Scientists from China, USA and Italy recently gathered in the city Hangzhou, which is well known for her beautiful West Lake as the Paradise on Earth, to convene the "Lakeside" brainstorming with the vision to promote the Indian Ocean science, on Nov. 24-25, 2019, with the kind host by Prof. In-Sik Kang and his newly affiliated Indian Ocean Center at the Second Institute of Oceanography (SIO) of Ministry of Natural Resources. The Agenda of the 2-day workshop is presented in Annex 1; the list of participants is shown in Annex 2.