The world is currently facing a water crisis caused by excessive demand, poor management and the impacts of the triple crisis of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. This crisis is fundamentally global and systemic in nature.

Our oceans are critical to human existence. A greater sense of urgency is needed at all levels to tackle the global challenges facing the oceans.

Turning science into a business is firstly a question of recognising opportunities and secondly of being able to realise them.

How can education be reinvented to respond to the megatrends that are shaping the future of our society? How can we educate and train individuals who are aligned and prepared for what their future will be?