#WOW WORLD OCEAN WEEK 2021

FEATURED SPEAKERS

RETROSPECTING BACK TO
#WOW WORLD OCEAN WEEK 2020

Continuing from its inaugural success last year, ADEX Pixel Expo’s returns once again with the annual #WOW World Ocean Week 2021, in conjunction with the United Nations World Oceans Day on June 8 and The Coral Triangle Day on June 9, with a goal of generating awareness and starting conversations on the various issues our ocean faces today, the four-day virtual event will highlight the plight of plastic pollution, explore the Coral Triangle, bring forth the voices of youth working on ocean causes, showcase ocean literacy through arts and convened agents of change – the diving community!

Organised by the digital platform for ADEX Asia Dive Expo, ADEX Pixel Expo, ADEX Pixel Official Country Partner [Dive Destination] 2021 Tourism Promotions Board Philippines, and affiliated with ADEX Ocean Citizens, World Ocean Day 2021, UN World Oceans Day, United Nation Decade of the Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, and supported by Blu Hope and VOW, #WOW World Ocean Week 2021 celebrates the ocean with a myriad of events and activities convening industry’s ocean conservationists, marine scientists, ocean defenders, ocean advocator and ocean citizens to commemorate this global celebration and raise awareness of the vital importance of our oceans and the role they play in sustaining a healthy planet!

Plot your cause, save the dates! Do not miss the insightful and informative sessions on everything there is to know about the state of the Ocean!

• Tuesday, 8 June #WOW WORLD OCEAN DAY
  The World Ocean Day unites the world for action in June and grows collaborative conservation every day of the year for our blue planet. On June 8 every year, World Ocean Day provides a unique opportunity to recognise the importance of our shared ocean and humanity’s dependence on a healthy blue planet for our survival. It also provides ways to celebrate the ocean by coming together to protect and restore the ocean, to safeguard it and help ensure a healthy home for all!
• Wednesday, 9 June THE CORAL TRIANGLE DAY
  The Coral Triangle Day, held on every June 9, is a massive celebration of the Coral Triangle, the world’s epicentre of marine biodiversity. Celebrated in countries in the Coral Triangle region – Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste, the annual event brings together individuals, organisations, and establishments on one special day of the year to shed light on ocean conservation and the numerous ways to protect and conserve the Coral Triangle.
• Thursday, 10 June OCEAN DEFENDERS [YOUTH]
  The World Ocean Day’s Ocean Defenders is a unique opportunity to connect and unite youth and others around our blue planet, with the focus on action for a healthier ocean and more sustainable society. A platform where Asia, and global youth get together to talk about the future of the ocean.
• Friday, 11 June OCEAN ODYSSEY [SCUBA101]
  In celebration of World Oceans Day (June 8), experiencing the wonder of the underwater world that covers over 70 percent of the earth’s surface, Ocean Odyssey is a platform where divers connect with the ocean and support efforts to preserve and restore it, in whatever capacity possible during these times.
  
  

In conjunction with #WOW World Ocean Day 2021, brought to you exclusively by ADEX Pixel Official Country Partner 2021 [Dive Destination], Tourism Promotions Development Philippines, a Trade360 Buyers Business-to-Business Webinar Sessions that aims to congregate both Philippines dive industry and Asia’s dive travel key players to reintroduce, reconnect and reinstate the region’s dive market.

TRADE360 BUYERS B2B WEBINAR SESSION
JUNE 8 to 11, 2021

Exclusively brought to you by Tourism Promotions Board Philippines

“The immediate recovery in the global tourism sector seems like sailing on the vast ocean, with huge waves of challenges, beating our small boats. I also truly subscribe to the notion that we will sail safely to the shores of success. While the pandemic has adversely impacted the tourism industry, with our shared commitment and sustained collaboration towards our aligned goals, we shall see an even enhanced dive tourism sector.

Encored, not only understanding of the industry survival but also creating our “Ocean Heroes” who will be at the forefront in creating a niché market for new travel adventures and unforgettable experiences and championing most importantly the protection and preservation of our oceans.”

Atty. Maria Anthonette C. Velasco-Allones
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Tourism Promotions Board, Philippines

This business-to-business webinar sessions provide an opportunity for presentations and dialogues between the Philippines dive resorts and liveaboard businesses to offer attractive propositions and opportunities to the Singapore or regional dive industry key players/buyers to talk about the future of the diving business.

If you are in the business of selling dive trips or a player in the dive travel industry, or a divemaster or a dive instructor, who wishes to expand your market share, or planning to bring your students to the Philippines to dive, or seeking for the best dive equipment supply in the Philippines, this is an opportune time and the right platform for business exchanges and expansion!

