The Plot

This is where the projects tie together — and occasionally where something turns up that belongs to none of them. If you are looking for the episodes of SHR!MP, UNCHARTED or The Third Nexus in the right order, head to the Series pages on the top menu. If you are interested in my thinking, and my actual guide on how to use AI, seek out Data on the top.

SHRMP.bio In sixty pages on Australia's future, the word aquaculture does not appear On the first day of our “Innovate to Grow” programme they gave us Our Future World to read, and I did the slightly vain thing you are not supposed to admit to: I wanted to see how my own reading of the future stacked up against the national science agency’s. Whether, in short, I was as clever as I had… 09 September 2026
Data on Deck I researched after I wrote — the classic opposite of a research method Every research method I ever was or I have ever taught starts the same way: find out what others have done, learn from it, then improve on it. Of course, I did the opposite. I wrote the whole AI guide from my own experience, in one sitting, and only afterwards went to see whether any of it was original. I… 08 September 2026
Data on Deck The difference between nice reading and a report worth paying for The difference between a report that reads nicely and one worth paying for is usually the method — the part that says how you know what you claim. Most people are never handed that expectation. I wasn’t either. I saw the gap most clearly in a piece of desk research I’d set a group of students. I asked them to… 08 September 2026
Data on Deck Do I give away what I told the university to "sell"? The content is largely free now. Not because I think it should be — because it is. The models, the frameworks, the standing advice to check everything: none of it is behind a wall, and most of it is a search away. That is the fact this series has been circling. What’s worth paying for is the part that can’t… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III Appendix — How this was made A note on method, in line with my guide “How to Use AI in Your Project” (V1.7). A series that argues judgement is the check on the machine would be hollow if it hid its own machine, or the checking. The goal. A white paper, and a personal essay series for the website, on what a university is for when… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III Afterword: None of this is new Arriving where the experts already stood, by a different road. Something to consider, to close. I am not a scholar of higher education. I have never been employed by a university, set a curriculum, or read the field’s literature front to back. Everything in the five pieces before this I reached the slow way — by hiring students, teaching them,… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III Two university systems, and what it's all for - or better: who. Where you stand changes what this argument is. Two universities mark the poles. Humboldt, in Berlin, is public and state-funded. It charges no tuition, to anyone, and treats education as Bildung — a public good, the forming of a person. Humboldt is no accident here — the history kept pointing back to him, and, by chance, I studied there myself. 08 September 2026
NEXUS III How you could build the modern university None of that — inquiry, judgement, resilience, the check on the machine — is built by a better lecture. It is built by real work, real dependence, and honest feedback. The same idea in three settings: a real-world problem where someone downstream depends on what you produce; a small piece of live research, handed over early; and the university as… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III What's gone, and what's gone with it When the content is free, the obvious thing goes first: the university’s oldest job, passing on knowledge, can be done outside it, faster and cheaper. Reduce a university to delivering content, or to making people job-ready, and you have built a trade school with worse economics. A second thing has gone, more quietly. Forming a person — independent, resilient, willing… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III Three times the ground has shifted The lecture was built for a world short of books. This is not the first time the ground under the university has moved. It is the third. Start with the word. “University” never meant universal knowledge. Universitas was a guild — a union of masters and scholars. Bologna, usually called the first, was a guild of students who hired their… 08 September 2026
