The Contribution of Science and the Transfer of Marine Technology to the Implementation of a Potential BBNJ Instrument

1	Welcome Remarks
1.1	H.E. Ambassador Mr Marc Pecsteen (Belgium)
1.2	H.E. Ambassador Mrs Lois M. Young (Belize)
1.3	Prof. Peter Haugan (Chairperson of the IOC of UNESCO)
2	Panel Presentations
2.1	Key priorities for SIDS - Report from Belgium SIDS BBNJ meeting (H. E. Ambassador Mr. Ahmed Sareer, The Maldives and Chair of AOSIS)
2.2	Research capacity and infrastructure, drawing from GOSR findings (Harriet Harden-Davies, IOC consultant, Australia)
2.3	TMT guidelines operationalization (Asha Singh, director Environmental Governance Consulting/IOC consultant, Guyana)
2.4	Data integration and synthesis technologies for national to global analysis and understanding of marine ecology (Sky Bristol, USGS/OBIS-USA and IOC/OBIS Co-Chair)
3	Questions and Answers and general discussion
4	Concluding remarks