Future Cannabis Strategy Conference Europe 2021
Virtual Event: 8:45am GMT
23rd-24th March, 2021
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Future Cannabis Strategy Conference Europe 2021
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Future Cannabis Strategies Europe will bring together business leaders from across the wider European Consumer-Facing Cannabis products category, this includes CBD/ Cannabis Products & Devices, Beverages, Tobacco/ vapes, Cosmeceuticals & Nutraceuticals, medical cannabis progression, together with solution providers for 2 days of insight, discussion and debate into how manufacturers can:
- Understand the need for education surrounding cannabis to promote cannabis products in both medical and consumer concepts
- Identify opportunities to introduce Cannabis/ Hemp infused products into existing products
- Review recent product innovation in formats and portfolio development to identify opportunities for growth
- Follow up on the Food Licence Process to create a safer and more trusted cannabis industry to market
The Future Cannabis Strategy Conference brings together key opinion leaders from some of the biggest brands in the industry with a mix of small –mid-sized disruptive companies that have shaken up the category with new offerings and methods. We look at the future of cannabis in Europe through the lens of Canada, Australia and the USA who are leading in the sector to identify opportunity for market growth.
A FANTASTIC NETWORK OF YOUR PEERS AND COLLEAGUES RIGHT AT A TAP OR CLICK OF A BUTTON
Simply register, login on the day and get ready to connect and learn. With the right network at your fingertips, learning and connecting have never been so easy.
💻 Watch live and recorded thought leadership presentations
🗣️ Take part in live Q&A with industry experts from across the globe
👩💻 One-to-one & group video chat with each solution provider
🤝 Chat & network with anyone on the platform in our Community Discussion Lounge
📊 Take part in our interactive polls
👥 Join live panel debates and discussions
🛍️ Download resources from solution providers to your event bag
Why attend?
Discover
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Identify gaps in the market born of new regulations, growing trends and emerging opportunities as well as key trends in consumer demands that can be leveraged in order to increase brand relevance and ensure success.
Network
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Meet CEOs, Managing Directors, Commercial Directors, Heads of R&D and Global Expansion and many more from some of the biggest brands in the industry as well as the most exciting disruptive start – ups in this intellectually driven conference that will better prepare you for the rapidly developing beverage landscape.
Inspire
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Take away experiences and insights from your cannabis sector peers so that you can feel confident in your 2021 strategy and beyond by changing course for a more resilient and robust business strategy as the cannabis market continues to strengthen

Paul Tossell
Team Leader, Radiological, GM, Novel Foods and Feed Additives Team, Food Standards Agency,Food Policy, FSA
Biography:
Paul has been Head of the Radiological, GM, Novel Foods and Feed Additives Team since Jan 2019. He has been with the FSA since its formation in 2000, having previously been in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF). He has led on several policy areas of food safety including leading on food defence then Allergy & Intolerance team
Session Details: FSA on CBD: The Novel Food Authorisation Process 23-03-2021, 9:00 am View In Agenda

Jonathan Sherman
Co-Chair of Cannabis Law Group,Cassels
Biography:
Jonathan Sherman is a partner at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP and the Co-Chair of the Cannabis Law Group. Jonathan is routinely retained to act on behalf of a wide variety of cannabis industry participants, including: licensed and pre-licensed cultivators, processors and retailers in Canada, the US and other international jurisdictions; pharmaceutical, beverage and consumer goods companies seeking opportunities in the emerging global cannabis sector; and other ancillary businesses.
With corporate clients ranging from start-ups to multibillion-dollar businesses, Jonathan’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions (public and private acquisitions, business combinations, joint ventures, go-public transactions and strategic collaborations) and corporate finance transactions (public offerings, venture capital, private equity offerings and debt financing transactions). Jonathan has also been involved in other domestic, cross-border transactions for cannabis industry participants, including: various private equity investments for emerging companies; reverse takeover transactions; joint ventures; and acquisitions and investments in companies both in Canada and abroad (the US, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Greece, Czech Republic, Colombia, Jamaica, Brazil, Chile, Australia and Lesotho).
Whether strategically guiding clients through M&A, or helping emerging start-ups secure investments, Jonathan has been a trusted advisor on many of the largest transactions completed to-date in the nascent cannabis industry. He advised Canopy Growth on: their listing as the first-ever cannabis company on the New York Stock Exchange; over $1 billion of M&A transactions; the $600 million offering of senior convertible unsecured notes – the largest convertible debt financing to-date completed by a company listed on a Canadian stock exchange; the joint venture, licensing and development of the largest cannabis production facility in the world; and various supply and processing arrangements involving (among others): MediPharm Labs, 48North, Radicle Cannabis, James E. Wagner Cultivation, Neptune Technologies & Bioresources, and Centric Health.
Session Details: International Cannabis Markets: Were Initial Predications Too High? 23-03-2021, 3:45 pm International Cannabis Markets: Were Initial Predications Too High? 23-03-2021, 3:45 pm View In Agenda

