Ocean Business 2027

Ocean Business is a hands-on ocean technology exhibition and training forum hosted at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, bringing together 300+ exhibitors of marine survey, sensing and autonomy equipment with thousands of attendees. Its distinguishing feature is 180+ hours of live, in-water demonstrations across dockside waters, vessels, a test tank and classrooms, so buyers evaluate hardware in operation rather than on a booth. Content spans autonomous marine systems, marine survey and positioning, biological and chemical sensors, and offshore energy support. For blue-tech and marine-robotics founders it is the rare event where technical proof and commercial conversations happen in the same afternoon.