Fed DeGobbi

The Ocean Age

Science EN ↓ 45 episodes

This podcast is for ocean entrepreneurs and innovators who want to grow and succeed in the blue economy. Through interviews with industry leaders, founders, and subject matter experts, I will share their stories, unpack their most important lessons, and extract actionable insights and best practices.

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Fed DeGobbi

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#20: Sway with Julia Marsh - How a design led company is making bioplastic from seaweed, what will drive adoption, understanding the supply chain, the flow of information and biological circularity. 20.10.2023 48:41

Send us Fan Mail Californian designer Julia Marsh is the CEO and co-founder of Sway, a venture-backed materials company which produces compostable packaging made from seaweed. Julia's work is inspired by a lifelong affection for the ocean, and the belief that designers must take part in solving the planet’s greatest challenges. Sway is on a mission to replenish the planet by supporting health...

#19: Arctic Seaweed with Matthias Boeing - Technology to disrupt the industry at a "make or break" moment, farming and offshore wind, Seaweed as a Service (SaaS) as a framework for partnerships. 19.09.2023 44:09

Send us Fan Mail Arctic Seaweed is on a mission to transform seaweed cultivation with disruptive technology. As Strategic Advisor, Matthias Boeing is assisting the company to build a strategy for scaling up. He's studied International Business and Strategic Management at the University of York, after which he gained important experience in management consulting and digital transformation. He...

#18: Kaly with Daniel Hillman - Seaweed meets finance: thoughts and perspectives from an impact investor and entrepreneur, existing gaps, creating a scalable model and the path to sustainable growth. 21.08.2023 38:44

Send us Fan Mail Kaly is a natural capital operating platform whose mission is to scale the production of regeneratively farmed seaweed in Scotland and develop new routes to market through higher-value processing using a community-based approach. Co-Founder of Kaly, Daniel Hillman is an experienced impact investor and entrepreneur, most recently as Director of Investments and Business Development...

#17: GreenWave with Sam Garwin - How to build a business that works, market development, making seaweed a "cash crop" and the new "dating" app for the seaweed industry. 07.08.2023 56:21

Send us Fan Mail GreenWave trains and supports regenerative ocean farmers in the eraof climate change, working with coastal communities to create a blueeconomy—built and led by ocean farmers. Sam Garwin leads GreenWave’s efforts to establish reliable, accessible, and equitable markets for seaweed farmers. Her work includes business development and organizing support for regional farmer networks, r...

#16: Vincent Doumeizel, Author of "The Seaweed Revolution" - Lessons and takeaways from writing the book, how to work with the Global Seaweed Coalition and its framework for collaboration, and more! 17.07.2023 50:15

Send us Fan Mail Vincent Doumeizel is Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact as well as director of the Food Programme at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Author of a new book titled "The Seaweed Revolution" which officially launched in the UK in May 2023, Vincent has in recent years devoted himself to promoting a food revolution and environmental solutions bas...

#15: Nordic SeaFarm with Simon Johansson - Cultivating and using sea lettuce and dulse, disrupting the food industry, reaching product-market fit, developing food products and a downstream market. 03.07.2023 53:11

Send us Fan Mail Simon Johansson is the CEO of Nordic SeaFarm and has been working in the aquaculture industry for 5+ years and has a strong passion for the ocean. With a background from Management Consulting and working in the Middle East, North America and Europe he has acquired strong knowledge from various cultures and companies now being applied to scale up Nordic SeaFarm to become the pionee...

#14: Phyconomy with Steven Hermans - Separating signal from noise, unsupported hype Vs. unnecessary pessimism, serving a niche and the feasibility of a knowledge-based business in seaweed. 05.06.2023 44:38

Send us Fan Mail Steven Hermans is the founder of Phyconomy , the platform on a mission to improve the flow of information in the seaweed industry. Phyconomy is currently doing so through a blog , a newsletter , a database of seaweed organisations and an annual report called State of the Seaweed Industry , which has been referenced on newspapers like the Financial Times, academic papers and policy...

#13: Ocean Rainforest with Olavur Gregersen - Finding customers for your seaweed biomass, large scale farming in California and the financial ecosystem to enable scaling-up seaweed cultivation. 22.05.2023 26:27

Send us Fan Mail This episode was created as part of ⁠Inside Seaweed⁠ 's partnership with ⁠Seagriculture Conference⁠ . Olavur Gregersen is co-founder and CEO of Ocean Rainforest, one of the largest seaweed cultivation companies in Europe which also operates in California. Olavur has more than 20 years' experience as an entrepreneur and international speaker, primarily focused on seaweed...

#12: SINTEF Ocean with Silje Forbord - Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture and circular bioeconomy, learning from Asia, upscaling seaweed cultivation and diversifying into different species. 02.05.2023 49:33

Send us Fan Mail This episode was created as part of Inside Seaweed 's partnership with Seagriculture Conference . Silje Forbord is Research Manager at SINTEF Oceans. Silje has 15 years' seaweed cultivation experience from land-based hatchery and field work, including integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA). She holds a PhD in cultivation of sugar kelp with focus on nitrogen uptake k...

#11: Kelpy with Fionnuala Quin - Creating positive impact with a seaweed product, how to pick the right idea, the importance of market pull, seaweed bioplastics and the soil as a carbon sink. 03.04.2023 47:14

Send us Fan Mail Fionnuala Quin is the Founder CEO of Kelpy, a start-up working to create a reliable and ethical bioplastic replacement for the single use packaging items currently choking our oceans worldwide. The daughter of a fisherman, Fionnuala is no stranger to aquaculture and its challenges. Her positive vision of the future is not just driven by her determination to create a positive impac...

