The Responsible Seafood Conference
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Introducing The New GOAL Experience
Virtual Events
Virtual Event Session 2, “Want To Sell More Seafood In A COVID-19 World? Retail And Foodservice Buyers Share Their Success Stories,” and Virtual Event Session 1, “Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies,” are available on-demand on the GOAL 2021 conference platform to all GAA individual and corporate members, GAA strategic partners and Best Aquaculture Practices producers and endorsers. Virtual Event Session 3 is scheduled for June 17. Not a GAA member? Join us!
In-Person Event
Open to paying registrants only, an in-person event is slated for Seattle, USA, in the fall. Venue and dates to be determined. Contact us for more information.
Spotlights
Featured Speakers: Session 2
Damon Colella
Director of Procurement and Merchandising, FultonFishMarket.com
Abbas Lalljee
CEO, Reach Food Service
Will Rash
Managing Director, The Big Prawn Co. Ltd.
Justin Turner
Category Manager, Hannaford Supermarkets
Matt Craze
Founder, Spheric Research
Molly Jacques
Director of Market Development Operations, Best Aquaculture Practices
Featured Topics: Virtual Events Sessions 1-7
- Technology, Innovation & Investment (April 15)
- COVID-19 Impact on Seafood Sourcing, Marketing & Consumption (May 13)
- New Product Development & Innovation (June 17)
- Social Accountability & Worker Voice (July 15)
- Topic TBD (Aug. 12)
- Aquafeed Sustainability (Sept. 16)
- Topic TBD (Oct. 7)
Virtual? In-Person? Take Your Pick
At GAA, we’re as committed as ever to bringing you the latest information on seafood production, sustainability, innovation and market trends. This year, we’re offering a hybrid experience with a series of virtual events and an in-person event. Virtual events are open to all GAA individual and corporate members, GAA strategic partners and Best Aquaculture Practices producers and endorsers. Check out these clips from Session 1, “Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies,” which is available on-demand on the GOAL 2021 conference platform.
Highlights From GOAL 2021 Virtual Event Session 1
Keynote Speaker: Tony Fadell, Future Shape
Chelsea Andrews, XpertSea
Ben Renquist, Genetirate
Matthew Tebeau, Proteon Pharmaceuticals
Aquaculture is a rapidly growing sector where change is fast and often disruptive.
The Global Aquaculture Alliance’s GOAL conference keeps you ahead of the curve. Join other forward-thinking leaders from across the global seafood value chain in reviewing production, sustainability, innovation and market trends. You’ll come away with valuable knowledge, strategic relationships and an understanding of emerging issues and solutions.
About GOAL
We value your membership
To show our appreciation for your support, GAA is opening this year’s series of virtual events to all GAA individual and corporate members, with no registration fee. Your support — as well as the support of our sponsors — allows us to continue to act as a voice for responsible aquaculture through pre-competitive activities such as GOAL. A more informed, better educated aquaculture community benefits us all.
Virtual Event Session 2, “Want To Sell More Seafood In A COVID-19 World? Retail And Foodservice Buyers Share Their Success Stories,” and Virtual Event Session 1, “Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies,” are available on-demand on the GOAL 2021 conference platform to all GAA individual and corporate members, GAA strategic partners and Best Aquaculture Practices producers and endorsers. Virtual Event Session 3 is scheduled for June 17.
GOAL 2020 content?
Virtual Events
Virtual Event Session 2, “Want To Sell More Seafood In A COVID-19 World? Retail And Foodservice Buyers Share Their Success Stories,” which streamed live on May 13, is now available on-demand on the GOAL 2021 conference platform to all GAA individual and corporate members, GAA strategic partners and Best Aquaculture Practices producers and endorsers. Not a GAA member? Join us. Virtual Event Session 1, “Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies,” is also available on-demand on the GOAL 2021 conference platform. Virtual Event Session 3 is scheduled for Thursday, June 17. The program agenda will be published later this month.
