Invitation-only, February 19-22, 2019, San Francisco Airport Marriott Waterfront hotel.
Goals: To accelerate replacement of fishmeal and fish oil in aquaculture feeds, addressing bottlenecks. To assure the future of aquaculture and nature. Motivate and Inspire.
Who: Alternative Ingredient Suppliers, Buyers (feed company designers, large aquaculture farms), Industry Analysts, Sustainability Rating Organizations, Experts and Media.
Day 1 - Tuesday, Feb. 19th: New Tools and Investment Resources | |
7:30 AM | Registration (Open All Day) |
7:30 - 8:30 AM | Breakfast |
8:30 - 9:00 AM | Welcome: Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons - Schedule of conference
Conservation Aquaculture Research Team (CART), |
9:00 - 10:00 AM | BRAINSTORM: What if Aquaculture ran out of Forage Fish? Moderator: Prof. Kevin Fitzsimmons; Tom Gruber - Inventor of Siri |
10:00 - 10:15 AM | Break |
10:15 - 11:00 AM | Aquafeed Investment Panel - Early to Mid Stage Moderator: Mike Velings, Managing Partner, Aqua-Spark Fish 2.0: Monica Jain, Founder and Executive Director Seed - Hatch.blue: Dr. Carsten Krome, CEO Hemisphere Ventures, Lisa Rich, Founder and Managing Director Biology and Technology, Genoa Ventures: Jonathan Burbaum Excelsior Impact Fund, Tony Stayner, Managing Director and SV2 |
11:00 - 11:15 AM | Break |
11:15 - 12:00 PM | Aquafeed Investment Panel - Mid to Late Stage Moderator: Mike Velings, Managing Partner, Aqua-Spark Mitsui: Amane Kimura, Director of Nutri-Science Department Temasek: Wei Xu, Natural Resources Investments Ultra Capital: Aaron Ratner, Managing Director Oakrock HL AS, Petter Kleppan, |
12:00 - 12:50 PM 12:20 - 12:35 | LUNCH “Vegetarian Pet Food for Dogs”, Wild Earth, Dr. Ron Shigeta, |
12:35 - 12:50 | “Bioprospecting”, Hexagon, Dr. Maureen Hillenmeyer, Founder and CEO |
12:50 - 1:00 PM | Break |
1:00 - 1:45 PM | Brave New World of Synbio Panel: Implications for Aquaculture Moderator: Chris Oakes, Vice President, NovoNutrients “DNA sequencing”, PacBio, Emily Hatas, Sr Dir, Bus Devt “bioCAD software”, TeselaGen Biotechnology, Dr. Mike Fero, CEO “Gene-edited Fish”, Intrexon, Todd Bixby, Director of Tech & Innovation “Nitrogen fixing microbes”, Pivot Bio, Keira Haven, Industry and Regulatory Affairs Manager “Cell-free synthetic biology”, Tierra Biosciences, Louis Metzger, Chief Scientific Officer “Helping biotechnology companies navigate the innovation ecosystem”, Nefertiti Biotech, Susan Daudelin, Founder |
1:45 - 2:00 PM | Break |
2:00 - 2:30 PM 2:00 - 2:15 | Larger Institution Perspectives on Food and Feed Innovation X - The Moonshot Factory: Neil Davé, Project Lead |
2:15 - 2:30 | NMBU: Dr. Margareth Øverland, Center Director for Foods of Norway |
2:30 - 4:00 PM | F3 Feed and Ingredient Fair |
4:00 - 4:30 PM | Break |
4:30 - 6:30 PM | Bus Transit to Golden Gate Bridge, Vista Stop |
6:30 - 9:00 PM | Sustainable Seafood Dinner at Fish. restaurant Bill Foss and Kenny Belov, Co-owners of Fish. and TwoxSea |
9:00 PM | Departure, return to Marriott Hotel |
Day 2 - Wednesday, Feb. 20th: Fish Oil and Fishmeal Substitutes | |
7:30 - 8:30 AM | Registration and Full Breakfast Open |
8:30 - 8:45 AM | Welcome: Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons “An Ecosystem Services Valuation of Forage Fish”, Mansi Konar, World Resources Institute, Lead Ocean Economist, Sustainable Ocean Initiative |
8:45 - 9:30 AM | Use of Alternative Oils in Finfish Aquaculture Moderator: Dr. Rick Barrows, Principal, Aquatic Feed Technologies |
8:45 - 8:57 | "Fish oil replacement in marine finfish: insights gained from Pompano, White Seabass, Yellowtail and Totoaba", CSIRO, Dr. Artur Nishioka Rombenso, Rsch Scientist of Fish Nutrition |
8:57 - 9:09 | “Camelina oil can completely replace fish oil for Salmon”, |
9:09 - 9:21 | “Progress in Fish oil replacement”, |
