The Deep Sea Mining Summit will focus on the challenges facing the deep sea mining industry and identify innovative technological developments needed to address those challenges, including:

• The economic landscape and growth for deep sea mining
• Achieving sustainable sea bed mining projects in harmony with nature
• The status of prospecting and exploration, the latest methods and results
• Regional opportunities to harvest seafloor massive sulphides and manganese nodules
• Working with nations through a regulatory framework, the opportunities and risks
• Technological developments associated with commercializing deep sea mining