Thursday, April 15
Virtual Event Session 1
Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies
Innovative processes and tools — on the water and online — are speeding aquaculture’s evolution. Session 1 will explore how new technologies are making aquaculture more efficient, sustainable, profitable and humane. What does it take to bring new ideas and products to market? Join Global Aquaculture Advocate Editor James Wright in a discussion with investors and entrepreneurs about the many opportunities and challenges that aquaculture presents.
- Moderator: James Wright Global Aquaculture Alliance
Guest hosts Carsten Krome of Hatch Blue and Amy Novogratz of Aqua-Spark join Global Aquaculture Advocate Editor James Wright for a 10-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture, led by innovation and investment.
- Speaker: Carsten Krome Hatch Blue
- Speaker: Amy Novogratz Aqua-Spark
- Moderator: James Wright Global Aquaculture Alliance
Tony Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur whose 30-year-plus career includes a decade with Apple Computers, during which he headed the team that created the first 18 generations of the iPod and the first three generations of the iPhone. His current venture, Future Shape, is a global investment and advisory firm coaching engineers, scientists and startups working on foundational deep technology. Fadell, who also founded Nest, the company that pioneered the “Internet of Things,” will talk with Global Aquaculture Advocate Editor James Wright about bringing technology from the lab to our lives. Over the course of his career, Fadell has authored more than 300 patents.
- Speaker: Tony Fadell Future Shape
- Moderator: James Wright Global Aquaculture Alliance
Following Tony Fadell’s keynote address, guest hosts Carsten Krome and Amy Novogratz rejoin James Wright for a 15-minute high-level discussion about transformational change in aquaculture.
- Speaker: Carsten Krome Hatch Blue
- Speaker: Amy Novogratz Aqua-Spark
- Moderator: James Wright Global Aquaculture Alliance
Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.
- Speaker: Tony Chen Manolin
- Speaker: Evan Hall Wittaya Aqua
- Speaker: Rajamanohar Somasundaram AquaConnect
- Speaker: Ben Renquist Genetirate
Some of the world’s leading minds in aquaculture technology pitch their innovations.
- Speaker: Katarzyna Pala Fish Farm Solutions
- Speaker: Matthew Tebeau Proteon Pharmaceuticals
- Speaker: Chelsea Andrews APAC XpertSea
- Speaker: Nathan Pyne-Carter Ace Aquatec
Use the question-and-answer chat feature to interact with speakers.
- Speaker: Carsten Krome Hatch Blue
- Speaker: Amy Novogratz Aqua-Spark
- Moderator: James Wright Global Aquaculture Alliance
Thursday, May 13
Virtual Event Session 2
Want To Sell More Seafood In A COVID-19 World? Retail And Foodservice Buyers Share Their Success Stories
It’s well documented that COVID-19 has reshaped the seafood sourcing, marketing and consumption landscapes. At-home seafood consumption is flourishing, dining out is poised to bounce back as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, and the supply-chain disruptions that muddled last year aren’t as frequent this year. But will these trends last? And is the relationship between buyers and suppliers shifting from a strictly transactional arrangement to a truly collaborative partnership? Find out.
- Moderator: Molly Jacques Best Aquaculture Practices
Has seafood consumption changed permanently due to the pandemic? In his presentation, Matt Craze of Spheric Research reveals the results of an exclusive GAA-commissioned survey of around 30 retail and foodservice seafood buyers from around the globe. Featured in the presentation are interviews with key members of the seafood-sourcing community, including Megan Morikawa, global director of sustainability at Iberostar Group; Susan Tong, a seafood buyer at Ikea China; Kikuo Shomen, a seafood buyer at Metro Cash & Carry Japan; Guy Pizzuti, seafood category manager at Publix; and Red Lobster CEO Kim Axel Lopdrup. What he found may surprise you.
- Speaker: Matt Craze Spheric Research
Best Aquaculture Practices’ Molly Jacques interviews key members of the retail and foodservice communities about today’s ever-changing seafood landscape.
- Speaker: Abbas Lalljee Reach Food Service
- Speaker: Will Rash The Big Prawn Co. Ltd.
