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Address: P&J Live, Aberdeen

Start : 7 October 2026 - 9:00 am

End: 8 October 2026- 5:00 pm

Floating Offshore Wind 2026

Published 3 February 2026

About the Event:

Floating Offshore Wind is the world’s largest dedicated floating offshore wind exhibition and conference, with promising innovations on display and expert-led conference sessions tackling the challenges to scaling up this new industry.

Catapult Presence:

Exhibition

We are Innovation Partners for the event, exhibiting with Wind Innovation Hub at stand F42

Speaking Sessions

Wednesday 7th October
11am – 11:45am, Conference Suite 1A
A2: From cost challenge to cost curve: how does the sector meet the affordability test
Panel Discussion and Q&A
Emily Rees – Head of Analysis & Insights

Thursday 8th October
11:30am – 12:45pm, Conference Suite 1C
B7: Deepwater pathways: floating, hybrid and the next wave of innovation
Workshop
Teo van der Kammen – Senior Project Manager

1:45pm – 2:45pm, Conference Suite 1C
B8: Closing the gap: scaling floating offshore wind from demonstration to deployment
Workshop
Andrew Stormonth-Darling – Head of Floating

Deep Dive Sessions

Hosted by us and delivered by experts with practical project experience, these sessions are a series of technical presentations sharing the latest advances in environmental interactions, dynamic cabling systems, construction, operations and maintenance, and mooring and anchoring systems.

Wednesday 7th October
10am – 12:30pm, Conference Suite 2A
DD1: Environmental interactions
Grant Phillips – Project Engineer

1pm – 3:30pm, Conference Suite 2A
DD2: Dynamic cabling systems
Emily Sarveswaran – Project Engineer

Thursday 8th October
10am – 12:30pm, Conference Suite 2A
DD3: Construction, operations and maintenance
Ben Moverely-Smith – Project Engineer – Floating Wind

1pm – 3:30pm, Conference Suite 2A
DD4: Mooring and anchoring systems
Fraser MacDonald – Senior Project Manager

Catapult Attendees:

Andrew Stormonth-Darling – Head of Floating Wind
Andy Overton – Head of Strategic Partnerships
Ben Moverly Smith – Project Engineer – Floating Wind
Emily Rees – Head of A&I
Emily Sarveswaran – Project Engineer
Fraser MacDonald – Senior Project Manager
Grant Phillips – Project Engineer – Environmental Interactions
Hugh Riddell – Regional Partnership manager
Jason Patterson – Deepwater Theme Lead
Sarah Montgomery-Chatham – Marketing Comms Exec
Sam Porteous – Senior Engineer – Engineering Projects
Simon Collingwood – Director – Communications
Teo van der Kammen – Senior Project Manager
Tessa Scott – BD Manager
Victoria Gilbert – Director – Operations
Xinyu Wang – R&D Engineer

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