Seafood Innovation Award

Presenting companies: GreenFish | Norwegian Mycelium AS | Bifrost Tug AS | Hailia Nordic | Waive AS | Harbor AS | BiOceanOr

By NCE Seafood Innovation

The Seafood Innovation Award highlights sustainability and innovation in the seafood industry, providing a platform for cutting-edge startups to shine. During this engaging session, ten nominated startups will present their groundbreaking business ideas to an audience of potential customers, partners, and investors. It’s the must-attend event for anyone eager to discover the latest trends and innovations shaping the industry. The winner will be announced on the main stage.

The finalists:

The seven finalists who will pitch are: Norwegian Mycelium AS, Harbor AS, GreenFish, Waive AS, BiOceanOr, Bifrost Tug AS, and Hailia Nordic. The companies come from Finland, Iceland, Norway, and France and represent a wide range of innovative solutions, from technological innovations to sustainable production methods.

Organizing companies and key partners of the Seafood Innovation award:

Chair:

Trude Jansen Hagland
Managing Director – NCE Seafood Innovation

Presenting Companies:

Sveinn Sigurdur Johannesson
Marine innovation & business
GreenFish

GreenFish:
A software that utilizes artificial intelligence, big data analytics, supercomputing and satellites to predict the location, quantity and quality of both pelagic and bottom fish species, with an eight-day forecast period.

Erik Tveteraas
CFO
Norwegian Mycelium

Norwegian Mycelium (NoMy)
NoMy transforms liquid food industry side streams into sustainable, high-value ingredients for feed and food applications.

Carlos Garces
CEO
Bifrost Tug

Bifrost Tug
A company dedicated to enhancing the efficiency and sustainability of workboats and tugboats with patented retrofit solutions that improve fuel efficiency.

Michaela Lindström
CEO
Hailia Nordic

Hailia Nordic:
Hailia’s technology addresses the inefficiency of fish industry sidestream utilization, by transforming low-value fish and fish processing by-products into tasty, easy-to-use, nutritious, high-value food products.

Peter Skaugvold
CEO
Waive AS

Waive AS:
A forward-thinking aquaculture technology company dedicated to transforming the seafood industry through cutting-edge data analytics, real-time monitoring, and sustainable practices.

Christian Bjørnsen
CEO
Harbor AS

Harbor AS:
A Fishtech company who has developed a preventative method to harm the sealice and jellyfish before it comes in contact with the farmed salmon or trout.

Erika Hanson
Service Delivery Manager
Bioceanor

BiOceanOr provides unrivalled O2/water quality forecasts and overall “environmental insights” to optimize production performances, mitigate environmental impact and improve fish welfare.