Organising Committee

The Organising Committee is in charge of :

• the technical preparation of the Scientific Committee work (call for papers, programming, relation with authors),
• relation with partners (see opposite) and participants,
• finance (tariff policy, sponsors),
• marketing and event valorisation,
• logistics and management of social events

This conference is organized by EDF and Ifremer. Managers of the Organising Committee are Cyrille Abonnel (EDF) and Michel Paillard (Ifremer), in relation with their respective managements.

Scientific Committee

The Scientific Committee is the guarantor of scientific content of the ICOE 2008 conference.

In particular, to structure the conference program, it will peer review abstracts to select papers and posters, plus invite relevant high level speakers.

15 persons, from more than ten countries, form the Scientific Committee :

• Yves Bamberger, EDF R&D, France (ICOE 2008 co-chairman)
•  Jochen Bard, ISET, Germany
•  Dr Gouri Bhuyan, IEA-OES, International Energy Agency
•  Pr. Ian Bryden, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
•  Chris Campbell, OREG, Canada
•  Peter Fraenkel, Marine Current Turbines, United Kingdom
•  Sverre Gotaas, Statkraft, Norway
•  Pr. Kai Uwe Graw, Dresden Universität, Germany
•  Dr Tony Lewis, University College of Cork, Ireland
•  Dr Kim Nielsen, EU-OEA, Belgium
•  Dr Gérard Nihous, HNEI University of Hawaii, United States
•  Jean-Yves Perrot, Ifremer, France (ICOE 2008 co-chairman)
•  Pr. A. Sarmento, Wave Energy Centre, Portugal
•  Pierre-Armand Thomas, TECHNIP, France
•  Jose-Luis Villate, Robotiker-Tecnalia, Spain