Bryton Shang Speaker

CEO
Aquabyte

Bryton Shang is the founder and CEO of Aquabyte, a Silicon Valley and Norway-based venture-backed company applying machine learning and computer vision to aquaculture fish farming for biomass estimation, sea lice counting, and feed optimization and formulation. Bryton was named to the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Manufacturing & Industry.

Graduating at the top of his engineering class at Princeton University, Bryton has led several venture-backed startups. Bryton built deep learning algorithms to diagnose cancer as CTO of HistoWiz, a biotechnology firm. He also co-founded iQ License, a brand licensing platform, and Nikao Investments, an algorithmic trading firm.

David Halvorsen Røisland Speaker

COO
Innomar AS

Lars Petter Aase SpeakerExhibitor

Director, Strategy & Growth
Seafood People

https://seafoodpeople.net/lars-petter-aase

Mikael Rønes Speaker

CEO
Blue Future

Mikael is an aquaculture entrepreneur who has been involved in the development of cod farming over the past two decades. Founder of Norwegian cod farmer Norcod, Mikael exited the company in 2018 to found and lead Blue Future, a holding group focused on closed-pen fish farming with plans to invest in related ventures to support its core businesses. Blue Future is parent company of Purecod, Closedpen, and American Aquafarms.