Welcome to Biarritz! We will start with a program mixing energizing & practical aspects, roundtable icebreakers and strategic announcements from proeminent stakeholders including the City of Biarritz, SAP.iO or Keolis Group.

Forum Kick Off Plenary with Biarritz Mayor Maider Arosteguy

This innovative, prospective experience powered by Bluenove will help you meet and start collaborating with other participants in an inspiring manner. Also featuring the Basque Center for Climate Change, Senegal's National Office of Prospective, Übermorgen Ventures, Michelin Movin'On and... you!

Climate 2050 - Bright Mirror Workshop

Lunch Break

Brain Training: Prep for success with quick tricks to boost your focus, energy, resiliency, and peace of mind
with Jenni Dawes from Kindred.

Prep for Success: Part 1

To create resilient coastlines and natural water systems, nature-based solutions are key.

Learning by doing is important. Pilot cases will boost ability to apply these solutions.

In this session, Haedes's Salomé Mormentyn will share information on pilot projects that have been successfully numerically tested and are being deployed, including VERONICA - VEgetation for sedimentation contROl in NavIgation ChAnnels and OSCAR - lOcal knowledge with nature Solutions for CoAstal Resilience. 

Introducing collaborative nature based solutions to coastal challenges x Haedes

Where is the Blue Economy headed? From ports to energy suppliers, shipyards, fisheries, banks, startups and investors, many need to address this question in order to make today the right strategic choices for tomorrow.
This session will be focusing on the mobility and maritime infrastructure roadmap.
Contribute with your insights and feedback to Michelin Movin On and BNP Paribas's Community of Interest first roadmap iteration.

Blue Economy Maritime Infrastructure Roadmap x Movin'On & BNP Paribas

We will look at possible timely initiatives in 3 areas:
- Construction
- Transportation
- Energy Production & Distribution

How can Europe reduce its energy reliance on foreign economies? x SteadySun

4 shortlisted ocean tech or climate tech startups pitch their solution and business model in 10 minutes. Ask them follow up questions and book a business date with them to further explore investment and partnership opportunities.

Ocean Tech x Climate Tech: Impact Startups Pitches

In a world with increasing social, environmental and economic challenges, we need to find holistic and regenerative solutions that can positively impact business, people and planet.

Seaweed can be one of those solutions!

This workshop will help you understand how seaweed is already part of the global transition towards more regenerative practices. 


Bio sourcing - Finding your Seaweed solution x SeaweedFirst

Coffee Break

Join one of Europe's top edible forests Forêt de Higas, NGO Humans by Nature, startup Pony Earth, AXA Climate and more to collaborate on regenerating soils and land ecosystems and scaling concrete solutions to preserve biodiversity.

Agriculture & Biodiversity Preservation x Forêt de Higas & Pony Earth

Biarritz based eco-conscious textile brand Hopaal Clement Maulavé and Entada Textile's Aude Penouty discuss Hopaal's open source responsible production model with the intent to share best practices for a less polluting textile industry.

How to build  a sustainable  business model in  the textile industry x Hopaal

4 shortlisted Basque startups looking to raise funding in the coming year pitch their environmental impact solution and model to investors.

FrenchTech Pays Basque Startups Pitches

Blue Print is a territorial approach to preserve water quality in coastal watersheds through awareness raising, consultation and long-term engagement of local stakeholders. The aim of this session is to present the progress of the pilot project launched in 2021, to gather testimonies and advice from the participants and to generate new synergies.

How to preserve water  quality by engaging local stakeholders Blue Print x Ocean As Common  meet Santa Cruz, CA

Michelin Movin On's Community of Interest on Ports Decarbonation aims to feature and accelerate bold initiatives on  this front together with Waves of Change. Discover Bilbao's vision of a cleaner port of the future.

Port Energy Transition: The BilbOPS project x the Port of Bilbao

This session will explore policies for people relocation in the face of rising sea levels with the case of the Itapagipe Peninsula presented by the Prefeitura de Salvador and their Resilience Team.

Coastal Adaptation & Relocation: Salvador de Bahia's usecase

Learn about Netmind's agile change approach: how to activate and support a real transformation in your organization, engaging relevant stakeholders, working iteratively and incrementally to achieve early wins, enabling the shift in mindset, and be continuously learning and adapting. In the session you will be able to share your feedback and questions based on the experience of your organization.

The Agile Way to Sustainability x Netmind

Maritime Campus Antwerpen is a "do" campus and community where business, technology and knowledge are linked to strengthen and develop the maritime sector.

