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.