The 2025 OEEC forum was the 18th annual event, taking place from the 25-26th November in Amsterdam. Over 8,000 industry professionals are brought under one roof for two days of innovation and insight.
Across the exhibition floor, conversations centred on digital acceleration, marine tech innovation, environmental pressures, and the growing need for reliable ocean intelligence. We didn’t want to miss out on that, so the NeuWave team sent over our founder, Jana Stella, to take it all in.
It was the perfect moment for NeuWave to listen, learn, and understand where our products can create real operational value within these core industries.
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What is the OEEC in Amsterdam?
In its own words, the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference (OEEC) is Europe’s leading annual event for the offshore energy and maritime industries. And they’re not exaggerating. It has a wide international scope, but with a particular focus on Northwest Europe; and key markets such as offshore wind, oil and gas, and sustainable maritime solutions.
The event itself centres around the exhibition floor in the iconic RAI Amsterdam building. In person, it’s an expansive maze of innovation made up of over 500 stalls and presentations. So if you’re thinking of attending next year, be sure to check the brochure and follow a map!
On the exhibition floor, industry professionals, investors, policymakers, and startups, all meet to do business and connect. The OEEC is the place to be for networking and making offshore operations contracts.
The varied event programme included presentations from energy sector leaders and experts. With an additional stage hosting thought leadership sessions, providing a platform for companies or individuals to offer key insights, and explore solutions to future challenges.
Attendees can also hire out more private meeting rooms and spaces, to discuss contracts, build connections, or even host a roundtable discussion for a slightly larger audience.
The role of Amsterdam in European offshore industry
It seems unfair to credit the OEEC event itself, without giving some time to Amsterdam and its unique role in the European offshore industry and maritime sectors. And who doesn’t enjoy a bit of local history?
The Netherlands has a deep and foundational link to its maritime identity. We may often think of the country’s more recent past, but for over a thousand years now, the Dutch have been a successful seafaring people.
As the Maritime Heritage Project puts it, their history is “mainly a history of water.”
Amsterdam itself has long sat at the heart of this storied history, and is home to the National Maritime Museum (which we definitely recommend visiting if you’re in the city!)
From around 1600, Amsterdam became the centre of trade in the Baltic, boosted by its strong, deeply rooted shipping abilities. As the Dutch Republic rose as a major naval power, so too did the city of Amsterdam’s influence on European trade and seafaring.
Today, Amsterdam has less to do with military affairs, but it remains a centre of European maritime industry. Its identity has changed somewhat. But, since the era of the Vikings, the Dutch have been respected maritime craftsmen; and this earned reputation remains. The innovation continues.
The world’s first ever yachts were constructed here, and maritime equipment from the Netherlands powers some of the world’s most complex seagoing vessels. Amsterdam has a thriving modern offshore industry, centring largely around renewables, trade, and sustainable innovation.
All in all, it’s a wholly fitting home for the Offshore Energy Exhibition & Conference.
NeuWave at the OEEC 2025
So, aside from the fact that Amsterdam is a beautiful city with a rich and iconic history, the NeuWave team were there for business.
The annual OEEC event is a showcase of European offshore innovation, and a hub of potential networking opportunities. With hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals in attendance, this was an exciting opportunity to get NeuWave on the radar of more potential collaborators and clients.
NeuWave’s market is niche and global. And after years of work building our machine learning models, we’re finally at a point with product development and certification where we’re ready to hit trials and get things going.
At the OEEC, Jana got the chance to meet and chat with a number of tug boat and drilling companies to build a better understanding of the industry’s unique, practical needs and challenges. The conference focused on the supply chain, and featured businesses that ranged from early stage startups to worldwide operators.
Everything throughout the weekend felt friendly, relaxed, and productive – a great signpost for the Dutch offshore market.
Souvenirs from Amsterdam – what did we bring back?
We didn’t leave Amsterdam empty-handed, but with a load of new relationships, a sharper insight, and a clearer sense of where NeuWave fits into the broader offshore ecosystem.
Over two packed days, Jana connected with a wide range of operators working across shipping, towing, and offshore support. Some closer to home in the UK, others operating right across Europe. Those conversations opened the door to expanding NeuWave’s geographic coverage and ensuring our intelligence reflects the realities of cross-border offshore operations.
Many companies were keen to explore collaboration with NeuWave, not just as a future idea, but as something tangible and practical for right now. Since returning, we’ve continued those discussions, digging deeper into use cases and operational pain points where better environmental data could make a real difference.
OEEC 2025 reinforced that NeuWave is building in the right direction; and that the market is ready for what comes next.
Two days in Amsterdam highlighted the growing appetite for innovation across offshore markets. From wind and maritime to future fuels and digitalisation, the message was consistent: better data unlocks better decisions.
NeuWave’s role sits directly in that space, and the OEEC 2025 has set the tone for our year ahead.
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