9:21 - 9:30 | Discussion |
9:30 - 9:45 AM | Break |
9:45 - 11:55 AM | Fish Oil Replacements: F3 Challenge Contestant Presentations Moderator: Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons |
9:45 - 10:05 | Aquaculture Innovation/Qualitas Health: Dr. Sunil Kadri, CEO |
10:05 - 10:45 | Evergreen: Dr. Yongjie Jiang, Deputy Dir. of Freshwater Feed Research Center 500,000-1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually |
10:45 - 11:05 | Veramaris: Christian Martin, Global Business Development Director Veramaris produces an algal oil rich in omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA through large-scale fermentation at its facility in Blair, Nebraska, USA |
11:05 - 11:15 | Q&A with Contestants |
11:15 - 11:25 | Break |
11:25 - 11:40 | Success Stories in Business Expansion “Enviroflight: From Zero to Sale”, Green Plains Technologies, |
11:40 - 11:55 | “From Zero to 5,000 tons/year”, AgriProtein, John Diener, Executive Dir |
12:00 - 1:00 PM 12:30 - 12:45 | LUNCH - Success Stories in Business Expansion (contin.) “From Zero to 300,000 Metric Tons/Year with Menon Renewables”, |
12:45 - 1:00 | “Corbion Success Story”, Corbion, Jill Kauffmann Johnson, Head of |
1:00 - 2:48 PM 1:00 - 1:12 | F3 Fish Oil and Fishmeal Replacements Moderator: Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons Nuseed: Dr. Malcolm Devine, PhD, R&D Lead, Omega 3 Program Nuseed has developed canola seed with a unique profile that includes long-chain omega-3 fatty acids |
1:12 - 1:24 | Reliance Industries: Dr. Uma Shankar Sagaram, Project Lead of |
1:24 - 1:36 | NovoNutrients: David Tze, CEO |
1:36 - 1:48 | KnipBio: Larry Feinberg, CEO and Co-Founder |
1:48 - 1:58 | Break |
1:58 - 2:10 | Cellana: Martin Sabarsky, CEO |
2:10 - 2:22 | U.S. Soybean Export Council (USSEC): Lukas Manomaitis, Aquaculture |
2:22 - 2:34 | National Renderer’s Association (NRA): Dr. Peng Li, Regional Director |
2:34 - 2:46 | Dartmouth College, Pallab Sarker, Research Assistant Professor “Tilapia Grows Faster on F3” |
2:46 - 3:00 PM | Break |
3:00 - 3:30 PM 3:00 - 3:10 | Attractants and Palatants Kepley Biosystems: Dr. Anthony Dellinger, President |
3:10 - 3:20 | Bosar: Dr. Jingde Du, President, Mr. Tengfei Huang, Technical Director |
3:20 - 3:30 | Gulp! Bait, Berkley, John Prochnow, Sr. Director of R&D and Global Product Development |
3:30 - 3:45 PM | Break |
3:45 - 4:30 PM | Aquaculture and Aquafeed Journalist Panel: What is the latest and greatest in Fish-Free Feeds? Moderator: Annie Reisewitz, F3 Team Public Relations and Media Aquafeed.com: Suzi Dominy, Founding Editor and Publisher Fish First, Dan Luo, Editor and Senior Media Expert IntraFish, John Fiorillo, Executive Editor |
4:30 - 5:00 PM | AUDIENCE BRAINSTORM: The next F3 Prize Moderator: Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons |
5:00 - 5:15 PM | Break |
5:15 - 6:30 PM | Bus, Transit to Thomas Fogarty Winery |
6:30 - 9:00 PM | Dinner at the Thomas Fogarty Winery Keynote: Crossing the Chasm and Zoning to Win, Geoffrey Moore |
9:00 PM | Departure, return to Marriott Hotel |
Day 3 - Thursday, Feb. 21st: Large Feed, Farm and China Perspectives | |
7:30 - 8:30 AM | Registration and full breakfast |
8:30 - 9:00 AM | Welcome: Professor Kevin Fitzsimmons Perspectives from China |
8:35 - 8:45 | “FM/FO replacement status in China”, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, |
8:45 - 9:00 | “FM/FO research in China”, Zhejiang University: Dr. Yan Wang, |
9:00 - 12:00 PM 9:00 - 9:12 | Large Feed Companies: Progress and Challenges towards F3 Moderator: Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons Aller Aqua: Anders Bylling, Managing Director |
9:12 - 9:24 | Alltech/Coppens: Alex Tsappis, U.S. Aquaculture Bus. Manager |
