Last Updated: 02.11.2021
Led by our Senior Analyst, Chase Hubbard, we’ll take you through a look at the Hemp & CBD markets over 2020, as well as what to expect in 2021.
11am to 3pm EST. Join us for a 4 hour virtual session complete with three unique learning tracks and virtual networking with industry peers. The agenda will be updated weekly as more information unfolds. Attends have the ability to shift between tracks in our virtual session to find the track that is most interesting. 3 Learning Tracks Include:
Cannabinoids:
Fiber
Grain
Host Chase Hubbard – The Jacobsen / Fastmarkets
All times are in EST.
11:00 am – 11:10 am:
Opening Words, Chase Hubbard, The Jacobsen
11:15 am – 11:50 am:
11:55 am – 12:30 pm:
12:35 pm – 1:15 pm:
1:20 pm – 1:50 pm:
1:55 pm – 2:25 pm:
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm:
Senior Analyst - Risk Mitigation
David Becker is an analyst and portfolio manager with 30 years of experience in the capital markets. Prior to joining The Jacobsen, he worked for 2-investment banks and 3-hedge funds in London and New York, focusing on commodities, fixed income, equities and foreign exchange. David is the editor of The Jacobsen’s Organic & Non-GMO Bulletin.... read more
David Becker is an analyst and portfolio manager with 30 years of experience in the capital markets. Prior to joining The Jacobsen, he worked for 2-investment banks and 3-hedge funds in London and New York, focusing on commodities, fixed income, equities and foreign exchange. David is the editor of The Jacobsen’s Organic & Non-GMO Bulletin.
Speaker: Avazyme Laboratory
Over the past 25 years Volker has held a number of leadership roles in Regulatory Science and Food Safety R &D in the agricultural solutions industry and more recently in environmental and life science laboratory service businesses. He has a wealth of international, operational, business development and technology-related experience, developing and growing science and technology ... read more
Over the past 25 years Volker has held a number of leadership roles in Regulatory Science and Food Safety R &D in the agricultural solutions industry and more recently in environmental and life science laboratory service businesses. He has a wealth of international, operational, business development and technology-related experience, developing and growing science and technology solution-based companies, teams, and laboratories in the life sciences marketplace. Most recently, he and his Avazyme team have been a strong supporter and testing partner for the fast-emerging Industrial Hemp industry in North Carolina and from coast to coast.
Volker began his career at BASF AG, in Germany where he held various R&D leadership and operating roles (some of them in the US) in the Agricultural Solutions Division and was a leader in innovation teams and mergers and acquisitions with subsequent integrations. He also played a
pivotal role in several external international regulatory task forces (Pesticide Residue Chemistry Expert Group of OECD) and industry associations (ECPA, CLA, CLI, ACS, AOAC, ASTM, MBAA) in Europe and the US. He is now applying his extensive knowledge and network in agriculture, crop science, pesticides, natural products metabolism and xenobiotic metabolism, neutraceuticals/pharmaceuticals and regulatory science to the hemp industry and the entire Food Value Chain. From Farm-to-Fork and from Farm-to-Farmacy.
Prior to starting his own companies, Volker was President of Smithers Viscient, a mid-size contract research organization focused on global environmental testing and business development and operations across agrochemical, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Volker was responsible for Business Process Optimization, acquisition of companies in the US, Europe, and Japan, and their subsequent integration in the existing Smithers’business.
In 2014 Volker founded Avazyme, Inc. a contract research solution provider, offering state-of-the-art laboratory testing, product development, and expert consulting services to the agriculture and food, beverage, nutraceutical, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical industries. Avazyme’s comprehensive services include food safety analyses for contaminants, pathogens, allergens, food quality and nutrition analysis, genetic trait testing, product safety, FDA Menu Labeling, pesticide residues, mycotoxin analysis, specialized studies for regulatory submission data packages, and a full spectrum of testing for product safety and product quality related to industrial hemp. Avazyme provides fast and reliable answers to ensure product safety and high product quality for consumable food and beverages, feed, cosmetics, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products.
When not in the office or traveling on business, Volker is teaching and mentoring students as an Adjunct Professor at NC State University, or roaming the great outdoors either skiing, kayaking or on foot with his dogs or enjoying wood working and designing and creating fine furniture.
Speaker: Hemp Feed Coalition
Hunter Buffington is the Executive Director of the Hemp Feed Coalition, a diverse set of stakeholders from across the United States and Canada. Its members were brought together by their motivation of increasing the health of the planet, our pets and production animals, and ultimately for ourselves. As the Executive Director, Hunter utilizes her experience ... read more
Hunter Buffington is the Executive Director of the Hemp Feed Coalition, a diverse set of stakeholders from across the United States and Canada. Its members were brought together by their motivation of increasing the health of the planet, our pets and production animals, and ultimately for ourselves. As the Executive Director, Hunter utilizes her experience working with regulators, policy makers, nonprofits and businesses to implement strategies for developing our emerging hemp industry. The Coalition will play a historic role in the recognition of Hemp as animal feed and creates an opportunity to work across other industries to create new markets and harness this momentum into FDA approval.
