​Programme Outline

​Keynote

​11:00AM - Welcome Remarks by Mr Leong Der Yao, DCEO, Singapore Food Agency

​11:10AM - Aquaculture Models for Singapore Incorporated; Mr Ronnie Tan, U.S. Grains & BioProducts Council

​Latest Industry-Led Innovation Highlights

​11:40AM - From Farming to Systems: Adaptive, Climate-Resilient Aquaculture; Mr John Diener, Vertical Oceans

​12:00PM - Microbiome Surveillance and Homeostasis in RAS Systems: Towards Predictive Health Management in Aquaculture; Dr Michael Voigtmann, Singapore Aquaculture Technologies

​12:20PM - Advancing Sustainable Aquaculture: Innovations in Shrimp and Trout Farming in Singapore; Dr Farshad Shishehchian, Blue Aqua

​12:40PM - Title TBC; INVE Aquaculture

​1:00PM - LUNCH (On your own)

​Latest Applicable Innovations in Singapore

​2:30PM - Vaccine Development Strategies for Scale Drop Disease Virus in Asian Seabass (Lates calcarifer); Prof Laurent Renia, A*STAR Infectious Diseases Labs

​2:50PM - Simultaneous Nitrification-Denitrification (SND) Technology for Sustainable Aquaculture Systems; Dr Wang Chuansheng, National University of Singapore

​3:10PM - Where Materials Engineering Meets Aquaculture: Designing Encapsulation Systems for Targeted Oral Delivery; Prof Joachim Loo, Nanyang Technological University

​3:30PM - REFRESHMENT BREAK

​Early R&D: Collaborations in Singapore

​4:00PM - AquaPolis Programme Tranche 1 R&D - Optimising Asian Seabass Research and Production in Singapore through an Integrated Approach; Dr Richard Le Boucher, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory

​4:20PM - A Development Atlas of Asian Seabass, Lates calarifer, Larvae for Stress, Growth, and Survival Studies in the Singapore Context; Dr Caroline Wee, A*STAR Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology

​4:40PM - Multimodal Data Fusion for Early Disease and Stress Detection in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems; A/Prof Michael Kasper, Fraunhofer Singapore Research Centre

​5:00PM - Understanding Sex Reversal in Asian Seabass; Dr Shubha Vij, Republic Polytechnic

​5:20PM - END OF SESSION

​Kindly note that the complimentary pass grants access only to the Singapore Aquaculture (AquaTropics) session, Opening Ceremony, and Tradeshow. To attend other conference sessions and enjoy catered refreshments, please register for a Full Conference pass via the World Aquaculture Singapore 2026 website.