Hinano Murphy gave a Keynote Speech on the Voice of the Ocean, attended by 1500+ congress participants. At the same congress, Frank Murphy organized a symposium with indigenous leaders from across the Pacific including Dan Hikuro, a Senior Lecturer in Māori Studies at the University of Auckland; Tamatoa Bambridge, an anthropologist and research director at the French CNRS; Aulani Wilhelm, former Senior Vice-President Conservation International and Assistant Director for Ocean Conservation, Climate and Equity at the White House; Frank Brown, the Heiltsuk Nation Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University; and Diane Brown GwaaGanad, knowledge keeper and youngest Haida language speaker and Ts'aahl clan matriarch, Haida Nation.
