Breakfast Briefing 2026
Innovation Norway and Salmon Scotland came together for a morning education session in the Keynote Theatre at Aquaculture UK 2026. Leading voices in aquaculture from Scotland and Norway shared their insights before the show floor opened, over a delicious breakfast served with tea and coffee.
Norway–Scotland Breakfast Briefing: Driving the Next Wave of Aquaculture Innovation
How can we move faster from innovation to real impact?
This session brings together leading voices from Scotland and Norway to explore how aquaculture is evolving towards integrated, data‑driven and sustainability-led operations. Drawing on insights from the 2026 Innovation Report, Salmon Scotland will outline key industry challenges and opportunities.
Scottish and Norwegian technology providers will showcase solutions in AI, digital farm management and environmental monitoring demonstrating how innovation is enabling smarter, more resilient operations. The session concludes with a cross-industry panel focusing on one central question: how do we accelerate adoption at scale?
Closing remarks will outline concrete next steps for deeper collaboration across the North Sea.
Agenda
Session duration: 55 minutes
Welcome & Norway–Scotland Collaboration
Hilde Hukkelberg, Managing Director, Innovation Norway UK & Ireland
Industry Outlook & Innovation Direction
Iain Berrill, Technical Director, Salmon Scotland
Norwegian and Scottish Innovations Enabling the Shift
Panel Discussion: Turning Innovation into Industry-Wide Impact
Perspectives from producer and suppliers
Closing: From Insight to Action
Hilde Hukkelberg, Innovation Norway
Speakers
Hilde Hukkelberg - Managing Director, Innovation Norway UK & Ireland
Hilde is the Managing Director for the UK and Ireland at Innovation Norway, where she advises senior executives on international expansion. She leads a team supporting businesses to launch and scale innovative products globally across Norway’s prioritised sectors, drawing on experience from tech hubs such as Silicon Valley and London. More than ten years ago, she launched Innovation Norway’s Tech Executive Accelerator (TEA) in London, focused on advancing AI and digital transformation in industrial operations while supporting a new generation of growth companies driving sustainable innovation.
Iain Berrill - Technical Director, Salmon Scotland
Dr Iain Berrill is the Technical Director at Salmon Scotland, the trade body representing the Scottish salmon farming sector. He has responsibility and oversight for all technical work within the trade body, including fish health and welfare, farm consenting, environmental management, regulatory engagement and third-party standards, alongside supporting applied research and innovation across Scotland and the UK. He currently sits on a number of Government, industry, and academic advisory groups.
Niklas Aabel - Chief Commercial Officer, Seaqloud
Niklas Aabel is the Chief Commercial Officer at Seaqloud, a Norwegian technology company delivering sensor and data solutions for aquaculture and maritime industries.
Martin Davidsen - Chief Commercial Officer, Oceanbox
Isa Rosso - Senior Oceanographer, Oceanbox
Isa is a physical oceanographer with experience spanning high-resolution ocean modeling, observational oceanography, and satellite data processing. Across 15+ years, her career path brought her to Australia, the US, Switzerland and now Norway, where at Oceanbox one of her main duties is to develop ocean models for the Scottish waters.
Kamilla Svindseth - Head of Sales, Aquabyte
Kamilla is a marine biologist with over 20 years of experience in the aquaculture industry and a genuine passion for fish welfare. Today she works as Head of Sales at Aquabyte, helping fish farmers make better data-driven decisions. She has followed the industry from the inside since 2001, and is motivated by those moments when a farmer achieves results, they never thought possible – made achievable through the power of new technology..
Professor Brian Quinn is a Professor of Ecotoxicology at the University of the West of Scotland and the founder of WellFish Tech, which he spun out from UWS in 2021. With over two decades of research in aquatic science, biomarker development and fish health diagnostics, Brian has attracted over £4 million in research funding and accumulated more than 6,300 scholarly citations. He pioneered the world’s first commercially available non-lethal, blood-based method for assessing fish health at scale, securing both Seed and Series A investment and in his former role as CEO grew WellFish Tech into an internationally operating business with laboratories in Paisley, Charlottetown and Bergen. A two-time Converge Challenge finalist and winner of the 2019 European Aquaculture Society Innovation Forum, Brian now serves as Founder and Executive Advisor, contributing to the scientific vision behind WellFish Tech’s next phase of global growth.