Cutting Edge Of Cannabis

The first testing standards in California with Alec Dixon, the Director of Client Relations with SC Labs. With five years of experience as a sales consultant in the hydroponic industry and formerly serving in the Navy. He is Outreach Director for Veterans for Medical Marijuana and is on the Board of Directors for Wo/Man’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana. In 2010 Alec along with the other founders opened SC (Science of Cannabis) Labs in Capitola, California, and developed the industry’s first testing standards. These guidelines are now widely adopted by the cannabis community, regulators, governments, and many organizations. As our industry transforms, we’ll continue to support standards, helping clients meet new challenges, advocating for common-sense regulation, and always keeping a strong connection to our cannabis roots. Some liken the past decade of the cannabis movement to the Wild West. Though a passionate, vital community, there was no safety and quality testing regulations or requirements. Four activist entrepreneurs thought there should be a consistent way consumers could trust their cannabis and cultivators could improve their products. The idea: develop testing and certification standards that could be built into the cannabis production process, at scale.

Cannabis and Flow with Steven Kotler, Executive Director of Flow Research Collective and Will Kleidon, CEO, and Founder of Ojai Energetics. Kleidon and Kotler are both members of Baby Bathwater Institute, a carefully curated entrepreneur mastermind. The organization is a global hotbed for innovation and collaboration where founders swap stories and support on the love and war of entrepreneurship, a perfect recipe leading to Ojai Energetics and Kotler’s synergistic beginning. Ojai Energetics is a triple bottom line-driven cannabis technology company with a primary focus on the organic and science-driven nutraceutical and medical sectors. As CBD makes its way into becoming a household staple for all ages and uses, Kleidon is pushing the research envelope on how the combination of how CBD impacts and potentially enhance flow. The Flow Research Collective is a research and training organization. Our mission: understand the science behind ultimate human performance and use it to train up individuals and organizations.

Soil To The Oil with Kristen Yoder. Kristen is the CEO of the cannabis business advisory firm Soil to the Oil and hosts The CannaBS Detector podcast. As a veteran of California’s cannabis industry with professional experience in nearly every facet of the business, Kristen joins us to talk about the state of cannabis as it moves out of the gray and into the heavily restricted legal marketplace.

Streamlining cannabis packaging with Phillip Harrison of Durapack. With the cannabis legalization boom, more and more cannabis organizations are looking for solutions to help automate their packaging processes. Dura-Pack has been helping cannabis organizations with streamlining their packaging operations for decades. Dura-Pack’s line of automated vibratory filling machines and pouch bagging machines are the perfect packaging solutions for cannabis and CBD infused edibles. Dura-Pack has been manufacturing machines and equipment in the great State of Michigan for over 48 years. They are privileged to have manufactured machines and equipment for customers that range in size from small mom-and-pop shops to large enterprise-level organizations that span the globe.

Cannabis Banking with attorney and CEO of Abaca, Dan Roda. Dan is a sought-after speaker on cannabis banking and compliance. With degrees from Tulane University, Villanova University, and the University of Alabama, Dan hit the professional world as a corporate attorney. As Dan’s cannabis industry client roster grew, he noticed a consistent problem: banking. Dan has been splitting his time between Colorado and Arkansas growing Abaca to help solve the cannabis industry’s banking problem. Abaca is a financial and regulatory technology company based in Little Rock, Arkansas, that facilitates electronic payment processing, banking, lending, and financial services for underbanked and nontraditional industries and communities. They're not just a fly-over state. They're down here on the ground solving one of the most complex banking problems. Based in Little Rock and with a satellite office in Denver, Colorado, Abaca's team of legal and financial technology experts founded Abaca to unlock modern financial services for one of the largest underserved industries in America... cannabis.

Commercial scale hemp paper with CEO of TINY e PAPER, Erica Halverson. TINY e PAPER CO makes 100% pure hemp paper on a commercial scale within a nominal cost increase over its tree paper version. They make their hemp paper out of hemp stalks and the waste from CBD Extractors, taking care of 2 problems within the cannabis industry and beyond. Selling their products/running their companies are using a smarter resource than trees and utilizing a lot of waste being generated by a rapidly growing category. Erica started TINY e PAPER after a serendipitous conversation over happy hour with a friend about hemp paper in Nov 2017. The proverbial lightbulb went off, and TINY e PAPER was born. Here too is where she started her own hemp education and realized just how important and special this plant is. Erica has found some of the best and brightest in hemp and other skill sets such as marketing and branding expertise and has added them to the TINY e TEAM as advisors and product developers. She is creating a hemp movement, and that requires participation from a larger group. You can join them on their mission to save the planet one plant at a time by checking out their website.

