2024 Seaweed Summit

The 2024 Seaweed Summit was held at the Rutherford Hotel in Nelson on 11th October 2024. 

See our photo album here!

Programme

Our 2024 theme was “Accelerating Algae” and our summit agenda was a great reflection of this.

This year we welcomed three international speakers, Paul Dobbins (World Wildlife Fund), Peter Green (Paxtier) and Dean Steinke (DSA Ocean) to our programme.

Click the button to browse the agenda, speaker profiles and read more detail on our student posters in 2024.

Jill Bradley Memorial Award for Student Posters

Congratulations to Jessica Roach (AUT) who won our student poster session, and Caitlin Berry-Kilgour (University of Otago), who was this year’s runner up.

2024 Sponsor

Thank you to CH4 Global who sponsored the 2024 Summit.  We are extremely grateful for their ongoing support.

The practical support provided by AQNZ is also invaluable to ANZSA in delivering the Seaweed Summit. Special thanks to their team for their ongoing mahi to help in these early days of the seaweed industry in Aotearoa.

Mark your calendars – the 2025 Seaweed Summit will be held at the Rutherford in Nelson on 10th October 2025.