NEXUS III What is a university for when the content is free? Almost everything a university teaches, you can now find online. Cheaper, faster, often free. Sometimes better. So what is a university for? Start with the oldest habit in the building: the lecture. The word means a reading-aloud — lectio. For most of the university’s history, books were scarce, copied out by hand, one at a time. So the master read… 08 September 2026
Field Notes The road to a symposium on Higher Education Thriving in Uncertain Futures: Education, Employability and Professional Agility — a symposium at the University of Melbourne The food-scenarios work convinced me of one thing: the hardest part of the next twenty-five years is not technical. It is the not knowing what’s coming. And we do nothing meaningful to prepare our youth for this. I have one key personal flaw. 02 September 2026
Field Notes Science4Life is closing. Years ago it helped start a company everyone said was dead on arrival. The German Life Science Startup Programme Science4Life is winding down. After more than twenty-five years, the sponsor’s backing ended yesterday, and the team steps away. It ran Germany’s leading business plan competition for the life sciences, and by its own count it helped more than fifteen hundred companies to the point of existing at all. It’s been a key part… 01 September 2026
Field Notes HBTX - A crazy idea, a real problem, a team of near-strangers building a business prototype from scratch. A few months ago, none of this existed. Just a banana nobody wanted and a hunch that it could become something more. Yet, at the beginning of August, we submitted a real application to a national startup programme for Australian-grown innovation. And we have a project serious enough to have real industry conversations. The problem that shouldn’t exist - but… 20 August 2026
Field Notes The day the SHRMP students went fully AquaCore For some university projects, the students never have to leave the room. Or look up from their computer. Especially if it’s pure “knowledge work”. They get an assignment, they may meet on campus, they may present to the person who gave them the assignment, and get a mark. A SHRMP.bio project is not that. And our students went for a… 13 August 2026
Field Notes The day we made strangers eat our Banana ideas Four biotech students, three prototypes, and the fist Banana Innovation Day that Melbourne - the whole world - has ever seen. Today my HBTX students ran the first ever BioScience Banana Innovation Day — an event they booked, invited, and built themselves — and put a Blue Banana, a Tuxedo Banana, and three banana sounds in front of a first… 12 August 2026
Field Notes A third of Australia's bananas never make it to a shelf Australia throws away about a third of its bananas before they reach a shelf. Not because they’re bad. Because they’re bent, or freckled, or too short, or too long, or curved the wrong way for the box. The fruit is fine — it fails an audition, not a food-safety test. Roughly 30% of the crop is turned away for looking… 28 July 2026
Field Notes The future of seafood is on land. And now it needs a lab. In late 2024 I sat down to work out what the world would eat in 2050, and whether SHRMP.bio was a silly idea. The work is all online — four scenarios, the population maths, the trade picture, the technology trends. Around seven billion people in cities by mid-century, a lot of them old. Arable land moving north and south, out… 24 July 2026
Field Notes Why a shrimp company got me interested in education In mid 2024 I spent a few months building scenarios for what the world eats in 2050. Twenty-five years out. Which sounds like a long time, and reads like somebody else’s problem, right up until you turn it around. Twenty-five years back is Y2K. Most people my age can tell you where they were that night. It does not feel… 22 July 2026
UNCHARTED Epilogue - “The Great Bay Hospitality Tour” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E07 Captain Kitty and a motley Scout crew wrap up a nine-day, eight-night “cruise” that costs just $112 per person, fuelled almost entirely by volunteer power and the kindness of strangers. Armed with borrowed gear and bottomless goodwill, they’re rescued from cold seas by an ultra-fancy yacht club that offers free mooring, warm showers, and shelter fit for royalty—if royalty wore… 09 April 2026
