Recent HVAC innovations can change the way cultivators approach environment control in their grow facilities. Equipment breakthroughs mean greater control over their crop, leading to increased quality and fewer plants lost to mold or disease.
But growers can’t get the best quality equipment for their grow rooms if they don’t have access to the crucial information necessary to ask the right questions and make the right decisions. Out-of-date thinking has impeded the industry so far from taking full advantage of the choices available to them.
In this session, Geoff Brown reviews the science and math behind smart HVAC decisions and equips you with the knowledge needed to achieve maximum return on your investment.
Selling legal cannabis remains a work in progress, with several marketing hurdles to overcome. Not least of these is that its main competition, the black market, also operates freely online at sales levels equal to its legal counterparts. So the question remains: with such a thriving illicit market, how do we, the legal ones, attract our customers back? Is thought-leadership content the way to go? Or is social media going to be our saving grace? This panel of marketing experts will look at the road ahead and seek answers to these questions and more.
The Canadian Cannabis industry has a labour problem. A large detailed-orientated labour force is required to meet stringent cleanliness requirements, achieve yield goals, and meet demanding quality expectations.
Currently, large numbers of millennials are employed by the industry who have not shown a predilection towards these business requirements. This costs the cannabis firms untold millions in yield, quality, and lost harvests.
This how to get a millennial workforce to maximize yield, achieve quality goals while meeting stringent cleanliness requirements.
• How to engage their hourly workforce to help develop standards and procedures
• How to conduct regular After Action Reviews to review and plan operations
• How to gamify the workplace to challenge millennials
Explanation and affect of emerging technologies on the cannabis industry (blockchain, cryptocurrency, data analytics, software) which will facilitate safer, more consistent, and cheaper products and services from Cannabis providers.
How will the results of Election 43 affect you as a cannabis patient, consumer or industry professional?
The upcoming Federal election will bring about a new wave of policy change in Canada. The campaign period leading up to voting day in October is the opportune time to have our voices heard and help shape better policies coming down the pipeline. Andrea will provide an overview of current and upcoming policy challenges, different political party positions on cannabis and a summary of the related policy changes that have been hinted at in their campaigns. Learn what tools are at your disposal to make a difference and advocate for more inclusive policies that directly affect you. Brief Q&A to follow.
Cannabis is poised to disrupt virtually every consumer industry: from food and beverage, to alcohol, beauty, health and wellness, tobacco, travel and tourism, fashion, and home and garden. By 2030, some form of legal cannabis will be a regular part of consumers’ daily lifestyles.
This massive global opportunity is bringing new investment and start up activity into the industry. However, in today’s attention deficit marketplace, the winners will need to not only create distinctive and differentiated brands, but also to educate and inform new consumers in order to develop loyal customers.
In her keynote presentation, Anat Baron will cover the trends that will shape the industry and the key success factors to incorporate in building the next wave of consumer products and services brands.
A discussion about the hemp markets in Canada and worldwide, as well as industry trends, and how to position your business or portfolio to grow with the hemp market. Learn which news sources and services other industry professionals use.
Inexperience is an industry obstacle. So, some bottom-line-minded growers are exploring a generations-old option: vegetable greenhouses. Houwelin Nurseries is converting a 2.2 million sq. foot former tomato greenhouse to cannabis in partnership with Agraflora Organics International Inc. Meanwhile, Leamington, Ont., a city synonymous with tomatoes and ketchup, will see Auxly Cannabis run a 1.4 million sq. foot operation in an area that’s home to half Canada’s greenhouses. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers… and pot. Why not? Isn’t natural light better? But the debate is far from over. There are areas, from light intensity to odor containment, where greenhouses aren’t ideal for cannabis growth. This session will lay out the pluses and minuses of greenhouses vs purpose-built facilities to help you decide which is right for you.
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