Archives: Seminars
Cybersecurity Priorities for the Cannabis Industry
Regulators and consumers alike are starting to ask hard questions about cybersecurity and data privacy in the cannabis industry. As the industry matures, good cybersecurity needs to be seen as a...
Consideration of horticulture lighting solution for success
Lighting is one of the most important factors controlling the growth result, but lighting does have to work with many other environmental and operational factors as a complete system to reach the...
Seed planting & Germination Workshop
This presentation covers preparing seeds for planting, the proper techniques for planting a seed, how to care for your seeds after planting, and is interactive. Attendees will take home a 4×4 pot...
The Importance of Zoning in Cannabis Operations
This presentation will identify the high-level role zoning laws play in cannabis operations.
It will provide a business owner with resources the business owner can use to navigate and comply with...
How to Develop & Succeed in the Premium Exotic Flower Niche
Learn the fundamentals and the pitfalls to avoid in developing a premium exotic flower grow facility and operation. Learn about facility development starting with selecting the correct property,...
Genetics, Cannabis Tissue Culture & Advanced Cultivation
Take a deep dive into why stable genetics are so important and how you can implement tissue culture into any size cultivation canopy. This will educate & teach the grower how to achieve frosty...
Seed to Strategy: How to Get the Sale?
Sales is one of the driving factors in not only going into business, but staying in business. Whether your passions are in agriculture, cultivation, manufacturing, distributing, products, and or...
James Thorburn is the leader in the most innovative and sophisticated cannabis litigation in the nation and has had several published opinions, including Justice Thomas’ Statement in Standing...
HVAC- the importance of precision humidity and climate controls to produce maximum yields in an indoor environment
Learn about the Importance of humidity and climate in an indoor environment. Learn more about how HVAC equipment provides modulated humidity and temperature controls to create a stable...
Developing New Mexico’s Cannabis Workforce
Labor shortages are a real concern for many industries right now, especially for the newly legalized cannabis Industry of New Mexico. This presentation will resolve the need to create a Labor Pool...
Amp the Trajectory of Your Business with Your Next Leadership Crew!
Want to grow your business and your team to reach its potential? This presentation will focus on creating leaders, finding the right talent for your organization, working at maximum efficiency, and...
Winning Merit Based Retail Dispensary Applications in Highly Competitive Jurisdictions
Our goal is to provide both cannabis executives and aspiring cannabis entrepreneurs guidance on creating a merit-based application that will win licenses. During the presentation our panel will...
How To Brand and Market Your Cannabis Business
This session is focused on the marketing and branding a cannabis business. It will explain how to develop and protect a strong brand with state and federal trademarks. We will demystify the...
Navigating Through the Complexities of Risk Management & Insurance
The insurance industry is constantly evolving in an effort to provide protection for both early stage and established cannabis companies. Quantifying risks, analyzing exposures, recommending...
Top 10 Mistakes to Avoid When Starting Your Cannabis Business
As a Partner and Founder of a leading law firm focused on business issues, Larry Donahue has personally dealt with many legal challenges confronting his clients. Unfortunately, many of these...
Cannabis & Self-Care: Linking Data to Deliver Insights
First party data belonging to cannabis operators provides a limited amount of insight into their business and customers. We’d like to show you how linking point of sale data to advanced...
Numbers Don’t Lie: What your P&L says about DE&I
The profit and loss statement is a crucial tool in managing your business’s finances and investments, Understanding how to read and measure one through the lens of Diversity, Equality &...
Cannabis Banking
Discussing the complexities of establishing a banking relationship that can serve the ever expanding needs of the fast growing cannabis market, including reliable cash management, forward thinking...
The State of Cannabis – A Payments Perspective
Learn about the key issues facing cannabis retailers from someone who has been doing this for over 29 years, with a focus on removing as much cash from the equation as possible. Join us for some...