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#WOW WORLD OCEAN WEEK 2021
June 8 to 11

#WOW SESSION SCHEDULE

BEHIND THE OCEANIC SCENE
OF #WOW WORLD OCEAN DAY 2021

ORGANISER

ABOUT UNDERWATER360° 

Underwater360° (UW360) is the umbrella platform that represents every major pillar of diving across Asia and the world. Since 2010, the platform hopes to hurdle together over 25,000,000* divers community globally through curating content and services that offers ‘everything one needs to know about exploring the world of water. Gathering the dive community, together with the whole diving industry, underwater360 provides informative, up-to-date, exciting information, all of which is easy to digest on the go such as their three magazines titles, a massive dive expo and a lifestyle, infotainment, directory and networking hub called ‘Diveaholic by underwater360’ for all the underwater enthusiasts out there. For more information, please visit www.uw360.asia.

* Source PADI Global Certification & Membership Statistics 2017

ABOUT ADEX 

More than just an annual dive show, ADEX Series is inspired by the past and aims to lead the present and impact the future. The Asia Dive Expo (ADEX) is the largest and longest-running dive consumer and trade show in Asia, celebrating its 25th year in 2019. ADEX is endorsed by major industry organizations such as the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) and China Underwater Association and has been recognized as “Best Exhibition Organiser 2018” by the Singapore Tourism Board. ADEX was also recently appointed by the United Nations and Asia-Pacific Diving communities as Sustainable Ocean Ambassador. Underwater360 group has managed the event since 2009, resulting in significant growth and establishing ADEX as a must-attend event for anyone interested or involved in the world of diving. ADEX 2019 will take place in Singapore in April; in Shanghai and Beijing in July; and in Mumbai, India, for the first time in October. For more information, please visit www.adex.asia

ABOUT ADEX PIXEL EXPO

“ADEX Pixel “Virtual” Expo is the product of COVID-19 pandemic and also the next stage for ADEX after 25 years. This platform will be the virtual/online arm to the existing ADEX series of shows as we hope to unite the industry as ‘One Industry. One Ocean. One Community’ and, also hopefully to be ‘The World’s First Digital Dive Show’!” 

– John Thet, CEO of ADEX series of shows, Project Director of ADEX Pixel “Virtual” Expo, Publisher and Editorial Director of Asian Diver, Scuba Diver Australasia/OceanPlanet, Founder of Historical Diving Society Asia, and President of Magazine Publisher Association of Singapore [MPAS] 

Connecting the global dive and marine conservation industry, blue economy sectors, and its community, ADEX PIXEL “Virtual” EXPO (#APE) brings together with the world’s best dive influencers, thought leaders, industry key players – speakers and exhibitors, NGOs/NPOs, social enterprises from the global landscape on ONE platform through new monthly contents that entertain, educate, and engage. #APE delivers informative contents, interviews, LIVE! webinars and podcast series, an expansive marketplace, community forum, a stunning image gallery showcasing 2,021 underwater images from all over the world, and more exciting elements – all in the comforts of your own home! For more information, please visit www.adex.asia

ADEX PIXEL OFFICIAL COUNTRY PARTNER [DIVE DESTINATION] 2021

ABOUT DEPARTMENT OF TOURISM, PHILIPPINES

Established in 1973, the Department of Tourism (DOT) is the Philippines’ executive office responsible for the regulation and promotion of the Philippine tourism industry.

DOT’s mission is to encourage, promote, and develop tourism as a major socio-economic activity to generate foreign currency and local employment, ultimately spreading the benefits of tourism to both the private and public sector.

DOT is led by the Office of the Tourism Secretary. The Office of the Secretary formulates policies, plans, programs, rules, and regulations. The office also reviews and evaluates the performance of the Tourism Master Plan and advises the President on all matters affecting the tourism program of the country and the advancement of the Philippines as a premier tourist destination for all travelers and tourists. For more information, please visit www.beta.tourism.gov.ph

ABOUT TOURISM PROMOTIONS BOARD PHILIPPINES

An ISO 9001:2015 Certified Organization with Certificate No: CIP/5168/15/12/951

An attached agency of the Department of Tourism, the Tourism Promotions Board (TPB) exists to market and promote the Philippines domestically and internationally as a world-class tourism and MICE destination, in strategic partnership with private and public stakeholders to deliver a unique high-value experience for visitors, significantly contributing to increased arrivals, receipts and investments to the country. For more information, please visit www.tpb.gov.ph

