The Global Shrimp Forum (GSF) is set to return to Utrecht next September. Registration for the event is due to open by March 1, 2025.

Building on the success of the previous three editions, GSF 2025 will continue to bring together leaders from across the industry to share ideas, address challenges, and strengthen relationships while also introducing some exciting new initiatives.

Firstly, the opening plenary of the forum, as well as the majority of the break-out sessions, will, for the first time, offer simultaneous Chinese and Spanish translation as the GSF board continues its commitment to bolstering attendance and catering to those vital markets.

Secondly, GSF 2025 will strongly focus on growing retail representation, including featuring a retail-only session, which will take place on Tuesday titled De-risking the Seafood Supply Chain. The session will bring together representatives from supermarkets who will discuss the most urgent and relevant social and environmental risks in their seafood supply chains.

Additionally, there will be an exclusive networking event for retail representatives and GSF’s sponsors and a broader program of events that retail buyers and CSR managers are encouraged to join throughout the forum.

The GSF team welcomes referrals or recommendations from readers should they know of Chinese colleagues and/or representatives from retailers who would be great additions to the 2025 cohort. If that is you or somebody you know, please get in touch via secretariat@shrimp-forum.com. If it is their first year attending GSF, there may even be an opportunity to claim one of a limited number of free passes.

Willem van der Pijl, board member and managing director of the Global Shrimp Forum, said that “it’s always a great pleasure to formally announce the dates for the next edition of GSF and hopefully get the industry excited about next year’s event early on. The feedback we had from GSF 2024 was that it was the best one yet, and the board and I feel confident that with the additions we will be making to the event next year, it will continue to go from strength to strength.”