Water Sustainability Best Management Practices
A presentation that focuses on strategies that cannabis cultivators must consider for water management, capture (condensate), reuse, wastewater and regulatory concerns that could significantly...
The Future of Nutrient Monitoring: How Plant Sap Analysis Can Help You Cultivate Healthier Plants for Less
For decades, growers have used leaf tissue analysis to monitor nutrient uptake. The problem with this technique is that when we study leaf tissue samples, we are looking at the past. Deficiencies...
Data Drives: the key metrics that relate to the success of your cannabis business, yielding greater net operating margin through HR, compliance, and accounting.
Review the key data metrics that any Cannabis business must be mindful of to be successful metrics are tied to a strong HR function, an accounting and finance function that runs like clockwork and...
Cannabis Tax and Business Challenges
In this seminar you will learn from operators in more mature markets regarding the common challenges, tax challenges, cash flow challenges and other aspects of the industry that you may not be...
Refining the Extraction Process with On-site Testing
In the rapidly evolving world of cannabis extraction, there exists a wide spectrum of philosophies on ideal methods and best practices. Process-tracking practices with on-site analytical technology...
5 Keys For Raising Capital in Cannabis, CBD, & Hemp
Cannabis is a capital-intensive game. Get inside the head of an investor to understand the due diligence they do before investing in your comapny. We will go from a novice in raising capital to...
Technology in the Cannabis Packaging Space
Supply chain issues are some of the hardest challenges for businesses to overcome today. In the highly regulated cannabis industry, these difficulties are augmented due to state-by-state laws,...
Gaining Efficiency in Cannabis Cultivation
As cannabis production facilities increase in scale and number, keeping production costs down is increasingly essential to stay competitive. This presentation will draw on lessons learned from...
Infused edibles are the future
As consumers continue to demand more predictability and faster effectiveness in edibles, products with quick onset will dominate the marketplace. Chef Ron Silver can teach you how it’s done. Ron...
Branding at Scale: Best Practices in IP Licensing & Licensing as a Growth Strategy
As cannabis companies seek new growth strategies, many are seizing a golden opportunity to license intellectual property and convert their company’s cutting-edge technology into new revenue...
Regulatory Compliance
Learn some of the regulations governing commercial cannabis businesses. Since recreational legalization kicked in December of 2018, Michigan has become the fastest growing state in the recreational...
Cooking with Cannabinoids for Health and Happiness
An Analysis of CBD & Gut Health Chef, Crohn’s survivor Jazmine Moore of Green Panther Chef. Over 70% of Americans suffer from gastrointestinal problems or digestive disorders. This...
Indoor Cannabis Grow Rooms Design
This presentation provides a guide for the Design and operation of the HVACD for a sustainable Building. The HVACD system is critical to improve yield, control the quality, protect your margins and...
Building a Compliant Facility
The cannabis industry is burdened with strict regulatory requirements & challenging schedule expectations, making it difficult for business owners to receive their license & become...
An Exploratory Discussion on Increasing Nutrient Use Efficiency
Learn about the nutritional pitfalls in the water solution and soil, and how to avoid them. Also discover how to increase metabolic function in plants by leveraging amino acids at certain stages of...
Cannabinoid Medicine: Knowing the Health Benefits for Your B2B Clients
There are endless CBD companies for your clients to choose from. So how do you influence them to buy your product? Know the medical information that makes your product stand out. This presentation...
THC and Hypertension: Why Marijuana Should Be Used Cautiously with Diagnosed Hypertension
As marijuana has grown in popularity as a therapeutic supplement, marijuana users and hypertensive patients are beginning to overlap. If marijuana gets the user high by causing the user to “mellow...
Law & Cannabis Businesses: What All Owners & Operators Should Know
The cannabis industry challenges business owners and operators with unforgiving, complicated laws and regulations as well as complex transactions with sophisticated parties, who are all attempting...
Terpene 101: Tiny molecules with HUGE benefits!
