OPENING SESSION | WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL EXPLORATION SUMMIT

9:30 - 10:00 (Lisbon, GMT +1)

OPENING SESSION

Message from Rita Marques - Portugal State Secretary of Tourism
Message from Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa - President of Portugal

Explorers Club President - Richard Garriott
Amanda Gorman's “Earth Rise”
Message from Prince Albert of Monaco
Ricardo Serrão Santos - Minister of Sea | Portugal

SESSION 1 | DECADE OF THE OCEANS

10:00 - 10:30 (Lisbon, GMT +1)

WELCOME TO THE GLOBAL EXPLORATION SUMMIT

10:00 - 10:30

Ocean Rise

James Cameron
Ray Dalio
Sylvia Earle - National Geographic Explorer/Founder, Mission Blue Ted Janulis (Moderator)

10:30 - 10:55

Portugal and Oman: Connecting the Past, Shipwreck of Vasco de Gama's Esmerelda, A Three Flag Expedition

David L. Mearns OAM, FI'91
Luís Araújo - President of Portuguese Tourism Board

10:55 - 11:25

COFFEE BREAK

11:25 - 11:35

The Digital Ocean, a vision of the future proposed by the NATO Unmanned Maritime Systems Innovation Advisory Board

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux — Founder/CEO, Global Space Ventures

11:35 - 11:50

Ocean Visions: Catalyzing Solutions for Ocean Health and Climate

Presenters:
Emanuele Di Lorenzo - Chairman, Ocean Visions + Director & Professor, Ocean Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Brad Ack - Executive Director & Chief Innovation Officer, Ocean Visions Inc.

Fiorenza Micheli - Co-director, Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and of Hopkins Marine Station + David and Lucile Packard Professor of Marine Science, Stanford University

11:50 - 12:45

Blue Economy

Craig Eason (Moderator)
João Sousa
Clément Galic
Angelica Kemene
Tiago Cunha
Nir Gartzman - Co-Founder & Managing Partner, theDOCK

12:45 - 14:15

LUNCH

SESSION 2 | EXPLORATION AND INNOVATION

14:15 - 14:25

1001 solutions - Space, Land and Oceans

Bertrand Piccard - Initiator and Chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation

14:25 - 14:45

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative): Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deciphering the Spermese Rosetta Stone

Prof. Dan Tchernov

14:45 - 15:00

PROTEUS

Fabien Cousteau

15:00 - 15:15

Exploration Technology Opening the Deep Frontier

Victor Vescovo

15:15 - 15:30

COFFEE BREAK

15:30 - 16:00

Exploring Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Santiago Pardo Sanchez (Moderator)
Andras Forgacs - Founder of Modern Meadow
Inna Braverman - Founder and CEO of Eco Wave Power
Rebecca Henderson, Sustainable Businesses HBS prof
Lou Cooperhouse - President and CEO of BlueNalu

16:00 - 16:20

NextGen Platforms for Cetacean Field Research

Martin T. Nweeia, D.D.S., D.M.D.

16:20 - 16:35

State of the Art Innovations

ElectricBlue CRL - Fernando P. Lima and Rui Seabra - “Cutting-edge Temperature Monitoring Across Multiple Scales”
Salty Co - Julian Ellis-Brown
Dr. Iaian Kerr - "SnotBot - How Drones are Radically Changing Whale Research”

16:35 - 16:45

The AYR Project

Pedro Gaspar - Future Business Technology Director at CEiiA

16:45 - 16:55

My Octopus Teacher (V)

Craig Foster

16:55 - 17:25

Endurance 2022

Richard Garriott — Explorers Club President
Mensun Bound — Director of Exploration, Ocean Infinity and Trustee Falklands Islands Maritime Heritage Trust)
John Shears — Expedition Leader

19:30 - 21:30

Welcome Dinner

SESSION 3 | SPACE

10:00 - 10:15 (Lisbon, GMT +1)

Introduction by Richard Garriott

Richard Garriott — Explorers Club President
Rusty Schweikert - Apollo 9 & Skylab Astronaut
Manuel Heitor - Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education

