Seafish, the public body that supports the UK seafood industry, has announced the speaker line-up for its UK Seafood Summit 2019.
The annual event is the largest seafood conference in the UK and this year’s theme is ‘The Responsible Seafood Economy’. Day one of the event, held once again in North Lincolnshire, will be hosted by the Young Seafood Leaders Network which was launched at last year’s summit.
Seafish chief executive, Marcus Coleman, said, “The year’s summit focuses on market demands, operations and supplies and highlights the positive work going on to make the UK seafood industry responsible and identifies opportunities to improve.”
The keynote speaker for 2019 is Winus Sloot, marketing and sales director at the Netherlands-based Fish Tales, who will deliver the opening speech. "At Fish Tales, we seriously love seafood and we want the world to be able to enjoy it forever. I am honoured to further share and discuss our brand's mission and vision in a continuously changing consumer environment,” he said.
Other speakers include Max Mossler, co-founder and managing editor of the Sustainable Fisheries UW website; Laky Zervudachi, director of sustainability at Direct Seafoods; Yvonne Adam, marketing director at Young’s Seafood; Mike Mitchell, consultant for M&S; Roy Angelvik, Norwegian Seafood Council; Dr Huginn Freyr Thorsteinsson, partner at Aton Consulting; Angela Coleshill, competitiveness director at FDF; Jean-Charles Gordon, fisheries analyst at Ocean Mind; Sven Edgren, from DNV GL and Daniel Whittle, managing director at Whitby Seafoods.
The two-day summit opens on 16 October at Doubletree by Hilton Forest Pines Hotel, Broughton, North Lincolnshire.
