*All events will take place at the Palau National Gym (PNG) unless otherwise noted. Times are subject to change. All times listed local to Koror, Palau (GMT +9)  

• 7:00 am – 8:30 am

  Delegation Arrivals and Coffee
• 8:30 am – 9:30 am

  Side Events
• 9:45 am – 10:05 am

  High-Level Opening: Voices for the Ocean

  Pre-recorded remarks:

  

  Barack Obama

  44th President, United States of America

  Speakers:

  

  Patricia Espinosa

  Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

  

  Kalani Reyes

  Founder, Deep Pacific Collective of Pacific Peoples
• 10:10 am – 11:25 am

  Plenary Session IV: Advancing Marine Protected Areas for Communities, Ecosystems, and Climate
  Speakers:

  

  Moderator: Keone Nakoa

  Deputy Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs, US Department of the Interior

  

  Maya Delaney

  Youth Climate Ambassador, The Bahamas; Associate, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA); MBA Candidate, MIT Sloan School of Management

  

  Melissa Garvey

  Global Director, Ocean Protection, The Nature Conservancy

  

  Steven Victor

  Minister, Agriculture, Fisheries, and the Environment, Palau

  

  Chairwoman Violet Sage Walker

  Tribal Chair , Northern Chumash Tribal Council

  

  Duane Fraser

  Board Member, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority
• 11:25 am – 1:00 pm

  Lunch
• 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm

  Plenary Session V: Achieving a Safe, Just and Secure Ocean
  Speakers:

  

  Moderator: Masanori Kobayashi

  Senior Research Fellow, Ocean Policy Research Institute-Sasakawa Peace Foundation

  

  Rear Admiral Matthew W. Sibley

  Commander, Fourteenth Coast Guard District, U.S. Coast Guard

  

  Captain Loic Moudouma

  Strategy, Force Planning and Decision Making Maritime Safety and Security Expert

  

  Dr. Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen

  Director-General, Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

  

  T.H. John M. Silk

  Minister of Natural Resources and Commerce, Republic of the Marshall Islands

  

  David Willima

  Research Officer, Institute for Security Studies
• 2:20 pm – 2:50 pm

  Conversation on Partnerships for the Ocean: New Directions and Initiatives
  Speakers:

  

  Moderator: Taholo Kami

  Ocean Convener, Fiji and Tonga

  

  John F. Kerry

  Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States of America

  

  Ted Waitt

  Chairman and Founder, Waitt Foundation & Waitt Institute

  

  Dona Bertarelli

  Philanthropist and Champion for the Ocean

  

  Marc Benioff

  Chair and Co-CEO, Salesforce

  

  H. E. Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.

  President, Republic of Palau
• 3:05 pm – 4:20 pm

  Plenary Session VI: Tackling Marine Pollution
  Speakers:

  

  Moderator: Robert Richmond

  Research Professor and Director , University of Hawaii Kewalo Marine Laboratory

  

  Swietenia Puspa Lestari

  Executive Director, Divers Clean Action

  

  The Honorable Minister Tzi-Chin Chang

  Environmental Protection Administration, Taiwan , Taiwan

  

  Nik Strong-Cvetich

  Chief Executive Officer, Save the Waves Coalition

  

  Captain Simon Bennett

  General Manager, Sustainable Development, Swire Shipping

  

  Ingrid Giskes

  Director, Global Ghost Gear Initiative, Ocean Conservancy
• Break
• 4:35 pm – 5:35 pm

  Featured Panel II: Toward a “super year” for the Ocean: Leadership and Action

  Pre-recorded remarks:

  

  Kishida Fumio

  Prime Minister, Japan

  Speakers:

  

  Moderator: Heidi Schroderus-Fox

  Acting High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States

  

  H.E. Michèle Boccoz

  Ambassador of the French Republic to the Philippines and Non-Resident Ambassador to Palau, The Federal States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands

  

  Charlina Vitcheva

  Director-General and Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries , European Commission

  

  Dr. Stuart Minchin

  Director General, The Pacific Community

  

  Hon. Aupito William Sio

  Minister for Pacific Peoples and Minister for Courts, New Zealand

  

  H.E. Conrod Hunte

  Deputy Permanent Representative at the A&B; Mission and the Lead Climate Change Negotiator for AOSIS, Antigua and Barbuda
• 5:40 pm – 6:10 pm

  High-Level Closing: Looking to Our Ocean 2023

  The Closing video – Our Ocean Panama 2023 – will follow the speakers.

  Speakers:

  

  Minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim

  Minister of International Development, Norway

  

  John F. Kerry

  Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, United States of America

  

  H. E. Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.

  President, Republic of Palau

  

  Minister Miliciades Concepción

  Minister of Environment, Panama
• 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

  Closing Mixer

  Location: Palau International Coral Reef Center