The conference will draw together members of the scientific community, researchers, academia and the offshore wind engineering industry from around the world.

The OOAE Division of ASME is hosting the conference, with the local organizers being from Principle Power, Inc and The University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

More than 100 technical papers will be presented at the conference in the following two tracks:

Scientific Track

  • New Fixed Offshore Concepts
  • New Floating Concepts
  • Mooring & Foundations
  • Offshore Turbines Modeling
  • Aero-Hydro modeling
  • Structural Analysis
  • Metocean
  • Model Testing
  • Field Data
  • Farms / Layouts

Project Development Track

  • Permits
  • Environmental Issues
  • Fabrication & Industrialization
  • Installation / Commissioning
  • O&M
  • Decommissioning
  • Asian Projects
  • American Projects
  • European Projects
  • Financing Challenges & PPAs