Welcome back to the lecture hall with Dr. Nadia Sabeh! This week we are beginning our new series with several interviews discussing energy in all forms and its impact and function in CEA facilities. In this first episode Nadia reviews how energy is defined, its importance in CEA, and some terms to understand as we dive in with some experts.

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Enjoy a host interview with Tad Hussey from KIS Organics living soils and the host of the Cannabis Cultivation and Science podcast guest hosting for this episode! This is an opportunity to learn about Nadia's background as an agricultural and HVAC engineer and how we got to 101 episodes of education and industry insider information.

Check out Tad’s podcast, Cannabis Cultivation and Science, here.

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It’s an honor to present you with a series of interviews from our time at Indoor Ag Con last week for our 100th episode! Hearing from attendees is a great insight into the content, the expo floor energy, and what’s possibly to come in the future of the conference, as well as the indoor agriculture industry as a whole. This year’s guests were:

🔹 Brian Sullivan, President of Indoor Ag Con

🔹 Kelley Nicholson, Automation Expert for MicrogGow and Autogrow

🔹 Jim Rearden, President of Biotherm

🔹 Michelle Keller, Head Grower at Living Greens

🔹 Carly Becker, Program Coordinator at Ohio Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (OHCEAC)

🔹 Glenn Behrman, Founder of CEA Advisors and Growtainers

🔹 Henry Gordon Smith, Founder of Agritecture

🔹 Austin Smith, Account Manager at Grodan

🔹 Dr. Allison Justice, Founder of the Cannabis Research Center and Coalition

🔹 Grant Peagler, Business Developer at Siemens

🔹 Dr. Neil Mattson, Professor at Cornelll University and GLASE.

Thank you so much for spending 100 episodes growing with us.

Learn more about this year’s Indoor Ag Con here.

As we approach our 100th episode, we are taking a look back at moments that highlight one of Nadia’s special talents: asking great questions. It’s a strength that has helped her solve many a problem for our clients, and get some great insights from our guests. What are they going to be talking about? Well, that’s a great question.

Today’s featured guests were:

Melanie Yelton of Grow Big Consulting
Bruce Bugbee, Director of the Crop Physiology Laboratory at Utah State University
Christine de Jesus Director of Cultivation and GM at Galenas
Nick Denney Senior Director of cultivation at Holistic Industries
Gary Stutte President and CEO of SyNRGE
Craig Burg President of Desert Aire
Jim Rearden and Thad Humphrey, CEO and Principal Engineer from Biotherm Solutions
Brian Anderson, Partner at Anderson Porter Design

You can find all of these guests’ full interviews in our podcast archive wherever you listen to the doctor is in. Stay tuned for our next episode which will be our hundredth! We’ll be celebrating at indoor ag con and hope to see you there. Find our table to record a segment with us and give us your conference takeaways on Wednesday March 12th. Thank you for growing with us.