THE MARELIFE NEWS • JULY • 2012
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Searching for new marine knowlegde at NASF Day Zero.
NASF DAY ZERO – pavingthewayformarine cross talk
The owners of of the international seafood conference NASF AS and the organizers of NASF 2012 have big promises for the next event in March 2013. New themes, new venue and much more are on the agenda in the run-up. - Like all the prior innovation seminars since 2009, the NASF 2012 Preconference was again a new experimental concept although we knew by experience that mobilizing more commercial solution providers and the emerging biomarine sectors together with seafood, Academia and finance would be expected to enhance cross talk and make the arena more complete, said Øystein Lie in his welcome address. In spite of the very diverse structure of operators and delegates we managed to execute a vibrant discussion across disciplines and sectors since you helped us to upgrade our common challenges and opportunities: The master goal for the marine sector across all fields is “smart and sustainable business” and this can best be achieved by systemic approach and solutions which again is best pursued by strengthening cross sector cooperation. The success of any conference session is depending on a well coached discussion. Jostein Refsnes, chair MARING Forum, Norwegian Seafood Federation served this task in a most excellent way and Karl Almaas, CEO Sintef Fishery and aquaculture and Douke Faber, Dutch Fish Product Board co-chaired us safely through the session. - More delegates than ever came to NASF 2012. In fact we had an all-time high attendance with some 560 top-level delegates from
32 countries and close to 300 companies attending the conference. This was 18 % above the 2011 delegate number, states the conference founder Jørgen J. Lund in a communication to the conference delegates. Lund notes that the NASF event this year was in effect a 3-day event, starting March 6th with the well known Day Zero preconference BioMarine seminar, organized by the MareLife Association. As the largest special session, the preconference Day Zero (nicknamed "Day-Z") attracted around 170 delegates to the crowded seminar room at Radisson Blu Scandinavia in Oslo, March 6th. - We managed to get the key players from the solutions provider and the biomarine sector to set the agenda for marine innovation, says prof. Øystein Lie. It is the fourth year that he organizes this preseminar to the North Atlantic Seafood Forum. Petter Dragesund, head of corporate finance at Pareto Securties, says to Oslo Business Memo that Pareto as a part-owner of the NASF will work to attract even more international seafood companies to the meeting in the years to come. The special session "Pareto Seafood Finance and Investor Seminar" presented 17 companies. - For our customers this is a good opportunity to meet the companies and talk to the managment face-to-face, says Dragesund. At the pre-conference Day Zero 20 innovative cases from companies in the marine solution provider sector where presented out of which four cases were awarded. Link to program: http://issuu.com/businessmemo/docs/nasf_2012_day_zero/1 Link to the presentations: http://marelife.org/downloads/category/13-2012-nasfpresentations.html Link to innovative cases: http://marelife.org/north-atlanticseafood-forum/innovative-case-portfolio.html Link to photo collection: http://obm.photoshelter.com/galleryslideshow/G00000eDvaBBuswQ/?start=
THE MARELIFE NEWS - NEWSLETTER TO MARELIFE MEMBERS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF: Øystein Lie | oystein.lie@marelife.org PRODUCED BY: Oslo Business Memo | post@oslobusinessmemo.no