boot Düsseldorf and EBI hold ‘Marina of the Future’ forum today

boot Düsseldorf is launching its ‘blue innovation dock’ (bid) with a high-profile forum. The event, organised with the European Boating Industry (EBI), is the kick-off for the bid at boot Düsseldorf 2023. 

At 7pm today (30 August), experts from the industry and European policy makers will discuss solutions for the ‘Marina of the Future’ on the bid stage in Hall 3 of Messe Düsseldorf. Developments in boating and nautical tourism, digitalisation and sustainability will be on the agenda.

Interested parties can follow the bid after the event in a stream on the boot Düsseldorf website.

boot director Petros Michelidakis will open the bid together with Philip Easthill, EBI’s secretary general. 

Ideas and visions for the marina of the future will be presented by Dean Smith, chief operating officer and deputy managing director of leading marina association in the Mediterranean and the Gulf States – D Marin – and Linos Voskarides, responsible for maritime policy and blue growth at the European Commission. 

Discussing the concrete implementation of the visions in the Europe-wide marinas will be Renata Marevic, manager of the Croatian Marina Punat, Dean Smith, Linos Voskarides, Hans Roeland, managing director of Searay, and Oliver Glück, vice president marketing Torqeedo. The moderator will be boating media expert Marcus Krall. 

After the premiere of the bid, which will start at the 61st Caravan Salon Düsseldorf, the Sustainability Forum is heading to boot Düsseldorf 2023. Over nine trade fair days, the bid will present visions as well as concrete innovations and implementations in European ports and marinas including the development of sustainable models in the boating industry.