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 kinetics, growth characteristics and chemical composition. * Check out the ⁠Inside Seaweed Newsletter⁠! Just one short email per month, no spam and you can cancel at anytime. Would you like to get a super short email from me every month, with three actionable insights for your seaweed business? I will search the seaweed industry for the most important lessons, the most useful conclusions and relevant actions, condensed into a half page that I will share with you, each month. It's easy to sign up and just as easy to cancel. If you'd like to give it a try, head over to ⁠insideseaweed.com * SINTEF Ocean is an independent research organisation based in Norway, which over the past 15 years has conducted around 60 projects on various aspects of seaweed cultivation and utilization. * [08:30] Producing seaweed biomass that nobody wants to buy. [09:25] The equipment you can’t buy in store [10:20] How funding availability influences which research projects are pursued. [12:35] Upscaling and why the seaweed industry is not profitable, yet. [13:55] Need to pay more attention to finding the right location for seaweed farming. [17:25] Coastal farming Vs. Offshore farming. [20:50] Innovation needed to achieve upscaling. [25:10] Cost is holding back faster progress. [26:50] Market development has been overlooked. [28:40] Year-round supply and diversification into different species. [32:20] What can we learn from Asia? Is there enough collaboration? [36:40] Seagriculture Conference EU. [39:20] Integrated Multi-trophic Aquaculture. [46:40] Areas where more research is needed. [48:00] Final thoughts. Useful Links: Silje Forbord on LinkedIn SINTEF Ocean: Website, LinkedIn Seagriculture Conferece EU - June 21st and 22nd 2023 in Trondheim, Norway. (Follow on LinkedIn) * Inside Seaweed's host is Fed DeGobbi, get in touch on ⁠LinkedIn⁠, ⁠Twitter⁠, or directly via ⁠email⁠. Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!