Sustainable Ocean Solutions Summit 2025
The Sustainable Ocean Solutions (SOS) Summit gathers global leaders, innovators, investors, scientists, and activists to accelerate ocean action through collaboration, capital, and technology.
Following the success of our inaugural summit in Bergen (2023), SOS 2025 connects the ocean community and Silicon Valley, building new bridges between science, policy, entrepreneurship, and investment. Together, we explore how technology, innovation, and storytelling can drive the systemic change needed to secure a sustainable ocean future.
The Sustainable Ocean Solutions (SOS) Summit gathers global leaders, innovators, investors, scientists, and activists to accelerate ocean action through collaboration, capital, and technology.
Following the success of our inaugural summit in Bergen (2023), SOS 2025 connects the ocean community and Silicon Valley, building new bridges between science, policy, entrepreneurship, and investment. Together, we explore how technology, innovation, and storytelling can drive the systemic change needed to secure a sustainable ocean future.
Hosted at SHACK15, San Francisco, the SOS Summit features keynotes, dialogues, and interactive sessions with voices from around the world — including Andri Snær Magnason, Tom Chi, Christy Walton, Jim Leap, and leaders from Builders Vision, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, and Farvatn.
The program culminates in a Leadership Development Session aboard the Statsraad Lehmkuhl, led by Dorothy Dankel. This hands-on experience bridges personal reflection and collective action before the voyage from San Francisco to San Diego, part of the One Ocean Expedition 2025–2026.
Join us to shape partnerships, spark investment, and inspire action — for the ocean we want, and the leadership we need.
Speakers
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Marte Mjånes Torkildsen
Helen Amanda Fricker
Program
San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet
For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has challenged and reimagined what a string quartet can be. Founded when the form was largely rooted in long-established Western European traditions, Kronos has helped transform the quartet into a living art form that responds to the people and issues of our time.
Kronos Quartet will perform for the SOS Community—setting a bold, reflective tone for collaboration, creativity, and ocean action.
Next generation of Ocean leaders
Four powerful, young voices will share brief, personal Ocean Stories on leadership, values, and what drives their generation to protect and restore the sea.
- Sophia Siddiqui / Asilica
- Serena Rivera-Korver / Ulu Venture
- Nicolas Lama / Sustainable Ocean Alliance
- Malin Haara / Maritime Bergen
The future of Ocean investing
How can we move from billions in dealflow to actual, scalable impact for the ocean?
This powerhouse panel brings together leaders shaping the next wave of ocean impact investing — bridging finance, innovation, and sustainability to accelerate solutions for a thriving blue economy.
Together, they’ll explore: How lessons from climate investing can strengthen ocean innovation
- Matthew Mulrennan, Sustainable Ocean Alliance / Seabird Ventures
- Dr. Elizabeth Mcleod / The Nature Conservancy
- Gracie White / Conservation International
- Rodrigo J Prudencio / Propeller
- Stephen L. Petranek / Ocean Zero LLC
The next wave: Investing at the ocean–climate Nexus
As climate and ocean innovation increasingly converge, a new wave of investors is looking to the sea. Not just as a victim of the climate crisis, but as a central part of the solution.
How are we learning from Climate Tech Investing 1.0 to shape the next stage of Ocean–Climate Investing — and how can the ocean become an investment theme of its own?
This forward-looking panel brings together investors and innovators who are redefining how capital can accelerate impact for both climate and ocean systems.
- Vaishali Lara Kathuria, Norges Bank Investment Management
- Peter Bryant, Builders Vision
- Lindy Fishburne, Breakout Ventures
From time and water to the Ocean’s future
Andri Snær Magnason is a Icelandic author, filmmaker, and environmental activist.
One of Iceland’s most celebrated voices, Andri’s work spans poetry, fiction, nonfiction, film, and activism — weaving stories that connect human emotion, time, and nature. He is the only author to have won the Icelandic Literary Award in all categories, and his acclaimed book On Time and Water has been translated into over 30 languages.
Andri is also known for writing the memorial text for Ok Glacier, Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change — a poignant reminder of what’s at stake.
He will open the day with a reflection on urgency, imagination, and the ocean as our shared timeline. Joined on stage by the legendary Kronos Quartet.
Program
San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet
For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet has challenged and reimagined what a string quartet can be. Founded when the form was largely rooted in long-established Western European traditions, Kronos has helped transform the quartet into a living art form that responds to the people and issues of our time.
Kronos Quartet will perform for the SOS Community—setting a bold, reflective tone for collaboration, creativity, and ocean action.
Next generation of Ocean leaders
Four powerful, young voices will share brief, personal Ocean Stories on leadership, values, and what drives their generation to protect and restore the sea.
- Sophia Siddiqui / Asilica
- Serena Rivera-Korver / Ulu Venture
- Nicolas Lama / Sustainable Ocean Alliance
- Malin Haara / Maritime Bergen
The future of Ocean investing
How can we move from billions in dealflow to actual, scalable impact for the ocean?
This powerhouse panel brings together leaders shaping the next wave of ocean impact investing — bridging finance, innovation, and sustainability to accelerate solutions for a thriving blue economy.
Together, they’ll explore: How lessons from climate investing can strengthen ocean innovation
- Matthew Mulrennan, Sustainable Ocean Alliance / Seabird Ventures
- Dr. Elizabeth Mcleod / The Nature Conservancy
- Gracie White / Conservation International
- Rodrigo J Prudencio / Propeller
- Stephen L. Petranek / Ocean Zero LLC
The next wave: Investing at the ocean–climate Nexus
As climate and ocean innovation increasingly converge, a new wave of investors is looking to the sea. Not just as a victim of the climate crisis, but as a central part of the solution.
How are we learning from Climate Tech Investing 1.0 to shape the next stage of Ocean–Climate Investing — and how can the ocean become an investment theme of its own?
This forward-looking panel brings together investors and innovators who are redefining how capital can accelerate impact for both climate and ocean systems.
- Vaishali Lara Kathuria, Norges Bank Investment Management
- Peter Bryant, Builders Vision
- Lindy Fishburne, Breakout Ventures
From time and water to the Ocean’s future
Andri Snær Magnason is a Icelandic author, filmmaker, and environmental activist.
One of Iceland’s most celebrated voices, Andri’s work spans poetry, fiction, nonfiction, film, and activism — weaving stories that connect human emotion, time, and nature. He is the only author to have won the Icelandic Literary Award in all categories, and his acclaimed book On Time and Water has been translated into over 30 languages.
Andri is also known for writing the memorial text for Ok Glacier, Iceland’s first glacier lost to climate change — a poignant reminder of what’s at stake.
He will open the day with a reflection on urgency, imagination, and the ocean as our shared timeline. Joined on stage by the legendary Kronos Quartet.
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