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Emily is a globally recognized, highly sought-after speaker renowned for her expertise in sustainable seafood, the blue revolution, seafood tourism and travel, influencer marketing, and marketing strategies for seafood businesses. With a captivating storytelling style, Emily has been a featured keynote speaker at numerous conferences, including TEDx. Her dynamic presentations inspire action and reshape perceptions of global food systems, making her an invaluable voice in driving awareness and advocacy for sustainable practices and innovative storytelling in the seafood industry.
Sustainable Seafood · Influencer Marketing · Seafood Marketing · Seafood Tourism and Travel
“Emily highlighted how information on sustainability is important to a large percentage of consumers, and how different demographics could be reached, for example, through social media. We were very pleased to have had Emily on board to bring the importance of communication to the forefront of the Scottish aquaculture sectors’ minds.”
HAZEL PEAT, SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE INNOVATION CENTRE
Past speaking engagements
2024
Ontario Aquaculture Association Annual Meeting
2023
Animal Agriculture Alliance Annual Meeting
Ontario Aquaculture Association Annual Meeting
Sustainable Aquaculture Summit (Glasgow)
Aquaculture America New Orleans
Aquaculture New Zealand Conference Keynote
2022
Aquavision Norway
GOAL Conference Seattle
Seafood Matters UK
World Aquaculture Society North America Meeting (Newfoundland)
2021
Marine Social Science Network - Podcasts and Academia with Dr Hannah Harrison and Emily De Sousa
2020
Food & Wine Tourism in Ontario - Travel Industry Marketing Association
Public Speaking: All the Lessons I Learned the Hard Way - Apathy is Boring
Values, Challenges, & Opportunities for Resilience Presented by Alternative Seafood Networks - American Fisheries Society
Values, Challenges, & Opportunities for Resilience Presented by Alternative Seafood Networks - International Marine Conservation Congress
How Travel Agents Can Support Sustainable Tourism - Travel Industry Marketing Association
Early Impacts of COVID-19 on the North American Seafood Industry - ComSciCon Canada Conference
2017-2019
See the World While Saving It: How to Make Eco-Tourism a Natural Part of Travel - Women in Travel Summit
A Drop in a Plastic Ocean: How One Person Can Make a Difference - TEDx Kanata
Local Water Matters - Guelph Greens
The Political Ecology of Food Security: Towards Sustainable and Just Food Systems - OPIRG Guelph Rebel Knowledge Symposium
Feeding the Right Wolf on Water Issues - H2Awesome Festival
Science Policy Award of Excellence Acceptance Speech - Canadian Science Policy Centre
Community Supported Fisheries as a Means to Increase Food Security in Coastal Communities - Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division Conference
“Emily’s presentation resonated with our audience and her lessons around the importance of telling our sustainable seafood messages insightful. She delivered inspirational, empowering, and tangible ways our audience could share their sustainable seafood stories with the world and insights into using social media to deliver those stories in an authentic and transparent manner. Emily is a dynamic, energetic, and passionate keynote speaker and influencer who we would welcome the opportunity to work with again in the future.”
KAREN MORLEY, AQUACULTURE NEW ZEALAND