During this presentation we will review the most commonly occurring terpenes found in cannabis. We will have a clear understand on why terpenes exist in nature, as well as the different types of...
No One Grows Alone: The Sales Approach that Can Save Cannabis Business
While the stigma around cannabis is breaking, the stigmas inside the industry hold businesses back. Francesca shares an elevated mindset and practical applications that take companies from...
How to Open a Dispensary 101: Licensing & Application Phase
With cannabis sales projected to generate over $22B in 2021, investors are considering what license opportunities have the most potential. A dispensary license offers a healthy profit margin with...
Technology, Security, & Compliance
This seminar focuses on the security and compliance issues that effect all types of cannabis businesses from manufacturing to a growth facility to dispensariesLearn how technology and a few simple...
Lighting Considerations for Cannabis Cultivation
This talk will cover lighting considerations for cannabis, including proper intensity, Daily Light Integral, Spectrum and Photoperiod. We will explore artificial lighting and its applications in...
Pivoting into Cannabis: Using What You Already Know to Start Your Canna-Business
This panel will provide the audience with insight from professionals from a wide variety of canna-businesses who used the skills and experience they already had to expand into the cannabis...
Protecting Your Green: Utilizing Payroll, HR and Timekeeping to Keep Your Cannabis Operation Compliant
For those knowledgeable in cannabis but not as strong in back office practices, this session is for you. Learn the simple processes that will keep you legally compliant and help your cannabis...
Hitting the Mark on Cannabis Trademarks
Due to ongoing changes in federal and state laws, hemp goods and services are being sold and provided into commerce to consumers across the nation. Hemp businesses need to ensure that their brand...
Healthcare Provider Legal Concerns and Evolution of Medical Marijuana Programs
The presentation will be provided by a Texas licensed physician who is registered with the Texas Compassionate Use Program (TCUP), along with an attorney who has been serving the cannabis industry...
What Can Marketers Learn From FDA/FTC Enforcement Trends
In this session, we review recent enforcement trends and discuss ways companies operating in the hemp-CBD marketplace can limit their risk, while still be truthful and not misleading. This includes...
Supply Chain Solutions in the Cannabis industry
Getting your product from your facility to your clients is one of the most overlooked aspects of the cannabis supply chain. Tactical Transportation has a solution for you. Learn how Tactical can...
Grow Relationships to Thrive
One of the most difficult things I’ve heard from farmers and entrepreneurs is marketing, branding and developing relationships wirh governments and big business. To solve this issue, I am going to...
Simple Steps to Avoid Government Fees & Penalties
Government regulations abound in our industry. As a cannabis employer, there are requirements you must meet in order to stay in business. Messing up in one of these areas can revoke your OMMA...
The 11 Basics Every Cannapreneur Should Know About Cannabis Accounting
Companies operating in cannabis, hemp and CBD can face very stringent regulations and requirements. From federal taxation complexities to state seed-to-sale tracking requirements, your passion for...
Cannabis Tax Codes: Keeping you ahead of the law
Did you know the IRS can deny deductions completely if
you are operating without good records? Also since there
are no “deductions” in cannabis it’s important that your
cost of goods sold is...
Retail Operations and Management
Gaining entry and maintaining a foothold in the cannabis industry can be tough. I can help guide you in the right direction. Being a women of color has given me some insight on how to manage and...
CBD For You & Me: A Senior’s Silver Lining
Keiko Beatie has been a practitioner of Ayurveda, Chinese and Holistic Medicine since the 1970’s. Her specialty in Bach Flower and Homeopathic has continued with whole plant cannabis medicine...
Keynote Panel: State of Texas Hemp
Join Rep Tracy King and Ilissa Nolan for a special session covering the state of hemp in Texas, including the evolution of the Texas hemp laws, challenges faced, successes shared, and expectations...
Texas A&M Agriculture and Growing Hemp in Texas
Texas A&M AgriLife initiated hemp programming in 2019 and research in 2020. At least 14 Texas A&M faculty across the state are engaged in hemp research and education. Dr. Trostle will...