Speaker: Bast Fibre Technologies
Jason has spent nearly 30 years working with hemp and other bast fibres and has hands-on experience in all aspects of the value chain. He has worked directly with hemp and flax farmers around the world, installed and commissioned 4 decortication/fibre refining lines, owned a bast fibre wet processing facility and commercialized products containing bast ... read more
Jason has spent nearly 30 years working with hemp and other bast fibres and has hands-on experience in all aspects of the value chain. He has worked directly with hemp and flax farmers around the world, installed and commissioned 4 decortication/fibre refining lines, owned a bast fibre wet processing facility and commercialized products containing bast fibres with several global consumer products companies. Jason has filed multiple patents relating to the production and use of bast fibres in next-to-skin applications including textiles and single-use wipes.
Jason’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-finnis-b2b172128/
Topic: Replacing plastic with performance enhanced bast fibres in the global single-use nonwovens industry.
Senior Analyst - Industrial Hemp
Chase Hubbard earned his degree in Sustainable Agriculture from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC and later completed NC State’s Agricultural Leadership Development Program. His career in farm management — including a broad range of crops, livestock, and markets – received widespread local and national recognition for progressive agricultural practices and for mentoring young farmers. ... read more
Chase Hubbard earned his degree in Sustainable Agriculture from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC and later completed NC State’s Agricultural Leadership Development Program. His career in farm management — including a broad range of crops, livestock, and markets – received widespread local and national recognition for progressive agricultural practices and for mentoring young farmers. Chase’s unique perspectives in agriculture result from deep sector knowledge across many commodities and geography, ranging from Western North Carolina to Latin America and Southeast Asia. In addition to farming full-time, he served as an elected Soil and Water Supervisor, and in appointed leadership roles for local/state agricultural committees and commodity groups. Chase is now covering the emerging hemp industry for The Jacobsen.
Speaker: Healthy Oilseeds
Roger Gussiaas is the President and Owner of Healthy Oilseeds, LLC in Carrington, ND which he started in 2002. Healthy Oilseeds processes specialty oilseeds including flaxseed, hempseed and borage. This includes cold press expelling, milling, sifting and roasting. Healthy Oilseeds has done business in 22 countries and 49 states. Roger started farming in 1979 and ... read more
Roger Gussiaas is the President and Owner of Healthy Oilseeds, LLC in Carrington, ND which he started in 2002. Healthy Oilseeds processes specialty oilseeds including flaxseed, hempseed and borage. This includes cold press expelling, milling, sifting and roasting. Healthy Oilseeds has done business in 22 countries and 49 states.
Roger started farming in 1979 and in later years farmed more than 5000 acres. Throughout those years he raised 24 different crops including growing hempseed for grain and CBD. Roger has a range of expertise as a farmer, business owner, producer, and exporter of US grown oilseeds.
Roger has served on the North Dakota Grain Growers board of directors 1986-1992, Spring Wheat Bakers board of directors 1993-1996, American Renewable Oil Association board of directors and president 1992-1994, AgGrow Oils board member and vice chairman 1995- 1996, Communicating for Agriculture board of directors 1997-2014, North Dakota District Export Council board member 2008-present, AmeriFlax board member 2015-present, Foster County commissioner 2014, North American Industrial Hemp Council board member 2018-present.
Roger was recognized as the 1992 North Dakota Outstanding Young Farmer, the 1993 National Outstanding Young Farmer, and the 2010 North Dakota Exporter of the year.
Roger attended Mayville State University and is a 2016 graduate of Texas A&M TEPAP (The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers).
Roger continues to want to serve in his local community as well as share his expertise and passion with those wanting to learn more about hemp agriculture, processing, and marketing.
Speaker: Brightfield Group
Alyssa Jank is the Consulting Services Manager for Brightfield Group. She manages custom projects and consulting services for cannabis and CBD clients ranging from market research to consumer insights to strategy. She has been working and tracking the cannabis market since 2016 after she joined a beer strategy division at Constellation Brands and was tasked ... read more
Alyssa Jank is the Consulting Services Manager for Brightfield Group. She manages custom projects and consulting services for cannabis and CBD clients ranging from market research to consumer insights to strategy. She has been working and tracking the cannabis market since 2016 after she joined a beer strategy division at Constellation Brands and was tasked with tracking the impact of legalization on beer sales.