 What are the key success  factors  for your organisation  to work  in innovative ecosystems?  x Maritime Campus Antwerp

For Sea Invest's co-founder Valery Bollier shares tips, do's and don'ts as well as takeaways from his startup founder experience raising funds before becoming himself an investor and startup advisor.


Investors ecosystem: Surviving in a shark tank x For Sea Invest's Valery Bollier

Connect with the alliance formed by Plastic Odyssey, Nomad Plastic and Blue Finance in a collective intelligence session on how to reinforce and further their unique loop from plastic collection to energy production for eco-cruise boats, plastic and carbon credits optimization to fund local populations and marine protected areas in vulnerable regions.

Scaling a Joint Plastic  and Energy  Circularity Project  to benefit additional local populations and MPAs

Let's reconvene to hear the vision and actions of Ocean Born Foundation's leadership team and allies, network and share highlights around an Ocean Beer with r without alcohol!

Day 1 Wrap Up Plenary with Ocean Born Foundation

Discover Ocean Beer with or without alcohol.

Beer Tasting with Ocean Beer

You are personally invited at Restaurant Les Baigneuses, 14 rue Port Vieux - 64200 Biarritz.

Michelin Movin'On's Sustainable Mobility Networking Dinner

Find your Group on your badge or at Frontdesk.


Biarritz by Night: Group Dinners in Town

Welcome to Day 2!
Back together we start with a mix of announcements, practical details and a soft but energizing practice to make the most of your day with Jenni from Kindred.
In the second part we talk mission, purpose and roles of several participating organizations in the environmental transition that is needed to preserve our planet and territories.


Day 2 Participative Kick Off Plenary

Award winning solutions Lyspackaging, Pacific Beachcomber, Ninamu Solutions and Sargasse Project share the specific island challenges they are addressing individually and explore collaboration opportunities with additional stakeholders to better face large scale and long term challenges.

Addressing Islands specific challenges with the French Tech Polynesie's Tech4islands 2021 winning solutions

Waves of Change partner Beta-I introduces the Atlantic Smart Port Blue Acceleration Network and upcoming Port innovation program to match the best startup solutions with the most  relevant ports on the Atlantic.



Ensuring the right startup-port collaboration

Save the Frogs is an initiative turned into United commitment: From changing the mindsets to building new process, Decathlon will share with us how it is possible to bring change into an international company and hope to spread this commitment beyond the company's walls with motivated stakeholders.


Save the Frogs: A Decathlon initiative to limit overproduction & stop destruction

Biarritz based startup Pragma Industries shares its Hydrogen Powered Bikes Fleets model for Cities and Private Corporations to effectively change the mobility dynamics of their populations.

Encouraging a Hydrogen powered, cleaner mobility with Pragma Industries

Participants from academic, research, municipalities, tech companies and NGOs are invited to share their experiences with developing and using coastal change monitoring systems for improved coastal management. The City of Santa Cruz California USA and its partners are building a “smart coastal change monitoring network” for 5 km of its coastline in context of climate change and sea level rise. The partnership is interested in tracking changes to physical, social and ecological systems and tipping points that alert coastal managers of the need to shift management strategies. In this session, we will discuss: (1) What combination of technologies and observations are groups using to monitor, analyze and identify trends in coastal change? (2) How are these observations used in coastal management decision making? What are the challenges and success associated with these efforts? (3) How can we link these networks to community engagement for improved coastal community resilience?


Coastal Change Monitoring Network Initiatives x City of Santa Cruz, CA.

Water Positive: What is it and can fashion achieve it? x CWR

Join us to learn just how thirsty and dirty the fashion industry is and how the industry has key role in our future climate with CWR's Dawn McGregor. Given all this, fashion needs to transform - is the future water positive?  

We will reflect collectively on: Is water neutral or positive something the industry should do? How can fashion get there? What can we do in the interim and what steps can we all take?

As Business Engagement Lead at CWR, Dawn McGregor leads CWR’s work to help corporates navigate increasingly disruptive and material risks from water and climate threats and to ultimately help them achieve transformative resilience. With the global fashion industry, Dawn has extensive engagement delivering on-ground workshops in China to keynotes and strategic input at European HQs. She has written at length on the end of dirty and thirsty fast fashion and her report to overcome gaps between brands and manufacturers for a clean and circular future inspired the industry to create a new wastewater tool. Dawn previously worked at a global investment bank assessing geopolitical risk, crisis management and business resilience.