The new frontier of cannabiosciences
A growing crossover segment of states are now legalizing cannabis alongside their established industrial hemp programs. What does this mean for the opportunities in industrial hemp, and R&D in...
Business Networking to Grow Your Sales Pipeline
Be visible and get noticed. Active professional networking is vital to business growth and is an excellent source of new perspectives and ideas. Learn how build your reputation as being...
6 Common pitfalls guaranteed to compromise your product label
In this session we’ll cover the six most common product label mistakes companies make that cost them money and time, and how to avoid them. Participants will leave understanding which mistakes they...
MicroClimate Systems for Growers – Initial Planning Creates Operational Efficiency & Savings
CEA (Controlled Environmental Agriculture) is a technology-based approach toward production. CEA optimizes resources such as water, energy, space, capital, and labor. Upon planning and design of a...
The Cannabis Marketing Pyramid: A Step-By-Step Process to Creating a Winning Cannabis Brand
Welcome to the new WILD WEST of marketing: the cannabis industry! Boundaries and restrictions force cannabis marketers to think creatively and take big risks. In this session, we’ll explore the...
Hemp Retail Operations
Find out what consumers really want! And learn the key foundations for success in hemp retail. We will discuss unique customer retention strategies and the key reports that you MUST run...
Getting Your Business Funded in the Cannabis Industry
Learn detailed information about the type of documents investors require prior to funding consideration, identifying the right investors for your company and how to go about finding them, other...
CBD/Hemp Business Start Up: 5 key components to building a successful business foundation
They say, “If you build it, they will come”. That is further from the truth, especially in the CBD and cannabis business. 80% of all new businesses are OUT of business within 2-5 years...
Effecting Drug Policy Reform at the Local Level: 101
This presentation is designed to empower psychedelics policy reform advocates to make positive changes in their communities by providing participants with a basic understanding of the legal and...
How Aquaponic Production can Increase Flavor, Speed of Growth & Profits
All-natural, organic, pesticide-free, greenhouse, indoor, outdoor, and or conventionally grown cannabis all seem to be buzzwords, but why does it matter? Cannabis has become a massive industry,...
Cannabis Security from Application to Operation
The objective is to educate individuals seeking the process of Designing a Cannabis Security Plan during their application stage of getting an MMJ business license. The key topics in a security...
Genetic Selecting and Strategic Cultivation
Selecting genetics that were bred for your specific region. Seed viability, the importance of a “radical. Cultivation techniques appropriate for your end product, environment and genotype.
Cannabis: An Opioid Alternative
Both patients and providers are sometimes left helpless with pain management options. Many patients are using CBD to help with their pain, but how does it work and what does the research show? How...
What Can Marketers Learn From FDA/FTC Enforcement Trends
In this session, we review recent enforcement trends and discuss ways companies operating in the hemp-CBD marketplace can limit their risk, while still be truthful and not misleading. This includes...
10 Common mistakes made by Hemp Farmers and How You can Avoid Them
Drawing from the diversity of experiences that our client/farmers had in 2020, then looking at those had the most success. We were able to distill everything down to 10 common themes, from seed to...
Long-Term Community Development through Cannabis Education
How will you, your family, and your community benefit (or not) from the booming cannabis industry? We are creating an entire industry that will make an impact in the world and in multiple...
Dosing + Microdosing CBD: How much is Right for You?
When asked what dose of CBD you should take, many CBD products and purveyors will give you a one size fits all answer. This does our industry a disservice. Finding the desired dose can take time...
What’s the Issue with Financial Services for CRBs?
We will dive into the state of banks, credit unions, merchant processing, lending and insurance for this space. Why is it so difficult, what’s changing and how to get the services businesses...
Farm Economics of Hemp Fiber and Grain
Overview of the gross return per acre for Hemp fiber and grain farm operations. How to monetize hemp fiber and grain on an agricultural scale.
