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- 4 weeks ago1h 15m
#48: Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy (World Ocean Council) – Getting Proven Solutions Past the Pilot Stage
Learn more about The Ocean Age Walk & Talk, Barcelona, 1st Nov 2026Too many proven ocean solutions never make it past the pilot stage. Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy wants to fix that by replicating what already works: getting tested solutions into many ports, cities, and projects at once, with the funding to match. He’s the CEO of the World Ocean Council and co-founder of Okhtapus. We talk about why procurement slows startups down, how a port finds and buys a new solution, why wastewater is the forgotten piece of the blue economy, and why prevention is so hard to get funded.Stewart’s bio:Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy is CEO and Managing Director of the World Ocean Council and co-founder of Okhtapus. He was previously Global Director of Policy and Investments at the Resilient Cities Network and interim executive director of the Ocean Sewage Alliance. During the Obama administration he was partnerships director for the Hurricane Sandy task force and earlier worked on recovery with a tribal community on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. He coined the term “precovery” for doing the resilience work before disaster hits.Timestamps:00:00:00 - Introduction00:01:08 - “Turdles”00:04:15 - Wastewater as the forgotten piece of the blue economy00:08:05 - What decentralised wastewater treatment looks like00:15:40 - Precovery and the disaster, rebuild, repeat treadmill00:21:15 - Blue Mind and why access to water should not be a privilege00:30:15 - Why so many proven ocean solutions stall at the pilot stage00:40:25 - The three hearts of Okhtapus: innovators, enablers, and funders00:43:25 - How a port finds and buys a solution00:51:10 - Why Okhtapus is not an accelerator, and how it makes money01:01:20 - The World Ocean Council’s new strategy01:05:50 - Tomorrow Blue Economy and the Walk & Talk event in BarcelonaUseful Links & Resources:Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy on LinkedInWorld Ocean Council: Website, LinkedIn, and InstagramOkhtapus: Website and LinkedInTomorrow.Blue Economy World CongressThe Ocean Age Walk & TalkTurtles, not Turdles, Stewart’s article for the Ocean Sewage AllianceBlue Mind by Wallace J. NicholsGet in touch with The Ocean Age’s host Fed DeGobbi on LinkedIn, X or by emailing directly at fed@oceanage.coPlease send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? Any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!
- Sep 15, 20261h 50m
#47: Catarina Ricca (Ínclita Seaweed Solutions) – The Biotechnologist Who Learnt the Science of Selling
Here is a link to get more information about The Ocean Age Walk & Talk and join the waitlist. Getting the science right turns out to be the easy part. Catarina Ricca trained as a biotechnologist and spent years in the lab before crossing over to the commercial side of the business. At Ínclita Seaweed Solutions she takes seaweed-based active ingredients into cosmetics, an industry with long buying cycles, gatekeepers at every stage, and firm ideas about what a product should look and smel...
- Sep 8, 20261h 5m
#46: Robert Bergstrom (OceanWell Water) – Fresh Water From the Depths of the Ocean
Send us Fan Mail Here is a link to get more information about The Ocean Age Walk & Talk and join the waitlist. Episode Intro: California is in its deepest drought in 1,200 years, and Robert Bergstrom reckons that without the ocean the state would have to depopulate. He spent decades building desalination plants the traditional way: on land, pumping seawater up, pressurising it, and pushing salty brine back out. Now he is sinking the membranes 450 metres down and letting the ocean's own pr...
- Jul 14, 202649 min
#45: Tom Pickerell (World Resources Institute) – Energy, Food, and Data: This Is Where the Demand Is in the Blue Economy
Send us Fan Mail Intro: Continuing on the quest to find out where the demand is for startups to build in the blue economy. Today we get a big-picture view that identifies three pillars, energy, food, and data, and the opportunities lying within each of them. Tom Pickerell thinks that this is where founders should look, and crucially he thinks that a lot of it can be done by leveraging existing technology. He's been an advisor to government ministers, heads of state, and company CEOs on scalin...
- Jun 16, 202627 min
#44: Chris Gorell Barnes (Ocean 14 Capital) – An Investor’s View on the Biggest Opportunity in the Blue Economy
Send us Fan Mail The blue economy is growing fast. It's expected to reach US$3 trillion by 2030. And if you're an ocean founder, you may be wondering: where is that growth happening? How do I tap into that potential and contribute to positive change? Chris Gorell Barnes from Ocean 14 Capital thinks the biggest opportunity to drive growth is to transition the established, proven businesses to become more modern, digitalised, and sustainable. Plug innovation into what already exists rather than...
- May 26, 202616 min
#43: Jeremy McKane (OCN.ai) – Turning Ocean Protection Into Profit
Send us Fan Mail Can marine protected areas be profitable? Most ocean protection runs on government aid and philanthropic foundations. However, Jeremy McKane thinks the only way to make protection permanent is to make it pay for itself. He's the CEO of OCN.ai, and he's building the data infrastructure that lets investors see whether ocean assets are actually performing, turning ocean protection from a leap of faith into something you can actually invest in. Jeremy’s bio: Jeremy McKane is ...
- Apr 28, 202627 min
#42: Ralph Chami (Blue Green Future) – How Much Is a Whale Worth, Dead or Alive?
Send us Fan Mail Ralph’s bio: Ralph Chami is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Green Future and Rebalance Earth. He spent 25 years at the International Monetary Fund, most recently as Assistant Director, before turning his focus to valuing living nature as an asset class. His work, which puts a financial value on the ecosystem services provided by whales, elephants, seagrass, mangroves and forests, has been featured at TED, in the Financial Times, National Geographic, the New York Times, and on ...
- Apr 14, 202629 min
#41: Emily Charry Tissier (Whale Seeker) – AI to Track Whales and Why Ocean Tech is Stuck at the Pilot Stage
Send us Fan Mail We’re pleased to bring you, over the next few weeks, a series of in-person interviews we recorded at the World Ocean Summit in Montreal at the beginning of March. This first episode is with Emily Charry Tissier, Founder and CEO of Whale Seeker, a company that uses AI to detect and monitor marine mammals from visual data such as drone or satellite images. The data feeds into everything from shipping routes to marine protected area management. Emily also poses a question: ocean...
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