# Sofar at OCEANS 2024 Halifax

Headed to OCEANS 2024 in Halifax? Connect with the Sofar team at booth #119.

**Date**: September 23-26, 2024  
**Location**: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

**Attendees**:

- [Evan Shapiro](https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-shapiro-09318b7b/) (Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer)
- [Tosca Lichtenheld](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tosca-lichtenheld/) (Government Solutions Lead)
- [Zack Johnson](https://www.linkedin.com/in/zack-johnson-8136b961/) (Developer Relations Lead)
- [Nicholas Gagliano](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasjgagliano/) (Account Executive - Southeast)

**Events**:

- **Connect with the Sofar team at Booth #119**  
  Convention Hall  
  - Tuesday, September 24, 12:00pm-6:00pm  
  - Wednesday, September 25, 8:30am-5:00pm  
  - Thursday, September 26, 8:30am-1:30pm  
- **Panel — "The Network is the Sensor: Heterogeneous Sensor Fleets to Understand Ocean Health"**  
  Room 201  
  - Wednesday, September 25, 3:30-5:00pm  
  - Moderator: Tosca Lichtenheld  
  - Panelists  
    - Dr. Laura Fiorentino, Deputy Chief Scientist, NOAA CO-OPS  
    - Tim Kearns, Chief Information Officer, Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS)  
    - Dr. Jason McKenna, Director of Research, Development, Testing, Evaluation, and Training, University of Southern Mississippi Center for Ocean Enterprise  
- **Panel — "Let’s Stop Reinventing the Wheel - Standards, Interoperability, and the Challenge of Marine Hardware at Scale"**  
  Room 202  
  - Thursday, September 26, 3:30-5:00pm  
  - Moderator: Zack Johnson  
  - Panelists  
    - Justin Manley, technologist, executive, and advisor in ocean tech and robotics  
    - Danny Nevellie, Co-founder and Managing Director, Spatialnetics  
    - Evan Shapiro, Co-founder and CTO, Sofar Ocean  
    - Christopher Waldmann, Senior Scientist, University of Bremen  
- **Panel — "Reducing carbon dioxide emissions"**  
  Argyle A1  
  - Thursday, September 26, 10:30am-12:00pm  
  - Panelists  
    - Tosca Lichtenheld, Government Solutions Lead, Sofar Ocean  
    - Anshul Tuteja, Ocean Exchange Executive in Residence, previously Associate VP at Royal Caribbean Group in Global Fleet Optimization  
    - Johan Odvar Odfjell, venture capitalist with Farvatn Ventures  
    - Danielle Southcott, CEO and Founder of Veer Voyage

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