Hemp 101
If you’re new to the cannabis space, there are some fundamentals you should understand prior to getting involved. During this session we will cover certain Federal Regulations in regard to cannabis...
COOKING DEMO: Cumin-Lime Scented Portobello Mushroom Tostados with Black Bean Puree, Guacamole, Goat Cheese & Infused Roasted Garlic-Serrano Oil
Learn to cook mouth watering hemp dishes with renowned Chef Michael Weinstein. Learn step by step as Chef Weinstein takes you on a culinary hemp journey, from the process of decarboxylation to get...
5 Cultivation Techniques I wish I knew in 2020
Maximize your budget and yield with this dive into advanced growing techniques with this engaging presentation from Texas Hemp Growers President Zachary Maxwell. Organic insect management,...
Gentrifying the Wild West
Want your Hemp products in local grocery stores or even Walgreens? We’ll discuss the kinds of testing that mainstream brands do to get their products on the shelves around the country. We’ll also...
State of Cannabis in Texas with Heather Fazio
Cannabis laws have evolved dramatically in recent years and, with Texas lawmakers in session, advocates are working to expand the Compassionate Use Program, improve the state hemp program, and...
How to Develop and Succeed in the Premium Exotic Flower Niche, and Genetic Selecting, Strategic Cultivation & Tissue Culture
HGI’s facilities are hygienical ‘organic’ environments for biologic methods and organic best practices and are designed for perpetual high-yield grow cycles, giving clients a year-round...
Extraction Matters
A hemp farmer, extractor and manufacturer with 27 years experience in the industry speaks about how to succeed in a new emerging market and how to avoid the pitfalls of cultivation, processing and...
Blockchain Software: Compliance and true track/trace for the total hemp supply chain
Top five problems limit the growth of hemp that software can solve:
1. Finding data on seed genetics for your microclimate
2. Tracking your growth cycle
3. Safeguarding for compliance
4....
How To Avoid Bad SEO Providers & Spot Good Ones!
The presentation would cover the subject of hiring a search engine expert to help promote your business and what to look for to avoid falling for SEO companies that offer cheap services that will...
Hemp in Construction, Rebuilding Americas, Economy
Describing from processing through developing markets how to bring economic opportunities to rural parts of America to rebuild our country sustainably.
CBD For You & Me A Seniors Silver Lining
Keiko Beatie has been a practitioner of Ayurveda, Chinese and Holistic Medicine since the 1970’s. Her specialty in Bach Flower and Homeopathic has continued with whole plant cannabis medicine...
Butane in the Field of Extractions from Cannabis and Hemp using various technologies
Butane still occupies an important place in the field of extractions and now Butane Extraction becoming available to individuals through simplified small equipment. Other solvent and gas...
Draped Up and Dripped Out: Organic Cannabis Is What I am Talking About
Where does your cannabis come from? Why is it important to know the grower and source of your cannabis products? Cannabis is often portrayed as au naturel it doesn’t mean that all cannabis is...
The Circle of Cannabis: Cultivating A Circular Economy Through Compost
What is a circular economy? A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy aimed at eliminating waste and the continual use of resources. How do you accomplish that in...
A Higher Cause: The Importance of Certified Organic Cannabis
All-natural, organic, pesticide-free, greenhouse, indoor, outdoor, and or conventionally grown cannabis all seem to be buzzwords, but why does it matter? Cannabis has become a massive industry,...
How to stand out in a crowded CBD market
Seems like everyone is getting into the CBD space, it’s a green rush, and until federal regulations come out, we’re going to continue to see a hyper excitement in this industry with everyone trying...
Marketing and Integrations, What You Need to Launch Your Canna Brand
You have an idea, but how are you going to build a brand? It’s no secret that in the cannabis space we can’t take advantage of every tool or platform out there, so join me in this talk to get the...