Experience Hemp Virtual Conference

Live Webcast Featured Speakers

LIVE WEBCAST SUPERSESSIONS

The Experience Hemp SUMMER SOLSTICE Virtual Conference & Trade Show will showcase six 90-minute live webcast Supersessions, offered twice a day, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, June 16-18. During the sessions, join in live chats and Q&A with featured panelists, industry speakers, and webcast hosts Morris Beegle, Preston Whitfield and Scheril Murray Powell.

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

11:00 am – 12:30 pm MDT – Innovation: Technology Advances Across the Hemp Supply Chain

Stay up to date on the latest exciting innovations happening in the hemp space, from farm and harvesting machinery, drone and data collection technology, extraction and processing equipment, analytics and testing, product development,  packaging, and more.

• Joe Witte, VP of Ecosystems and Partnerships, TagOne
• Agnes Ostafin, Ph.D., President, Nanoshell Company
• Andrew Bish, COO, Bish Enterprises Mark Reinders, CEO, HempFlax
• Joe Hickey, Co-Founder & Chairman, Halcyon Holdings
• Moderator: Joy Beckerman, Principal, Hemp Ace Regulatory, VP, U.S. Hemp Authority

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MDT – Investor Outlook & the Financial Future of The Hemp Industry

Investment professionals, financial analysts, and business leaders dedicated to the industrial hemp market will share their perspectives on the current hemp investment landscape.

• Emily Paxhia, Managing Partner, Poseidon Investment Management
• Codie Sanchez, Partner, Entourage Effect Capital
• Patrick Rea, Principal, Canopy Boulder Geoff Whaling, President and Cofounder, Collective Growth Corp.
• Julie Lerner, CEO, PanXchange
• Moderator: Sean Murphy, Hemp Industry Consultant and Founder, Hemp Business Journal

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

11:00 am – 12:30 pm MDT – Food Sovereignty, Nutrition & Hemp’s Role

Humans have used hemp for food, medicine, and more since Paleolithic times. Now that it is legal, hemp today is considered a superfood. This discussion will explore what opportunities and roadblocks are ahead in furthering hemp’s role in our food system.

• Chad Rosen, Founder, Victory Hemp
• Winona LaDuke, Founder, Winona’s Hemp & Heritage Farm
• Anndrea Hermann, Principal, The Ridge International Cannabis Consulting; Board Member, Hemp Industries Association
• Eric Schnell, Cofounder, Mood33 and BeyondBrands
• Moderator: Steven Hoffman, Editor, Let’s Talk Hemp Newsletter, Managing Director, Compass Natural

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MDT – Bast & Hurd: Industrial Hemp Opportunities in Building, Biocomposites, Biofuels & More

Learn more about hemp’s importance beyond CBD and its role in sustainable building and construction, the manufacturing of biocomposite materials such as bioplastics, plant-based biofuels, and other products innovated from its fiber, bast and hurd.

• Mattie Mead, Founder, Hempitecture
• Ed Lehrburger, Founder, PureHemp Technology
• Pamela Bosch, Educator, Artist and Hemp Advocate, Highland Hemp House
• Patrick Flaherty, Founder, PF Design Lab
• Gregory Wilson, CEO, Hempwood/Fibonacci LLC Michael Fazakas, CEO, BC Hemp Corporation
• Moderator: Scheril Murray Powell, Attorney, Doumar, Ellsworth, Lastrom, Voigt, Adair and Dishowitz, and Executive Director, Black Farmers and Agriculturalists of Florida

THURSDAY, JUNE 18

11:00 am – 12:30 pm MDT – The 2020 Hemp Crop: Harvesting, Drying, Handling & Finding Markets

Learn from the experts and share what you know on how to get the best return on investment for the 2020 hemp-growing season. This panel will share what they have learned to maximize the hemp crop, including best practices and research.

• Dion Oakes, Co-owner, Wright-Oakes LLC
• Dani Billings – Cofounder, Nature’s Root; Colorado Hemp Project
• Eric Steenstra, President, Vote Hemp Mike Leago, COO, High Grade Hemp Seed
• Moderator: Tim Gordon, Chief Science Officer, Functional Remedie

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm MDT – The 1 Percent Solution — Why 0.3% THC is Arbitrary and Wrong

Panelist will address questions regarding the USDA ruling and its latest policy regulations relating to the limit under USDA rules governing hemp cultivation. Join in the conversation as to how the industry can unite and effectively lobby to help effect this needed change.

• Courtney Moran, Attorney, EARTH Law LLC
• Shawn Hauser, Partner and Chair, Hemp and Cannabinoids Department, Vicente Sederberg LLP
• Herrick Fox, CEO & Co-Founder, Meristem Farms LLC
• Cary Giguere, Agricultural Resource Management Section Chief, Vermont Agency of Agriculture
• Kayla Haddix-Heard, Founder of Hippie Hempster, Speaker Coordinator at CoHempCo
• Moderator: Doug Fine, Hemp Farmer and Author, Hemp Bound and American Hemp Farmer