To open the event, Chairman of The Superyacht Group, Martin H. Redmayne, will take to the stage and reveal why we are changing the game at The Superyacht Design Forum this year, by using fresh and exciting perspectives never before heard in the superyacht sphere.

Our first exciting and inspirational visionary will share their perspective on the superyacht industry, and how their unique approach to art and design through cutting-edge technology such as 3D-printing with bioplastic illustrates the potential of renewable materials and sustainable processes.

Lunch hotspots: Arte, Colony, de Le Cuona, Fox Linton, McKinnon and Harris

Summit and Winch Design will take you on a journey behind the scenes of design partnerships to discover the commercial power of collaborations.

Could you fit your life into 27sqm? Marking its London debut, award-winning Italian architect Beatrice Bonzanigo will present 'Casa Ojalá', to illustrate the real meaning of space.

Delegates of The Superyacht Design Forum will be invited to travel in time as a highly-skilled technical manager from Mayfair Marine transports us far beyond 2019, taking a closer look at hydrogen and its prevalence within our industry.

De Voogt Naval Architects will take delegates on a journey of discovery to find the YETI: a Yacht Environmental Transparency Index to chart the balance between the product we supply and the impact it has on the environment.

Through a new partnership between one of the leading names in travel, and a smaller, tech-focused business, we will look at new processes that can be implemented to maximise the owner and guest experience.

A rare designer journey that will inspire and inform.

Tea & Coffee hotspots: Dedar, Houles, SA Baxter, Summit

This candid Lloyd’s Register workshop is designed to allow designers, suppliers, project teams and subcontractors to share their opinions, ideas and perspectives on how class societies can improve the dialogue and process of approval for the next generation of designs and concepts. This is also an opportunity for Lloyd’s Register to explore what designers want and what class societies want in order to make the relationship more symbiotic and harmonious.

With the next generation of clients becoming ever tech-focused, can virtual reality and similar software improve the way we design and present the finished product to a client? We will also look at how virtual reality can create solutions and avoid last minute changes when brought in at the early stages of a project.

In this session we will discuss the imbalance between the number of awards programmes within our small and niche market.
Through a comparison across industries, we will look at awards such as the RIBA Sterling Prize, and how this accolade continues to remain highly credible and well-respected among the architecture industry.

Sustainability is a sensitive issue for any luxury industry, and at this year’s edition of The Superyacht Design Forum, we will use the Water Revolution Yachting 4.0 tool to assess superyachts, and discuss how yachting can be better presented in terms of sustainability and efficiency.

Future thinkers of our industry will reveal what they really think about the industry at present, and what they would like to see happen.

The relationship and communication between every party within a project, from designers and interior subcontractors to shipyards and owners, is key to a successful, on-time and on-budget delivery, yet often these relationships are not maintained. This debate will explore what we can be doing better

Tea & Coffee hotspots: Altfield, Alton-Brooke, Samuel Heath, Savoir Beds

With our overarching theme of “An External Perspective”, this session will discuss how to think differently about what superyachts could be, in relation to the future and where the world is heading - accompanied by glass of fizz to help us envisage these ideas!

Martin H. Redmayne, Chairman of The Superyacht Group, & Claire German, Managing Director of Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, invite you to celebrate The Superyacht Design Forum and mingle with our hand-selected experts external to the superyacht industry.

Following our first day of invigorating workshops, we dive straight back in as our Chariman, Martin H. Redmayne, introduces day two of The Superyacht Design Forum featuring designer draw-offs, illuminating new ways of working with light, and the first ever Chelsea Grand Prix.

An external expert in the creative world of sustainability will illustrate the necessity of circular economics through a unique case study, and how this can be applied to the superyacht industry.

Delegates, experts and speakers will be invited to interact and discuss the work and ideas of the Young Designer entrants for the SuperyachtUK Young Designer of the Year Competition.

2 teams, 60 seconds. A group of designers will follow a verbal brief to see what they can come up with in one minute each.
It's a race against the clock.

Similar to Top Gear, all designers and petrol heads in the audience will be invited to race against each other to find out who is the best driver in the creative space.

Based in the UK with sustainability running through its veins, LIGNIA Wood Company invites delegates to think on their feet in the search for future-proof materials.

Lunch hotspots: Arteriors, Artisans of Devizes, GMR Interiors, Siberian Floors

Synthetic biology is an interdisciplinary branch of biology and engineering. This session will reveal the design process and inspiration behind the world's first microbe grown headset, illustrating the potential of the SynBio movement in product design.

With the insight of Akzonobel, whose science is protecting the world’s most iconic buildings, landmarks and planes, we will use this open platform conversation to debate the lack of originality in exterior finishing and creativity with coatings and paint systems.

For all the superyacht market’s varied genius, few would argue that it has conquered the world of social media. As Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other tools have become important sources of inspirations and business for clients and creatives, we question what are we doing right socially, with the external expertise of two leading influencer marketeers and social strategists.

Creating unique atmospheres as well as both inspirational and relaxing environments on board superyachts is driven by light. An external perspective is shared by a light visionary who manipulates light and will provide us with a new way of seeing.

The trend for "explorer" yachts is still on-going, but are we just creating a fashion "Range Rover" statement or do we know how to design a yacht that is built for discovery?

Our keynote speakers will combine their external expertise with knowledge from leading members of the superyacht industry to prepare us for what we can expect to see in the future. Accompanied by a glass of bubbles, you will leave The Superyacht Design Forum with a new perspective on the superyacht industry.