10:15 - 11:00

Space #1: Unity in Space

Richard Garriott (Moderator)
Ricardo Conde - Presidente of the Portugal Space Agency
Dr. Moriba Jah
Danica Remy
Marc O'Griofa

11:00 - 11:35

Space #2: Breaking Barriers in Exploration & Science

Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (Moderator)
Anousheh Ansari
Dr. Nina Lanza
Elizabeth Turtle

11:35 - 11:50

COFFEE BREAK

11:50 - 12:30

Space #3: Frontiers in Space

Richard Garriott (Moderator)
Dr. Alan Stern — Principal Investigator, New Horizons
André Kulpers - ESA astronaut
Mike Lopez-Alegria — NASA astronaut

12:30 - 14:00

LUNCH

SESSION 4

14:00 - 14:15

Music and Nature: Combining Passions to Build a Life in Exploration

Ben Mirin

14:15 - 15:00

Archaeology

Dr. Beverly Goodman - "Learning from Ancient Tsunamis to Plan for the Future"
Dr. Sarah Parcak - "Seeing the Past from Space”
Dr. Gino Caspari and Trevor Wallace - "Nomadic Archaeology"

15:00 - 15:20

COFFEE BREAK

15:20 - 16:00

Exploring the Extremes of Human Physiology

David Blaine in conversation with Richard Garriott

16:00 - 16:20

Exploring the Yanomami Microbiome

David Good - "My experiences living with my Yanomami family and conducting pioneering research that will help redefine our understanding of the skin and gut microbiome"

16:20 - 16;30

Sounds of Nature

Ben Mirin

SESSION 5

12:00

EXPLORING WITH THE EXPLORERS CLUB

Introductions by Dr. Ken Lacovara — 2019 Explorers Club Medalist
Dr. Bolortsetseg (Bolor) Minjin - “Mongolian Dinosaurs and Fossil Trade”
Dr. Ayana Flewellen - "Diving With a Purpose: Community Driven Conservation and Preservation for the Future"
Dr. James Delgado - "Identifying the Wreck of Clotilda: The Last Known Transatlantic Slave Trade Vessel known to Bring Captive Africans to the US"
Dr. Matt Carte - Major Projects Foundation: “Trouble in Paradise: The Ghost Wrecks of the Pacific”
Hayley Arceneaux - "A New Generation of Space Explorers"
Dr. Sian Proctor - "The Persistent Astronaut"
Nungshi & Tashi Malik - “Twin Climbers or Twin Sisters on a Quest!”

16:45 - 19:20 (Lisbon, GMT +1)

FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION | A GLOBAL EXPLORATION

16:50 - 16:55 Opening

Welcome Remarks

Augusto Santos Silva, Minister of State and Foreign Affairs | Portugal

16:55 - 17:45

Panel #1: Causes and Consequences of the First Circumnavigation

The Journey that Changed the World
- Mario Augusto (moderator) | Portugal

Thirty years that changed the world: 1492-1522
- Juan Marchena | Spain

The origin and meaning of Fernão de Magalhães’ Endeavour
- José Manuel Garcia | Portugal

Imperial borders and the first globalization
- Rafael Valladares | Spain

17:45 - 18:35

Panel #2: Legacy and Evolution of the First Scientific Expedition

Scientific Context and Consequences of the first Circumnavigation
- Henrique Leitão (moderator) | Portugal

Observing the Sky, Measuring the Stars and Inquiring the Size of the Sea and the Land
- Commander Carlos Valentim | Portugal

Oceans, 500 years later
- Luis Menezes Pinheiro | Portugal

500 years later: Health and pandemics in a global context
- Carlos Méndez | Argentina

Pharmacy in the expedition of Magellan and Elcano
- Cecilio J. Venegas | Spain

18:35 - 19:15

Roundtable: An ocean of cultures. Multiculturality vs Global Culture

Symbolic and patrimonial value after 500 years)
- José M. Núñez (Moderator) | Spain

Societies originating from South America and globalization
- Jorge Hidalgo Lehuedé | Chile

Oceans of alterity. Women’s status, roles and representations - (dis)connected worlds
- Amélia Polónia | Portugal