Bruce Linton
Former Chairman and CEO,Canopy Growth Corporation
Biography:
Session Details: International Cannabis Markets: Were Initial Predications Too High? 23-03-2021, 3:45 pm International Cannabis Markets: Were Initial Predications Too High? 23-03-2021, 3:45 pm View In Agenda

Joshua Cuby
Founding Partner,Nice Partners & Co-Founder & Director Re+CBD
Biography:
Session Details: From Wellness to Medical: Making Ethical & Accessible Cannabis Products 23-03-2021, 1:10 pm View In Agenda

Charles Hamshaw-Thomas
Independent,
Biography:
Session Details: A Vaping Hole – CBD in the Regulatory & Public Affairs Arena 23-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Craig Hutchison
Co-Founder and Managing Director,Ceder's Gin
Biography: As a previous drinks industry executive, Craig developed the strategy, built the structure, & implemented the RTM & brand plans for Pernod Ricard's charge into Africa. Before that he was Strategy Director for Absolut, Malibu and Kahlua, driving the strategic plan & brand development strategy. Since leaving the drinks world in 2015 he has been involved in business process outsourcing to Africa, setting up a values-based, people management web-platform, and consulting. He also presents on futurology; how our lives are going to change dramatically over the coming decades. Early 2017, Craig (South African) and his wife Maria (Swedish) discovered a magical valley, home to many intriguing botanicals, in the Cederberg mountains, just north of Cape Town. The valley, which they now co-own, inspired them to distil rare Cape & classic gin botanicals, and then blend with pristine Swedish water. The result is CEDER'S, a distilled non-alcoholic alt-gin, your Everyday Escape. Craig also launched CELTIC SOUL in July 2019, a distilled non-alcoholic dark spirit, and has a few more brands in the pipeline, including a non-alcoholic rum and a CBD Botanical Spirit. Watch this space.
Session Details: Packing a Punch with CBD in No and Low 24-03-2021, 10:00 am Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Jaime Teulon
CMO,Slow Drinks
Biography:
Session Details: How Can NPD products be approached in Europe with so many different regulatory situations? 24-03-2021, 12:00 pm View In Agenda

Jonathan Stefanni-Machado
CEO & Co-Founder,Treed
Biography: West London-based Jonathan Stefanni-Machado is CEO & Co-Founder of Treed. He spent the last five years managing businesses in the retail, health & wellness sectors before co-founding Treed. As a business leader, and also a writer in the cannabis space, with a background in English Literature & American History, Jonathan is now on a journey to re-write attitudes towards health, reshape social attitudes towards hemp, and empower those who have been misrepresented in recent years.v
Session Details: Using History to Cultivate our Futures: Understanding why Diversity & Inclusion are Essential in the Cannabis Industry 24-03-2021, 4:20 pm View In Agenda

Elsa Navarro
Skin Unit Director,Khiron Life Sciences
Biography:
Session Details: Kuida & The Mist of Wellness: Creating a Credible CBD Cosmeceutical Portfolio 23-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Antonio Russo
Co-CEO,Zoetic
Biography:
Session Details: The Beauty of Flying High-end with CBD: Accolades and Awards 23-03-2021, 2:35 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Monica Vialpando
CEO & Founder,Vialpando LLC
Biography:
Session Details: Bridging the Gap: Cross Continent Cannabis Learnings 23-03-2021, 4:45 pm View In Agenda

Adam Isaac Miller
Head of Strategic Accounts, Asia Pacific,MediPharm Labs
Biography:
Session Details: The ABCs of CBD Trade: Entering International Markets 23-03-2021, 10:00 am View In Agenda

Catherine Wilson
Vice President,European Industrial Hemp Association
Biography: Catherine is Vice President of the European Industrial Hemp Association. EIHA was formed 19 years ago and is the only pan-European membership organization in the industrial hemp sector. Our secretariat offices in Brussels and the UK representation protect and support our membership of 200+, primarily farmers, processors and manufacturers; representing the entire chain from seed to shelf. Our primary objective is to monitor EU/UK hemp related policies and to provide the decision makers with accurate and reliable information across different spheres of competencies. Currently we monitor the following policies: CAP reform, Hemp extracts/Novel Food regulation, THC limits in feed and food, Life Cycle Assessment of hemp materials, CO2 impacts, environmental concerns and cosmetics. In addition, EIHA formed the largest novel food consortium and pending a successful outcome, EIHA consortium member company's products will be allowed to be marketed in the UK/EU with an exclusivity on the study that will last 5 years.
Session Details: The EIHA Novel Food Consortium 24-03-2021, 9:00 am View In Agenda