Company website: https://www.brightfieldgroup.com/
Social Handles:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightfield-group/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brightfieldgrp
Presentation title: The Trends Driving CBD Forward
Topic: CBD Market Overview and Growth Drivers
Speaker: Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Ron Kander is the Dean of the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce and Associate Provost for Applied Research at Thomas Jefferson University. Before joining Jefferson, he was founding Director of the School of Engineering at James Madison University and a faculty member in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. ... read more
Dr. Ron Kander is the Dean of the Kanbar College of Design, Engineering and Commerce and Associate Provost for Applied Research at Thomas Jefferson University. Before joining Jefferson, he was founding Director of the School of Engineering at James Madison University and a faculty member in the Materials Science & Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. Before that, he was a Senior Engineer at DuPont in the Advanced Composites Division of the Fibers Department and in the Polymer Physics Group of the Central Research Department.
Dr. Kander’s recent work has focused on an integrated study of the material science, process engineering, product design, supply chain economics and sustainability of industrial and consumer products made from hemp-derived materials. He is a member of All Together Now PA’s Hemp Coalition and currently chairs the PA Department of Agriculture’s Hemp Steering Committee.
Dr. Kander received his BS in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware.
The Spock of Cannabis
Darwin Millard is an active member of ASTM International’s technical committee D37 on Cannabis which is an international group dedicated to the development of voluntary consensus standards for the global cannabis/hemp industry. Darwin is the Subcommittee Vicechair of D37.04 on Processing and Handling of Cannabis and Cannabis-derived Products, and the Co-chair of Subcommittee D37.07 on ... read more
Darwin Millard is an active member of ASTM International’s technical committee D37 on Cannabis which is an international group dedicated to the development of voluntary consensus standards for the global cannabis/hemp industry. Darwin is the Subcommittee Vicechair of D37.04 on Processing and Handling of Cannabis and Cannabis-derived Products, and the Co-chair of Subcommittee D37.07 on Industrial Hemp. He has been active in cannabis policy change and an advocate of the cannabis plant for over a decade.
Darwin Millard specializes in mechanical and solvent based extraction methodologies for isolating highly volatile terpenophenolic secondary metabolites from botanicals. For the past 15-years, Darwin has been focusing on the extraction and manufacture of nutraceutical products comprising of phytocannabinoids and other bioactive constituents from the cannabis plant. He works with clients to design and implement cost-effective built-for-purpose phytocannabinoid processing and herbal product manufacturing solutions.
Email: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Darwin Millard
Instagram: thespockofcannabis
Speaker: Abundant Labs
20 years of lab experience between academia and the business world with degrees in molecular biology and biochemistry. Undergraduate at Rutgers University and graduate school at the University of Miami. After graduate school worked for a medical testing facility and worked my way up to technical supervisor over gas and liquid chromatography departments. gained experience with federal ... read more
20 years of lab experience between academia and the business world with degrees in molecular biology and biochemistry. Undergraduate at Rutgers University and graduate school at the University of Miami. After graduate school worked for a medical testing facility and worked my way up to technical supervisor over gas and liquid chromatography departments. gained experience with federal inspections and Quality Management Systems and LEAN/6-Sigma.
Speaker: Victory Hemp
Chad Rosen is the Founder & CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, a business-to-business primary food ingredient processing company that develops innovative technology to manufacture hemp grain into premier proteins and oils for applications in food and beverage, skincare and cosmetics, and animal nutrition. Victory Hemp Foods won the 2020 Hemp Innovation ChallengeTM at the World ... read more
Chad Rosen is the Founder & CEO of Victory Hemp Foods, a business-to-business primary food ingredient processing company that develops innovative technology to manufacture hemp grain into premier proteins and oils for applications in food and beverage, skincare and cosmetics, and animal nutrition. Victory Hemp Foods won the 2020 Hemp Innovation ChallengeTM at the World Ag Expo® in Tulare, CA for the development of two proprietary ingredients, V-70TM Hemp Heart Protein and V-ONETM Hemp Heart Oil. In addition to leading his company’s growth over the past five years, Chad has worked as an industry-wide advocate within the U.S. hemp grain supply chain and market and is dedicated to developing hemp grain as a significant and positive addition to American agriculture.
Speaker: HempWood
Greg Wilson has spent his career as an engineer in the building materials industry. Educated at both Frostburg and Harvard, Greg has worked in China, Europe, Australia, and North America developing new products and establishing the factories to convert plant fiber into wood composites to replace solid wood. An outdoor enthusiast and serial entrepreneur focusing ... read more
Greg Wilson has spent his career as an engineer in the building materials industry. Educated at both Frostburg and Harvard, Greg has worked in China, Europe, Australia, and North America developing new products and establishing the factories to convert plant fiber into wood composites to replace solid wood. An outdoor enthusiast and serial entrepreneur focusing on environmentally sustainable projects. HempWood has been Greg’s homecoming to reaching his dream of “Made in USA” being stamped on his products. Fibonacci, LLC is an Ag Tech company with manufacturing operations in Murray, Kentucky. By using the algorithm of a tree, HempWood has reverse engineered the natural growth cycle of plant-based materials and utilized bio-mimicry to transform hemp fibers and protein based bonding agents into a viable wood substitute that grows 100 times faster and is 20% stronger than oak.
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