#10: Atlantic Sea Farms with Liz MacDonald - Lessons from the field, practical tips, training path and resources to become a seaweed farmer, best practices, equipment, logistics, costs and challenges. 06.03.2023 57:05

Send us Fan Mail Liz MacDonald is the Seaweed Supply and Advancement Manager at Atlantic Sea Farms. Liz has been farming the Gulf of Maine (US) since 2016, cultivating native mussels, scallops and kelp. Her detailed and practical knowledge of seaweed production is absolutely incredible. Liz has collaborated with researchers and is a published author in multiple scientific journals, presenting her...

#9: Sirputis & SoftSeaweed with Morten Kroslid - How automation and AI could revolutionise the seaweed industry, new processing technologies, the benefits of using data and specialised software. 06.02.2023 47:04

Send us Fan Mail Is the era of automation and AI coming to the seaweed industry? I try to answer this question in my conversation with one of the pioneers of automation and mechanisation in the sector. Here is a short trailer of this episode: click here Among the many topics discussed on this episode, here are some that you might find really interesting: New technologies to disrupt the seaweed ind...

#8: The Seaweed Company with Joost Wouters - Stepping up professionalisation, building a company as a platform, true collaboration Vs. secrecy, and going from corporate career to seaweed entrepreneur. 09.01.2023 48:45

Send us Fan Mail Joost Wouters is the Founder & SeaEO of The Seaweed Company. We started our conversation by unpacking the milestones of his journey from a corporate career to becoming an entrepreneur “hooked on seaweed” and on a mission to “make seaweed visible”. Among the many topics discussed on this episode, here are some that you might find really interesting: The need to step up professi...

#7: Shore with Peter Elbourne - Wild harvesting and its advantages/disadvantages compared to farming, sustainability, available species and their uses, seaweed fouling, carbon accounting. 21.11.2022 41:40

Send us Fan Mail This episode covers all things wild harvesting, as I am joined by Peter Elbourne from SHORE Seaweed. We took a very insightful deep dive into the advantages and disadvantages of wild harvesting and looked at the differences when compared to seaweed farming. Peter’s extraordinary experience allowed us to go into detail and discuss both the technical/operational side (e.g. access to...

#6: GreenWave with Bren Smith - The author of "Eat Like A Fish" shares his inspiring vision for the future of the seaweed industry. 24.10.2022 52:57

Send us Fan Mail Bren Smith is the industry pioneer behind "Eat Like A Fish - My adventures as a fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer". A former commercial fisherman, Bren went through a journey of ecological redemption by turning into a regenerative ocean farmer, and co-founder of the non-profit GreenWave - a global network of farmers, entrepreneurs, and researchers, focused on bui...

#5: GreenSea Solutions with Amabel Hamilton - Kelp-based fertiliser from seaweed farmed in Scotland (UK) 27.09.2022 47:00

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to another episode, where this time we hear from Amabel Hamilton, Co-founder and Director at GreenSea Solutions Ltd. During our conversation, Amabel paints a really promising and detailed picture of producing fertiliser from sugar kelp ( Saccharina latissima ), the exciting environmental benefits and the potential that this holds for the future of the seaweed industry...

#4: The Seaweed Academy with Rhianna Rees – Everything you need to know to get started in the Seaweed Industry today. 22.08.2022 44:50

Send us Fan Mail In an episode entirely dedicated to newcomers to the seaweed industry, I talk to Rhianna Rees, Seaweed Academy Coordinator at SAMS (Scottish Association for Marine Science). Rhianna’s full bio can be found below. Whether you want to become a seaweed entrepreneur, you’re thinking about getting started as a seaweed farmer, a researcher or maybe an investor, this episode is probably...

#3: Cascadia Seaweed with Mike Williamson - Starting as a seaweed entrepreneur, focusing on 3 verticals, branding, and the challenges of processing seaweed when it doesn’t behave like spinach! 04.07.2022 49:46

Send us Fan Mail Here is my wide-ranging conversation with Mike Williamson, one of the first seaweed farmers in north America and the CEO of Cascadia Seaweed, one of the largest provider of ocean cultivated seaweed in North America (full bio below). He told me some really compelling stories about starting as a pioneer seaweed farmer and entrepreneur in British Columbia (Canada). Cascadia Seaweed...

#2: FlexSea with Carlo Fedeli - Single use bioplastic from seaweed, developing alternative packaging materials to replace traditional plastic. 21.06.2022 39:46

Send us Fan Mail Carlo Fedeli is the CEO and cofounder of FlexSea, a startup developing alternative packaging materials from seaweed, in order to replace single use flexible plastic packaging. In this episode, we talk about how first-hand experience of plastic pollutions pushed Carlo to turn to seaweed for a solution. We cover topics such as legislation, carbon credits and the differences between...

#1: Dr. Thierry Chopin - Seaweed role as climate solution, Hype vs. Science, the carbon in your ketchup and sinking seaweed to the deep ocean. 07.06.2022 48:31

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode, I talk with Dr Thierry Chopin, a professor of Marine Biology and huge global expert on seaweed cultivation (full bio below). He has worked on seaweed for more than 40 years and has published over 250 papers, including the recent “Farming the Ocean – Seaweed as a Quick Fix for the Climate?”. We talk about his concerns around the risks associated with overinfl...