Marlife News #1 2014

NOK 100.000 TO THE MOST INNOVATIVE MARINE CASE

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REGISTER FOR MARINE INNOVATION DAY TUESDAY MARCH 4TH IN BERGEN

DILEK AYHAN opens Marine Innovation Day 2014:

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MEET THE INNOVATION MINISTER!

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• NEXT GENEREATION AQUACULTURE • • SUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION OF MARINE RESOURCES • • • NEW BLUE INNOVATION “CLIMATE” INVENTORS, ENTREPRENEURS, PRODUCERS, SOLUTIONS PROVIDERS, INVESTORS

DEPUTY MINISTER DILEK AYHAN, THE NORWEGIAN MINISTRY OF TRADE, INDUSTRY AND FISHERIES, WORKS WITH POLICY ON INNOVATION AND ENTRENEURSHIP.

THE VENUE: RADISSON BLUE ROYAL HOTEL BRYGGEN BERGEN

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PROGRAM, MARINE INNOVATION DAY March 4. 2014, BERGEN

Chair Marine Innovation Day: Karl Almås CEO Sintef Fishery & Aquaculture Moderator: Jostein Refsnes, Chairman Nordlaks Co-Chair and Awards Chair: Merete Bjørgan Schröder, Research Director, Norwegian Seafod Research Fund-FHF

WELCOME TO MARINE INNOVATION DAY 2014:

• BLUE INNOVATIONS TO FEED THE WORLD

Karl Almås

0900-0905 ØYSTEIN LIE, Executive Manager of MarLife & TANJA HOEL, Executive Manager of Fiskeriforum Vest: Welcome to NASF Marine Innovation Day 0905- 0915 DILEK AYHAN, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries: Opening address.

Dilek Ayhan

0915- 0925 JOÃO FONSECA RIBEIRO, Director, General Maritime Policy, Portugal: Collaborative Marine efforts between Portugal and Norway.

Øystein Lie

KEYNOTES

• NEXT GENERATION AQUACULTURE 0925- 0945 ODD MAGNE RØDSETH, Group Director Aquaculture, EW Group: How to engine the innovative dynamics between manufacturers and solution providers.

Tanja Hoel

0945-1005 ARNE FREDHEIM, Proeject Director, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture: New innovation in aquaculture technology as basis for production growth

Siri Kalvatn

1005-1025 SIRI KALVATN Senior Project Manager, UPTIME Centre of Competence: New aquaculture solutions with cross sector innovation.

INNOVATIVE CASES

NEW INVENTIONS & SOLUTIONS 1025-1125 Innovative cases, new inventions with commercial potentials, novel solutions. The cases will compete for the Marine Innovation Award.

João Fonseca Ribeiro

1125-1145 HANS PETTER NÆS, Director of Communications Norwegian Seafood Research Fund: Maximising industry benefit. Marine innovation and R&D between public and industry funding.

Francisco Saraiva Gomes

1145- 1205 COFFEE BREAK & MINGLING

KEYNOTES

Hans Petter Næs

IN COOPERATION WITH:

• • SUSTAINABLE EXPLOITATION OF MARINE RESOURCES 1205- 1225 NILS CHRISTIAN STENSETH,Professor, University of Oslo: - Marine genomics and its vast potential to advance all marine Sectors.

Thor Sigfusson

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1225- 1245 KLARA STENSVÅG, Professor University of Tromsø: - Marine Bioactive miracles with vast application potentials.

1245-1305 THOR SIGFUSSON, Managing Director Iceland Ocean Cluster: - Sustainable exploitation of marine resources.

Odd Magne Rødseth

1305- 1310 CARL SEIP HANEVOLD, Chairman, MarLife: Pre-lunch appeal on Marine Innovation.

Nils Christian Stenseth

1310- 1400 LUNCH & MINGLING

KEYNOTES

• • • NEW BLUE INNOVATION “CLIMATE” Carl Seip Hanevold

1400- 1420 FRANCISCO SARAIVA GOMES, Novus Aqua: Innovations in Aquaculture - Optimization and Diversification

Pierre Erwes

1420 – 1440 RAGNAR TVETERAAS, Professor, Head of Center of Innovation Research, University of Stavanger: -Innovative needs and finance framework to expand the “Blue Field.

