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 to her role. We talk about current events, and the good news during all this is that cannabis busines...
May 20, 2020•34 min
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 born into the hemp movement. Today, Dan carries on his late father’s legacy yet on his own terms and ...
May 18, 2020•36 min
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 POS providers in the cannabis space, including Flowhub, Cova, MJ Freeway, Treez, and Greenbits. They ...
May 13, 2020•32 min
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 founders spent an entire lifetime of blood, sweat, and soil into preparing for the adventure to follow....
May 11, 2020•36 min
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 2009 at Emerson College SSDP. She volunteered on the board of MassCann for several years and was the ...
May 06, 2020•20 min
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 and has supported crisis operations for international non-profits like the American Red Cross. Recent...
May 04, 2020•35 min
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 working in health care and early childhood education until she began working in cannabis policy in 2016 a...
Apr 29, 2020•11 min
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 surfaces. He’s been with the company since 2017 and prior to his role at ProKure, he launched an energy drink ...
Apr 27, 2020•33 min
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 components to help increase quality; education, continuous proactive training, and morale in the workplace. ...
Apr 22, 2020•14 min
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 CannaMexico and is author of Cannabis Capital the first book on cannabis venture capital for Entrepreneur ...
Apr 20, 2020•35 min
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 products to consumers on a global scale by commercializing the industry in the most responsible manner. Nat...
Apr 15, 2020•11 min
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 is also a regular speaker, blogger, and social media commentator, committed to helping clients buil...
Apr 13, 2020•36 min
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 storytelling, he shares his visionary ideas for harnessing the power of observation and creative problem solvi...
Apr 08, 2020•14 min
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 – you may remember her appearance in those “It’s all about the O” commercials – and ultimately rose to...
Apr 06, 2020•35 min
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 business function of risk management to new entrepreneurs in today’s leading-edge and trending busine...
Apr 01, 2020•16 min
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 sales expectations year over year. Her dedicated advocacy for CO2 safety in restaurant and beverage indu...
Mar 30, 2020•34 min
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 Political Director for the Michigan Cannabis Industry Association, Bruner assuaged and liaised policy o...
Mar 25, 2020•32 min
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 listeners know about the USDA Hemp Regulations being rolled out, and anyone who’s in the hemp/CBD busines...
Mar 23, 2020•35 min
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 & avid fan of the hit TV show, The Profit. As the first woman in Georgia to obtain a Bachelor of A...
Mar 18, 2020•32 min
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 increase yields and profits, providing KPI’s including Which strains are the most profitable. As well ...
Mar 16, 2020•35 min
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 operations (a cannabis operation) that is rapidly expanding in Michigan. He is the company’s leader of Gov...
Mar 09, 2020•34 min
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 now that we’ve got a few years of state-legal programs under our belt, there is actually quite a bi...
Mar 02, 2020•35 min
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. Using hazardous chemical-based water treatment methods can potentially have long-term, detrimental c...
Feb 24, 2020•34 min
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 hemp producers achieve success while meeting and exceeding the most stringent of current Good Manufacturing Pra...
Feb 19, 2020•34 min
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 to legalize marijuana for adult-use in Arizona in 2016. A few years ago, this industry was comprised of a...
Feb 10, 2020•36 min
Justice for Cannabis with Omar Figueroa, head of Law offices of Omar Figueroa, based in Sebastopol, CA. Omar has published a series of books documenting the legal evolution of California’s cannabis laws and a new board member at NCIA. Omar has got his finger on the pulse of California regulations and even “wrote the book” on it, Or several books as it were. But this landscape is ever-evolving, so we talk about his sense of what changes are to come for the cannabis industry in California. Much li...
Feb 03, 2020•34 min
Compliance in cannabis with Allison Kopf. Allison is the founder and CEO of Artemis, a Cultivation Management Platform serving the fruit, vegetable, floriculture, cannabis, and hemp industries. In 2015, Allison won the highly coveted Disrupt Cup at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco with the seed that would become Artemis. Allison was named a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 as well as one of New York Business Journal's 2019 "Women of Influence." We talk about that same old song we all know: compliance....
Jan 27, 2020•33 min
Science, Business, Cannabis, & Technology with Charles Warner CEO at IPW and Editor-in-Chief Cannabis & Tech Today the leading publication for all things Science, Business, Cannabis, & Technology. Innovative Properties Worldwide, a marketing agency and publishing company based out of Denver, Colorado. Charles is a powerhouse of experience and insight as well as a thoughtful storyteller who is focused on building audience engagement while inspiring and informing. During his time as a ...
Jan 20, 2020•35 min
Technologies for human diagnostics, food safety, and agriculture Jon Vaught, CEO and Co-Founder of Front Range Biosciences. Dr. Jonathan Vaught has more than 15 years of experience in developing and commercializing technologies for human diagnostics, food safety, and agriculture. He also operates a small farm at his residence in Colorado and founder of Mountain Flower Dairy, a non-profit focused on providing educational opportunities for locals to learn about where their food comes from. Adverti...
Jan 13, 2020•35 min
NCIA 2019 Rewind With Justinian Mason And Christie Lunsford. A job recruiting platform specifically for the cannabis industry with Justinian Mason, Business Development Manager at Vangst Talent Network. VTN is a job recruiting platform specifically for the cannabis industry. Vangst is one of a handful of staffing and recruiting firms that focus on the cannabis industry. Another important topic in the cannabis industry is opening up business opportunities for those who have been most impacted by ...
Dec 30, 2019•29 min
