The International Advisory and Technical Committee for Oceans '17 comprises:
- Dr Frank Caimi - Skycross, USA
- Prof Andrea Caiti – University of Pisa, Italy
- Dr Leo Lai Chan - City Univ of Hong Kong, HK
- Tim Clarke - DSTL, UK
- Dr Nuno Cruz – INESC TEC, Portugal
- Dr Fraser Dalgleish - Harbor Branch Foundation, USA
- Dr Ken Foote - WHOI, USA
- Dr Maaten Furlong - NOC, UK
- Prof Rene Garello – Institute of Mines-Telecom/Telecom Bretagne, France
- Prof Gwyn Griffiths – Autonomous Analytics, UK
- Prof Hugh Griffiths – UCL, UK
- Prof Jean-Pierre Hermand – ULB, Belgium
- Dr Malcolm Heron – James Cook University, Australia
- Prof Peter Hobson – Brunel University, UK
- Dr Alan Jamieson – University of Newcastle, UK
- Dr Stef Kapusniak – SMD, UK
- Prof Johannes Kiefer - Bremen University, Germany
- Prof Ye Li – Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Prof David Meldrum – SAMS, UK
- Dr Todd Morrison III – WHOI, USA
- Prof David Paterson - University of St Andrews and MASTS, UK
- Ian Phillips - CEO Oil & Gas Innovation Centre, UK
- Dr Harumi Sugimatsu - University of Tokyo, Japan
- Karen Seath - Decom North Sea.
- Prof Eduardo Silva – INESC TEC, Portugal
- Prof Joao Soares – University of Porto, Portugal
- Prof Tamaki Ura - Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
- Dr Nick Wright - Univ of Newcastle, UK
- Prof Lucy Wyatt – University of Sheffield, UK
- Prof Bing Zheng – Ocean University of China, China
- Prof Oliver Zielinski - Oldenburg University, Germany