IN AFFILIATION WITH

ABOUT WORLD OCEAN DAY

World Ocean Day unites and rallies the world to protect and restore our blue planet. World Ocean Day supports collaborative conservation, working with its global network of youths and organizational leaders in more than 140 countries, and providing free and customizable promotional and actionable resources. World Ocean Day is powered by the World Ocean Day Youth Advisory Council. For more information, please visit www.worldoceanday.org

ABOUT UN WORLD OCEAN DAY

In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly decided that, as of 2009, 8 June would be designated by the United Nations as “World Oceans Day”. On this day, we have an opportunity to raise global awareness of the benefits humankind derives from the ocean and our individual and collective duty to use its resources sustainably. Future generations will also depend on the ocean for their livelihood. Civil society, science centers, research institutions, NGOs, businesses in the private and financial sector, communities and governments all around the world mobilize millions of people around local and global events. Together with the United Nations and our partners, we celebrate all that the ocean gives us every day: from the oxygen we breathe to the inspiration that moves our poets.  For more information, please visit www.unworldoceansday.org

ABOUT UNITED NATION DECADE OF THE OCEAN SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

On 5 December 2017, the United Nations proclaimed a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, to be held from 2021 to 2030. This Decade will provide a common framework to ensure that ocean science can fully support countries’ actions to sustainably manage the Oceans and more particularly to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The Decade will provide a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to create a new foundation, across the science-policy interface, to strengthen the management of our oceans and coasts for the benefit of humanity. Delivering Science for the Future We Want – Ocean Science combines a variety of disciplines (physical, geological and chemical oceanography as well as marine biology) that study and provide data on the global marine environment (marine organisms, ecosystem dynamics, ocean currents, waves, geophysical fluids dynamics, plate tectonics and the geology of the sea floor as well as fluxes of various chemical substances and physical properties within the Ocean and across its boundaries). Over the decades, Ocean Science evolved to integrate new societal needs and encourage new partnerships among oceanographers working in different disciplines leading to new discoveries about the ocean’s role in climate regulation and coastal ocean processes. Ocean Science can support business operations (shipping industry, fisheries and aquaculture, etc…) as well as conservation and management activities, or coastal communities by predicting Ocean hazards, preventing and mitigating disaster risks. For example, the discovery of oceanic eddies has been important for an understanding of ocean circulation, propagation of sound in the ocean, fisheries productivity, and other ocean processes. For more information, please visit www.oceandecade.org

ABOUT ADEX OCEAN CITIZENS

TOGETHER WE PLEDGE AGAINST SINGLE-USE PLASTIC – First world nations to third world countries. We are facing the same environmental epidemic – plastic pollution. As convenient, durable, light and versatile, this 111 years old invention takes up to 400 years to decompose and has to affect the lives of people and living creatures for the next 16 generations to come. The excessive and irresponsible consumption of plastics is impacting ocean health and biodiversity. Some research has reported that by 2050, there could be more plastics in the ocean than fish if our current consumption habits are unchanged*. 8,000,000 tons of plastics are dumped in the ocean each year. China, Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam are reported as countries dumping the most plastic waste than any other region in the world from its shared river systems and waterways as the conduits of this problem**. In Singapore, we consume about 1.76 billion kilogramme of plastic items a year of plastic waste is discarded every year but less than 20% of plastics are being recycled! *** But, these nations have since then implemented changes through the policies to curb this worldly plastic pollution issue. On ADEX 2019 edition, celebrating its 25th silver milestone, uw360° together with the congregation of esteemed ‘Friends of ADEX’ take on this opportunity of raising awareness about the polluting impacts of plastic packaging by taking a pledge to the refusal, reuse, reduce and recycle of single-use plastic products in ADEX exhibition hall!

REFUSE disposable plastic whenever and wherever possible. Choose items that are not packaged in plastic, and carry your own bags, containers and utensils. Say ‘no straw, please.’

REUSE durable, non-toxic straws, utensils, to-go containers, bottles, bags, and other everyday items. Choose glass, paper, stainless steel, wood, ceramic and bamboo over plastic.

REDUCE your plastic footprint. Cut down on your consumption of goods that contain excessive plastic packaging and parts. If it will leave behind plastic trash, don’t buy it.

