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The 2025 Award Cycle is now closed.

Please check back soon for details on our 2026 awards.

To learn more about our cohort of 2025 Neptune and Collegiate finalists please follow our page and join our group on LinkedIn.

Neptune Award Applications are now closed for 2025.

Deadline for Entries Varies Regionally

  • Asia & Oceania: 11:59 pm GMT, May 30, 2025
  • 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 Applications are now closed for 2025.

Opportunity for Graduate and Undergraduate Innovators in North America

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

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

2025 Collegiate Call for Solutions (PDF)

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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.”