Inaugural Edition in Monaco

BUSINESS & GROWTH
Yachting worlds: a data-driven global picture across yachting segments and wealth

THE ROAD TO NET ZERO
The road to Net Zero, utopian or achievable?

BUSINESS & GROWTH
Fragmentation, consolidation, specialization, how are businesses bound to evolve?
All sectors are confronted with an evolution of commercial strategies, whether considering an integrated approach or a highly specific set of products and services, whether locally or globally. In today’s changing world, this panel explores the various options and practical reasons that drives the choices made.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: NETWORKING BREAK
TOURISM & EXPERIENCE
How to make yachts valuable rather than depreciating assets
From investment amortization through rent or charter to scarcity strategies, from the growth of refit to increasing replacement costs, what are the solutions to avoid yachts being treated like cars — with a perspective from luxury industries that increase the value of their products over time.

THE PRACTICAL ROAD TO NET ZERO
Are regulations and regulators a deterrent to development?
From the difference in tax and compliance requirements used as competitive advantage to the jungle of non-standardized regulations across the world, what’s the best way forward to ensure dynamic growth of the yachting sector.
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: NETWORKING BREAK
REINVENTING YACHTING
How to be future “attractive proof”
With an ever changing ecosystem, increasing environmental constraints, technical complexities and a growing image deficit, what are some of the ways forward to keep making yachting attractive for new generations of crew and operators.

BUSINESS & GROWTH
Building and/or managing a fleet of yachts for rent/charter: pros and cons
Stemming from the previous panel, this session explores whether the present and future of yachting makes fleet ownership as a business a good idea, in which market segments, and how to go about it and where.
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: NETWORKING BREAK
TOURISM & EXPERIENCE
Own or rent / charter?
With the younger generations sociologically more prone to a diversity of experiences without the hassle of ownership, while the latter faces many practical and regulatory challenges, is the future of yachting more likely to validate alternative practices à la AirBnB?
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: WRAP-UP SESSION

THE PRACTICAL ROAD TO NET ZERO
Making complex yachts simple to use
New technologies, engineering, software and automation require increased skills… or not. Is the path followed comparable to the automotive and aviation industries, especially as far as safety is concerned?
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: NETWORKING BREAK
REINVENTING YACHTING
Do sailing & foiling yachts stand a chance?
In the past decades, the sailing yacht market suffered from the swift rise of motor yachting in comparison. With stronger environmental concern and the development of efficient technologies for power boats, what future landscape(s) and distribution between sailing and motor yachts can be expected in the near future.
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM: WRAP-UP SESSION

BUSINESS & GROWTH
Is the “cautious optimism” good old saying always valid?
Whenever there is financial, economic or political turmoil in the world, the yachting industry is impacted. And yet it has always seemed resilient enough to cope with these upheavals, and find new growth avenues. This panel intends to both look back at the past decades and anticipate what the future may hold.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: NETWORKING BREAK
TOURISM & EXPERIENCE
How do make new destinations really emerge?
Stemming from the understanding of “why they cruise where they cruise”, this panel will seek to roadmap priority undertakings for emerging markets to consider in their view to develop yachting and marine tourism.

THE PRACTICAL ROAD TO NET ZERO
How to be future “sustainable proof”
What about everything and everyone else onboard beyond propulsion ? From environmental constraints to supply chain matters and the need for talent, how far is the industry from being able to achieve the 17 UN SDGs ; with what roadmap.
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM: NETWORKING BREAK
REINVENTING YACHTING
How to make yachting stand a chance – development?
What makes yachting controversial in the public’s mind lies in the perception that it is a polluting industry whose aim for the protection of the oceans is only “greenwashing”. Beyond the need to answer this paradox as one its core issues, the development of yachting also entails the possibility to expand territories, both geographically, throughout the calendar year and in the “products” it brings to market.