Julie Angus, CEO & Co-Founder, Open Ocean Robotics

Julie is the CEO and cofounder of Open Ocean Robotics, a marine robotics company that provides zero-emission ocean monitoring to offshore energy and government customers. She is a bestselling author, scientist, and explorer who received National Geographic’s Adventurer of the Year award when she became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean from mainland to mainland.  Julie has written three books, has a graduate degree in microbiology, and is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded two previous ocean-focused businesses. Julie is a director on NATO’s Maritime Unmanned System Initiative Innovation advisory board and the Centre for Ocean Applied Sustainable Technologies (COAST) advisory board.

Julie has an honorary doctorate from McMaster University and is a Royal Canadian Geographic Society Fellow.  In 2020 she was awarded Innovator of the Year by BC Business and in 2021 she was recognized as Industry Icon by the BC Cleantech Industry.