UNCHARTED “Girl Power and Mouse Farts” or “Bring It On, Commander-in-Chief” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E06 In this swashbuckling three-day finale, Captain Kitty dives into her happy place—the ocean—before presiding over a Scout-led day of beach games, self-catered feasts, and a windswept pier-fishing session where her much-mocked, last-minute rod grab produces the night’s only fish, a smug little pink snapper. Reinforcements arrive in the form of partners and Captain J’s mum, injecting “girl power” into a… 01 April 2026
UNCHARTED “Tow Me, Maybe” or “Life Jackets and Life Choices” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E05 In this episode of Captain Kitty’s Adventures, the Scout flotilla lucks into “six-star” luxury at the Extra Fancy Yacht Club, trading cat holes for hot showers while the captain quietly ignores a ban on member-only facilities in the name of crew morale. A weather-hobbled training day of drills, knot shows, and beach hijinks gives way to a big coastal push… 25 March 2026
UNCHARTED “Captain Kitty vs. The Bay” or “F- Me, I’m the Captain” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E04 In this high-stakes, low-freeboard two‑parter, reluctant skipper “Captain Kitty” takes command of the notorious floating spa tub and a boatload of Scouts, parents, and SLF’s nearest and dearest, only to discover that fate, weather, and basic physics have not read the float plan. Day 1 is smooth sailing and sun‑drenched optimism, but Day 2 turns into a nautical chaos special:… 21 March 2026
UNCHARTED “The Savage Dolphin Experiment” or “Winds, Waves, and WTFs” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E03 In this rollicking episode, our narrator signs up for what she assumes will be a chilled summer sailing jaunt with Scouts—sunshine, quick-dry undies, and minimal responsibility—only to discover she’s been secretly cast as Captain. After dutifully levelling up her skills on a tiny lake dinghy under her daughter L’s expert tutelage, she arrives at SLF’s ambitious Port Phillip Bay expedition… 18 March 2026
UNCHARTED “Scouts, Capsizes, and Other Life Choices” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E02 In this episode, an untrained stand‑in leader is hurled into a remote sailing camp with a dozen kids, a four‑hour drive, a pit toilet, and a five‑page text of ambitious objectives, armed with only slightly more than zero knowledge of sailing and a willingness to wing it. Over a week of gleeful capsizes, getting mocked by the safety boat, flying… 15 March 2026
UNCHARTED “Leadership by Four-Letter Word” - Captain Kitty’s Log - UNCHARTED - Special E01 In this irreverent, adventure-packed beginning, a fiercely loyal, foul-mouthed mum defends swearing as a health tonic while revealing how her torturous PT and quietly manipulative dad push her to do far more than she thinks she can. Just as she’s piecing together how challenge shapes her, a year of discovering that sailing is a brutal, no-mercy sport culminates in a… 14 March 2026
UNCHARTED The Wayfinder for Youth Sailing in Victoria - UNCHARTED - Bonus Are you interested in sailing or know young people who might be? Check out our “Wayfinder.” There are many ways to sail in Australia—cost-effective, non-competitive, and diverse. We created the Wayfinder for a conference because we have a passionate group of young sailors that isn’t interested in traditional competitive racing. Each of them sails for personal reasons, such as action,… 11 March 2026
UNCHARTED Field Study on the Horizon? - UNCHARTED S01E13 (Season Finale) We return to the central question: Can sailing positively impact health, mental health or well-being of youth and adults? The answer from Semester 1 is a tentative yes, based on existing evidence. The next step: design a real-world field project. The students sketch an outline for a small, feasible first study. Then they “pass the tiller extension” to a new… 06 March 2026
UNCHARTED "Bring Your Own Boat” (Really? Our Boat?) - UNCHARTED - Special - SailGP 2025 Edition Here is a sentence that does not appear in any sensible sailing manual: "Bring your own boat to the SailGP." And yet. SailGP — the global racing series featuring the fastest sail-powered boats on the planet, the F50 catamarans that hit speeds of over 50 knots — offers exactly that. A "Bring Your Own Boat" flag. Buy one, attend an… 28 February 2026
UNCHARTED "Shaping the Future of Sailing" - UNCHARTED S01E12 Part II This week, on 24 February 2026, Australian Sailing released the Participation Plan for Sailing in Australia—a national roadmap to grow participation across the sport through to 2032 and beyond. Gregor was part of the Working Group that helped shape it. Here's what's in it, and why Aurora's story is woven through almost every page. The Plan is structured around five… 24 February 2026
