United Nations Headquarters
New York,
United States
| 1 | Welcome Remarks |
| 1.1 | H.E. Ambassador Mr Marc Pecsteen (Belgium) |
| 1.2 | H.E. Ambassador Mrs Lois M. Young (Belize) |
| 1.3 | Prof. Peter Haugan (Chairperson of the IOC of UNESCO) |
| 2 | Panel Presentations |
| 2.1 | Key priorities for SIDS - Report from Belgium SIDS BBNJ meeting (H. E. Ambassador Mr. Ahmed Sareer, The Maldives and Chair of AOSIS) |
| 2.2 | Research capacity and infrastructure, drawing from GOSR findings (Harriet Harden-Davies, IOC consultant, Australia) |
| 2.3 | TMT guidelines operationalization (Asha Singh, director Environmental Governance Consulting/IOC consultant, Guyana) |
| 2.4 | Data integration and synthesis technologies for national to global analysis and understanding of marine ecology (Sky Bristol, USGS/OBIS-USA and IOC/OBIS Co-Chair) |
| 3 | Questions and Answers and general discussion |
| 4 | Concluding remarks |