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Opening and welcoming speech
Pascal Lamy
Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
Yongxin Zhan
PECC Co-Chair, CNCPEC Chair
Richard Cantor
Ph.D., PECC Co-Chair, USPECC Chair
Doriane Sanchez-Le Bris
Chair of the New Caledonian section of FPTPEC
Louis Lefranc
France High Commissioner in New Caledonia
Jérémie Katidjo Monnier
Member of the Government of New Caledonia - in charge of the ecological transition and the Coral Sea Natural Park
Session 1: Deep-sea governance: can we really get everyone to agree?
Geneviève Pons
Director General and Vice President of Europe - Jacques Delors
Lily Xiangxin Xu
Research at the Center for Polar and Deep Ocean Development, KoGuan School of Law, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Olivier Poivre D'Arvor
French Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues
Virginie Tassin Campanella
Founder & Managing Director of VTA Tassin, Attorney at law (Paris/Zürich), Vice President of Scientific Council of INDEMER
Mazlan Madon
Doctor of Geology, Member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf
Francis Vallat
Founder and Honorary Chairman of the French Maritime Cluster
Session 2: The Pacific Islander approach: what if the deep sea had a soul?
Dominique Chu Van
Treasurer of the New Caledonian section of FPTPEC, Former Technical Director of SNL
Alex Herman
Seabed Minerals Commissioner
Jean-Yves Poedi
Ambassador of the Sea and referent for the Customary Senate
Josine Tiavouane
Member of Conservation International
Session 3: Twenty thousand leagues under the sea: how can one live at the bottom of the ocean?
Lionel Loubersac
Founder & Vice-President of the New-Caledonia Maritime Cluster
John Parianos
Technical Director Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority
Lauren Mullineaux
Biological oceanographer at Whoods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kevin Mackay
Marine geologist, Head of the South and West Pacific Data Center for The Nippon Foundation-Seabed 2030 Projec
Kim Picard
Director of the National Seabed Mapping section at Geoscience Australia
Karine Olu
Researcher in deep-sea benthic ecology, Ifremer
Session 4: Journey to the center of... the sea: what technological challenges?
Elodie Leguéré
Associate in Pacific IP Services
Christopher Gyges
Member of the Government in charge of the Digital Economy and the Economy of the Sea
Antoine Queval
Business Development Director at Alcatel Submarine Networks
Jérome Aucan
Head-Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Sciences
Laurent Mingoual
Submarine Cable Project Manager at OPT-NC
Jean-Marc Sornin
CEO Abyssa
Special Session: The Ocean at the heart of global issues: what role for the Asia-Pacific at the United Nations Ocean Conference (Nice, June 2025)
Ashok Adiceam
Principal Councelor of the UN Ocean Conference France 2025
Olivier Poivre D'Arvor
French Ambassador for the Poles and Maritime Issues
Pascal Lamy
Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
Françoise Gaill
President of the Ocean Sustainability Foundation
Hide Sakaguchi
President of Ocean Policy Research (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation
Rena Lee
Ambassador for Oceans and Law of the Sea Issues and Special Envoy of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore, President of the Intergovernmental Conference on Marine Biodiversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
Peter Thomson
United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Oceans
Sefanaia Nawadra
Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Jérome Aucan
Head-Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Sciences
François Houiller
Head-Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Sciences
Session 5: A bottomless problem : what to do with the mineral resources at the bottom of the oceans?
Fabien Trotet
Executive Director of the CNRT Nickel & Environnement New Caledonia
John Parianos
Technical Director Cook Islands Seabed Minerals Authority
Alain Liger
Former Secretary General of the Strategic Metals Committee
Ian Lipton
President of the Carbon Accounting Company
Pierre-Jean Bordahandy
Professor of Law at USP Vanuatu and IMO representative for Tuvalu
Session 6: The vertigo of safeguarding: today preservation, tomorrow... restoration?
Pascal Lamy
Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
Hide Sakaguchi
President of Ocean Policy Research (OPRI) of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation
François Lambert
Director General of Ecole nationale supérieure maritime
Raphaëlle Danis
Co-founder of Thanks for her
Paul Holtus
CEO of the World Ocean Council
Eudes Riblier
President of the French Institute of the Sea
Geneviève Pons
Director General and Vice President of Europe - Jacques Delors
Session 7: Conclusions and Recommendations
Pascal Lamy
Chair, France Pacific Territories National Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation
Geneviève Pons
Director General and Vice President of Europe - Jacques Delors
Fabien Trotet
Executive Director of the CNRT Nickel & Environnement New Caledonia
Dominique Chu Van
Treasurer of the New Caledonian section of FPTPEC, Former Technical Director of SNL
Lionel Loubersac
Founder & Vice-President of the New-Caledonia Maritime Cluster
Elodie Leguéré
Associate in Pacific IP Services