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Conference: MJBizConNEXT
Networking Lounge
Networking Lounge
Cultivation Roundtable: How Are You Keeping Your Cultivation Costs Down?
Processing Roundtable: How Are You Using Automation or Technology to Increase Your Efficiency?
Retail Roundtable: How Are You Reaching New Customers During the Pandemic?
Cultivation Roundtable: How are Social Distancing Guidelines Affecting Your Cultivation Operations?
Being Nimble: Lessons in Pivoting & Execution during COVID-19
The current COVID-19 situation has forced cannabis businesses to remain flexible and quickly pivot to serve the needs of their customers and partners in the supply chain. Being deemed an essential business in most of the states where cannabis is legal has provided examples of how being nimble in your planning can allow cannabis businesses to navigate […]
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Customer Acquisition and Lead Generation in a Downward-Trending Economy
COVID-19 has significantly altered how business is conducted when attempting to acquire new leads and customers. Up until now, the cannabis industry has heavily relied on solidifying relationships during in-person events and face-to-face meetings. The present circumstances have left many wondering what steps to take as growth slows and revenue projections soften? In this session, […]
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Overcoming Staffing and Operational Challenges Resulting from COVID-19
The current global situation has presented cannabis CEOs and business owners with challenges regarding employee staffing and keeping operations running smoothly. Effective leadership during these times can help to mitigate the disruption to your employees and your business overall. In this session, you’ll hear from cannabis CEOs on how they are handling the current crisis […]
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Beau Whitney
Beau Whitney is the founder of Whitney Economics and serves as a director for Mantis Growth Investments. Whitney’s professional experience encompasses business operations and supply chain successes from Intel and TriQuint Semiconductor, where he oversaw scale amplification for semiconductors and modules to address the rapidly growing supply demands of the global mobile device market. Applying his supply […]
Ryan Douglas
Ryan Douglas provides cannabis consulting services through his company, Ryan Douglas Cultivation, LLC. He has worked in commercial horticulture for 23 years and specializes in legal cannabis start-ups. Prior to entering the cannabis industry, Ryan spent 15 years as a commercial greenhouse grower of ornamental and edible crops, growing up to 600,000 plants annually. As […]
Arnaud Dumas de Rauly
Arnaud is currently Co-Founder and CEO of The Blinc Group. He is a proven leader of multiple start-up companies who simultaneously leads, guides, directs and evaluates operations through international marketing, communication & public relations. Bilingual in French and English, fluent in Spanish and has worked in France, China, Dubai, Tunisia, Spain, UK and the USA. […]
Paul Botto
Roderick Stephan
Roderick Stephan has broad experience in starting and growing investment fund management business over his 30-year financial career. He was previously a founding partner of Longacre Fund Management (UK) LLP, a London-based alternative investment advisor managing over $300 million in assets (2006-2010) and co-founder of the Distressed Investments Group at Citadel Investment Group and head […]
Derek Smith
Derek Smith is Executive Director and Co-Founder of Resource Innovation Institute (RII), a national non-profit whose mission is to promote and quantify energy, carbon and water conservation in the cannabis industry. Prior to RII, Mr. Smith ran Clean Energy Works, a residential energy efficiency program that blended utility, public and private dollars to deliver whole-building […]
Julie Herzog
As head of the corporate/securities practice, Julie Herzog handles a wide variety of corporate, securities and merger and acquisition transactions. Her clients represent a variety of industry sectors, including energy, health care, technology, manufacturing, real estate, food and beverage, business consulting and other services. She has counseled several hundred companies from inception through initial public […]
Robert Hunt
Rob Hunt is a founder of Linnaea Holdings, a private equity firm focused on rolling up California-based cannabis assets. Formerly Rob was the founder and manager of Shingle Hill, a boutique consultancy and market intelligence firm for the cannabis industry. He has more than 14 years of experience in cannabis as an attorney, consultant, operator, and investor. Rob specializes […]
Michael Boniello
Michael is a managing director at Poseidon Asset Management, one of the longest running cannabis-focused investment firms. During his time at Poseidon, Michael has focused on raising capital for companies that have reached their Series A and higher rounds of funding. Prior to this, Michael held roles in the traditional finance sector. […]
Av Singh
Av Singh is one of the leading authorities on organic cannabis production. Av is also the Commercial Science Specialist at Greenstar Plant Products Inc, the Chief Science Officer with Green Gorilla the Chief Agricultural Scientist at BetraLif, the Chief Soil Scientist at CaliCann (Colombia). Currently, Av and his colleague Randy Flemming serve as Cultivation Advisors […]