At the Ocean Innovation Conference, hear from diverse and inspiring speakers providing actionable insights. Two keynote speakers will be featured:
Mark Huang is a co-founder of SeaAhead, an early mover innovation platform focused on ocean sustainability, led the effort to stand up General Electric's cleantech corporate venture efforts and was a founding partner of Novus Energy Partners, a 2008 vintage US-European cleantech VC fund. Mark has also worked in shipbuilding as a naval architect and he is currently an advisor to Fathom Science, a recent NC State meteorology and oceanography (metocean) digital twin spin-out. In the public service sector, Mark served a term as the Economic Development Director for Providence, RI. Here, he deployed an urban food strategy and introduced the concept of a bluetech economic cluster for the Ocean State. Mark also served for 13 years as an officer in the US Army Reserves and was mobilized in 2003 to Baghdad where he focused on nation-building. He is a US director of Alfanar, the only venture philanthropy non-profit focused on the Arab world, and Tern, a Taiwan-based urban mobility company. Mark is also on the Board of Visitors for UNC's Institute of the Environment in Chapel Hill, NC.
Mark holds an MBA and Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University and a BS in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering from Webb Institute.
Susan Casey, author of New York Times bestseller’s Voices in the Ocean, The Wave, and The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks and is the former editor in chief of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist whose work has been featured in the Best American Science and Nature Writing, Best American Sports Writing, and Best American Magazine Writing anthologies; and has appeared in Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, and Outside.