International Summit events

DITTO Online Event on 13-14 January 2026

This online event will bring together the global Digital Twins of the Ocean (DITTO) community for a series of sessions dedicated to showcasing current initiatives, sharing recent advances, and fostering collaboration across continents. It will serve as an open forum to exchange ideas, present novel developments, and discuss the state of the art in Digital Twin Ocean technologies, methodologies, and applications.

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DITTO International Summit 2023

The second DITTO Summit will take place in conjunction with the 2023 World Ocean Week in Xiamen, China, on November 9-12, 2023. The Summit will enable sharing of the latest advances and discussion of future joint actions. The conference is expected to bring together about 400 scholars and practitioners from around the world to present their research and foster potential collaboration.

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DITTO International Summit 2022

Experts and policy makers assembled at the first International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit, May 2022 in London, with 90 attendees from 18 countries present at Lancaster House and around 400 attendees from over 40 countries online. The two-day Summit explored progress in the development of Digital Twins of the Ocean capability, considered their requirements for infrastructure, described potential applications and defined a path forward.

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