Tomorrow.Blue Economy World Congress 2026

The ocean economy strand of Smart City Expo World Congress, 3 to 5 November at Fira Gran Via, bringing port authorities, maritime operators, ocean-tech startups, investors and policymakers together.

Four programmes run under it. Smart Ports: Piers of the Future on port decarbonisation, digitalisation, automation and port-city integration. The Sustainable Ocean Summit for ocean industry leadership. BlueFIN, a curated blue-finance investment programme matching capital with scalable solutions. And the Ocean Innovation Showcase. The organisers frame the whole thing around accelerating solutions that strengthen ocean industries while protecting the ecosystems they depend on, and it sits deliberately inside the wider cities and climate conversation rather than off on its own.

Why go: Barcelona is a working port city and this is the one week its maritime technology buyers and the people building for them are in the same building. Best for port and logistics technology teams, ocean-tech founders and blue-economy investors.