Conference program

We welcome you to three interactive, challenging and inspiring days at this red-letter conference, where we combine hands-on demonstrations and site visits with lectures and experience-sharing by key players in the industry.

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Day 1 – Tuesday Sep, 6 – Technology and management

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Session 1, 08:30 - 10:30

Parken Kulturhus

Welcome act

By Kåre Nymark

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Opening speech

By Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran, Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

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GATH Introduction

By GATH Board members

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Management, Technology and Sustainability.

By Steinar Sønsteby, CEO ATEA

How to use data to increase profitability

Consumer behavior and legislation will force companies to publish and share data. To be ready for this shift, companies will need to accelerate digitalization and integrate sustainability goals with business strategy. Corporations that have had the foresight to make this transition are now considered industry leaders and have used the power of data to transform business models. Steinar will share his insights on this topic.

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10:30 - 10:50

Coffee break

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Session 2, 10:50 - 12:30

Parken Kulturhus

Unlocking the AI aquaculture

By Morten Goodwin, Ph.D

The deep learning (DL) revolution is touching all scientific disciplines and corners of our lives as a means of harnessing the power of big data. Marine ecology is no exception

The AI revolution is touching the marine and aquaculture sector in a big way. New methods make data analysis easy from sensors, cameras, and acoustic recorders, even in real-time, reproducible, and rapid forms. Off-the-shelf easy-to-use algorithms find, count, and classify species from digital images or video and detect cryptic patterns in noisy marine data.

Dr. Morten will give an inspiring talk about the opportunities for artificial intelligence in aquaculture. He will address the challenges and possibilities through genuine established and emerging artificial intelligence applications in marine aquaculture. Dr. Morten will present case studies on plankton, fish, marine mammals, pollution, nutrient cycling, wound detection, and fish health analytics that involves object detection, classification, tracking, and segmentation of visualized data. Morten will conclude with a broad outlook of the field’s opportunities and challenges, including potential technological advances and managing complex data sets issues needed to train the marine AI systems

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Aquaculture value report

By Maja Olderskog Albertsen, MENON

Presentation of the aquaculture value report made by MENON Economics

The importance of the aquaculture industry’s current and future growth is under-communicated. The background for this is that growth in the industry is often presented together with the seafood industry as a whole. Furthermore, the industry’s significant positive effect on the maritime industry is often under-communicated. Menon will present an analysis of the overall importance of the aquaculture industry to the Norwegian economy, including the importance of activity in the maritime industry.

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GATH presents 3 tech cases

By Artec Aqua, Optimar & Rostein

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Innovation technology

By Lars Petter Aase, Director Growth and Strategy Seafood People

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Technology on the fish’s premises

By Linda Litlekalsøy Aase, CEO SalMar ASA

Experienced President Of The Board Of Directors with a demonstrated history of working in the oil & energy industry. Skilled in Petroleum, Operations Management, Quality Management, Management, and Engineering.

SalMar’s principle is to leave minimal footprints in the areas in which they operate. Salmon farming is one of the most environmentally friendly ways to produce food, but in total, food production accounts for a large part of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.

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Panel discussion

By Bjørnar Selnes Skjæran, Odd Emil Ingebrigtsen, Harald Tom Nesvik

The three latest ministers of fisheries in Norway will have a discussion about the developement of the aquaculture industry. The discussion will be led by Kristian Henriksen, General Manager NCE Aquatech Cluster

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13:00pm - 19:00pm

Break-Out Sessions

Visit World Heritage Salmon, Rødbergvika/HOFSETH
Visit Salmon Evolution, Harøya
Visit Ålesund Exhibition center for aquacultur, Ålesund aquarium
Visit OVUM and experience “Egget”, Vestnes

These are parallel sessions, so be sure to request your seat!

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19:00pm

GATHering at Molo Brew

Day 2 – Wednesday Sep, 7 – Industry and society, teamwork

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Session 1, 08:30 - 10:30

Parken Kulturhus

Welcome act

By Julijane and Svenning

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Opening of day 2

Summary of yesterday and introduction to today's program

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Corporate social responsibility and collaboration

By Petter Leon Fauske, CEO MMC First Process

Putting a man on the moon

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It has to make sense

By Håkon Andre Berg, CEO Salmon Evolution ASA

Beacon for sustainable development

With a background in management of strategy and business development, Håkon André Berg has extensive industrial and financial experience and expertise from various private-equity-related companies.

Social responsibility and sustainability are an integrated part of our business model, and enshrined in our ethical guidelines. We believe that responsible and sustainable business behaviour contributes to better organisational, financial, environmental and social results.

