Heather Segal is a principal at Segal Immigration Law and has over twenty years of experience in immigration law. Her experience includes sitting as an elected Director to the American Immigration Lawyers Association Board of Governors for the last ten years. Most recently she sat on the National Liaison Committee with the US Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection. She was voted by her peers as one of the world’s leading and most highly regarded practitioners in corporate immigration law in “Who’s Who Legal Corporate Immigration.” She was recently listed in the 11th edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada 2017 in the field of Immigration Law. She is practices both Canada and the United States immigration law.
Jon Kozlowski has been implementing innovative technologies and promoting modernization in agricultural facilities for over fifteen years. Jon started his career as a Connecticut farm and vineyard owner and moved to sales management of greenhouse, hydroponics and aquaponics for commercial growers. He worked with cultivators nationwide in the agricultural and horticultural industries to provide custom solutions for their operations. He has brought his knowledge and experience in traditional horticulture to the cannabis industry for the last seven years.
Currently, Jon is the Regional Sales Representative, East Coast, North America for Surna, Inc. Surna develops innovative technologies and products that monitor, control and address the energy and resource intensive nature of indoor cannabis cultivation. Surna also provides consulting and reporting services for climate control, odor control, mitigation and biosecurity.
Well known and trusted in the cannabis industry, Mr. Kozlowski developed a Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) school for a company in Connecticut that provided industry education. He is well versed in all aspects of controlled environments and how to implement them into effective, efficient cannabis facility design. He has also used his experience in greenhouse agriculture to demonstrate the inherent problems with those structures in achieving precise environmental control and the benefits associated with sealed environments.
Mr. Kozlowski is often engaged as a speaker on climate control and energy efficiency. He has been a speaker at MJBiz Conference, Las Vegas, as well as over twenty events for the CEA school in Connecticut.
Alex Cooley is the co-founder of the first brand in the first legal adult use cannabis state, Solstice. A cannabis production/processing company based in Seattle has led to many firsts and many opportunities to shape the industry locally and globally. Through his diligent efforts, Solstice created the first ever fully permitted cannabis production facility in Washington State and has developed multiple sites since then. From inception, Solstice’s goal has been to cultivate the highest quality, most beneficial varieties, including the award winning, CBD-rich Sour Tsunami #3. All done through industry leading best practices.
Acting locally, he has helped to shape multiple City of Seattle ordinances and author the “collective garden model” of safe, legal access for medical cannabis patients. Standing on these successes Alex and Solstice have been very active at the state level and were key resources to the WA Liquor and Cannabis Board to develop the rules for the implementation of I-502, Washington’s cannabis legalization. In addition to working with multiple state agencies Alex has worked with the Washington State Legislature to craft better laws for patients and adult use consumers.
In recent years Alex has been crisscrossing our country speaking at industry events helping to guide the industry in a positive direction, being an expert witness for cultivation trials and works with the US Congress to reform federal policy. Recently Alex has worked to shape international policy at the UN General Assembly Special Session on Global Drug Policy. In addition to this he has worked to create more comprehensive code and rules that meet producers where they are; advising many governmental departments from the Seattle DPD to the Washington State Building Code Council.
Throughout all of this action Alex has never lost touch with his passion for the plant and recently celebrated 12 years of cultivating the plant. He also maintains his day job at Solstice, acting as the Vice President helping to manage the day-to-day operations, craft the long-term vision and maintain the same mission that the company was founded on 7 years ago.
As the founder of Hybrid Tech, Dan Gustafik has brought to fruition years of experience in the cannabis, contracting, and equipment technology sectors. He has a passion for maximizing the potential of cultivation facilities utilizing his knowledge of the intricacies of integrating cannabis systems with best cultivation practices. He enjoys balancing running his own business by exploring the Pacific Northwest outdoors with his family as much as he can.
