2024.11.21. Pacific Marine Expo + Founder's Live

The Pacific Marine Expo is a 2.5 day affair 11/20-22. I only went on Thursday, not very early. My first time ever. Location: the event center of Lumen Field. Is it the same as WaMu Theatre? It's a very large 2 story hall. Lots of vendors, from mechanic tools to digital monitoring system, fishing industry, recreational vessels, government agencies, environment NGOs. There's one company that only showcases their chicken egg (in powder), but they don't sell it there.

I attended a few educational talks, and talked to a few vendors (including the egg seller, yes, it does taste like egg). I liked these.

• Linde's plasma cutting machine, and it cut a steel fish for anyone who wants one.
• Rachel Aronson from Maritime Blue talked about its Quite Sound voluntary program. About 70% vessels going through Puget Sound voluntarily lower their speed during winter season, to reduce underwater sound pollution, when Orcas are around.

No food or drink provided by the expo. There are vendors who sell lunch. However, at 4pm, one company hosted a happy hour with some sliders and beer, and it soon ran out. I'm also surprised to see quite a few groups from Alaska, at least 2 from Bristol Bay.

I left for Founders Live event (6-8pm). 4 founders today:

• news publishing/subscribing database service
• a little AI robot friend
• yet another social network
• EV charging robot

The EV charging robot idea won the popular vote today.