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10:30 - 10:50

Coffee break

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Session 2, 10:50 - 12:30

Parken Kulturhus

How to achieve sustainable growth in an uncertain world

By Roger Hofseth, CEO HOFSET INTERNATIONAL

The Hofseth groups plan to a sustainable aquaculture future

This is the story of how the Hofseth group plans to create a truly sustainable aquaculture ecosystem for the future, by thinking big and planning projects in tune with the environment. The world is changing quickly and unpredictable events in recent years have demonstrated the need to have a resilient and nimble business. The Hofseth group has control over the whole value chain in the production of salmon and we see great potential for further growth in production locally, in Norway.

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The entrepreneur’s narrative, building the world’s largest wellboat company from zero to world leader in the field

By Roger Halsebakk, Sølvtrans

Sølvtrans will talk about the journey and the techological developement for the wellboat industry.

Roger Halsebakk has since 1986 created the world’s largest wellboat company, Sølvtrans. The company currently consists of more than 450 employees and 31 wellboats.

Halsebakk grew up on Sandsøya in Møre og Romsdal and went out to sea at the age of 15 after completing secondary school. His father, two partners, and Roger took over their first wellboat Sølvtrans in 1986. In 91, the partners sold out of the company, while Roger and his father ran the company together for three more years before Roger took over.

Roger was for many years captain and machinist before the business grew so big that he was unable to do everything alone. Sølvtrans, which had previously operated converted freighters, received its first purpose-built wellboat in 1996. The company has long been an early adopter of technological innovations and was an early adopter of closed-system transport as a result of the 1998 ISA crisis in Scotland.

Today after the acquisition and merger with DESS, the company will have as many as 31 wellboats in operation in an industry that is highly in demand and technological innovators.

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Consumer market perspective on aquaculture

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Pioneering the future

By Johan Andreassen, CEO Atlantic Sapphire

Leading by example

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GATH presents 3 tech cases

By BAADER, Patogen & Cflow

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13:00 - 17:00

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Parken Hotel – Løvsalen

Exhibition

Visit the stands in the exhibition combined with Lunch

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13:30pm - 14:30pm

Parken Hotel – AMFI

Special-session – Eksfin & Innovation Norway

– Competitive financing solutions for the seafood sector, Marie Sørlie, Head of Seafood, Eksfin

– Advice and guidelines in how Norwegian and foreign companies can use Innovation Norway and our services.Petter Bunes, Senior Advisor, Innovation Norway

– Korean Landbased Aquaculture Opportunities, Ms. Jihyun Yun, Ph.D, CEO, AquaPro

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19:00pm – 22:00pm

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Parken Hotel – Bankettsalen

GATH Conference Dinner

Gala dinner with speaches and entertainment

Dresscode: Dark suite

Day 3 – Thursday Sep, 8 – Sustainability and trends

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08:30 - 10:30

Parken Kulturhus

Opening of day 3

Summary of yesterday and introduction to today's program

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Sustainable food production through aquaculture

By Ola Kvalheim, CEO GADUS Group AS

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Norwegian seafood globally and the importance of sustainability

By Tom-Jørgen Gangsø, Director, market insight and market access. Norges Sjømatråd

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Enclosed fish farming

By Cato Lyngøy, CEO OVUM

OVUM represents a new robust enclosed technology for industrial fish farming. The aim of the new technology is to enable sustainable growth in the aquaculture industry.

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Guidelines for ESG reporting within aquaculture

By Marion Remøy, Hanne Lillebø Walsh, Lene Bratseth

Sparebanken Vest, Sparebank 1 SMN and Sparebanken Møre presents in cooperation work on sustainability and reporting within GATH

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10:30 - 10:50

Coffee Break

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Session 2, 10:50 - 13:00

Parken Kulturhus

Scaling the aquaculture industry with diversity

By Beate Solheim Grønnevik, Vice president Havlandet Havbruk AS

Beate Solheim Grønnevik is an experienced Market Executive with a demonstrated history of working in the logistics and supply chain industry.

Strong business development professional skilled in Marketing Management, Retail, Advertising, Sales, and Sales Management.

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Sustainability in seafood – what do the consumer want?

By Olav Holst-Dyrnes, CEO Insula AS

The seafood consumers awareness of seafood has increased over the years. From NGOs and governments driving the development to the big retail chains. Have we now seen a shift where we as consumers are the main driving force for sustainability and what does this mean for seafood in general and aquacultural specifically?

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GATH presents 3 tech cases

By Visma Avento, Hypertermics, Møreforskning

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Future food trends

By Kjell Nordström, International business guru

The Momentum of the Matrix-how sustainability and deep digitization shape the future of business

# The great party of globalisation is coming to an end. Oligons and empires enter the scene.# Megacities and the return of the Nationstate.# New organisational forms and the bodyless leadership

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