    Water Positive: What is it and can fashion achieve it? x CWR

Ocean Tech x Climate Tech: 4 impact startups pitches

A unique occasion to share experience and confront visions on projects reducing carbon emissions thanks to bio LNG in the Ports of Brest and Marseille.

Decarbonating ports using Bio LNG with Movin On & Ports of Brest & Marseille

Come share your experience with Lyspackaging bio-sourced packaging startup founder Nicolas Moufflet and the Reset Company founder Frank Gana as they explore the conditions and opportunities for responsible purchasing practices in large and small companies.


Responsible Purchasing: A startup-corporation collaboration x France Digitale

Let's discover Totem, CEA Tech's energy self sufficient building and discuss opportunities to add applications to it as well as projects to duplicate this type of buildings and better manage energy production and consumption: You may have a solution for Totem or Totem may be a solution for you..?


Totem: the energy  self-sufficient building case  x CEA Tech

Le Label Waves of Change EuroQuity réunit les startups green tech, clean tech et ocean tech adhérant aux valeurs et à la démarche Waves of Change de solutions collaboratives pour la transition environnementale.

BPI France EuroQuity

Brain Training: Prep for success with quick tricks to boost your focus, energy, resiliency, and peace of mind
with Jenni Dawes from Kindred

Prep for Success: Part 2

Philippe Souidi Vice President SAP.iO at SAP, will be sharing best practices on how corporates and startups can work together in an open innovation approach to solve our current biggest challenges.

Tackling the sustainability challenges with an open innovation approach x SAP.iO

Nantes based network ANEF share their approach to (re)connecting secondary ports from Bilbao to Dunkerque and reducing roads congestion with a clean shipping solution.

Wind Powered Coastal Shipping along the Atlantic Facade x ANEF

Various expeditions projects including Plastic Odyssey, Nomad Plastic, Blue Observerand more share knowledge and experience in order to take such expeditions to the next level.

Expeditions Debrief: managing the economics and impact

A collective intelligence work session with responsible surfing companies on how to draw inspiration from biodiversity to combine eco-design and performance in surfing material.


Biomimicry: an inspiration for surfing equipment and materials

To address global challenges such as climate change, businesses must partner on all levels and across organizations, industries and regions. Teaming up with Accenture and SAP.iO to accelerate early-stage startups is part of an holistic innovation approach to leverage the power of the ecosystem to accelerate and amplify the solutions offered to businesses to improve their environmental and societal impact.

What is behind Accenture and SAP.iO partnership on the sustainable business transformation for startups?

Senegal's Office of Prospective Managing Director and Niomré Mayor Moubarack Lo will explain Senegal's challenge to transition away from fossile energies and call for alternative solutions.

Electrification in Africa: the Senegal usecase

What if you could explore a challenge in your project without doing a brainstorming or sleepless nights of intense thinking ?

Join us for a workshop outside the box, inspired by the Work That Reconnects.

During this session, we will invite you to:
- Reconnect to the purpose behind your project
- Share a challenge in your activity
- Take a new perspective on this challenge
- Identify a next step to go forth

Shift your perspective  on your project - Workshop in French & English

French Government Environmental Agency ADEME shares its 2050 Carbon Neutrality Strategic Trajectory as well as actionable tools and strategies to be discussed for large and small scale stakeholders to reach the ultimate goal together.

How to meet the 2050 carbon neutrality goals Worskhop x ADEME

A collective intelligence work session with responsible surfing companies to think about innovative solutions, which could be implemented to reuse / recycle a growing volume of boards and suits at the end of their life.


Recycling surfing equipment and materials

Energy Management is critical to Services industry  operations,  financial performance, and to many customer services. It is also at core of their GHG Emission Impact & Strategy.

Additionally, the energy market is complex/fluctuating and represents a new and serious risk. Making sustainable and cost-effective energy decisions is difficult in today’s global environment with fluctuating prices, variable environmental regulations, and industry requirements from country to country as it is challenging and costly to obtain and analyse all of this information.

SAP & Evolution Energie offer an expert user-friendly solution to manage energy contracts, check bills, hedge positions and optimize energy budgets in real time. It also helps to take informed decision by combining financial goals, process optimization with decarbonation objectives.

Sustainable & Resilient Energy Management in times of crisis

Join us in electing this year's laureates among the environmental projects that have applied to the fund for support.

