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S9: E1 | Floating Cities & the Path Towards a Gulf Coast Climate Tech Unicorn

New Orleans Entrepreneur Week Season 9 Episode 1

In the coming decades, resilient Gulf Coast communities will learn to adapt to a radically transformed water-inundated intercostal zone to preserve their rich cultural heritage and way of life. Marine-based floating infrastructure and related ‘Blue’ technologies will replace current infrastructure, services, and residential construction forms. You'll hear from Greg Delaune of the Deep Blue Institute and Elliot Metzger, founder of Talisea. 

Listen to discover how New Orleans can become a global Blue Technology Innovation Ecosystem hub, driving exponential development, deployment, and scaling of the climate technologies that will define this future marine-based Blue Economy.