Our Ocean 2015 Conference Agenda Monday, October 5, 2015 07:45 REGISTRATION 09:00 - 10:00 OPENING CEREMONY Presenter: Leonor Varela Remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz Remarks by Secretary of State of the United States, John F. Kerry Video message from H.E. President of the United States, Barack Obama Welcome and remarks by H.E. President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet Signature of Chilean Commitments 10:00 to 10:05 Special Greeting by Sir Richard Branson 10:05 to 10:15 Break 10:15 to 11:25 MARINE PROTECTED AREAS PANEL Moderator: Pablo Badenier, Minister of Environment of Chile Josh Reichert, Executive Vice-President and Managing Director, Environment Initiatives, The Pew Charitable Trusts Enric Sala, Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society George Watters, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States Pedro Edmunds Paoa, Mayor of Easter Island, Chile Dona Bertarelli, Co-President, Bertarelli Foundation Announcements from the audience 11:25 to 11:50 Coffee Break 11:50 to 13:00 OCEAN ACIDIFICATION PANEL Moderator: Yolanda Kakabadse, President, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Anne Cohen, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), United States Rodrigo Torres, Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia, Chile Jean-Pierre Gattuso, National Center for Scientific Research, France Video message by Sigourney Weaver, Actress, environmental activist, United States Christy Goldfuss, Managing Director at the White House Council on Environmental Quality of the United States Fang Jianmeng, Deputy Administrator, State Oceanic Administration of People’s Republic of China Announcements from the audience 13:15 to 14:45 Lunch 14:45 to 16:00 MARINE POLLUTION PANEL Moderator: José María Figueres, Co-Chair, Global Ocean Commission Catherine Novelli, Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, Department of State of the United States Jenna Jambeck, University of Georgia, United States Aldo Arias, Chief Executive Officer, Fromm Latin America Belen Fernández Mayor of Dagupan City, Philippines David M. Stover, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bureo Marco Simeoni, Race for Water Foundation Justin Mundy, Director of the Prince of Wales’ International Sustainability Unit, United Kingdom Announcements from the audience 16:00 to 16:15 Break 16:15 to 17:25 HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT – PART I Moderator: Alicia Bárcena, Executive Director, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile John F. Kerry, Secretary of State of the United States Prince Albert II of Monaco Manuel González, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Tone Skogen, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway José Graziano da Silva, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for the Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries of the European Union 17:25 to 17:50 Coffee Break 17:50 to 19:00 HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT – PART II Moderator: Lisa Speer, Director, International Oceans Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Antonio Bells, Vice-President of Palau Ricardo Patiño, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador Nick Smith, Minister of Environment of New Zealand Gabriel Ntchango Minister of Fisheries of Gabon Sigurour Ingi Johannsson, Minister of Fisheries of Iceland Manuel Pinto de Abreu, Secretary of State of the Sea of Portugal Demetrio L. Ignacio Jr., Under Secretary for Field Operations, Department of Environment and Natural Resources of Philippines 19:00 Reception hosted by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz, in honor of the participants. Our Ocean 2015 Conference Agenda Tuesday, October 6, 2015 07:45 REGISTRATION 09:00 to 10:00 OCEAN CHAMPIONS PANEL Moderator: Andrew Sharpless, Chief Executive Officer, Oceana Video message by H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, United Kingdom David Rockefeller Jr., Sailors for the Sea Leonor Varela, Actress, Environmental Activist, Chile Antha Williams, Head of Environment Program, The Bloomberg Foundation J. Charles Fox, Director of Oceans 5 Anne Earhart, Chairman, Marisla Foundation Announcements from the audience 10:00 to 10:05 Break 10:05 to 11:05 SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PANEL Moderator: Raúl Súnico, Under Secretary of Fisheries of Chile Joao Aguiar Machado, Director General, DG MARE, European Commission Renato Quiñones, Universidad de Concepción, Chile Campbell Davies, Pelagic Predator Ecology and Dynamics Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Australia Max Agüero, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile Announcements from the audience 11:05 to 11:30 Coffee Break 11:30 to 12:30 LOCAL COMMUNITIES PANEL Moderator: Ambassador Shane Jones, Representative of the Maori community, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand Felipe Paredes, Mayor of Juan Fernandez, Chile Tiffany Laitame, Representative of Municipality of Rapa, French Polynesia Shelley Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of Sir Peter Blake Trust, New Zealand Cherry Ravelo-Salazar, Agricultural Technologist, Global Initiative Fish Forever Announcements from the audience 12:30 to 12:35 Break 12:35 to 13:35 REGIONAL HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT Arnold J. Nicholson, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jamaica Mirei Endara, Minister of Environment of Panama Carlos Castaneda, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador Martha Garciarivas Palmeros, Under Secretary for Environmental Protection Management of México José Luis Samaniego, Director of Environment, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) 13:35 to 15:30 Lunch 15:30 to 16:45 OCEAN GOVERNANCE PANEL Moderator: Ambassador David A. Balton, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Fisheries, Department of State of the United States Andrés Couve, Vice-President of the United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement Conference (New York Agreement), Chile Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli, Director of the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea William Mansfield, former Chairperson of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) Osvaldo Urrutia, Director of Law of the Sea Institute, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile Discussion 16:45 to 16:50 CLOSING Remarks by Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, Heraldo Muñoz