NASF Tech AQUA continues Passed
Tuesday March 3, 2026 14:00 - 14:45 CET Conference Area A
Lecturers: Gaëtan Fabritius (CBO), Jakob Mo (CEO), Steve Tucker (CEO), Svenn Hanssen (CEO), Marcela Paz Delgado (CEO ), Rochak Sharma (Chief Product Officer), Tara McGregor-Woodhams (Chief Sales & Marketing Officer), Olve Christophersen Byre (Commercial Director), Terje Ljones (Director Aquaculture), Mark Bowkett (Founder), Nils Rabe (Global Sales Director - Fish), Gudjon Gudjonsson (Sales Manager), John Harald Pettersen (Senior Advisor Aquaculture Production), Úlfar Karl Arnórsson (Senior Director, Product), H William Harris (Senior Research Scientist ), Christine Møller-Christensen (Solution Architect - Seafood Industry), Roy Glomset (VP Sales)13:00-17:00
The NASF Tech Aqua event brings together leading innovators in aquaculture technology, offering groundbreaking solutions for sustainable fish farming. Key industry players present cutting-edge technologies and insights designed to transform aquaculture operations worldwide.
Presenting companies:
13:00-13:01: Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Kristian Henriksen, NCE Aquatech Cluster
13:01-13:13: Tell me lice, Tell me sweet little lice. Disrupting site planning and development with ocean modelling
Speaker: Svenn A. Hanssen
Company: Ocean Box
13:13-13:25: Why Automated Salmon Processing Still Underperforms
Speaker: Úlfar Arnórsson
Company: Marel
13:26-13:38: Autonomous Feeding in Salmon Farming: Real Results in Efficiency, Sustainability and Growth
Speaker: Rochak Sharma
Company: Tidal
13:38-13:51: Trends in ERP for the Seafood Business: Shifting from Best-of-Breed to Industry-Focused ERP Suites
Speaker: Christine Møller-Christensen
Company: Pearl Group
13:51-14:03: Closed Fish Farming Technology
Speaker: Børre Waagan
Company: MMC First Process
14:03-14:15: Proactive monitoring of environmental conditions: from compliance to operational competitive advantage. Use cases in Chile
Speakers: Gaëtan Fabritius & Alexia Mouton
Company: BIOCEANOR
14:16-14:28: The new all-in-one smart camera system for Aquaculture
Speaker: Olve Christophersen Byre
Company: Scale AQ
14:29-14:41: BAADER Trend Program
Speaker: Nils Rabe
Company: BAADER
14:45-15:15: Coffee Break and Networking
15:15-15:25: The future of Aquatech
Speaker: Steve Tucker
Company: Aquabyte
15:26-15:36: Launch OptiFlow – Water Treatment System
Speaker: Gudjon Gudjonsson
Compay: Optimar
15:36-15:46: Laser focus on scaling
Speaker: John H. Pettersen
Company: Stingray
15:47-15:57: Accurate Real-time Monitoring for Nitrogen Species (Nitrate, Nitrite, Ammonia) in RAS Aquaculture
Speaker: Mark Bowkett
Company: Aquamontrix
15:57-16:07: Building resilience for sustainable salmon production
Speaker: Marcela Paz Delgado Uribe
Company: Sudvet Corp - Nature's innovative resilience
16:08-16:18: Delivering the whole picture: data-driven insights at every step of your production cycle
Speaker: Tara McGregor-Woodhams
Company: Ace Aquatec
16:18-16:28: Do We Need to Talk About Dead Fish?
Speaker: Terje Ljones
Company: Framo
16:29-16:39: Salmo Surveillance - Turning monitoring data into decisions
Speaker: Jakob Mo
Company: Salmax
16:39-16:49: LiceDefence - Outsmarting Sea Lice to Defend Fish Welfare
Speaker: Stine Skalmerud
Company: LiceDefence
LiceDefence presents a behavior-based approach to sea lice control. By attracting free-swimming lice with light and eliminating them inside a closed system, the technology reduces lice pressure continuously—without chemicals or impact on fish welfare.