UNCHARTED "A Seat at the Captain’s Table" - UNCHARTED S01E12 Part 1 There's a moment in every story where the scattered threads start pulling together. Aurora's threads have been scattered across a lot of places: a Sydney Harbour drinks, a Sea Scout Group, a kids sailing program at Port Melbourne Yacht Club, a Swiss magazine article about cancer survivors, a Swinburne University research project, an Outdoors Victoria conference presentation. Individually, each of… 24 February 2026
UNCHARTED Finding Outdoors Victoria - UNCHARTED S01E11 With the student project wrapped and a punchy conclusion in hand, Gregor wonders: where on earth do you present something like this? He’s used to virology, immunology, biotech, pharma, and startup conferences. But this is… what exactly? • Youth health? Sort of. • Public health? Not in a classical epidemiology sense. • Education? He’s not technically a teacher. Eventually, he… 21 February 2026
UNCHARTED Proof of Concept? - UNCHARTED S01E10 The students dive into the scientific literature. Surprisingly, they do find relevant research. Their key findings: • Self-esteem & self-efficacy 10-day sail-training voyages can boost adolescent self-esteem for months. Dinghy sailing for 9–13-year-olds is perceived to build confidence and competence. • Mental health & well-being Dinghy sailing is associated with better mood and well-being. Adventure-therapy sailing programs have improved quality… 19 February 2026
UNCHARTED Aurora Meets Academia - UNCHARTED S01E09 Early 2025. Enter Jancy from Swinburne University by text message: “You always have great ideas. Would you have a good research question our Health Sciences students could work on?” Gregor, already in “academic supervisor mode” for his biotech startup SHRMP.bio, responds instinctively: “How many do you need?” “How many do you have?” Out of five real-world project ideas, one stands… 13 February 2026
UNCHARTED The Health Insurance Dream - UNCHARTED S01E08 The big question takes centre stage: Could sailing-based health programs become recognised treatments, reimbursed by health insurers? To get there, you’d need two things: 1. Clinical efficacy – does it work? 2. Health-economic value – is it worth paying for? Informally, the answer feels obvious. Parents send emails: “In just 5 weeks Ivy has transformed her relationship with sailing and… 09 February 2026
UNCHARTED Volatile Funding: Riding the Swell - UNCHARTED S01E07 By now, our protagonists have realised they’re not alone. There’s a small flotilla of organisations using sailing for health and education: • Leman Hope (Switzerland) • Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust (UK) • Fondazione Tender to Nave Italia (Italy) • Sailing Lifts Your Spirits and Making Waves Foundation (Australia) • Tall-ship youth programs like Young Endeavour, Leeuwin Ocean Adventure, and Spirit… 07 February 2026
UNCHARTED Governor-General’s Camp: Best Day Ever - UNCHARTED S01E06 Another Scout sailing opportunity looms: Governor-General’s Camp (aka GG Camp), also known in-house as “Camping on the Governor’s Lawn.” Gregor joins the GG Camp sailing team and discovers a whole new level of impact. Sailing on the lake in front of Government House is fun—but what really hits home is seeing kids who’ve never been near water taste sailing for… 05 February 2026
UNCHARTED Project Hope - UNCHARTED S01E05 Inspired by Leman Hope and the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust, the Lichtfuss family starts sketching a local version: Project Hope – a multi-day sailing adventure for young cancer survivors in Melbourne. The goal: offer a clinically meaningful experience proven to boost confidence, outlook, social connection, and life skills—basically, a true restart. They write the concept up (full pitch on their… 02 February 2026
UNCHARTED Stumbling into Sailing for Health - UNCHARTED S01E04 We jump to Switzerland, back to Gregor’s own sailing roots on Lago Maggiore in Ascona. At the legendary Meier “Family Table” outside a fancy hotel, he discovers a stack of sailing magazines and keeps seeing ads with a mysterious name: Leman Hope. Not the usual gear-or-watch ad—just powerful photos of kids sailing on yachts. Eventually, he finds an article. Leman… 27 January 2026
UNCHARTED Port Melbourne Yacht Club: The Accidental Kids Sailing School - UNCHARTED S01E03 Parallel storyline: Port Melbourne Yacht Club. Lily has had enough of “relaxing family cruises” that always become survival training in big wind and waves. She refuses to sail with her parents. Gregor and Marit hatch a win–win plan: Lily can do Sailing School while they sneak off to sail together. Tiny flaw: the yacht club’s course is full of adults… 23 January 2026
