The city of Aberdeen, Scotland, one of the EU’s leading hubs for the ocean technologies industry, hosts this week the Subsea Expo 2025, an international reference forum organized by Global Underwater Hub (GUH) on underwater monitoring and intervention technologies in strategic Blue Economy sectors, such as energy, defense, environment, security, aquaculture, tourism, among others.
The 2025 edition, under the theme “Deep in Transition – Addressing the energy challenge”, seeks to examine the adaptation of the subsea industry, as part of the energy transition strategy, in support of the Blue Economy and the global drive towards the goal of sustainability and “net-zero emissions”. In this context, leading industries in the sector exhibit their latest innovations in robotics and unmanned systems, sensors and components, applications and services, highly qualified training, operations planning and control, new technologies and tools to support marine autonomous systems (AI, ML, etc.), among others.
In parallel, a wide and varied conference program addresses thematic sessions of outstanding and common interest in the sector, which include aspects related to innovation, regulatory framework, business development, services, among others, in order to optimize the intersectoral value chain from the perspective of the triple helix (industry, academia and government agencies).
PLOCAN contributes to the event by showing its capabilities as marine test-site facility and service-provider infrastructure related to these ocean technologies, through its direct involvement in lag-ship and leading EU projects in the field of energy, robotics, sensors, digital twin and regulatory framework, mainly, as well as its own training initiatives, partnership with leading companies in the sector and involvement in national and international working and steering groups, all in support of the Blue Economy strategy for the Canary Islands aligned within global perspective.
