The Economics of Cannabis Extraction

Most people know that there are three dominant cannabis extraction techniques, including hydrocarbon, ethanol, and supercritical carbon dioxide. Often, though, discussions regarding these techniques solely focus on upfront equipment costs, without delving into the total cost of ownership overtime. As most extractors would no doubt want to thrive in the industry long term, having the complete picture for ancillary equipment costs, energy requirements, solvent storage and disposal, labor, safety controls, etc., are paramount for long-term success. This panel provides an unbiased, realistic portrait of the costs associated with cannabis extraction.
Moderator – Dr. John MacKay

Sustainability

As the cannabis industry soars across our earth, we must be mindful of what our planet has already endured. The industry’s monumental popularity means that abundant resources must be used for cultivating cannabis plants, extracting them, and purifying the molecules within for downstream product formulations. The burning question this panel provides answers for is how can we continue to grow sustainably?

 

Moderator – Dr. John MacKay

Looking Back from June 2024 at the Cannabis Market

If you were transported to June 2024, what would you do today?  I will be 70 years old in 2024.  I will pass on what I experienced up to 2021 and what I saw up to 2024.  I do not know more than that but will pass on my predictions after June 2024.

Hop Latent Viroid

  • What it is?
  • How it’s tested, what we see from the lab perspective?
  • What it can look like?
  • What it can do?
  • How to get rid of it?
  • How not to get it again?

Moderator – Brian Coutts

What’s New in Cannabis Tech & Innovation

The more you know, the more you grow. And with legalization in the rear-view mirror, the industry has been allowed to experiment with maximizing and optimizing yields and sales. From integration of cannabis tech and data, to vertical farming, to crop steering and genetics advances, this panel of front-line experts joins moderator Phil Wong to debate the pros, cons and potential of various new techniques that are gaining traction across the cannabis industry.

Moderator – Phil Wong

Risk Management and Insurance for Cultivation/Extraction Facilities

There is buying Insurance policies for protection and then there is making Risk Management an organizational priority to reduce the impact a claim has on your Business. Fady Kamel has been working with Large LPs, Retail Stores and everything in between since 2016 and will discuss the importance of Good Risk Management Practices throughout your organization.

Out of the Bag: Addressing the Challenges of Cannabis Packaging

    • The journey from seed to shelf – ND understands what goes into your product and what goes into ours
    • Current state of packaging – How regulations affect the choices producers make. Challenges with materials, costs and keeping your products fresh.
    • Working together – Why is packaging one of the last things producers think about but the first thing a consumer sees?
    • Sustainability – the future of cannabis packaging

Moderator – Kevin Lee

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Simplifying the Cannabis Supply Chain with Automation

The industry has raced to move to online, experienced massive fluctuations in consumer demand, and is now balancing brick and mortar as well as online sales, this all leads to new complexities in the cannabis supply chain making it difficult to navigate. Align that with mergers, acquisitions, and international growth and the complexity becomes unmanageable in the current state of how we execute within our supply chain. It is critical to have good planning in place to defend profit and attack competition. Operational transparency and efficiency are key to be first to market, avoid disruption, and prepare for future growth. This session will discuss transforming order fulfillment strategies using automation to set up operations for business success.

The Importance of Clean in the Cannabis Industry

In many respects, the cannabis industry is now just coming on-line into full facility care cleaning. Facility care has been happening for decades now and occurs in areas like Pharma & Food product producing facilities, as well as Hospitals and Long Term Care facilities where pathogens and words like nosocomial are well understood. Much of what has been learned in the cleaning industry is tried and true and we’ve come to know what we now know, largely through failure, so our ambition is to disseminate some failure avoidance principals and focus on the business of cleaning, to support the business of cannabis on the following themes:

 

  • Broad Facility Care Discussion
  • IPA – Potential Health and Environmental Risk
  • Danger in the workplace – Multi-faceted discussion – Worker and Environment
  • WHMIS, as it relates to the worker and Cannabis production facilities
  • Green Cleaning and GreenGuard Gold certification for cleaning chemicals used indoors
  • Production – Equipment to task as opposed to labour to task
  • Training – Specific to facility care knowledge
  • Building Service Contractors – Their place in the cannabis industry