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The Ocean Exchange award cycle is now open for 2025.

Click below to register your solution by region.

Notice there are different deadlines for where your startup is located. More than one home country? Your choice, but you must have an entity and employee within the locale.

Main Awards 2025

Neptune Awards 2025

Applications now open for the 2025 Neptune Awards of $100,000 USD each.

 

Deadline for Entries Varies Regionally

  • Asia & Oceania: 11:59 pm GMT, May 30, 2025
  • NEW DEADLINE! Europe, Middle East, & Africa: 11:59 pm GMT, June 20, 2025
  • The Americas: 11:59 pm GMT, August 1st, 2025

Semifinalists will be selected to participate in an additional round of review.

Finalists (announced in late September) will present at Ocean Exchange, October 27th – 29th in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Full award definitions and process details (PDF)

Collegiate Awards 2025

Opportunity for Graduate and Undergraduate Innovators in North America

2x The Ocean Exchange Collegiate Award, and the Guy Harvey Foundation Collegiate Award, of $10,000 USD each, will be awarded in 2025.

2025 Collegiate Call for Solutions (PDF)Apply for the 2025 Collegiate Awards on F6S

Deadline for Entries:
11:59pm GMT, Wednesday, September 17th
Exchange Dates:
October 26th – 28th in Fort Lauderdale, FL

Contact Us

Ocean Exchange invites you to learn more about Awards Program, our ecosystem and success of our award winners and participants. Together, we can chart a powerful course to help ensure the future of our oceans and the Blue Economy.

Testimonials

“The delegates are a very strategically chosen body of individuals. Virtually everyone who attends Ocean Exchange has the capacity to open doors.”

“When you bring an eclectic mix of highly intelligent, passionate people together, that’s when lightning strikes.”

“Ocean Exchange is entirely different from any of the other organizations that I’m involved in. It is about sustainable innovation. I think it’s also very different in the extremely broad range of stakeholders that it involves.”