The Conference is an opportunity for the global community of solutions creators, practitioners, and accelerators to exchange knowledge, experience, and best practices to strengthen community-driven solutions in the South Carolina Lowcountry and around the world.

 

This year, the conference will explore "reshaping our relationship with water, waterways, and the ocean through community-driven solutions."

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Through mainstage panels, fireside chats, a poster session, and an opening program honoring the late Dr. Wallace J. Nichols (founder of The Blue Mind Movement), we will explore intersectional and multi-disciplinary issues like Living with Water, citizen science, youth leadership to protect deep-sea ecosystems from mining, storytelling as a catalyst for stewardship, the blue economy, maritime mobility, plastic pollution, ecosystem restoration, and innovative visions of community-co-management and inter-jurisdictional stewardship of waterways and the ocean.​