OceanTech Expo 2023 (OT 2023) was hosted at Zhoushan Campus, Zhejiang University, May 18-21, 2023. Headed by Zhejiang University's Ocean College, OT, inaugurated in May 2019, is purposely created to provide a unique comprehensive site for live demos, training and exhibits to illustrate a wide range of commercial and research applications for the ocean business communities. China Ocean Technology Conference, marked its sixth edition in 2023, was collocated on Ocean College campus and held concurrently.

In 2023, the Nation’s premier academic forum was jointly organized by Donghai Laboratory and Zhejiang University. Donghai Laboratory, built by Zhoushan Municipal Government, Zhejiang University and The Second Institute of Oceanography, and inaugurated in May 2022, focuses on the research of marine environment perception, marine power system and marine green resources.

Joining the surfs of China’s innovations drive for its industries, OT 2023 staged anew, as extensions to OceanTech Expo, All-Ocean Renewable Energy Expo to reflect the world’s quest to realize the economies of blue harvest, Frontier Technology Expo to bridge innovators with projects and funding, speeding up the process to industrialize and commercialize emerging technologies, and OT 2023’s online component to broaden the expo’s marketing penetration for exhibitors. These launches yielded a record-breaking and successful OT 2023!

• OceanTech 2023 recorded 5000 visits – with leaders from industry, science, research, and government from 23 provinces and municipalities across China;

• OceanTech 2023 brought on its floor the trading atmosphere, evident by a broadened range of equipment and new products in its showcase and enthusiastic interactions between exhibitors and visitors

• OceanTech 2023 was encouraged by happy exhibitors, with more than 67% companies expressing intention to participate at OceanTech 2025, some of whom applied for bigger space.

OT 2023 witnessed breakthroughs in highly automated and intelligent technologies that are leaping into the global blue harvest economy, and are applied in various aspects of the industry:

·  Offshore operation platform technology for offshore wind power, tidal energy, wave energy, hydrogen energy and other renewable energy, and traditional energy production

·  Port and coastal engineering and river system integration

·  Ocean fishing and fish farming,

·  Water depth data collection, surveying, mapping and analytics

·  Satellite ocean remote sensing, unmanned aerial vehicles

·  Surface, underwater and submarine unmanned vehicles

·  Smart connected ocean