Inside Seaweed

About Inside Seaweed

Actionable insights for entrepreneurs and innovators building the blue economy. Through interviews with industry leaders, founders, and subject matter experts, I will share their stories, unpack their most important lessons, and extract useful tactics.

Publisher

Fed DeGobbi

Category

business · science

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

7 Jun 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   #48: Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy (World Ocean Council) – Getting Proven Solutions Past the Pilot Stage

   Learn more about The Ocean Age Walk & Talk (https://www.feddegobbi.com/walkandtalk), Barcelona, 1st Nov 2026 Too 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. Stewart’s bio: Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy works at the intersection of ocean leadership, innovation, investment and storytelling, with 15+ years advancing resilience and “precovery” across public and private sectors. As CEO and Managing Director of the World Ocean Council, he brings leaders together to drive practical, regenerative solutions for a resilient blue economy. He is also Co-Founder of Okhtapus and O Lab, connecting innovators, enablers and funders “from reef to roof,” and founder of Precovery Labs, where creativity and visual storytelling help turn ideas into impact. Stewart is a mentor, educator, and advisor, as well as a sailor, swimmer and professional photographer. Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:01:08 - “Turdles” 00:04:15 - Wastewater as the forgotten piece of the blue economy 00:08:05 - What decentralised wastewater treatment looks like 00:15:40 - Precovery and the disaster, rebuild, repeat treadmill 00:21:15 - Blue Mind and why access to water should not be a privilege 00:30:15 - Why so many proven ocean solutions stall at the pilot stage 00:40:25 - The three hearts of Okhtapus: innovators, enablers, and funders 00:43:25 - How a port finds and buys a solution 00:51:10 - Why Okhtapus is not an accelerator, and how it makes money 01:01:20 - The World Ocean Council’s new strategy 01:05:50 - Tomorrow Blue Economy and the Walk & Talk event in Barcelona Useful Links & Resources: Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarkozybanoczy/) World Ocean Council: Website (https://worldoceancouncil.org/), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/world-ocean-council), and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/worldoceancouncil/) Okhtapus: Website (https://www.okhtapus.org/) and LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/okhtapus/) Tomorrow.Blue Economy World Congress (https://www.tomorrowblueconomy.com/) The Ocean Age Walk & Talk (https://www.feddegobbi.com/walkandtalk) Turtles, not Turdles (https://www.oceansewagealliance.org/newsroom/turtles-not-turdles), Stewart’s article for the Ocean Sewage Alliance Blue Mind (https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18656041-blue-mind) by Wallace J. Nichols Get in touch with The Ocean Age’s host Fed DeGobbi (https://www.feddegobbi.com/) on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fed-degobbi-7743a759/), X (https://x.com/FedDeGobbi) or by emailing directly at fed@oceanage.co (mailto:fed@oceanage.co) Please send in your feedback: what do you want to hear more or less of? Any suggestions? Would love to hear what you think!

2. 

   15 Sept 2026

   #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...

3. 

   8 Sept 2026

   #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...

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• Tom Pickerell
• Chris Gorell Barnes
• Jeremy McKane
• Ralph Chami
• Emily Charry Tissier

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Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

32 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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42

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

51

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