1440 - 1500 PIERRE ERWES, CEO, BioMarine: - Current status of the new global organization Biomarine International Clusters Association (BICA) 1500 - 1510 COFFEE BREAK & MINGLING

Ole Jørgen Marvik

1510- 1520 OLE JØRGEN MARVIK, Sector Head, Health and Life Sciences, Innovation Norway: Initiative within Life Science by Innovation Norway

Klara Stensvåg

INNOVATION AWARD CEREMONY

THE MARINE INNOVATION WINNER! 1520 - 1530 MERETE BJØRGAN SCHRÖDER, Ph.D. Research Director Fish Health/ Seafood & Human health, Norwegian Seafood Research Fund- FHF: Innovation Award Ceremony, Marine Innovation Day Award 2014. Best case will receive a NOK 100 000,- prize award!

Ragnar Tveteraas

MARINE ROUND TABLE

Arne Fredheim

SPEAK OUT! 1530- 1610 JOSTEIN REFSNES, Chairman Nordlaks, moderator Marine Round Table. He will challenge the keynote speakers in a dynamic session also interacting with the audience.

OPEN INNOVATION BAR

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES “LIVE” Merete Bjørgan Scrhöder

1610-1700 ONE-2-ONE MEETINGS: Delegates will be given the opportunity to arrange one2one-meetings at any time they prefer during the conference.

Digital tools & advice on how to connect will be available for the delegates.

ORGANIZER

MEDIA PARTNER

Jostein Refsnes

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THE BLUE CHALLENGE! A closer look at solutions for the next generation marine sector.

Øystein Lie

Tanja Hoel

The marine agenda is one of the most important agendas, and the question is how to initiate new blue innovations to feed the world.

- This is also the main slogan on the Marine Innovation Day in Bergen Tuesday March 4, says professor Øystein Lie. The conference gathers the marine world’s top scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs as well as the trend setting producers, solutions providers and investors.

The keynote speakers will cover the following main topics under the headline Blue Innovations to Feed the World: - Next generation aquaculture - Sustainable exploitation of marine resources - New blue innovation “climate”

Jon Aulie

Erik Fedde

Pål Myhre

- Visions and ideas to be shared. Entrepreneurs will present projects for the betterment of the sector, says Lie. He and Tanja Hoel, manager at Fiskeriforum Vest, welcome to the most important marine innovation conference.

Dilek Ayhan, deputy minister at the Norwegian Ministry of trade, industry and fisheries, opens the conference. She will especially appeal to young talents to mobilize solutions for next generation marine sector.

New twist Hoel and Lie informs that Marine Innovation Day this year will have a new twist, with a Round Table debate where speakers and audience will be challenged. In addition the conference offers support for connecting between interested parties searching for business partner opportunities during the conference day. An open Innovation Bar supported by different media, apps and channels, from the conference facebook page, twitter,

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Exchange ideas and talk business at Marine Innovation Day in Bergen.

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- We offer support for using the different technologies available for communication, in the comfort of the conference, as tools for setting up one-2-one meetings, says Øystein Lie. Conference partners The Marine Innovation Day is an important part of the annual North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF), 4th -6th of March 2014. Last year, Marine Innovation Day was by far the largest single session of NASF. Marine Innovation Day is organized

by Marlife in cooperation with The Norwegian Seafood Research Fund (FHF), Fiskeriforum Vest (FFV), Biomarine and NASF. NOK 100.000 The best innovation case will cash-in NOK 100.000 as the winner of Marine Innovation Day Award 2014. The innovative cases will play a central role on the conference, where a short-list of the award tenders will be presented from the scene.

Round Table The conference moderator Jostein Refsnes will finally challenge a Marine Round Table of the conference keynote speakers, in a debate about future marine innovations.

Register for the conference and innovative case submission at: http://www.marlife.org We look forward to meeting you in Bergen!

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Marine Innovation Day collaborates with the North Atlantic Seafood Forum. NASF manager Jørgen Lund and Cermaq CEO Jon Hindar.

Photo: Gorm K. Gaare