Funding local non-profit projects preserving our Ocean-Earth with 'Agir à la Source' Endowment Fund

Participants Interviews with ADEME & Maka

Do you want to improve your environmental and societal impact for blue planet? The ISblue initiative opens the way for you to join in with its commitment, deploying advanced technologies (IA,machine learning​​​​​​​,VR) and collaborative approaches dedicated to Corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies and citizens' initiatives. Let's be part of this common Ocean workforce, harvesting and integrating ocean data into a cutting-edge digital platform : the "Ocean Digital twin". This session will be focused on the co-design of participatory science programs within the ISblue initiative, activating corporates, scientists and citizens contribution in the observation of the Ocean with lower carbon footprints, leading positive impact related to the SDGs framework.

How to keep a desirable ocean by involving everyone to the Ocean Decade x isBlue

How biomimicry can inspire eco-innnovation:

Commercial flooring company Interface Head of Sustainability for Southern Europe Laetitia Boucher shares the company's inspiring 28 years experience in zero impact and new ambition to become a positive impact compagny inspired by nature.
Join us and share experience, good practices, challenges and solutions together with eco-conception and eco-innovation stakeholders including Scale's co-founder Edouard de Dreuzy along with highlights from CEEBIOS, Chaire Manta and  CAPB Agglo Pays Basque on local ambition to accelerate towards cost effective and environmental sustainable production.

Deploying a Bio inspired approach feat. Interface

A quick fireside chat with 5 participating stakeholders from the Waves of Change Coalition, followed by spontaneous questions and reactions from you and other participants.

Forum Highlights: Key Participants Takeaways and Next Steps

A few key coalition announcements regarding our 2022-2023 roadmap along with practical details for World Ocean Day Offsite Program.

Waves of Change Next Steps

Let's celebrate our partner Agir à La Source Endowment fund's newly elected projects and get inspired by Egiategia's vision for a unique wine vinified in the depths of the ocean around a glass!

"Agir à La Source" Trophy Ceremony and Wine Tasting with Egiategia

You are personally invited at Restaurant Jack the Coquerel, 17 avenue Edouard VII - 64200 Biarritz.

SAP.iO's Sustainabilty Networking Dinner

A dedicated visit for ports and maritime mobility stakeholders with the Movin On Community followed by a meeting on the future role of regional ports in the global transition.
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Departure by bus from Biarritz City Hall at 8:30am sharp. Meeting at 8:20am preferred.
Arrival back at Biarritz City Hall estimated at 3:30pm.

From 8:30am: Port of Bayonne - Offsite Program

Join us to (re)discover Crealuz and share experience, good practices, opportunities and challenges among eco-conception, eco-innovation and bio-inspiration stakeholders from the Basque Country including Laureates from the Agglo Pays Basque CAPB's «Eco-innovation Projects 2021 », bio-materials scientific experts such as Chaire Manta and local industry companies rethinking their business models.  
Agglo Pays Basque CAPB is dedicated to support local ventures in their environmental transition commitment.

Discover opportunities to accelerate your eco-innovation project from idea to concrete product/solution at Crealuz, thanks to both their network opportunities and prototyping machines: 3D Printing, Laser, etc.
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Departure by bus from Biarritz City Hall at 8:30am sharp. Meeting at 8:20 preferred.
Starts in Crealuz at 9:30am.
Arrival back at Biarritz City Hall estimated at 3:30pm.

From 8:30am: Crealuz - Offsite Program: Eco-conception & Bio-Inspiration, supporting and (re)thinkhing traditional companies and innovative projects to promote economic and environmental impact in territories?

A group walk along the coast  starting at 10am from Biarritz Plage du Port Vieux to Cote des Basques to better grasp the  impact of sea level  rise and coastal risks with the Love is Blue Crew. With an option to take part in lifeguarding demos with SNSM Sauvetage Côtier and other beach activities.

From 10am: 'Ballades Littorales' Beach walks & World Ocean Day - Offsite Program

A visit of the Watersports Center facilities followed by a discovery of circular projects by Decathlon.
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Departure by bus from Biarritz City Hall at 8:30am sharp. Meeting at 8:20am preferred for flexibility.
Arrival back at Biarritz City Hall estimated at 3:30pm.

From 8:30am: Decathlon Water Sports Center - Offsite Program

Take this unique opportunity to test a brand new urban mobility solution powered by Hydrogen with Pragma Mobility.
Meeting at 9:30am in front of the Bellevue. Departure at 10am for a one hour ride, mainly on bike path.

From 9:30am: Hydrogen Powered Bikes test x Pragma Mobility

A private visit of Waste Management Unit Canopia and discussion on upcycling models and methods.

🌊 2022 Waves of Change Forum schedule