Blue Economy, innovation, and regenerative development for the Greater Caribbean.
InnovAzul Caribe 2026 is not just "another event": it is an international platform with continuity that connects knowledge, territory, and action to drive a new model of blue development from the Colombian Caribbean to the world.
Opening ceremony · Confirmed venue
Hotel Estelar & Convention Center
September 17 · 8:00 a.m.
Every second brings us closer to the gathering that will connect knowledge, territory, and innovation in Santa Marta.
Start date: September 17, 2026

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The sea as a strategic frontier of sustainable development.
The Caribbean faces critical challenges: climate change, pressure on ecosystems, social gaps, and fragile local economies. At the same time, it holds one of the planet's greatest potentials for an innovative, inclusive, and regenerative blue economy.
More than an event: an ecosystem under construction.
InnovAzul Caribe brings together public, private, academic, and community actors in a living process of co-creating blue economy solutions, combining science, innovation, governance, and territorial knowledge.
InnovAzul Caribe 2026
A narrative connecting territory, culture, and innovation.
The sea does not just separate shores: it unites stories, cultures, and opportunities. InnovAzul Caribe is born from the Caribbean identity to build a future with roots, community, and shared vision.
Blue economy with identity, equity, and purpose.
InnovAzul Caribe recognizes coastal, indigenous, Afro-descendant, and amphibious communities as central actors of blue innovation, integrating scientific knowledge and local wisdom.
AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN THE MAKING
Academia, cooperation, investment, and territory in dialogue.
InnovAzul Caribe brings together universities, cooperation agencies, governments, investors, entrepreneurs, and communities to build alliances that go beyond the event.
WHAT HAPPENS AT INNOVAZUL CARIBE 2026?
Conversations, experiences, and collective building.
The event brings together strategic conferences, high-level panels, co-creation spaces, territorial gatherings, and international articulation sessions.
THEMATIC AXES
Innovation with real impact.
Regenerative blue economy, marine-coastal governance, technological innovation, blue entrepreneurship, international cooperation, and sustainable territorial development.
INNOVAZUL CARIBE 2024
Moments from the gathering in Santa Marta that paved the way to 2026.



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