coasts and seas - encourage collaboration, get up to date, catch up and connect with new people.
Sponsorship
View each of our sponsorship package benefits and prices here.
Contact: jayne.onions@coastms.co.uk.
More than 50 organisations have sponsored Coastal Futures since its inception
How delegates describe Coastal Futures conferences:
- Networking opportunities…. there’s so much energy in the room!
- Share knowledge and best practice, be with like-minded people.
- Open the doors to your future role in the marine world.
- Positive energy, innovation, making connections, ambition, optimism, togetherness and hope.
- Coastal Futures is about real outcomes and friends.
Testimonials:
“It’s great to see the cross-collaboration and energy in the room and hopefully we’ll see much more of that in years to come” Hugo Tagholm, Oceana
“You get a chance to see everybody’s perspective, it makes you take a step back and look at the whole picture” Sam Fanshawe, Blue Marine Foundation
“One of the great things about coming to Coastal Futures is the networking opportunity with all the delegates and the conversations we have in the sidelines about a whole range of themes” Roger Proudfoot, Head of Estuaries and Coasts, Environment Agency
“You soak in everything that’s been going on in the field” Sangheeta McNair, Natural England
“An amazing start to the year” Hannah Rudd, Author
Registration
All ticket types now on sale here.
Call for Presentations and Posters
Access the outline programme here to see the six sessions open for presentation submissions and further information about the posters.
Deadline for both presentations and posters: 14th October 2024
Coastal Futures Bursary
Ocean and Coastal Futures are pleased to announce the launch of our second Coastal Futures Bursary, continuing our commitment to enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Deadline to apply for the bursary: 8th November 2024
Ethnic Diversity in the Marine and Coastal Sector: research report
Published May 2024, our report highlights the pressing imperative to diversify the marine and coastal practitioner community. The report identifies the need to bring in the perspectives and energy of currently underrepresented groups. Read the report here.
Bob Earll Award
Nominations are open for individuals under 30 years age, who are starting to make a significant contribution to our community and showing great potential.
Deadline for nominating: 30th November 2024.
Access the information document along with the nomination form here
The Coastal Futures conference sets out to:
- Bring together different sectors to discuss critical developments in marine and coastal management.
- Describe the changes that are taking place in the environment and actions being taken to tackle them.
- Describe the developing programme of legislation and policy which is unfolding to meet the current societal needs.
- Hear from different perspectives, from key stakeholders, industry leaders and acknowledged experts in many subjects
- Point to future areas of activity which will directly affect your work
- Offer excellent networking opportunities to meet those at the forefront of these issues.