Humboldt Seed Company with founder and CEO, Nathaniel Pennington. Nathaniel has been breeding cannabis and working to restore rivers and salmon populations in Humboldt County, CA, for more than 20 years. His prior work in salmon genomics gave him the background to understand the need for unbiased cannabis genomics research. Humboldt Seed Company is on a mission to provide high-quality cannabis seeds to customers who want to grow their own cannabis plants.

End to end harvesting technology with Cullen Raichart, Founder and CEO of GreenBroz, Inc. has more than 12 years of experience as an entrepreneur and inventor. A Veteran of the United States Armed Forces, Cullen is driven to create American-made products that offer solutions to the growing agriculture industry. Prior to founding GreenBroz, Inc., Cullen worked in the corporate world for a Fortune 500 company until realizing his passion for creating innovative products. His goal became the streamlining of the harvesting processes and, in turn, reducing growers time and costs. Cullen’s vision for an end to end harvesting technology has led GreenBroz, Inc. to become a world leader in automated harvesting solutions.

3 Rivers Biotech with VP Sales and Business Development, Kevin Mehr. Washington is the home of their licensed facility, but they ship premium tissue cultured plants all over the US and world. From Washington to Florida, they're here to help hemp farmers de-risk their operations, scale their production safely, and reap the benefits of this exciting crop. Almost every clonally-produced crop has moved to tissue culture plant starts for a reason. Plants that are starting disease-free tend to be highly vigorous throughout their life cycle and focus more energy on growth and secondary metabolite production, augmenting the performance of the crop and economic return.

High performance indoor cannabis cultivation with then director of enterprise Solutions at urban-gro,  Colin Ferrian. Urban-gro, Inc. is a leading engineering design services company that integrates complex equipment systems into high performance indoor cannabis cultivation facilities around the world. The company’s ag tech division, Soleil Technologies, delivers data-driven micro-climate intelligence using high-density sense technology to improve crop quality, consistency, and operational efficiencies. By combining its design and integration services, industry-leading suite of cultivation equipment and crop management products, and proprietary technology solutions, urban-gro provides integrated solutions for today’s commercial cannabis cultivators to efficiently manage and optimize their cultivation operations. With Urban-Gro's foundational Cultivation Space Programming services through their full building mechanical engineering and integrated cultivation design services, their coordinated design packages ensure the efficient interaction between the people, plants, and processes. Whether you’re designing a new cultivation facility or ready to scale up to a larger operation, Urban-gro's team of drafters, engineers, and commissioning agents can help. They bring decades worth of combined commercial cultivation experience to craft fully-integrated systems and technology solutions.

Combining science and nature with Stacy Cason from Planetarie. Stacy is a serial entrepreneur with a diverse educational background. She is an Ironman, an investor, a speaker, and has been an active philanthropist for many years. Stacy is eager to lead this organization into the future. Through science and with great passion, by perseverance and empathy, and with bold expectations, they exist to revolutionize wholeness for all living beings and for our world. We envision all living beings as being full of health, happiness while flourishing in a harmonious, symbiotic relationship with our world.

World-class training products and services with Mike Thompson of SVI LLC, creator of Learner Mobile. SVI designs customized and off-the-shelf products to address every aspect of an organization’s training needs, including design, delivery, management, and evaluation of development programs. Their solutions are delivered on multiple platforms, including web and mobile, to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. When topics require a tailored approach, SVI develops customized instructor-led courses, career assessments, and on-boarding programs for all levels of employees. SVI's talented team of writers and designers constantly challenge themselves to provide a fresh, innovative learning experience that is engaging, entertaining, and relevant. With Learner Mobile, you can create beautiful, bite-sized content in a flash.

Ojai Energetics with founder and CEO, William Kleidon. Ojai Energetics is a certified B-corporation that supports fair trade, sources organic, and operates its own genetics farm in Oregon. They are creators of Full Spectrum Hemp Elixir, the most bioavailable and advanced micro-encapsulation process in the industry. Their proprietary method of encapsulating CBD oil in water is the most effective delivery system of CBD available.