Hilary Black is the Director of Patient Education and Advocacy at Canopy Growth, Canada’s largest legal producer of medical cannabis. Prior to this, Hilary was Canada’s first out of the closet cannabis dealer. She founded the BC Compassion Club Society in 1997 and is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Award, acknowledging her significant contribution to Canadian society for her work with medical cannabis.
Av Singh is one of the leading proponents of regenerative organic cannabis production being engaged in cannabis projects across six continents. Dr. Singh has authored over 200 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and extension articles and has been an invited speaker to over 600 workshops, conferences, symposia as well as guest-lecturing at over 30 universities in Canada, the US, the UK, and India. Av has had the privilege of visiting over 2500 farms across five continents which has shaped his extension of holistic, system-based design solutions. Emphasizing a union of traditional knowledge with science, Av works with growers to cultivate an appreciation of plant:soil interrelationships.
Currently, Av is the Executive Director of the Scotian Cannabis Alliance; the Chief Scientific Officer at Adonis Living Soils; Scientific Advisory Chair with Cannaray (UK) and also serves as a Cultivation Advisor within the cannabis industry with Flemming & Singh Cannabis and Lav & Kush Consulting having clients in over 20 countries. Av also works as the Chief Science Officer at BoomBrains; Chief Agricultural Scientist with Green Gorilla (US); the Chief Agronomist at BetraLif, the Chief Soil Scientist at CaliCann (Colombia); and the Cultivation Advisor at WildLeaf (Zimbabwe). Av has had his hand in developing several award-winning (High Times Stash Award) living soil recipes for container and living soil bed systems worldwide.
Lastly, Av is a long-time member of the Canadian Organic Growers and the National Farmers’ Union, as well as the Vice-President of Régénération Canada. Av is also a faculty member at Earth University (www.navdanya.org) in India where he delivers courses on agroecology and organic farming and has recently completed delivering a course on cannabis cultivation at the Nova Scotia Community College. Most importantly, Av and his wife, Ren Shepard have two amazing daughters (and grand-daughter, Mira), who all are kind enough to tolerate his obsessions with Bob Dylan, whisk(e)y, and rugby union.
Av is proud and privileged to be a settler in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaw people, and constantly seeks to better understand his roles and responsibilities in adhering to the Peace and Friendship Treaties signed by the respective governments.
David Hyde, M.Sc., CPC has worked in the cannabis industry since 2013, when he consulted for a majority of Canada’s first medical cannabis companies. Over the past 11 years, David has started 7 companies in the cannabis sector, sold a leading cannabis business consultancy he founded, worked with multiple governments on cannabis policy, provided strategic guidance to some of the world’s largest cannabis companies, and brokered numerous cannabis M&A transactions globally.
As David continues to offer his expertise and unique experience to the evolving cannabis industry and forge a path for cannabis business success, you can find him leading his group of companies to the forefront of the cannabis sector.
Founder|CEO of Hyde Advisory & Investments Inc., a company focused on cannabis sector mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships. HAI has an 8-person team with 60+ Cannabis/CBD business listings in North America and globally – www.hydeadvisory.com
Founder|Managing Director of CannaNavigators, a Canada-based, global cannabis, hemp & psychedelics consultancy focused on licensing, compliance & security with experience in 25 countries – www.cannanavigators.com.
Founder|Partner of Cannabis Global Consultants (CGC), a collective of 4 leading cannabis consultancies offering turnkey design, strategy & implementation support to government bodies and cannabis business start-ups globally – www.cannabisglobalconsultants.com
With over 15 years of experience in the financial markets, Vin has spent the last 4 years in the emerging Cannabis Industry as a research analyst, editor-in-chief for InvestInMJ.com and a MJ entrepreneur. With a business, media and financial background, he is able to quickly evaluate opportunities and companies to determine their potential for success and challenges they may face. With a vast network of industry contacts and expertise, he is a great resource for newcomers looking to invest or start a cannabis related business. The media company, Golden Tech Media, develops and manages related media assets and offers services including marketing, advertising and awareness in the Cannabis Industry.
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