An Ocean of Opportunity
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Networked Leadership
for a Sustainable Future
www.robinteigland.com | www.slideshare.net/eteigland | Robin.teigland@gmail.com | @RobinTeigland
Professor Robin Teigland
Chalmers University of Technology

Open access

Sweden is
lagging in digital
competitiveness
Digital
maturity
https://digital-competitiveness.eu/digitalriser/

The future?
Conway 2003
What we don’t know
we don’t know
What we know
What we know
we don’t know

VALUE
CREATION
Political Economic
Sociological
Technological
Environmental
Legal
PESTEL

https://www.outsite.co/

Scheveningen Harbor – The Hague

3D printer workshop on Lisette’s boat
Knowledge: RepRap community
E-commerce: Aliexpress

Transformation of economic activity?
Centralized,
hierarchical
Decentralized,
self-organizing

http://www.regenvillages.com/
Self-sustaining communities?

The future?
Conway 2003
What we don’t know
we don’t know
What we know
What we know
we don’t know

“The future is best found
in the opportunities
that go unnoticed
in the present.”
- Peter Drucker

Leading
in an uncertain
world
Visioning
Networking for
Purpose and
Serendipity
Building
Collective
Competence
Co-creating
and
Experimenting

Looking into the future?
• Forecast
–How we think the future will be
• Vision
–How we want the future to be
• Scenarios
–What the future can be
–“Alternative memories” from the future
?
?
?
?

Scenarios – How will we live and work in 2030?
Global
Power
Struggle
New
World
Order
High Technology Convergence
Low Technology Convergence
Critical Uncertainty 1
Critical
Uncertainty
2

Global
Power
Struggle
Scenario 1
Race to the bottom
in an Alibaba World
New
World
Order
High Technology Convergence
Low Technology Convergence
Scenario 3
Circular
Villages
Scenario 4
Global Village
Networks
Scenario 2
MegaCities in
the ”Wild West”
Scenarios – How will we live and work in 2030?

Cybersecurity
--
A growing risk

Exploitation Exploration

”No one knows everything,
everyone knows something,
all knowledge resides in humanity.”
networks
Adapted from Lévy 1997
Six degrees of separation
- Milgram, 1967
Image: Krebs

B
A
Two individuals

Two different networks
B
A

http://www.enronexplorer.com/focus/19185#
Avoid creating “Echo Chambers”

Peniche, Portugal

Motorcycle Club

Centuries
of tradition

How might we empower
coastal communities to take
back their future?

To create a hotspot for entrepreneurial activity
and a flagship in ocean innovation and
circular economy

Emerging technologies
enable sustainable
ocean opportunities

University
Shipyard
Port
Tourists
Entrepreneurs
Fishing boats
”Trapped” resources
Warehouses
Fishermen
Digital nomads
Students
Local industries

Recycling
Ocean Waste with
Graphene & 3D Printing
Recovering Ocean
Litter with Repurposed
Fishing Vessels
Manufacturing combined
with Blockchain
PENICHE OCEAN WATCH
A Blue Circular Economy Based on Ocean Litter
Sustainable Ocean
Entrepreneurship
Mapping Ocean Litter
with AI & Drones
55
TONNE
S
LITTER

Team
Partners

Ocean Tech Hub LDA (OCT)
PENICHE OCEAN WATCH
CIRCULAR ECONOMY MODEL
Mapping Harvesting Recycling Entrepreneurship
Manufacturing

AI and drones for
sustainable fishing and ghost net mapping
AI-enabled drones for
sustainable fishing

Creating a microfactory
Circular Ocean
Handling & pelletizing
Sculptur Ocean
Large scale additive manufacturing

Graphene-polymer
composite material
properties
Emerging marine
requirements
Large- scale 3D printing
system requirements
High degree of
interdependence

”Silicon Valley of Ocean Tech”
with European Values
100 km
Go4Surf
2Rodas Microfactory
Shipyard
SmartOcean Accelerator
CETEMARES Polytechnic
TGW Co-working
Fishing Port
POW
Peniche Marine Industry

Attracting talent

Leading in an
uncertain world Visioning
Networking for
Purpose and
Serendipity
Building
Collective
Competence
Co-creating
and
Experimenting

Documentary on Portuguese National TV
https://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p37509/e4
My TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_teigland_circular_economy_and_serendipity

Robin Teigland
www.robinteigland.com
www.slideshare.net/eteigland
robin.teigland@gmail.com
Mafalda de Freitas
CEO, Peniche Ocean Watch
mafalda.df@gmail.com
www.penicheoceanwatch.com
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