Each year a Keynote Speaker is selected by the Conference Committee to speak to the entire conference immediately after the plated lunch in the main exhibit hall on the final day.  Keynote Speakers present on subjects of interest to the Canadian underwater industry.

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The 2025 Keynote Speaker will be Michael Gernhardt, NASA astronaut and principal investigator of the Prebreathe Reduction Program (PRP).  Michael is a former professional diver with over 700 deep sea dives, and has experience in air, mixed gas, bell and saturation diving.

Wikipedia link:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_L._Gernhardt

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Previous Keynote Speakers are listed below.

2024

Kirk Krack - DEEP Research Labs and the DEEP Institute

• Marine Science Fiction into Marine Science Reality: How DEEP will change Ocean Exploration

2023

Thierry Boyer - Parks Canada

• Exploring Franklin Ships HMS Erebus & Terror

2018

Dr. Phil Nuytten

• Development of Undersea Technology in British Columbia

2017

Jason Muise - Technip Canada

• Intervention in Canada's Offshore Oil & Gas Sector - the Past and the Future

2016

Filippo Ronca - Parks Canada Underwater Archaeology Team

• The Franklin Expedition

2015

Kate Moran - Ocean Networks Canada

2014

Mike Fletcher - Dive Detectives