UK Naval Engineering Science & Technology (UKNEST)’s FutureNEST initiative presents Project Zeus, an opportunity to demonstrate how the UK is striving to tackle climate change and operate under new conditions by promoting the skills and competencies of the maritime enterprise, and by exercising the imaginations of a new generation of STEM talent. Against the backdrop of DSEI 2023, it offers a means to promote the service as innovative and alive to the possibilities presented by technological change.