This blog post was written by Donna Fordyce, Chief Executive of Seafood Scotland. We thank Seafood Scotland for co-hosting the 2024 Responsible Seafood Summit in St Andrews, Scotland, alongside GSA. A few weeks on from the Responsible Seafood Summit, I still feel like I’m catching my breath. It truly was a phenomenal event; a whirlwind
With just four weeks until the Responsible Seafood Summit, hosted by the Global Seafood Alliance and Seafood Scotland from October 21-24 in St Andrews, Scotland, excitement is building around the newly announced industry field trips and marketplace presence. These two key offerings will provide attendees with a unique, hands-on perspective of Scotland’s innovative and responsible
Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) has announced the release of an outline of its highly anticipated Responsible Seafood Summit conference program for 2024. Set to take place in October in St Andrews, Scotland, the Summit promises a variety of informative sessions designed to equip industry professionals with the tools and knowledge to navigate the evolving landscape
Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) is pleased to announce Chris van der Kuyl as its opening keynote speaker for the 2024 Responsible Seafood Summit, which will take place in St Andrews, Scotland, October 21-24, co-hosted by Seafood Scotland. Chris van der Kuyl is one of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs working across the technology, media, gaming and entertainment
In January 2021, I penned an op-ed piece about the future of events for IntraFish. I cringed at the thought of rereading it two-and-a-half years later, fearful that the in the midst of the pandemic I had downplayed the significance of in-person events. But I didn’t. Instead, I wrote: “Grounded at home, we scrambled to
Why Saint John? Every year, the Global Seafood Alliance’s annual conference, the Responsible Seafood Summit (formerly GOAL), is hosted in a different country. This year, the location is New Brunswick, Canada, selected for its diverse seafood community and the example the region sets for responsible aquaculture and fisheries. Join us at the Saint John Delta Hotel located
In conjunction with Seafood Scotland, the Global Seafood Alliance announced at Seafood Expo Global (SEG) in Barcelona on Tuesday, April 25, that the 23rd edition of its flagship event, the Responsible Seafood Summit, will be held at the Fairmont St. Andrews in historic St. Andrews on Scotland’s east coast from Oct. 21 to 24, 2024.
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) is ushering in a new era in its 22-year history of convening the world’s seafood thought leaders. The Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership, or GOAL, is now called The Responsible Seafood Summit, a name that better represents GSA’s vision of a world that embraces the role of responsible seafood in
Global Seafood Alliance President and Founder Dr. George Chamberlain will be a recipient of this year’s Wallace R. Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award at GSA’s GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference in Seattle on Tuesday, Oct. 4. A true ambassador for aquaculture and one of the world’s most respected aquaculture professionals, especially in the field of shrimp
John Connelly, president of the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), is a recipient of this year’s Wallace R. Stevens Lifetime Achievement Award, recognized for his leadership, integrity and commitment to responsibility. Connelly will be honored on stage at the Global Seafood Alliance’s GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference in Seattle on Tuesday, Oct. 4. Connelly has been
Atlantic Canada will host the 22nd edition of the GOAL conference in the fall of 2023, the Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) announced on May 18. The recently rebranded Responsible Seafood Summit (RSS) (previously known as GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference), the largest international seafood business conference of its kind, will bring 500 seafood industry leaders
The Global Seafood Alliance is pleased to announce that Scotland has won the bid to host the 23rd edition of its signature event, GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference, in the autumn of 2024. The announcement came on Day 1 of Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona on April 26. GSA CEO Brian Perkins, Seafood Scotland CEO
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) announced on June 23 that GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference will be held virtually. The decision to go virtual again this year comes four months after the launch of a reinvented GOAL conference featuring a hybrid experience with a series of seven virtual events beginning in April and culminating with
The Global Seafood Alliance (GSA) is now accepting applications for its ninth annual Global Aquaculture Innovation Award. The application deadline has been extended to June 30. Established in 2012, the competition recognizes individuals and companies finding new solutions to the key challenges facing aquaculture. Examples of aquaculture innovations include technologies that mitigate the occurrence of
We’re opening up access to the GOAL 2020 conference content to give you a taste of what’s in store for GOAL 2021. Held virtually for the first time ever in 2020, the event featured 50 speakers from almost 20 countries. Typically, GOAL content is only available to GAA members following the event, but we’ve decided
The Global Seafood Alliance’s GOAL: The Responsible Seafood Conference will begin online on April 15, featuring a roster of entrepreneurs invested in the future of aquaculture. Session 1, “Tomorrow’s Aquaculture Will Be Shaped by Today’s Emerging Technologies,” will feature an interview with Tony Fadell. Fadell is an active investor and entrepreneur whose 30-year-plus career includes
Introducing the new GOAL experience. The Global Aquaculture Alliance on Feb. 15 announced that its signature GOAL conference, featuring a hybrid experience with a series of virtual events, will begin in April, culminating with an in-person event in Seattle, USA, later this year. Since its inception in 2001, GOAL has built a reputation for quality,
The live edition of the Global Aquaculture Alliance’s GOAL 2020 conference may be over, but the content lives on. 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. Held virtually for the first time ever