YACHTING INDUSTRY

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The event brings together recognised names from across the yachting and marine sectors, creating direct links between established industry expertise and next-generation innovation. Through mentoring, technical exchange, and on-site presence, these companies help strengthen the Challenge as a platform for talent, experimentation, and sustainable progress.

NETWORKING

Job Forum

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PROGRAMME

CORPORATE MENTORING

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SHOWCASE

Laboratory of Innovations

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Innovation

YCM E-DOCK

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SHOWCASE

Conference

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SHOWCASE

Hydrogen Round Table

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Why the Yachting Industry Joins the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge

The Monaco Energy Boat Challenge offers a rare platform where the yachting industry can engage directly with students, researchers, and innovators working on real-world solutions for electric propulsion, hydrogen, alternative fuels, energy efficiency, and low-emission boating. It is not simply a showcase event, but a working ecosystem built around experimentation, knowledge transfer, and collaboration. For industry professionals, the event is an opportunity to identify emerging technologies, support promising talent, and contribute actively to the energy transition of the maritime sector. For the student teams, it provides direct access to expertise, technical feedback, and real industry expectations

Talent, Recruitment and Mentoring

Job Forum

The Job Forum connects students, young engineers and companies looking for new talent in the yachting and marine sectors. Its purpose is to create concrete opportunities for recruitment, internships and professional meetings during the event, helping companies respond to growing demand for skills in sustainable boating and marine innovation.

MEBC Mentoring Program

The MEBC Mentoring Program gives industry experts the opportunity to support university teams according to their technical needs and design objectives. The programme is structured as a long-term exchange, with mentor-team matching and a 10-month mentoring cycle, making it a serious collaboration tool rather than a simple networking feature. Together, these two pillars make the event especially valuable for the industry: companies gain access to promising profiles and early-stage innovation, while students gain practical insight into industry expectations, processes and technical standards. The official event description presents this interaction as one of the Challenge’s key dynamics.

Conferences for Strategic Industry Insight

The conference programme allows professionals to explore the technologies and decisions shaping the future of advanced yachting. According to the official conference page, the Advanced Yachting Technology Conference focuses on innovation, sustainability, decarbonisation, digitalisation and operational efficiency in the maritime and yachting industries. The same conference platform also addresses alternative fuels and advanced technologies for the sector, extending the event beyond competition and demonstration into reflection, knowledge-sharing and industry-level discussion. This makes the page stronger when positioned not only as an event page, but as an industry gateway into the broader transformation of yachting.

A Showcase for Applied Innovation

Laboratory of Innovations

The Laboratory of Innovations is presented by the event as a place where cutting-edge maritime solutions are introduced and tested. It is positioned as a showcase for pioneering technologies, new designs and practical innovations linked to the future of sustainable boating.

YCM E-Dock

The YCM E-Dock, developed with Aqua superPower, illustrates how infrastructure is becoming a central part of electric boating. The official page states that the dock includes both AC and DC chargers and can serve up to 20 electric boats simultaneously, making it one of the clearest real-world examples of how the event links innovation to operational use. These showcases strengthen the value of the page for industry readers because they demonstrate that the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge is not only about ideas. It is also about visible, testable and scalable solutions for the future of yachting.

testimonials

“Young innovators recognize the importance of real-world impact in sustainable research, thus their projects integrate innovative ideas with practical application. We have always had the same attitude: research to achieve concrete outcomes. Because of this, we are making a difference today and by supporting the pioneers participating in the Challenge we will make a difference tomorrow.”

Alberto Galassi

CEO of Ferretti Group

We share with YCM the desire to encourage development of sustainable yachting. We must protect our oceans, where there is sometimes evidence of disrespectful human impact, by promoting good practices and making everyone aware that the future must be different.

Tanguy Ducros

CCO of Safe Harbor

"Young innovators recognize the importance of real-world impact in sustainable research, thus their projects integrate innovative ideas with practical application. We have always had the same attitude: research to achieve concrete outcomes. Because of this, we are making a difference today and by supporting the pioneers participating in the Challenge we will make a difference tomorrow.”

Giovanna Vitelli

Chair of Azimut | Benetti Group

“At UBS, we are proud to partner with the Yacht Club de Monaco and the Monaco Energy Boat Challenge—an initiative that perfectly aligns with our commitment to innovation and sustainability. This event not only showcases the future of clean energy in marine mobility but also reflects our shared vision of driving positive change through collaboration and forward-thinking leadership.”

Vivien Delaunay

Executive Director UBS

En tant que chantier naval, nous avons le devoir de montrer la voie. Aimer les yachts, c’est aimer la mer. Aimer la mer, c’est respecter l’environnement.

Peter Lürssen

CEO of Lürssen

The Monaco Energy Challenge is a fantastic opportunity to build bridges between the new generation of engineers and our industry. We are convinced that combining our efforts to building a better future for Yachting is key.

Paris Baloumis

Group Marketing Director of Oceanco

“After successfully enabling the first hydrogen refueling during last year’s competition, we are now taking a decisive step forward by supplying hydrogen for the entire event. This collaboration with the Yacht Club de Monaco is not just a sponsorship—it’s a strategic alliance that aligns with our vision for a cleaner, more innovative boating industry,” “By facilitating access to hydrogen-powered solutions, we are demonstrating that the transition to zero-emission yachting is not only possible but already underway”