UNCHARTED Sea Scouts: Be Prepared (To Lead 40 Kids) - UNCHARTED S01E02 We flash back five years to where the adventure really begins: Sea Scouts. Gregor, a former Scout, drops his daughter Lily at 1st Victorian Sea Scouts wearing his old German uniform. The Group Leader pounces: “How about we get you into an Australian one?” Gregor agrees on one strict condition: he’ll help in the background but will not deal with… 21 January 2026
UNCHARTED “Start Line” - UNCHARTED S01E01 Our new series opens on Sydney Harbour at the start of the Sydney–Hobart Race. While serious sailors battle it out, Gregor, Marit and Lily watch from a spectator boat, wine glasses in hand, idly toying with a “bit of a crazy idea”: what if they just… bought a boat? They do. The tiny new family yacht comes with lime green… 18 January 2026
UNCHARTED UNCHARTED - The Unlikely Voyage of Aurora - Season 1 “Uncharted: The Story of Aurora” tells how the Lichtfuss family’s impulsive decision to buy a yacht on Sydney Harbour evolves into a mix of youth sailing, Scouting, and health innovation. What starts as casual cruising leads to leading Sea Scouts, creating a kids’ sailing program at Port Melbourne Yacht Club, and demonstrating how short sailing experiences can boost confidence and… 10 January 2026
SHR!MP University Project Olympics - SHR!MP S02E08 Entirely coincidentally (or call it fate), just as the ink on SHRMP.edu is dried, a former colleague at Swinburne asks whether I might have a good topic for some health sciences students to work on to learn how to apply research methods to real-world questions. Funny enough, I do.. my first year of my SHRMP “sabbatical” had filled my notebook… 07 December 2025
SHR!MP SHRMP.edu – Spicing Up Student Lives - SHR!MP S02E07 With the pivot decided, SHRMP.bio's board approves (re)capitalising the company sufficiently to build the prototype and continue with the development for 2025 - subject to finding a home to build it at within Q1/2025 (= 6 remaining weeks). So we get going. From a reasonably short target list, I try to get in touch with any course coordinator who I… 05 December 2025
SHR!MP Victoria the Innovation State - SHR!MP S02E06 Is this what’s embossed on our licence plates? No. It’s also not: Victoria the Technology State (or even the Biotech State.). And after living here for nearly 20 years, maybe I should have taken some pointers – if not from my own hard experience in technology innovation, then maybe at least from what my home state keeps on telling the… 03 December 2025
SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 3 – Outback Salami - SHR!MP S02E05 This post's only purpose is to alert visitors to Queensland about some great food products! These were featured during the “conference dinner”, that had been turned into a 'Festival of Food' market showcasing local products that included camel cheese (Summer Land Camels), crocodile spring rolls (no idea), Moreton Bay bugs (it’s in the name), Barramundi (plenty of sources), and kangaroo… 01 December 2025
SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 2 - Farming Is (Getting Too) Hard, Mate (but still better than Aerospace?) - SHR!MP S02E04 Language became even more direct, reflecting on “reckless” new regulations driven by urban environmentalists that are enacted without consultation or consideration for the people they actually affect, and an emerging urban/country divide that some likened to the early developments that led to a similar division in the US. Many (if not all) were very concerned about climate change and any… 30 November 2025
SHR!MP Evoke(n) – Part 1 – F$!@ing (Farming) Wisdom, straight up. - SHR!MP S0203 Oh SHRMPy!, that EvokeAg 2025 conference was much bigger than I expected – therefore there will be a triple feature! 4am start, on-time touch down for the opening, survived the official opening addresses, and things got interesting. A good number of the panels and especially the smaller workshops turned out to be really insightful and sometimes quite entertaining. This had… 29 November 2025
SHR!MP Waiting for Godot - Down Under Edition - SHR!MP S02E01 January in Australia is like August in France. Motivation to get anything done is at an all-time low – 6 weeks of school holidays are not helping. There’s not much one can do about it, but to embrace it. February, however, it’s back into action! IGP – that is an acronym everyone working in technology in Australia recognises immediately –… 27 November 2025
