IceFish Conference Chairman, international seafood journalist, Mike Urch, will host the Introduction and Welcome. Mike has nearly 40 years\u2019 experience in the seafood industry, having worked extensively in product and market development as well as quality control within the seafood sector, prior to becoming a leading industry journalist.<\/p>\n
Mr Thor Sigfusson, Managing Director of Iceland Ocean Cluster (Sjavarklasinn) will be conducting the welcome address entitled \u2018Setting the scene for the recycling revolution\u2019. Thor has a P.h.D. in International Business from University of Iceland and an MSc in Economics from The University of North Carolina. Thor has worked as CEO of Sj\u00f3v\u00e1 and deputy director at the Nordic Investment Bank in Finland and has written five books including topics about international business and salmon.<\/p>\n
IceFish Conference Session One will be focusing on Wild demersal species, \u2018In Cod We Trust\u2019. The session speakers are:
Haukur M. Gestsson, Economist, Iceland Ocean Cluster will be speaking about \u2018Inventing Cod\u2019. Having a B.A. in Economics, Haukur is Project Manager and Economist for the Iceland Ocean Cluster. The Reykjavik-based Iceland Ocean Cluster states that economic impact of the ocean cluster in Iceland has enabled significant growth for the second year in a row. The total contribution of the ocean cluster in 202 was GDP was 28.4%.<\/p>\n
Sigrun Mjoll Halldorsdottir of MATIS, the government-supported agency, will be discussing \u2018Biotechnology\/Bioactivity \u2013producing marketable products\u2019. <\/p>\n
Following this will be Marel\u2019s Director of Product Development, Kristjan Hallvardosson who will be discussing \u2018Mechanism Technology \u2013 innovation for a nation.\u2019 Marel is a pioneer in the supply of innovative, advanced food processing solutions for the fish sector with offices spanning 30 countries. <\/p>\n
And finally, the last speaker of Session One will be Dr H\u00f3lmfr\u00eddur Sveinsd\u00f3ttir, Managing Director of IceProtein. IceProtein is dedicated to innovate and market highly biologically active aquatic proteins with a strong scientific foundation recovered with \u201cgreen\u201d technology for the fast growing biomedical and biohealth product industry. With an M.Sc. in Nutrition and Ph.D. in Food Science, H\u00f3lmfr\u00eddur is suitably qualified to discuss the topic of \u2018Making more value from the catch \u2013 new screening opportunities.\u2019<\/p>\n
Book your delegate tickets<\/a> and discover more about the conference online at the IceFish Conference website<\/a> or contact the IceFish team at info@icefish.is<\/a> to discuss how the conference can help your business to maximise its potential. The speakers have now been announced for the Icelandic Fisheries Conference, discussing the utilisation of \u2018Food Waste for Profit\u2019. Distinguished individuals from leading commercial fisheries businesses and industry associations will be sharing their invaluable knowledge at the conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-ifc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9531,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9529\/revisions\/9531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9529"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=9529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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