9:24 - 9:36 | Zeigler Brothers: Dr. Craig Browdy, Director of R&D Zeigler currently manufactures over 300 products and exports to over 50 |
9:36 - 9:48 | Nutreco/Skretting: Jose Villalon, Director of Corp Sustainability Nutreco/Skretting manufactures feeds for more than 60 species. The total |
9:48 - 10:00 | Break |
10:00 - 10:12 | Japfa Group: Erwin Suwendi, Head of Nutrition and Feed Technology Japfa Aquafeed’s production capacity is 372,000 tons per year for shrimp |
10:12 - 10:24 | BioMar: Vidar Gunderson, Global Sustainability Director 1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually (2015) |
10:24 - 10:36 | Cargill Aqua Nutrition: Dr. Dave Robb, Sustainability Manager |
10:36 - 10:48 | Aquafarm Progress Part I Moderator: Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons Minh Phu AquaMekong: Dr. Loc Tran, Chairman, Senior Advisor Minh Phu has 16,000 employees, 800M in seafood export turnover (2018), and is No.1 in shrimp export globally, with ~10,000 - 15,000 tons/year. Species: Penaeus vannamei and Penaeus monodon. |
10:48- 11:00 | Break |
11:00 - 11:12 | Spring Salmon: Dr. Jesse Trushenski, Director of Science Spring Salmon is the parent organization for Evaqua Farms, the second largest producer of farmed trout and steelhead in the USA |
11:12 - 11:24 | Kampachi Farms: Neil Anthony Sims, Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, Lisa Vollbrecht, Research Manager Kampachi Farms anticipates 500 tons of King Kampachi in their first year of production and expanding to over 4,000 T/year by 2024. |
11:24 - 11:36 | Kindai University Aquaculture Research Institute: Dr. Amal Biswas, aquaculture. |
11:36 - 11:48 | Dainichi Corporation: Makoto Tamaru, President; Boyd Way, Foreign Trade Manager 180 million yen capital, Formula Feed/Raw Materials: 35,000MT. Fresh Seafood: 10,500MT. |
11:48 - 12:00 | Break |
12:00 - 1:00 PM | LUNCH Dr. Rick Barrows: “F3 Resources and F3 Research projects” |
1:00 - 3:00 PM 1:00 - 1:15 1:15 - 1:30
1:30 - 1:45 | Aquafarm Progress Part II Moderator: Dr. Kevin Fitzsimmons
Mowi: Dr. Laura Martinez-Rubio, Research, Dev. & Tech Manager MOWI is the world’s leading global aquaculture firm for salmon. Yuehai Feed Group: Dr. Xuezhi Zhu, Deputy Chief Technical Director 500,000-1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually ZHD (CP China): Dr. Jinzhu Zhao, Technical Manager, Huadong Region 500,000-1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually |
1:45 - 2:00 | Break |
2:00 - 2:15 | New Hope Liuhe: Dr. Xizhang Gu, Technical Manager 500,000-1,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually |
2:15 - 2:30 | Haid Group: Kai Li, CTO Over 2,000,000 metric tons of aquafeed annually |
2:30 - 2:45 | Tongwei: Dr. Kai Peng, Senior Technical Expert Over 2,500,000 metric tons of aquafeed produced annually |
2:45 - 3:00 PM | Break |
3:00 - 4:30 PM | BRAINSTORM: From Bench to Belly: What can be done to get F3 innovations to market? Moderators: Michael Tlusty and Tom Gruber, Inventor of Siri Commentary by Logan Kock, VP Strategic Sourcing, Santa Monica |
4:30 - 5:00 PM | Break |
5:00 - 6:30 PM | Bus, transit to Aquarium of the Bay |
6:30 - 9:00 PM | Aquarium of the Bay: Experimental Dinner Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres 6:30 - 7:00 PM “Seafood Purchasing Behavior in the U.S.” Changing Tastes: Arlin Wasserman, Partner. Commentary from Joe Zhou, Sr. Director, Protein Procurement, Red Lobster Tyler Isaac, Sr. Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium May Mei, Executive Director GoalBlue (China) and general Open Mic F3 announcements |
9:00 PM | Departure, return to Marriott Hotel |
Day 4 - Friday, Feb. 22nd: 1:1 Self-Organized Meetings | |
9:00 - 12:00 PM | Registration/Information desk open Individual Consultations |
12:00 - 5:00 PM | Tours of Sustainable Retailers |
