NCIA Cannabis Industry Voice

The Future Of Cannabis As An Essential Business with Nina Simosko. Nina serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Akerna, a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s companies and investments also include MJ Freeway, Ample Organics, Last Call Analytics, Leaf Data Systems, solo sciences, and ZolTrain. Nina brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience t...

Carrying The Family Torch In Cannabis with Dan Herer. Dan is the son of famous marijuana activist and author Jack Herer, of the book ‘The Emperor Wears No Clothes’, who passed away in 2010. Dan balances multiple roles as an industrial hemp developer, hemp entrepreneur, and is the Director of the California-based Jack Herer Foundation. Dan Herer, son of the legendary hemp advocate Jack Herer, was b...

Customer loyalty platform for the cannabis industry with Jeffrey Harris, CEO, and Founder of Springbig. Today, we learn about an innovator in loyalty marketing technology, who recently announced that it reached a five million customer milestone, establishing the company as one of the fastest-growing CannaTech companies in the cannabis industry. Springbig has partnerships with some of the leading P...

From soil to oil with Brian Chaplin, founder of Medicine Box. The company provides Cannabis-infused herbal wellness solutions based in Nevada County, California. They produce a signature tincture, holistically crafted from a delicate ensemble of soothing herbs, superfoods, and mindfully cultivated cannabis. Long before the initial announcement of Medicine Box’s formation on April 20, 2016, its fou...

ELEVATE Northeast Events and Education exists because of the creativity, dedication, and passion of a group of activists and professionals with a shared mission to educate and empower a diverse and inclusive cannabis workforce and to work together to end the stigma against cannabis and the people who use and work with it. Cara has been involved with the cannabis community and policy reform since 2...

Crisis communications strategy with Jeanine Moss, founder of Outfront Solutions. Jeanine is also the Chair of NCIA’s Marketing and Advertising Committee. Jeanine is a product and brand development specialist and entrepreneur who has shepherded numerous organizations and brands through worldwide crises, acting as Chief Communications Officer for The September 11th Fund after the terrorist attacks a...

Cindy Sovine has over 22 years of government relations experience working on local, state, and federal issues. She is very effective at helping highly regulated industries achieve their goals and successfully navigate ever-changing legislative, regulatory, and political environments. She is a Colorado native who grew up farming and ranching in eastern Colorado. Cindy spent much of her career worki...

Clean Cannabis is one of the biggest concerns for today's guest the president of ProKure, Alex Cushman. ProKure's goal is bringing the benefits of ProKure products to a wider market in the growing cultivation space, with the transparency of product as a core differentiator, and a mission. ProKure offers a safe, cost-effective, hospital-grade solution for disinfecting and deodorizing all su...

Quality Control Analytics was founded with the belief that education is the key to success and quality. They believe that educated employees perform reliably and consistently. The heart of Quality Control Analytics is quality. Quality and education go hand in hand; a quality product is achieved with quality education and training. Quality Control Analytics believe that there are three key componen...

Cannabis Capital: How To Get Your Business Funded In The Cannabis Economy with Ross O'Brien, Bonaventure Equity. Ross is the Founder & CEO of Bonaventure Equity, a cannabis venture capital fund, and runs the Cannabis Dealmakers Summit, a series of industry conferences and investment forums. Ross sits on the boards of the Green Ignition Ventures, Florida’s first cannabis accelerator, and Ca...

Natura Life + Science with development director and co-founder Manndie Tingler. Natura’s vertically integrated platform enables the company to bring cannabis products to the emerging California marketplace, while also creating trust in the industry through reliable service, supply-chain integrity and quality assurance. Natura is committed to delivering quality, consistent, trusted cannabis product...

Branding services for the cannabis & CBD industry with Josefine Nowitz Co-founder & Managing Partner of Cannabis Creative Group. Cannabis Creative is a full-service marketing agency providing web design & development, digital marketing, and branding services for the cannabis & CBD industry. Josefine is a strategic & creative leader immersed in cannabis culture and commerce. She...

The Global Soap Project with Derrick Kayongo. With his trademark panache, Derreck tells his courageous story of survival, social entrepreneurship, and humanitarianism, and the life lessons he learned along the way. From Ugandan refugee to successful entrepreneur, CEO, and renowned human rights activist, Derreck’s journey inspires audiences to dream big. Through personable and articulate storytelli...