Julie Malbaek
CEO ,MedCan Pharma A/S
Biography:
Session Details: Consumer format preferences & dose-form migrations – zooming in on CBD users 24-03-2021, 3:50 pm Consumer format preferences & dose-form migrations – zooming in on CBD users 24-03-2021, 3:50 pm View In Agenda

Alex Brooks
Senior Analyst,Canaccord Genuity
Biography:
Session Details: The Green Rush: Breaking through the CBD Stock Market 24-03-2021, 3:20 pm View In Agenda

Mark Maddaloni
Toxicologist,Cardno Chemrisk
Biography:
Session Details: A Question of Chemistry: Developing a Safe Delivery Vehicle for CBD/THC Vape Products 23-03-2021, 2:35 pm View In Agenda

Jonathan Donaghy
Head of Sales,Indica
Biography:
Session Details: Navigating the World of Commerce in CBD Beauty 24-03-2021, 11:00 am View In Agenda

Ulla Haaning Singapuri
CSO,KannaSwiss
Biography:
Session Details: Firing Up Cannabis Potency through Ingredient Combinations 24-03-2021, 11:00 am Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Ed McDermott
Managing Director, UK,EMMAC
Biography:
Session Details: Q&A Session: Mapping the CBD Legal Landscape 2021 23-03-2021, 11:00 am Looking into the Future: What's instore for Medical Cannabis across Europe and the UK? 24-03-2021, 12:40 pm Looking into the Future: What's instore for Medical Cannabis across Europe and the UK? 24-03-2021, 12:40 pm View In Agenda

Jose Tempero
Director Global Medical Affairs,Tilray
Biography:
Session Details: Q&A Session: Mapping the CBD Legal Landscape 2021 23-03-2021, 11:00 am A Question of Medicine: Redefining the Medicine Pathway for Patient Freedom to Choose 23-03-2021, 12:10 pm View In Agenda

Tom Lorimer
Co-Founder,OTO
Biography: Tom has over 10 years experience in FMCG across a breadth of categories. Most recently though, he and a team of like-minded entrepreneurs, product scientists and brand builders grouped together to form OTO International Ltd. OTO, which translates as 'sound' in Japanese, aims to help people discover the amazing power of CBD through thoughtful and effective products that easily and enjoyably fit into our daily lives. Tom has been spear-heading OTO's growth into new territories and is looking at continued ways to ensure OTO remains the thought, brand and market leader in this growing space.
Session Details: Amplify the Silence for Better Beauty Sleep 24-03-2021, 12:00 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm Taking the World by Storm: Opportunity in Unexplored Continents 24-03-2021, 1:50 pm View In Agenda

Pablo CanoTrilla
Head of Analysis,CBD Intel

David Lewis
Partner,Cambridge Design Partnership
Biography:
Session Details: Routes to Success in the Therapeutic Cannabinoid Market 24-03-2021, 2:20 pm View In Agenda

Neil Saunders
Managing Director & Analyst,GlobalData Consumer
Biography: ,
Session Details: Unlocking the potential of cannabis 23-03-2021, 4:45 pm View In Agenda

Róisín Delaney
Editor,The CANNAVIST Magazine
Biography: Now the founding editor of the UK & Ireland’s first ever cannabis publication, Róisín Delaney has a decade of experience in both radio and publishing. Prior to launching The CANNAVIST Magazine, Róisín worked in Dublin and on the US gulf coast for women’s health, wellbeing and lifestyle publications. Among the previous publications in which Róisín’s byline has appeared are the Belfast Telegraph, Woman’s Way, U! Magazine, Irish Tatler, Irish Tatler Man and ACCESS magazine. While studying for a master’s degree in Journalism at Dublin City University, she also contributed to current affairs programming at RTÉ Radio One, Ireland’s national radio broadcaster. Separate to her work as a writer and editor, Róisín has in the past consulted as a brand advisor for start-up wellness brands, helping to create effective marketing and public relations strategies.
Session Details: Advertising your CBD company. How to advertise effectively and responsibly 24-03-2021, 4:20 pm View In Agenda
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SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
To enquire about sponsorship opportunities for the conference, please contact:
Valentin Gerasimuk
Head of Business Development, Consumer Events
T: +44 (0) 207 936 6794
E: Valentin.Gerasimuk@arena-international.com
SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES
The Future Cannabis Strategy Conference programme is written in collaboration with industry, if you would have a case study, idea or just a comment, please contact:
Amy Avanzato
Conference Producer
T: +44 (0) 207 9366 605
E: amy.avanzato@arena-international.com