Bluespring and Offshore For Sure Side Event: Offshore For Sure: One sea, two countries, five technologies

Ocean energy already works in the lab and at pilot scale. The harder question is what it takes to deploy it across a shared sea. Offshore For Sure, funded through INTERREG Flanders-Netherlands programme, spent several years on that question, and this session puts the results in front of the people who fund, build, and regulate what comes next.

Co-hosted by Bluespring and the Offshore For Sure partnership, it brings together the developers, research institutes, and service providers behind five ocean energy technologies derisked across the Flanders-Netherlands border.

The session moves through three stages. The first is a showcase of results: a short programme overview, rapid findings from technology developers, a research and education voice on the talent the sector needs, and an project developer on the real route to market. The second is a spotlight on what still gets in the way, drawn from the cross-border work on permitting, spatial planning, grid connection, and support schemes. The third is a panel that turns those findings into a single question for regulators and funders: how can cross-border cooperation support scaling up?

It closes with one concrete ask to decision-makers from both countries on what it takes to get from demonstration to scale.

This session is built for decision-makers. It is direct about the cross-border rules that still stand between demonstration and scale.

Open to all conference attendees and invited guests. Particularly relevant for international project developers, port authorities and grid operators, public funders, and policymakers.