NCIA Cultivation Committee with Stormy Simon. The NCIA Cultivation Committee has a mission to promote the voice of growers and to develop, promote, and distribute best growing principles and practices. Stormy Simon joined Overstock.com in the heady days of 2001 when the Internet was new to most consumers and the company had fewer than 100 employees. She went from temp to PR chief to branding VP –...

New Ventures Consulting uses time-tested, proven business strategies to show purpose-driven entrepreneurs in leading-edge and trending businesses how to navigate risks inherent in growing and scaling so that the founders can see their vision come to life and positively impact people. Jack Palis is a risk advisor and insurance consultant specializing in, and committed to, bringing the traditional b...

CO2 vs H2O In Cannabis Cultivation with Melyssia Santiago from CO2Meter.com. Melyssia is the Vice President of Sales at CO2Meter, she has been a key force in helping CO2Meter drive sales and exceed industry expectations, since 2015. While driving the sales growth for the organization, Melyssia has also been committed to team mentoring, providing the ultimate customer experience, and exceeding sale...

Perpetual Harvest with Margeaux Bruner, live from the North East Cannabis Business Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. At Perpetual Harvest Sustainable Solutions they monitor and assess trends, external environment and internal practices; makes recommendations to develop/adjust strategy to meet the changing business and market conditions as registered lobbying agent and consultants. As former Pol...

counterfeiting, diversion and gray market abuse in cannabis with Terri Miller, Regional Sales Director at SignaKey. SignaKey provides encrypted track, trace & authentication technology (T, T & A). They protect products, brand identities, and brand values against counterfeiting, diversion and gray market abuses through the use of a proprietary symbology and a closed-loop process. Many liste...

Asfalis Advisors was created after Vanessa Mathews took a particular interest in crisis management when as a young woman, she found herself caught up in a natural disaster for which her hometown of Atlanta wasn’t prepared. Mathews is the Founder & Chief Resilience Officer of Asfalis Advisors, a Business Resilience Advisory Firm, is also a self-proclaimed foodie, travel enthusiast, pet-lover &a...

Cannabis cultivation software Brett Strauss, President, and Co-Founder of FolioGrow. Brett is a serial entrepreneur with a 20-year background in creating, designing and selling software, primarily in the B2B space, working with companies like Oracle, Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell, and Intel. FolioGrow is a cannabis cultivation software that helps cultivators make the right decisions to in...

Education when it comes to medical cannabis is a very important part of the growth of our industry and today we talk about that and much more with Chris Jackson of India Sticky. Chris was previously a candidate for Pontiac City Council and State Representative (29thDistrict). Excited to explore entrepreneurial endeavors in a new & emerging market, Chris partners with the Sticky brand of operat...

Consistent quality flower with increased crop yields with Peter Dougherty, CEO of Orion Partners. Orion Partners Gro iQ platform helps cultivators increase crop yields and produce consistent quality flower. The Gro iQ analytics platform helps cultivators increase cultivation command and control measured in increased grams per sq foot and reduced cost per gram results. Data is KING as they say. And...

Green Chemistry water treatment technologies with Kyle Lisabeth of Silver Bullet Water Treatment. With over 15 years’ experience, Kyle has been focused on improving water management programs across multiple industries, with a central focus on treating water for reuse applications. Traditional water treatment methods frequently depend on harsh or hazardous chemicals for their respective processes....

Revolutionizing how cannabis producers achieve success with David Vaillencourt, Davidis founder and president of The GMP Collective. David serves on the NCIA's Facility Design Committee and is also a member of ASTM International's D37 Cannabis Standards Committee where he developed and passed the first cannabis laboratory standard. The GMP Collective is revolutionizing how cannabis and hem...

Arizona Cannabis Industry with Ryan Hurley of Copperstate Farms. Ryan is General Counsel at Copperstate Farms, the largest medical cannabis grower in the Southwest. He has been working on AZ's MMJ law even before it was passed, and he had significant input on the ultimate Rules that AZDHS developed. Ryan was the attorney for the Arizona Campaign to Regulate Marijuana like Alcohol a committee t...