Oceans Beyond the Horizon is a private Club Lunch held during World Ocean Week, bringing together members and guests for a curated conversation on exploration, ocean conservation, and humanity’s evolving relationship with the sea.

At the Club, we gather around ideas that shape not only how we see the world, but how we choose to engage with it — as individuals and as stewards of what comes next.

This time, the conversation turns toward the ocean — not only as territory to explore, but as a living system that connects science, culture, resilience, and the future of our planet.

The lunch will move across multiple dimensions:

As discovery.
As preservation.
As scientific and cultural heritage.
As a fragile ecosystem.
As a source of identity, memory, and future responsibility.

AGENDA

• 12:45 – 13:00: Guest arrival & welcome reception
• 13:00 – 13:25: Introduction to the Explorers Club, the work and journeys of our guest speakers, and the role of modern exploration and ocean conservation today
• 13:25 - 15:00: Seated lunch and open discussion around the table

GUIDING VOICES FOR THE AFTERNOON

Maître de la Table: Paul Niel

Paul Niel is an Austrian adventurer, explorer, and public speaker. He has organised and participated in more than 15 expeditions across all continents and has lived in Portugal for the last three years.

His work moves between exploration, endurance, storytelling, and human connection to remote environments — bringing perspectives shaped not by theory, but by lived experience in some of the world’s most challenging landscapes.

Guest Explorer: Raquel Clemente Martins

Raquel Clemente Martins is a Portuguese filmmaker, explorer, and founder of Women from the Sea — an internationally recognised documentary project and part of the UNESCO Ocean Decade initiative.

Through intimate and socially engaged storytelling, her work explores women’s relationships with the ocean across cultures, generations, and coastal communities. The project has already led to the release of two documentary films over the past two years and continues to grow as an international collection of stories that will be developed throughout the Ocean Decade.

Her films reveal the ocean not only as an environmental concern, but also as a cultural, emotional, and civilizational force that shapes identity, memory, belonging, and the way societies imagine sustainable futures.

• Curated lunch and intimate conversation
• Reflections on exploration, storytelling, and ocean preservation
• Perspectives from expeditions, documentary filmmaking, and cultural heritage
• Thoughtful dialogue with investors, founders, and globally minded members