16:49-16:59: What can aquaculture production learn from human molecular medicine?
Speaker: William Harris
Company: Stim
Speakers
Gaëtan Fabritius SpeakerPresenting company
CBO
BIOCEANOR
Jakob Mo SpeakerPresenting company
CEO
Salmax Research AS
Steve Tucker SpeakerPresenting company
CEO
Aquabyte
Svenn Hanssen Speaker
CEO
Oceanbox AS
Marcela Paz Delgado SpeakerPresenting company
CEO
Sudvet
Marcela is the CEO & Founder of Sudvet Corp, a company at the forefront of sustainable aquaculture and biotechnology. Under her leadership, Sudvet has evolved into a global biotechnology company specializing in 100% natural, botanical, and sustainable solutions for aquaculture, with a strong focus on animal welfare, fish health, and plant-based innovation.
Marcela drives the company’s international expansion within the “Blue Revolution”, the global transition toward responsible ocean-based food production, positioning Sudvet as a contributor to sustainable aquaculture development for a growing world population.
A scientist, veterinarian, business strategist and MBA with over 25 years of experience in the salmon farming industry, Marcela combines scientific expertise with strategic vision. She has pursued executive education at Universidad Austral de Chile, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard Business School.
Rochak Sharma SpeakerPresenting company
Chief Product Officer
Tidal
Tara McGregor-Woodhams SpeakerPresenting company
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
Ace Aquatec
Olve Christophersen Byre Speaker
Commercial Director
Scale Aquaculture AS
Terje Ljones Speaker
Director Aquaculture
Framo AS
Mark Bowkett SpeakerPresenting company
Founder
Aquamonitrix
Mark Bowkett is a founder and an owner Director of TE Laboratories Ltd (TEL) since its incorporation in 1991. He is also a founder of Aquamonitrix Ltd which was spun out of TEL in 2021.
With 30 years experience in contract testing laboratories combined with a passion for innovation and research a number of technologies have been launched onto the market by combining the chemistry and analytical testing expertise with a well-funded R&D department.
Water quality instrumentation has been a key focus and this applications such as Aquaculture have been identified as a key strategic market for the Aquamonitrix technology where the continual monitoring of Nitrite, Nitrate and ammonia have strategic importance.
Nils Rabe Speaker
Global Sales Director - Fish
BAADER Germany
Gudjon Gudjonsson Speaker
Sales Manager
Optimar AS
John Harald Pettersen SpeakerPresenting company
Senior Advisor Aquaculture Production
Stingray Marine Solutions
Úlfar Karl Arnórsson SpeakerSponsor
Senior Director, Product
JBT Marel
Úlfar is a product and R&D leader in the fish processing industry and currently serves as Senior Director of Products at JBT Marel Fish, where he leads cross-functional teams delivering advanced processing solutions. With experience from Valka and a background in mechanical engineering and business administration, he brings a strong mix of technical and commercial insight.
H William Harris SpeakerPresenting company
Senior Research Scientist
STIM
H. William Harris M.D. Ph.D. (Bill) – Dr. Harris is a former medical research physician at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA USA. In 2005, he transitioned to entrepreneurship in aquaculture technology upon discoveries showing that a specialized type of molecular sensor called the calcium sensing receptor (CaSR) was a salinity sensor in fish. With these discoveries, Bill led the team that developed the SuperSmolt process used for smoltification of Atlantic salmon. Subsequently, he was involved in R&D efforts focused on improvements in recirculating aquaculture systems as well as the creation of sustainable plant-based feed ingredients for commercial aquafeeds. Recently, he has joined STIM (www.stim.no) as a Senior Research Scientist Consultant where he is using knowledge of CaSR-based molecular sensors to design and implement new technologies related to smoltification, nephrocalcinosis and land-based hatchery rearing practices.
Christine Møller-Christensen SpeakerInvestor
Solution Architect - Seafood Industry
Pearl Norge AS
Roy Glomset Speaker
VP Sales
MMC First Process