Seafood and Fisheries Emerging
Technologies
About SAFET
SAFET brings together a global network of technology developers and implementers that are committed to addressing the biggest challenges in the seafood and fisheries world. Emerging technologies play a key role to address issues such as environmental sustainability, social responsibility, provenance, equity, and economic viability. We believe there is a growing need for a central convening force in the fisheries and seafood technology space, one which better connects technology providers with implementers, increases the flow of information between developers and stakeholders, enables adoption and scale, does these things actively, and one that is truly global in scope. SAFET’s mission is to realize the full potential of emerging technologies that ensure the sustainability and resilience of fisheries and the communities that depend on them, globally.
SAFET’s hallmark event is its Biennial Conference. Previous conferences have taken place in Honiara in 2014, Auckland in 2016, Bangkok in 2019 and virtually in 2020 and 2021. Participation and interest in SAFET among the fisheries and seafood community have increased steadily, with each event better attended than the previous. Most recently, the 2020/21 virtual conference increased the SAFET community from ~1,200 to over 2,000 global and engaged stakeholders and our most recent in-person conference had over 260 participants with 20 exhibitioners. In our next conference, we aim to increase our in-person and online participation.
However, the SAFET global platform is much more than the Biennial Conference – we are a growing community and a movement to help catalyze the uptake and scale of new and emerging technologies in seafood and fisheries.
Executive Director, Inga Wise
Inga brings over 30 years’ experience of optimizing organizational effectiveness and transforming strategy into action. At OceanMind, a non-profit technology organization supporting fisheries enforcement, Inga led the mission support functions and fundraising outreach to ensure that the organization had the resources needed to deliver on its mission. With a focus on continuous improvement and efficient organizational process, Inga has managed the creation of new companies, the alignment of business functions through acquisitions and demergers, customer experience/satisfaction, as well as events management. Inga has been involved in environmental and charitable work from a very young age and carries that dedication and drive into her role at SAFET.
SAFET’s Steering Committee provides guidance and support on the execution of SAFET events, particularly our Biennial Conference. The Committee is made up of a broad range of fishery and technology experts from around the world that share a common goal to support and develop sustainable fisheries and responsible seafood supply chains through the lens of emerging tech.
SAFET is support by Multiplier who provides administrative assistance to the SAFET team, including for example, contract management, payroll and asset management.
Emerging technology has always been at the core of this event and we are here to learn about how innovative and evolving technologies can help solve some of the most challenging problems in the fisheries and seafood space.