Hear people properly
No parade of panels. No seven-minute talking points.
SALAR Conversations gives a small number of contributors the time to explain what they see, what shaped their perspective and why it matters.
See what you cannot see alone.
SALAR 2027 is for people who know one part deeply — and are willing to look beyond it.
Wild Atlantic salmon moves through rivers, fjords, coasts and oceans — connecting places, pressures and decisions that are too often considered separately.
You may spend your life working with one river, one science, one industry, one community or one part of government.
In Mandal, you will sit beside people who see the same water system very differently. Some will challenge what you believe. Some may change what you notice.
Not to force agreement.
Not to smooth over conflict.
To understand more of what is at stake — and what responsibility asks of us.
Come prepared to see the system differently.
Not everyone sees the same thing. That is the point.
- A scientist may see questions the evidence has yet to answer.
- A river owner may see generations of belonging.
- A hydropower company may see energy, flexibility and competing demands.
- An aquaculture leader may see food production, livelihoods and difficult choices.
- A conservationist may see ecosystems under pressure.
- A policymaker may see decisions where interests collide.
- A philanthropist may see possibilities beyond established systems.
SALAR brings these perspectives into the same environment — without pretending they will automatically agree.
Every perspective reveals something.
None reveals the whole.
What you will experience
Let the conversation leave the room
On Friday evening, SALAR moves into Mandal through SALAR Open houses.
Different places. Different hosts. Different conversations.
On Saturday, the questions move beyond the meeting rooms and into the landscape itself.
From the room. Into the town. Into the water system.
Meet outside your normal world
SALAR deliberately brings together people who would rarely spend a full day in the same room.
River communities. Science. Government. Conservation. Aquaculture. Hydropower. Fisheries. Philanthropy.
Some of the most useful conversations may happen with the person you did not expect to meet.
The system has not changed.
What you see may have.