Out of the Bag: Addressing the Challenges of Cannabis Packaging
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- 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 Importance of Clean in the Cannabis Industry
- 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
Cannabis Farmgate in Canada: Overview and Future Directions
Cannabis farmgate refers to a retail store where cannabis products are sold directly to customers by a federally licensed producer (LP), usually at their production site. Despite considerable publicity and apparent interest by the industry and consumers, uptake is at a very early stage. Ontario is the only province with cannabis farmgate operations, although Saskatchewan’s retail framework allows it. The BC government will launch a farmgate program in 2022. New Brunswick announced in late August 2021 that it will implement a farmgate program as soon as possible.
The presentation will explain what cannabis farmgate is and could become, looking at the prospects for different licensees, including cultivators. Ideas being discussed include using farmgate stores to promote cannabis tourism and providing tasting and sampling as with wineries and craft breweries. The presentation will review provincial governments’ moves to establish farmgate programming and conclude by considering the outlook for farmgate in applicable provinces. The scope for cultivators’ participation will be discussed with fresh insights from BC’s current consultation exercise.
Takeaways:
- Learn the model’s key components.
- Farmgate in many forms: can it work in any setting?
- Opportunity for co-operative farmgate models and selling other producer’s products.
- The model’s potential as a new sales channel and strategic driver of new business.
- What’s the outlook for farmgate store openings across Canada?
What Will It Take To Succeed in Canadian Cannabis As We Emerge From COVID-19?
The past year has been a “reckoning” for the Canadian cannabis sector. Many cannabis companies remain unable to turn a profit; but that’s almost a success story compared to those struggling to make payroll and in some cases, even survive. Against this backdrop there are also success stories. The truth is, some cannabis companies have adapted and are finding a way to succeed.
This panel will bring together a group of people who understand the many challenges faced by cannabis companies and have unique insights into what it takes to succeed in Canadian cannabis. We will discuss what went wrong but more importantly, we will focus on what smart cannabis companies should be doing now to turn things around for sustainable success.
Moderator – David Hyde
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