Magellan’s Journey: Impetus Towards Philippines’ Evolution as the Melting Pot of Eastern and Western Cultures
- Dr. Judy Ann O. Ferrater-Gimena | Philippines

19:15 - 19:20 CLOSING

Farewell Remarks

José Marques | Portugal

SESSION 7 | Azores - São Miguel Teatro Micaelense

10:00 - 10:15 (Azores, GMT +0)

Welcome from Azores Government Official
Sylvia A. Earle, National Geographic Explorer/Founder, Mission Blue

BIODIVERSITY IN THE AZORES

10:15 - 11:10

Oceans

- Dr. Emanuel Gonçalves (Moderator)
Chief Scientist and Member of the Board of the Oceano Azul Foundation; Associate Professor at ISPA and Researcher at MARE, Portugal — "The Ocean Emotional Connection: From Portugal and Azores to the World"

- Dr. Telmo Morato, Senior Researcher at Okeanos
University of the Azores, Portugal — “Deep Ocean Exploration Can Inform Conservation and Sustainable Management”

- Dr. Alan Friedlander
Chief Scientist National Geographic Pristine Seas Program, University of Hawaii - “Lessons from the Last Wild Places in the Ocean”

- Dr. Beverly Goodman
Strauss Department of Marine Geosciences, Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Israel — “The micropaleontology of Pristine Seas: the mighty foraminifer, one of the ocean's smallest unsung heroes”

- Dr. Enric Sala
Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic and Leader of the Pristine Seas Program — "The ocean protection and sustainable uses' targets for 2030, their importance and how to get there"

- Paul Rose
Expedition Leader of National Geographic Pristine Seas and Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society — "An explorer’s view on science and exploration to advance ocean conservation, from Antarctica to the tropical Pacific, Azores and Selvagens"

11:10 - 11:55

Whales

- Professor Dan Tchernov
"Looking for Intelligent Lifeforms on Earth: Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative)"

- Dr. Martin Nweeia
D.D.S., D.M.D. - "Unlocking The Genetic Code for Arctic Marine Mammal Adaptation"

- Amos Nachoum
Wildlife Photographer, Explorer, and Conservationist"

11:55 - 12:25

Sharks

- Dr. Rima Jabado
A fish story: Sharks fisheries in the future

- Jorge Fontes
“Exploring the Oceans with Sharks and Mobula Rays Using New Non-Invasive Tags”

- Dr. Francesco Ferretti
“Chasing White Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea”

12:25 - 12:45

SILENCE: Know Yourself

Erling Kagge

12:45 - 13:05

The Giant Waves of Portugal

Hugo Vau in conversation with Richard Wiese

13:05 - 14:25

LUNCH

SESSION 7 | GEOPARKS, BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

14:25 - 15:05

The Beauty & Necessity of National Parks

- João Carlos Nunes - PhD on Volcanology-Azores University, “GEOPARKS: when “GEO” means (much) more than geology”
- George Kourounis - RCGS Explorer-in-Residence, “Living In The Shadow of Volcanoes”
- Shelton Johnson - Park Ranger at Yosemite National Park, U.S. National Park Service

15:05 - 15:20

A Reason to Love Bats

Dr. Rodrigo Medellin - "Reason(s) to Love Bats"

15:20 - 15:35

One Health: How Protecting the Planet Protects our Health

Dr. Alexander F. More — Long Island University (NYC), Climate Change Institute (UMaine), Harvard University

15:35 - 15:50

Lessons I learned while walking Africa - Shedding light on environmental and social injustices

Mario Rigby

15:50 - 16:00

How Explorers are Changing the Map of the Artic

L. Mead Treadwell — Former Lt. Governor of Alaska (2010 to 2014)

16:00 - 16:20

The Azores: Crossroads for Explorers

Dr. Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology, UBC

16:20 - 16:45

Our journey through the universe and why we need explorers

Dr. Brian Cox (moderated by Richard Wiese)

16:45 - 16:50

CLOSING REMARKS

Ricardo Serrão Santos - Minister of Sea | Portugal

16:45 - 16:50

SPECIAL MESSAGES

António Guterres - Secretary General of the United Nations

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