Aqua-Ice 2025 Program

WiFi: aquaice2025

Tuesday, September 30th

Registration at 8:30

Sessions:

  • Challenges of Aquaculture
    10:00-12:00
  • Social Licence in aquaculture
    13:00-14:30
  • Biology and Bacterias
    13:00-14:30
  • Opportunity for Open Sea-Pen farming
    14:45-16:00
  • Environment and Sustainability in Aquaculture
    14:45-16:00
  • SET 12:00 – 14:00
  • Pavillion of Denmark 14:00 – 15:00
  • Salmon Circle Trip

Social Licence in aquacuture

Silfurberg A | 13:00-14:30

Session manager: Kristinn H. Gunnarsson
Session co-ordinator
: Daníel Jakobsson, Arctic Fish

13:00 Image and social license to operateSigurdur Petursson, Entrepreneur Raekt ehf
13:15 Small communities – big businessSigridur Olof Kristjansdottir, CEO Westfjords Regional Development Office
13:30 Operation Trust: How to get people in the same boat?Øyvind Andre Haram, Head of Information and Communications, Scale AQ
13:45 Looking Good?Bragi Valdimar Skulason, Hugkvæmisstjóri Brandenburg
14:00 Perception is reality – The role of public institutionsSverrir Aðalsteinn Jónsson, The environment and energy agent Iceland
14:15 – 14:45 CoffeeIn Floi first floor

Spornsor Presentation

Tuesday 30th of September in Rima A at 12:00 – 14:00

Optimizing Installation to Reduce Cost of Ownership: Lessons Learned

Incluting Refreshment

Agenda
12:10  Opening
12:15 When Cheap Becomes Expensive Nils-Per Sjaasted, Simona Stadpipe
12:25 Built to Last: How SET’s Execution Lowers TCOLeszek Pawlik Environmental Engineer M.Sc, Leifur Örn Leifsson Civil Engineer B.Sc Set
12:35 Panel discussionNils-Per Sjaasted
12:50 Closing

Spornsor Presentation

Tuesday 30th of September in Rima A at 14:00 – 15:00

Organized by: Pavilion of Denmark/Danish Export – Fish Tech

14:00 Successful aquaculture operations, utilizing Danish strongholdsBy Kristine Albrechtsen, Representative from Danish Export – Fish Tech & Senior Business Consultant at Pisco Group
Kristine will give a brief status of the land-based salmon grow-out industry, the pitfalls and key focus areas in successful aquaculture projects, and how the experience, services and technology offered by the Danish aquaculture sector can contribute to successful implementation and operation of land-based aquaculture operations in Iceland.

Trip to Olfus and Reykjanes 29th of September

VaxaKristinn HafliðasonCEO Vaxa
Municipality of ÖlfusElliði VignirssonMayor
KaldvikThorainn Olafsson
First WaterStefan Jesson
Terraforming Life – Transformin Salmon Residuals into Energy an Sustainable FerilizerSigurdur Trausti Karvelsson

16:30 – 18:30 Aqua-Ice networking hour in Landsbankin


Wednesday, October 1st

Sessions: Skelrækt / Session on Shellfish culture

  • Animal Welfare
    9:00-10:15
  • Salmon Logistics, Marketing and Quality
    9:00-10:15
  • Shellfish Culture
    9:00-10:40
  • Norwegian Session
    10:45-12:00
  • AI in aquaculture
    10:45-12:00
  • Fish farming in open pens
    13:00-14:45
  • Land-based Salmon Farming
    13:00-14:55
  • Pavillion of Denmark 10:00 – 11:00 and 14:00 – 15:00
  • Building the Circular Pathway:
    Turning Farm and Fish Waste into Fertilizer and Energy 11:00 – 12:00
  • FishGlobe AS –
    Closed containment farming 16:00

Fish farming in opens pens

Silfurberg A – 13:00-14:45

Session manager: Edvin Aspli, Kverva
Session co-ordinator: Rúnar Ingi Pétursson, Chief Operating Officer Arnarlax

13:00ArnarlaxBjörn Hembre, CEO
13:15Hábrún/Ís 47Halldor Gunnlaugsson, CEO
13:30Arctic FishDaniel Jakobsson, CEO
13:45Motorized spreadersKnut Bjarte Otterlei, Sales Manager Fluctus
14:00HáafellGauti Geirsson CEO Haafell
14:15Kaldvík, current situation and future prospectsVidar Aspehaug, CEO Kaldvik
14:30Finish
14:30Closure of Aqua IceJens Thordarson, CEO GeoSalmo

Sponsor Session

Wedensday 1st of October in Rima at 10:00 – 11:00 and 14:00 -15:00

Organized by: Pavilion of Denmark/Danish Export – Fish Tech

10:00 – 11:00 Panel discussion 1: Do local Icelandic conditions offer unique opportunities for reduced running costs?Based on the unique conditions in Iceland, the panelists will share their experience and ideas on how optimized operation, technology and solutions adapted to the local conditions can reduce running costs in the land-based facilities in Iceland.
The discussion will touch upon energy, water, management, and other key running cost centers.
The panel will also take questions from the audience.
Moderator: Kristine Albrechtsen, Representative from Danish Export – Fish Tech & Senior Business Consultant at Pisco Group
Panelists:
Bjarke Sørensen, CTO, Plast Solutions ApS         
Paw Petersen, CEO/Owner, OxyGuard International A/S
Philip Haargaard Gyldenkærne, Biologist & Aquaculture Engineer, CM Aqua Technologies ApS
Sveinn Guðberg Sveinsson, Sales Engineer, Danfoss Climate Solutions
Trevor Gent, Director of Engineered Solutions, Alumichem A/S
Organized by: Pavilion of Denmark/Danish Export – Fish Tech        
14:00 – 15:00 Panel discussion 2: Can the local conditions in Iceland result in lower capital investments?The panelists will share their experience and ideas on how optimal design and technology application, based on proper understanding and adaptation to the unique local conditions in Iceland, can result in lower capital investments. In addition to general cost reducing design decisions, the discussion will touch upon how the availability of energy and water can reduce the requirements to Icelandic facilities, reducing the capital investments.
The panel will also take questions from the audience.
Moderator: Kristine Albrechtsen, Representative from Danish Export – Fish Tech & Senior Business Consultant at Pisco Group
Panelists:
Frederik Sørensen, International Sales Manager, Coreline A/S
Kim Daugaard Andersen, Water & Aquaculture Sales Manager, OXYMAT A/S
Philip Haargaard Gyldenkærne, Biologist & Aquaculture Engineer, CM Aqua Technologies ApS
Pætur Gerðalíð, Sales Manager, North Aquaculture ApS

Sponsor Session

Wedensday 1st of October in Rima B at 16:00

What options can CCS bring to Iceland.

15:30 General meeting Strandbunadur (Aqua Ice)