Samuel (Sam) Fooks is a Developer and Data Engineer at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), contributing to the European Digital Twin Ocean (EDITO) project. His experience is mostly in geospatial data processing, data engineering, and data analytics. He also has experience working...

Julia Vera is an Ocean Economy and Digital Innovation specialist. She is the Lead Manager for Business & Strategy at Seascape Belgium, where she is thrilled to be contributing to the deployment of EDITO, the core public infrastructure of the European Digital Twin Ocean. She...

Tim Collart is trained as a marine geologist at the University of Ghent. He has multidisciplinary research experience in geophysics, physical and chemical oceanography, geospatial data processing and statistical analysis. He works as a Marine Data Analyst and GIS Support Officer at...

He is a Director at Cogea in charge of international and EU activities, and coordinates projects and studies for the European Commission. He focuses on socioeconomic studies and data management. Since 2013, he’s been the coordinator of EMODnet Human Activities, the European Marine...