About the Innovation Showcase
Charting the course for the future of cruise
New for 2025
- Solutions First: This showcase is dedicated to presenting innovative solutions for the cruise industry. Exhibitors must undergo a qualification process, demonstrating their solution’s innovation and uniqueness to our qualification committee. This curated approach ensures a focused and impactful display of only the most relevant and ground-breaking offerings.
- Fair Marketing Advantage: Your innovation takes center stage at the showcase. We offer two standardized turnkey stand options, ensuring all participants have an equal opportunity to shine. This approach allows a focus on your solution rather than elaborate displays.
- Engagement Workshops: Maximize your exhibition impact with our targeted pre-show workshops. CLIA is offering three daily workshops designed to equip exhibitors with insider knowledge on effectively engaging cruise lines, ports, and shipbuilders. The series kicks off with an exclusive introduction featuring Chief Procurement Officers from our member organizations, providing your direct insights from key decision-makers.
- All Inclusive Access: As an exhibitor, your experience extends beyond the showcase, including full access to the CLIA European Summit programme, including all sessions, networking.
Why Exhibit
Exhibiting gives you the opportunity to build on CLIA’s market advantage – 95% of cruise lines in the world are CLIA members, and the CLIA Innovation Showcase gives you direct access to decision makers from our member cruise lines, port authorities, shipbuilders, and other key industry stakeholders.
With Rotterdam as a central hub of cruising in Northern Europe, CLIA is convening its member cruise line executives for strategic meetings and mapping the future of the cruise industry.
As a cornerstone of CRUISE WEEK EUROPE, the Innovation Showcase will convene the cruise line executives, port authorities, ship builders, industry suppliers, and procurement decision makers seeking new innovations that will propel the cruise sector into a new era of excellence and sustainability.
- Unparalled Exposure: Showcase groundbreaking products and services to decision makers at not only CLIA cruise lines, but also ports authorities and shipbuilders.
- Innovation-Driven Focus: Present solutions that address the evolving needs of the rapidly advancing cruise sector.
- Direct Access: Connect with member cruise lines executives, ports authorities, and key industry buyers relevant to your offerings.
- Enhanced Networking: Leverage a platform designed to foster collaboration, demonstrations, and knowledge-sharing.
- Executive Engagement:Participate in curated opportunities to interact with industry stakeholders
- Industry-Wide Visibility: Benefit from a turnkey exhibit format that ensures fair and equal opportunity to highlight your offerings.
Cruise Line Advisory Group
We are extremely fortunate to be collaborating with our member cruise line Chief Procurement Officers on guiding our content, supporting the event and assisting to attract new suppliers. The Showcase gathers key cruise line decision makers, leading industry providers and new-to-cruise business partners to engage in exclusive thought-provoking programming.
- Jon McKeown – Chief Procurement Officer, Carnival Corp
- Marco Dioda – Vice President, Procurement and Supply Chain, Costa Group
- Francesco Bassoli – Chief Procurement Officer, MSC Cruises SA
- Paolo Raia – Managing Director, MSC Procurement & Logistics S.p.A.
- Carolina Mazuera – SVP Supply Chain Management & Procurement, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
- James Wells – Global Chief Supply Chain Officer, Royal Caribbean Group
- Giorgio Zagami – VP Strategic Sourcing and Head of Procurement, Explora Journeys
Local Hosts
2024 Genoa
Featured Exhibitors