Closing Plenary - Sam Elsom, Sea Forest

Experience the session yourself

Hear the amazing Sea Forest story and Sam’s journey to seaweed after fashion.

Sam Elsom Founder of Sea Forest

Sam Elsom is a passionate environmentalist with over 15 years experience in sustainability. Having founded one of Australia’s first sustainable apparel businesses to measuring social and environmental impact across supply chains as well as implementing a satellite factory in India to support poor communities with income, training, clean water and education. Sam was drawn to explore seaweed cultivation for its impressive capacity to sequester CO2 as a potential solution to reverse Climate Change.

Over a short four months, we created an entire seaweed eco-system
— Sam Elsom, Sea Forest