Submitting a Proposal
The deadline for proposal submission is Wednesday, February 29, 2012.
Please read about the session formats below before submitting your proposal. To submit a proposal, click here.
Evolving Solutions for New Horizons / 新理念, 新时空
The sustainable seafood movement has collectively made great strides in the past few years, arguably the biggest paradigm shift ever witnessed in seafood markets, and the Seafood Summit is designed as a forum to cultivate such progress. This year’s theme of ‘Evolving Solutions for New Horizons’ asks proposals to be forward thinking and outcome-orientated. Set against the landscape of a changing world order – across global politics, markets and environmental change – in what ways can the seafood community continue the momentum and further advance sustainability solutions?
Seafood Choices will consider a wide range of topics for inclusion in the Hong Kong Summit and is keen to hear innovative ideas from proposers. Proposals should be submitted with this year’s theme in mind, and may focus on, but are not limited to:
- Food security and livelihoods
- Consumer demand and awareness
- Marketing with integrity and through the value chain
- Production and processing
- Keystone species, including sharks, tuna and salmon
- Live seafood trade
- Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU)
- Financing the future of seafood
- Supply chain traceability issues
- Sustainable aquaculture
- High Seas fisheries and the ocean commons
- Artisanal fisheries and social capital
- Ecosystem approaches
Session Formats
The main Seafood Summit program consists of panel, presentation and workshop sessions delivered by a variety of stakeholders and is determined by proposal submissions via the Request for Proposals (RFP). SeaWeb, together with the Global Advisory Committee, will then select proposals and shape the Seafood Summit program based on the best submissions.
Panels
Time – maximum 90 minutes total (45 minutes presentations, 45 minutes for questions and answers).
People – 1 moderator plus 4 speakers (max.).
(Moderators should focus on recruiting interesting, dynamic speakers and then facilitating the presentations and discussion on the day. Panels in which the moderator takes a primary speaking role will be limited to 3 additional panelists).
Scope – typically include speakers who represent a variety of viewpoints and geographies. Topics may be broad ranging. Panels are the most popular session format of the Seafood Summit.
Presentations
Time – maximum 60 minutes total (30 minutes presentations, 30 minutes for questions and answers).
People – 2 speakers (max.).
Scope – targeted sessions that typically cover a very defined topic or project, or may be applicable to a specific sub-set of the Seafood Summit audience.
Workshops
Time – maximum 180 minutes total (may be a mixture of presentations, discussion groups, questions and answers, training exercises, etc.).
People – 1 moderator plus an appropriate number of speakers.
Scope – action-orientated sessions that focus on a greater level of attendee interaction and may serve as training forums, enhance interest or participation in a particular effort, or help to brainstorm a new issue. Attendance at workshops may be limited to 60-100 people max., depending on available meeting space.
Proposals for workshops should be as detailed as possible.
“Floating” Speakers
Sometimes moderators are seeking expert speakers to include in their panel/presentation/workshop sessions. Please complete the form below if you are interested in being included in a database of available speakers (but this is in no way a commitment to speak).
You will be contacted by Seafood Choices if a suitable opportunity arises.
Other
Seafood Choices are keen to create session formats that best advance dialogue and action on seafood sustainability. In addition to Panels/Presentations/Workshops/Speakers we will consider alternative ideas for novel session formats, if the proposer justifies how this will maximize benefit for attendees and cultivate solutions. Any new ideas let us know!