BlueConneX Launches as the Connective Intelligence Platform for the Ocean Enterprise
New market intelligence platform will deliver clarity before action for industry professionals, investors, and innovators navigating the Ocean Enterprise
London, 10 March 2026 — BlueConneX, a new market intelligence platform, announces its launch at Oceanology International (Oi). Developed under the Marine Technology Society’s Ocean Enterprise Initiative, BlueConneX delivers connective intelligence for the Ocean Enterprise — providing professionals across the ocean value chain with the cross-sector visibility and decision support needed to navigate the ocean observing space.
The Challenge: A Fragmented Ocean Information Landscape
The Ocean Enterprise — the intersection of data, technology, products, and services within the global ocean observation space — is growing rapidly, yet stakeholders face a fragmented, siloed information environment, resulting in slowed partnerships, innovation, and funding. Industry operators, investors, and innovators must currently piece together intel from disparate sources, making it difficult to understand market trends, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions with confidence.
BlueConneX was built to solve these challenges by connecting cross-sector insight and market signals into a single, trusted interface.
Built for the Ocean Enterprise
BlueConneX is designed for industry operators across the ocean value chain — including ocean technology manufacturers, surveyors and ocean mapping firms, systems integrators and software developers, marine operators and logistics partners, and many others — and the investors, insurance firms and industry associations who support them. The platform's founding purpose is to enable better decision making in the Ocean Enterprise by clarifying the connections and opportunities across the many players, products, and services that operate within this space.
Beyond Content - Connective Intelligence
BlueConneX is purpose-built for the Ocean Enterprise, enabling the discovery and understanding of its direction and opportunities. With functionality going beyond a simple directory or news aggregator, BlueConneX acts as a strategic intelligence layer built on a foundation of robust information:
- Comprehensive Intel Base - Organizations, technology products & services, and market reports — curated by custom web-scrappers and ingestion tools
- Cross-Sector Visibility — All Ocean Enterprise stakeholders represented – producers & service providers, customers & co-developers, and enablers within the broader system
- Curated Insights — Connecting dots across the entire landscape - through trends, analyses, and suggestions - with unbiased understanding
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Decision Support — True market intelligence that helps professionals act
Become an Early Access Partner
BlueConneX will debut at Oceanology International in March 2026, one of the world's premier ocean technology and science events. Early access to the platform will be offered to select industry representatives to help shape the platform's development and its utility to Ocean Enterprise constituents and beyond.
"Early access to BlueConneX is an opportunity to be part of building something the Ocean Enterprise has needed for a long time," said Hans VanSumeren, Sr. Director of the Ocean Enterprise Initiative. "We are building this with and for the people who live and work in this space — and we invite their insights to help guide the development."
About BlueConneX
BlueConneX is a web-based intelligence platform developed under the Marine Technology Society’s Ocean Enterprise Initiative with LINKITSYSTEMS, and with funding supported by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Ocean Enterprise Initiative executive partners include the Integrated Ocean Observing System, the Global Ocean Observing System and industry partners L3Harris and Kongsberg.
The platform is designed to provide connective intelligence across the ocean value chain, helping professionals gain the clarity they need before action. BlueConneX is currently in early access mode and will be released to the public in Q2 2026.
About the Marine Technology Society
The Marine Technology Society (MTS) believes that advancements in the development and use of marine technologies are essential to support responsible and sustainable use of the ocean. Founded in 1963, MTS is an international professional society that provides members of academia, government, and industry a common forum for the exchange of information and ideas. MTS members are engineers, scientists, technologists, policy makers, and educators on the leading-edge of technology design and application. MTS members work within the full spectrum of ocean and subsea technologies that support sustainable ocean use, ranging from offshore energy to dynamic positioning, ocean robotics to buoys, and many more.
Media Contact
Hans VanSumeren, Senior Director of the Ocean Enterprise Initiative | Marine Technology Society | [email protected]