RECYCLE what you can’t refuse, reduce or reuse. Pay attention to the entire life cycle of items you bring into your life, from source to manufacturing to distribution to disposal. SAY ‘NO’ SINGLE-USE ITEMS @ ASIA DIVE EXPO (ADEX) 2019 series of shows: Plastic bags, Plastic straws, Disposable cutleries (includes cups, fork and spoons), Single-use polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles (includes mineral water bottles). For more information, please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/1793108347485058

SUPPORTING PARTNERS

ABOUT BLU HOPE

The creation of the Blu Hope campaign came about because of the COVID-19 pandemic! The British High Commission began the Green is GREAT Plastics campaign because of the exposé that the UK and other developed countries were illegally exporting plastic waste to Malaysia. The UK and Malaysian Governments have worked closely together to rectify the situation. Our first event was the joint hosting of the VVIP Malaysian Premiere of Blue Planet II and Green is GREAT Exhibition attended by HRHs Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, Tengku Zatashah and Malaysian Minister of the Environment Yeo Bee Yin. The second event was the Commonwealth Clean Oceans Alliance Showcase at the Commonwealth Observance Day in conjunction with the Royal Commonwealth Society. The third event was going to be the Queen’s Birthday Party on World Oceans Day. However, the COVID-19 pandemic meant Queen’s Birthday Parties were cancelled and the idea was born to take the Green is GREAT Plastics campaign digital. The British High Commission were very fortunate that we had met our three key partners that alongside Alison Collingridge, Head of Marketing and GREAT Campaign have helped make Blu Hope happen.

Simon Christopher, founder of Scubazoo and TimorBlue has been working with us from the start. Simon, a marine zoologist by background, is a storyteller who has produced countless underwater films in the Coral Triangle and is based in Sabah, Malaysia. After running Scubazoo for 23 years (including online channel Subazoo.tv), Simon setup TimorBlue end-2018 to fast track deep impact marine conservation dove-tailed with maximum global awareness about the Coral Triangle from Timor-Leste. Having introduced Mura’s ground-breaking Cat-HTR technology to Timor-Leste and Malaysia in 2019, Simon is excited about harnessing the true power of storytelling with the BluHope campaign to help drive much needed, pivotal – if transformational change leading up to, and throughout UNESCO’s Ocean Decade https://oceandecade.org.

Geoff Brighty is an Environmental Consultant and Non-Executive Director for Mura Technology, one of the British High Commission’s Commonwealth Observance Day and 5 Commonwealth Clean Oceans Alliance Showcase sponsors. Mura Technology’s CatHTR™ (Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor) process can recycle waste plastic that is currently considered ‘unrecyclable’ into valuable chemicals and oils for use in the manufacture of new plastic materials helping to deliver a plastic neutral circular economy. Geoff visited Kuala Lumpur in early March 2020 to attend our Commonwealth Day event.

Jo Ruxton is the Founder and Director of Plastic Oceans UK and Co-Producer of ‘A Plastic Ocean’. Jo was the first to alert the world to the perils of plastic pollution in the ocean. It was Jo that convinced Sir David Attenborough to lobby the BBC to include plastic pollution in Blue Planet II. Plastic Oceans UK have developed a wealth of education resources to help raise awareness amongst the youth of the issues surrounding plastic pollution and to teach children to become plastic intelligent. Jo is a supporter of Mura Technology’s Cat-HTR™ and came to Kuala Lumpur to support our CCOA Showcase and meet with the Malaysian Education Sector.

This core team has helped bring together strategic partners, media partners and celebrities to combine resources, knowledge, networks and expertise, to build an international campaign.

Blu Hope is being supported by many people including Sir David Attenborough, Dr Sylvia Earle, Paul Rose, the Foreign & Commonwealth network across South-East Asia, Australasia and Pacific Islands, as well as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, COP26 and The Rt. Hon. Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State of Pacific and the Environment. We would like to thank everyone for their support. For more information, please visit www.bluhope.org

ABOUT VOW

In Vow and our subsidiaries Scanship and Etia we are passionate about preventing pollution. Our world leading solutions convert biomass and waste into valuable resources and generate clean energy for a wide range of marine applications and land-based industries.

Cruise ships on every ocean have our technology which processes waste and purifies wastewater. Fish farmers are adopting similar solutions, and public utilities and industries use our solutions for sludge processing, waste and plastic management and biogas production.

Our ambitions go further than this. With our advanced technologies and solutions, we turn waste into biogenetic fuels to help decarbonize the industry and convert plastic waste into fuel, clean energy and high-value pyro carbon. Our solutions are scalable, standardized, patented and thoroughly documented, and our capability to deliver is well proven. Our solutions are key to end waste and stop pollution.

Located in Oslo, Norway, the parent company Vow ASA is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange (symbol: Vow). In 2018, the companies that are now part of Vow had combined annual revenues of NOK 430 million and 120 employees in Norway, France, Poland and the US. For more information, please visit www.vowasa.com