Sun grown assisted cultivation with Marcus Naramore and Leo Matz, of LeafWerx. LeafWerx is a company owned and operated by friends and family who strive to deliver the best quality product for the best value to their customers. LeafWerx utilizes large scale sun grown or sun grown assisted cultivation to produce a sustainably conscious flower. With the focus on rare genetics and targeted cultivars, they are able to produce premium cannabinoid and terpene feedstock at the best value.

Specialized financial needs in cannabis with Simon Dufour, CPA for Hall & Company. For over 35 years, Hall & Company has embraced entrepreneurs, CEOs, and founders for their visionary and independent spirits, and they specialize in serving their accounting, tax, and specialized financial needs. Hall & Company provides a vast array of advisory services, including tax, accounting, and specialized support for businesses and court cases. No matter how intricate a business challenge may be, their team becomes an entrepreneur’s most trusted resource.

The answer to social equity with Karim Webb. Karim is an Entrepreneurial Activist and CEO of 4thMVMT, an LA-based social equity initiative that seeks, vets, trains, finances and partners with individuals from communities who have been heavily impacted by the application of criminal justice, to own and operate competitive retail businesses. The primary goal of 4thMVMT is to cultivate human potential through empowering people and fostering well-being while engaging culture in an authentic and impactful way. The company prides itself on being the answer to social equity.

Cannabiscope with co-founder and CEO David Schacter. Cannabiscope is creating a platform that will allow users to easily navigate products and find what's best suited for them. Cannabiscope is going to be selling CBD products directly to consumers and plan to have some of the top CBD brands hosted on their wheel so that consumers will be able to come to their site to find and purchase reputable products to be delivered directly to them. Going into a dispensary where thousands of products are available can be confusing, and nobody has the time to research them all. New and experienced cannabis consumers should check out Cannabiscope, a gamified app where shoppers answer a series of questions to narrow down their options and make an informed, confident buying decision. Beyond consumers, Cannabiscope can help businesses.

Providing clean and premium cannabis products with Serge Chistov from The Honest Marijuana Company. Serge is the financial advisor for the Honest Marijuana Company, a Colorado-based cannabis cultivation group that prides itself on providing clean, premium cannabis products to the medical and recreational consumer markets.

Dewey Scientific with Dr. Jordan Zager, Co-Founder / CEO. Dr. Zager is an expert in natural product biosynthesis and chemical analysis of cannabis resin compounds. Dr Zager earned his PhD from Washington State University, where his research set the stage for studying the regulatory events governing gene expression in cannabis and their effect on the biosynthesis of trichome-bound cannabinoids and terpenoids. Early in his career, Jordan set his sights on aggressively applying modern scientific methods to the cannabis industry and to bring cultivators the tools to become exceptional. Dewey Scientific, an agritech innovation company that pioneers the research and development of quality and consistent cannabis, announces its founders’ recent research paper, published by Plant Physiology, is now in the top five percent of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric. Dr. Zager recently presented his findings from the paper, Gene Networks Underlying Cannabinoid and Terpenoid Accumulation in Cannabis at the Cannabis Science Conference in Portland, Oregon. The paper is co-authored by Chief Science Officer Dr. Mark Lange and others. The research analyzed genetic sequences from nine commercial cannabis strains. Drs. Lange and Zager discovered distinct gene networks responsible for individual strain's production of cannabinoid and terpene resins. These types of compounds are underlying the plant's medicinal and recreational benefits, along with accounting for its smell and taste. Dewey Scientific provides advanced scientific services to cannabis cultivators to increase crop resilience, productivity and robustness. Additionally, the Pullman, Washington agritech is developing its IP portfolio by advancing methods in tissue culture micropropagation, while leveraging genetic markers and meaningful biological data to guide cannabis breeding decisions. Dewey Scientific is the only cannabis agritech in Washington state founded by PhD plant biologists.

Pathogen testing for the cannabis Milan Patel Co-Founder & CEO, PathogenDx. Patel leads the strategic vision, financial health and global growth of PathogenDx, a Scottsdale, AZ-based company which provides disruptive DNA-based pathogen testing technology and solutions for the cannabis, botanical, food and agricultural industries. Previously, Mr. Patel spent over 25 years working with the large public, small private and entrepreneurial companies in numerous fields from the life sciences, to biotechnology, to government services and the automotive industry.