- Speaker: Justin Turner Hannaford Supermarkets
- Moderator: Molly Jacques Best Aquaculture Practices
Sponsored content and trivia.
Join Molly Jacques, Matt Craze and the other speakers for a live panel discussion with audience Q&A and polling.
- Speaker: Damon Colella FultonFishMarket.com
- Speaker: Abbas Lalljee Reach Food Service
- Speaker: Will Rash The Big Prawn Co. Ltd.
- Speaker: Justin Turner Hannaford Supermarkets
- Speaker: Matt Craze Spheric Research
- Moderator: Molly Jacques Best Aquaculture Practices
Special Features
Global Aquaculture Innovation Award
In 2012, GAA established the competition to recognize individuals and companies finding new solutions to the key challenges facing aquaculture. Applications for the 2021 competition will be accepted beginning in April. In 2020, the three finalists were Mark Luecke of Prairie AquaTech, Simão Zacarias of the University of Stirling and Pablo Berner of Nuseed. By audience vote, Zacarias was selected as the winner for his work on the shrimp-hatchery practice of unilateral eyestalk ablation.
Access the Marketplace
The world’s leading retail and foodservice seafood buyers are always well represented at GOAL, whether virtual or in-person. Buyers play a key role in influencing aquaculture production practices through their corporate social responsibility policies and associated sourcing specifications. Among the companies represented at virtual GOAL 2020 were Ahold Delhaize, JD.com, Publix, Sam’s Club, Sysco, Tesco, US Foods and Woolworths Australia.
Lifetime Achievement Award
GAA recognizes individuals who have made an enduring advancement in the field of aquaculture, admired for their integrity, leadership and commitment to responsible aquaculture. In 2019, GAA honored John Galiher, founder and CEO of cold-storage provider Preferred Freezer Services (now Lineage Logistics), and Brahmanandam Potru, founder and CEO of Indian shrimp producer Devi Seafoods. Past recipients include I. Chiu Liao, Chingchai Lohawatanakul, Nguyen Dzung, Li Sifa, Ken Morrison, George Williams, Peder Jacobson, Bjorn Myrseth, Don Lightner, Bill Herzig and Wally Stevens. In 2018, the award was renamed the Wallace R. Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award in honor of GAA CEO Wally Stevens. In 2020, there were no recipients.
Become a Sponsor
Sponsorship packages are available for the virtual events as well as the in-person event. Virtual: Sponsor the series of half-day virtual events between April and October and receive a presence in the virtual events, including sponsored content in general sessions and the opportunity to host a breakout session, as well as more than 360,000 impressions across GAA’s communications channels. In-Person: Commit now, pay later. Sponsor a social/networking activity at the in-person event in Seattle. Click here for GOAL 2021 sponsorship details. Your support through sponsorship allows us to continue to act as a voice for responsible aquaculture through pre-competitive activities such as GOAL.
Sponsors
GOAL 2020
The live edition of virtual GOAL 2020 may be over, but the content lives on. For GAA individual and corporate members, recordings of all 10 program sessions featuring 50 speakers and totaling 15 hours are accessible on-demand in the GAA member toolkit, as are PDFs of all presentations. Not a GAA member? Join us.
The GOAL conference began its evolution in 2020 with its first-ever virtual event. Held from Oct. 5 to 8, the virtual event attracted 800 active attendees, replacing the in-person event in Tokyo, Japan, postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19. With the uncertainty of the pandemic, GAA has decided to again postpone the in-person event in Tokyo to 2022 and instead hold a face-to-face meeting in Seattle in the fall. (Venue and dates to be announced.)
Past GOAL Presentations
Click on the GOAL logo to access presentations from that year. Presentations from GOAL 2019 are currently available to GAA members only in the GAA member toolkit. Log in to your GAA member account to access those presentations.
GOAL 2020 Presentations
For GAA individual and corporate members, all 10 program sessions totaling 15 hours are accessible on-demand in the GOAL 2020 conference platform and GAA member toolkit, as are PDFs of GOAL 2020 presentations. Not a GAA member? Join us.
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