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North Sea Seaweed 24
On 3 October 2024, over 250 people gathered at De Pier in Scheveningen for the annual North Sea Seaweed conference. It was an inspiring day of insight, collaboration and innovation, all focused on attracting market players.
Rabobank aftermovie of North Sea Seaweed 24
A DAY THAT INSPIRED
North Sea Seaweed 24 was opened by the Mayor of The Hague, Jan van Zanen, followed by a keynote speech from Vincent Doumeizel, Senior Advisor Ocean at the United Nations Global Compact and author of The Seaweed Revolution. Vincent highlighted the global crises we face and how seaweed could play a vital role in addressing these challenges.
Next, LauraHuff, Head of Sustainability Collaboration at Amazon Europe, spoke about North Sea Farm #1 and the exciting partnership between Amazon and North Sea Farmers to deliver this ground-breaking project as the world’s first commercial-scale seaweed farm within the offshore wind farm ‘Hollandse Kust Zuid’ (HKZ).
MARKET PLAYERS SHARED THEIR INSIGHTS
We then heard from Kajsa Olsson, Head of Marketing at Nordic Seafarm, and Robert Carleke, Innovation Ventures Manager at Inter IKEA Group, who shared their insights on the collaboration between their companies and the opportunities to make seaweed mainstream. Their perspectives on market opportunities and innovation generated a lot of interest.
This was followed by a panel discussion focusing on Europe's ambitions in the seaweed sector. The panel included:
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Maris Stulgis, Policy Officer for Blue Bio Economy, Algae and Marine Aquaculture, DG Mare - EU Commission
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Peter Paul Mertens, Director General for Fisheries and Large Water Bodies
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Meindert Stolk, Regional Minister for Economic Affairs & Innovation, Province of Zuid-Holland
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Joost Wouters, CEO The Seaweed Company
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Diederik Boomsma, Member of the Dutch House of Representatives, Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Safety and Nature
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André Hoogendijk, Director of BO Akkerbouw
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Our keynote Speakers & Experts that attended North Sea Seaweed 24
VINCENT DOUMEIZEL
Seaweed Ambassador UN Global Compact
"Seaweed is still something unwanted you have in the garden. It's the greatest untapped resource on the planet."
MR. JAN VAN ZANEN
Mayor of the Capitol The Hague & Opening speaker
The Hague welcomes you to North Sea Seaweed 2024, where innovation meets sustainability in the governmental hub
MARIS STULGIS
Policy Officer of the EU Commission
(DG MARE)
“A thriving EU algae industry could become a flagship and source of inspiration for other industries.”
Donne Slangen
Ministry of Agriculture - Director General Fisheries & Nature.
"Food should be an important pillar for our North Sea."
MEINDERT STOLK
Government Deputy Economy & Innovation Province Zuid-Holland
Responsible for Economy and Innovation
ANDRE HOOGENDIJK
CEO BO Akkerbouw
BO Akkerbouw is the central platform and knowledge centre for the Dutch arable chains
SANDER VROOM
Sustainable Business Developer at Rabobank
"The Rabobank wants to accelerate the food and protein transition based on its social commitment."
Laura Huff
Head of Sustainability Collaboration,
Amazon, Europe
"Seaweed has the potential to boost biodiversity in our oceans, and could be a powerful way to help combat climate change."
Harm Holman
Member of Parliament for the party NSC (Nieuw Sociaal Contract)
House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Nature
Kajsa Olsson
Head of Marketing at Nordic SeaFarm
"Seaweed is an underused resource and it is our job to make it truly available to the masses".
Robert Carleke
Innovation Ventures Manager at Inter IKEA Group
Alex Kruiter
Managing director Royal Smilde
Expert at Seaweed for Food
HAIK VAN EXEL
CEO at Hortimare & Expert Session Production
"We need focus and work jointly on our most urgent issues. Let’s make a solid plan and stick to it as an industry.”
Joost Wouters
CEO at The Seaweed Company
"It is time to start seeing the seaweed industry as a new branche of agriculture."
FRANCK HENNEQUART
CSO at Algaia & Expert Session Biostimulants
"There is a bright future in biostimulants for cultivated seaweeds if we take the right approach.”
DeniZ Ficicioglu
CEO & Co-founder at BettaFish & Expert Session food
"Save the fish in the ocean and get people used to eating seaweed."
Foppe Wiersma
Chief Culinary Officer Seaweed at Food Solutions & Expert Session Food
"It is time to start looking under water for solutions instead on land."
Remko Hol
Chief Commercial Officer at Olijck Food Solutions
"We are close to a breakthrough of seaweed food solutions into mainstream food markets."
Alwin B Kool
CEO & co-owner Dutch Seaweed Group
“Europe's seaweed revolution won't thrive on innovation alone—without bold moves to build markets and sales, it risks drifting like untapped potential in the tide."
zAyla de Heney
Seaweed Sourcing & Commercial Account manager at Notpla
"Cultivated seaweeds are the resource of choice for our future scale-up plans."
Ines Schiller
CEO at Vyld
"Through seaweed products and steward ownership, we can focus on long-term environmental and economic sustainablity."
Eric Roosen
Co-owner Forebel/ Founder Healthy Seas
“We want to achieve real change in the industry. By collaborating with everyone that believes we can do it better than today”
Camila Levy
Global Agronomical R&D Manager
“The use of seaweed extracts as biostimulants is still far from their full potential in the market."
Kim Kristensen
Founder, CEO, Arctic Seaweed AS
“Arctic have already successful scale-up. We’re ready to supply large scale farms to any farmer in Europe”
Ana Queirós
Marine and climate change ecologist
Plymouth Marine Laboratories (PML)
“Testing out the carbon and biodiversity potential of seaweed farming in the wild”.
Igino Emmer
Founding Partner
Silvestrum Associates
Sven Rusticus
Founder Seaweedland
"Land based seaweed cultivation ensures a consistent quality and a consistent supply of seaweed."
Pi Nyvall Collén
Directrice Scientifique Olmix Groupe
“Seaweed biostimulants are excellent tools for sustainable agriculture under current climate changes”
Peter Paul Mertens
Ministry of Agriculture – Deputy Director-General Fisheries & Large water bodies
Dutch national government
Pieter Lorwa
Connector, innovator and Food Philosopher