SHR!MP 2025 (Oh Captain, my Captain) - SHR!MP S02E01 The last weeks of 2024 were marked by an (for me) Herculean effort to turn some of the really interesting and good content (my opinion) into more bite-sized bits and get some activity onto the website and into SHRMPy’s LinkedIn presence. Absolutely no marketing strategy, beyond “let’s put it out there, so at least it could be found”. Not overly… 25 November 2025
SHR!MP Teaser: Oh Captain! My Captain! - S02E01 Teaser Reviewing the website and LinkedIn metrics at the end of the year was a rather disheartening exercise. Admittedly, we had not invested much in a professional marketing campaign, nor employed any marketing specialist, but instead I had spent a fair amount of time testing diverse messages and content, sometimes even half-heartedly (as I had “more important” things to do). Overall,… 28 October 2025
SHR!MP Cockroaches-by-the-Sea - SHR!MP S01E10 (Season Finale) In our end-of-2024 review, we looked at what worked and what didn't. The SHRMP.bio story worked in some ways: Everyone easily understood it (the straightforward company name also helped); it inspired audiences based on the sustainability angle alone. Support could be recruited from all over the world, and volunteers had spent some time on it – for free! But the… 26 October 2025
SHR!MP 300 (Prepare for Glory) - SHR!MP S01E09 With the year 2024 drawing to an end, Startmate ended its Buildmate pilot, and SHRMP.bio lost its city office again – SHRMPy was back on the street. However, without Buildmate, SHRMP.bio probably wouldn't have existed in 2025. Having this opportunity and the team that came together at least once a week helped us immensely to get through the next stage. 24 October 2025
SHR!MP Finding SHRMPy - SHR!MP S01E08 For the rest of 2024, in the absence of lab, team, and funding, I decided to focus on finding at least one of the three. And so the final weeks of 2024 were dedicated to speaking with as many people as possible, everyone who might have at least a remote interest in aquaculture, sustainable seafood, future nutrition, cool technology, AgTech,… 22 October 2025
SHR!MP Just Build, Mate. (just don't build a hardware Reactor!) - SHR!MP S01E07 For the second half of the year, SHRMP and I moved into Stone&Chalk, enjoying the laurels of pitching by having a nice Melbourne CBD-based office and some really good company as part of Startmate's Buildmate programme. Some members of the Internship team also stayed on a bit longer as we worked on building out the prototype plans and the development… 20 October 2025
SHR!MP Unsung Heroes - SHR!MP S01E06 To avoid losing the initial momentum SHRMP had until Buildmate started, I was looking for a way to sustain it. Through my early involvement with NAFI, I met our first potential intern, whom I was eager to provide with a worthwhile opportunity. From previous experience, I knew that hosting one intern typically required about the same overhead as hosting several,… 18 October 2025
SHR!MP AquaFarm(ing) - SHR!MP S01E05 Doubting my initial assumptions and the overall greatness of my idea, it was not the time to give up (yet). I chose to ignore today's market prices and concerns about cheap imports because they will likely change by the time SHRMP.bio is ready. If cheap imports are still around then, they will be produced using SHRMP.bio's technology. Not knowing about… 16 October 2025
SHR!MP (Another) Hopeful Fool - SHR!MP S01E04 The initial months revealed some interesting challenges. As I ventured into a (for me) new field, I also uncovered some unexpected “unknown unknowns” or simply incorrect assumptions. AgTech is a genuine Australian future industry and growth opportunity (yes, it is)… but aquaculture is not (although it could be). Australians love seafood. Australia has a longer coastline than the US. It… 14 October 2025
SHR!MP Beat Queensland - SHR!MP S01E03 Alongside the Entrepreneurship World Cup, the deadline for a LaunchVic Grant application arrived. Well, Go Big or Go Extinct was my motto for the World Cup, and the pitch served as the basis for the grant application. Being based in Victoria and working to launch one of the coolest projects this state has seen in this sector (probably ever), which… 12 October 2025
SHR!MP Just Launch, Mate. - SHR!MP S01E02 As a first step, I applied to a startup competition - and nothing less than the Entrepreneurship World Cup would do. A deadline to pitch is my best motivator to get started and work on putting an idea on paper. A real project/company name was also required. Days went by, pondering and wasting endless hours on playing through options of… 10 October 2025
