Ocean Connect Asia (OCA) is the region’s dedicated platform for advancing marine, hydrographic, and uncrewed technologies across Southeast Asia’s vast and strategically vital waters and beyond.

OCA builds on five years of development alongside Geo Connect Asia, the region’s flagship event for geospatial, remote sensing, and location intelligence. First introduced as Marine & Hydro Asia, the event attracted 16% of Geo Connect Asia’s 2025 2,930 attendees, highlighting strong engagement from blue economy leaders, marine scientists, hydrographic experts and uncrewed systems innovators.

Set against the backdrop of ASEAN’s emergence as the world’s fourth-largest economy, with a population of over 660 million and a GDP nearing US$3 trillion, OCA serves as a timely response to both opportunities and challenges in the region’s interconnected coastal, island, and ocean territories. While these waters are central to trade, energy, and societal development, they also face increasing pressure from climate change and shifting geopolitical dynamics.

Singapore is the ideal meeting place for Ocean Connect Asia and its sister events.

2,930Attendees
50+Countries
100Exhibitors

THE VENUE

Sands Expo and Convention Centre is Singapore’s leading MICE venue.

Its location in downtown Singapore is favoured by C level visitors from government and enterprise. For international visitors and exhibitors, the venue is 25 minutes from Singapore’s Changi Airport by taxi.

With all the event activities taking place in the entrance level hall access is one minute away from the taxi rank and three minutes from the Bayfront MRT station. The station connects to the Circle and Downtown Line of Singapore's Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) train system.

Since 2010, the integrated resort has welcomed more than 1,000 new-to-Singapore MICE activities, including Geo Connect Asia, which returns to the venue for the fourth consecutive year.

The organiser

Established in 2016, Montgomery Asia is a fully owned subsidiary of London based Montgomery Group. The company focuses on growing Asian markets, developing new trade shows that meet the needs of the regional markets.