SHR!MP ShrimpoFarm - SHR!MP S01E01 The final months of my Exopharm journey were a time of reflection. While thinking about our stem-cell production process and some of my exploratory work looking into potentially applying our core Exo technologies to the lab-grown meat.. I mean.. cellular agriculture manufacturing process, I was wondering why one would not "simply" grow cell clusters that are naturally programmed to become… 08 October 2025
SHR!MP SHR!MP – The Startup Saga - Season One (2024) [Episode Guide] In the gripping first season of SHR!MP, readers follow Gregor’s audacious leap from stem cell biotech into the uncharted waters of onshore aquaculture. It’s a rollercoaster of ambition, setbacks, and quirky innovation, told across ten episodes of grit and humour. After reflecting on his Exopharm journey, Gregor dreams up SHRMP.bio: a next-gen seafood manufacturing concept inspired by cell clusters and… 06 October 2025
Field Notes From Brain Implants to Wilderness Trails: A Day at Outdoors Victoria 2025 "By 2050, there will be quite a few people with brain-computer interfaces out there. And I think this could be a problem - because we may not know what is uploaded into their brains anymore and how this could unconsciously change their behaviour." The most forward-looking strategic thinking I have seen in a long time around here. Not a biotech… 19 August 2025
Field Notes Aurora Sailing... into the Unknown (following Curiosity) For now, this is just a teaser of a story that could not have been planned this way, and it is not entirely clear yet where it will take us. What started a few years back with the simple idea of “let’s buy a small boat so we can go sailing as a family” is turning into an adventure in… 13 August 2025
SHRMP.bio The Potential of On-shore Aquaculture Recap Significant changes are expected to occur over the coming 25 years and those changes are across a range of areas, often interlinked, sometimes compounding: the forces influencing our future include climate change, population growth, food security, technological advancements, logistics, trade, and nutrition – together with social and political changes (which we have not considered in detail in our analysis). 13 November 2024
SHRMP.bio Aquaculture Technology Trends Before we dive into our scenarios that intersect technology trends with climate change over the coming articles, let’s start with a brief background on how we have categorised technology trends into two main groups: “Extreme Tech” vs “Adaptation Tech” Extreme Tech - This category includes innovative approaches to food production that may have a slower acceptance rate under normal circumstances. 12 November 2024
SHRMP.bio Future Scenarios - Overview We analysed technology trends (focussing on food production), their development rates, and our ability to mitigate climate change, resulting in four scenarios. These scenarios range from minimal technological progress and failed climate action to significant technological advancements that successfully limit global warming. Scenario 1: Failed Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change & Limited Technological Progress This world is characterised by conflict,… 12 November 2024
SHRMP.bio Scenario: Significant Technological Advances & Limiting Global Warming We analysed technology trends and their rates of development alongside our ability to mitigate climate change, resulting in four scenarios. These scenarios range from minimal technological progress and failed climate action to significant technological advancements and successfully limit global warming. But We are only discussing the two scenarios that include significant technology advancement in more detail, mainly as we are… 12 November 2024
SHRMP.bio Scenario: Significant Technological Advances & Failed Efforts to Mitigate Climate Change We analysed technology trends and their rates of development alongside our ability to mitigate climate change, resulting in four scenarios. These scenarios range from minimal technological progress and failed climate action to significant technological advancements and successfully limiting global warming. However, as a technology startup, we will focus on the two scenarios that involve substantial technological progress in greater detail,… 12 November 2024
SHRMP.bio The Forces Shaping the Future of Seafood — 2. Trade Trade and logistics are not areas we analyse extensively ourselves. However, understanding population dynamics and the shift towards urban living indicates that decentralised, local manufacturing close to the customer would be highly advantageous. In 2012, Deutsche Post DHL commissioned a “futures study.” Although it is over 12 years old, the full report remains interesting and relevant - and can be… 08 November 2024
SHRMP.bio The Forces Shaping the Future of Seafood — 1. Customers: The Human Population by 2050 In our previous post on Predicting “The Future of Aquaculture” we outlined how we have created a set of extreme scenarios using Cambrian Future’s FLP-IT approach, focussing on customers, (food) trade and distribution, and advancements in how food products will be sourced. Several forces are shaping our future, including climate change, population growth, food security, technological advancements, logistics, trade, and… 07 November 2024
SHRMP.bio Predicting the Future: How can it be done? Although the logic behind modern, high-tech food manufacturing seemed obvious to us at SHRMP.bio, we often found that our audience didn’t immediately share this view when we launched in early 2024. We recognized the importance of clearly communicating the core assumption behind SHRMP.bio: that we must prepare for the future with a longer horizon of 10 to 15 years by… 28 October 2024
SHRMP.bio The Opportunity in Modern Aquaculture: A Brief Overview We foresee that by 2050 the world will need new ways to make food. And we expect that high-tech aquaculture will be a part of the solution. Over the next 25 years, we will experience significant changes: Population growth and demographic shifts are projected to bring our global population to 10 billion, with 7 billion of those people living in… 22 October 2024
SHRMP.bio Why try and build SHRMP.bio in Australia? Because, in theory, Australia has everything needed to succeed (and build a whole new Future Industry). Are you dependent on backing from Australia? Have you thought about building SHRMP.bio somewhere else? Since the beginning, we have been asked these questions, often reflecting on the “deeptech” and biotech vision behind SHRMP.bio, along with the associated time and capital needs and their… 17 October 2024
SHRMP.bio Startmate's Buildmate begins... Because SHRMP.bio won the Audience Choice Award at the LaunchClub Pitch Night in Melbourne in June, we scored free access to the new Buildmate programme - which also means that SHRMP.bio is now headquartered at Stone & Chalk in the Melbourne CBD. We came out of LaunchClub with one conclusion and two key questions. Our main conclusion was: The worst… 09 September 2024
SHRMP.bio 2024 - so far: From LaunchClub to Buildmate We came up with the idea for SHRMP.bio because we found the work on lab-grown meat intriguing. However, we also thought that it may potentially be slightly over-engineered for its purpose. However, we truly believe in the fundamental reasons for the development of cellular agriculture and recognise the necessity of these approaches. The world will need new methods for food… 05 September 2024
SHRMP.bio A Blue Ocean of Opportunity - Blue Ocean Ventures Committed to Bio-Technology Startup SHRMP.bio as it Predicts Significant Future Value of Technologies Enabling High-Tech On-Shore Aquaculture. Driven by the momentum generated through incubator programmes, Blue Ocean Ventures continues developing its spin-out company SHRMP.bio. High-tech Aquaculture may present a significant future economic opportunity through creation and ownership of key production technologies but Aquaculture is a challenging innovation environment. Based on SHRMP.bio’s experience, it appears that Australia has the potential to explore these significant but untapped economic opportunities. 04 September 2024
SHRMP.bio The Genesis of SHRMP.bio The concept behind SHRMP.bio was born from the founder’s previous experience in developing a biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology and process. While exploring alternative applications for their pharmaceutical bioprocessing technologies, the idea of lab-grown meat as a potential solution for future food security was considered. However, despite being a potential solution, lab-grown meat seems over-engineered and still faces significant challenges. This led… 01 May 2024
SHRMP.bio Blue Ocean Ventures Launches SHRMP.bio, a Blue Bio-Technology Startup Developing Sustainable Seafood Manufacturing Technologies. The future of seafood is on land – and SHRMP.bio plans to create it. [Melbourne, Victoria, Australia]: Venture studio Blue Ocean Ventures today announced the spinning out of its first development project. The new biotech startup SHRMP.biois developing the technologies to build a seafood manufacturing system ready for the challenges of the 21stCentury. SHRMP.bio aims tomake sustainable seafood possible through… 29 February 2024