NCIA’s #IndustryEssentials webinar series is our premier digital educational platform featuring a variety of weekly programs allowing us to provide timely, engaging, and essential education when and where our network needs it most.

Current Programs Include;
• Policy Matters
• Committee Insights
• Service Solutions
• Catalyst Conversations
• Fireside Chats with NCIA’s Government Relations Team

NCIA’s educational webinars are brought to you with the insight and expertise of NCIA members, NCIA staff, as well as regulatory and legal experts. Topics range from social equity, best practices in marketing and advertising, taxes and accounting, banking and finance, crisis communications, cultivation best practices, and more. All upcoming webinars listed below are currently complimentary for all who register unless otherwise noted.

We encourage you to explore our expansive archive of webinar recordings from past presentations which can be found below the upcoming schedule.

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Webinar Recording Archive

Service Solutions: Mastering Data-Driven Success in the Cannabis Industry

Committee Insights: Unlocking Compliance - Understanding Cannabis Marketing Regulations

Committee Insights: Rescheduled Realities – Redefining Cannabis Manufacturing

Committee Insights: Redefining Cannabis Marketing – Strategies for Success in a Schedule III Landscape

Committee Insights: Taking the Long View - Strategic Facility Design Considerations for the Schedule III Era

Committee Insights: Advancing Cannabis Science - Research Opportunities and Challenges Post-Rescheduling

Committee Insights: Schedule III & Section 280E - What Does It Mean for Me?

Committee Insights: Professional Resources for Cannabis Industry Insights

Committee Insights: Navigating Cultivation Environmental Requirements

Committee Insights: Dabinar – Dabbing 101

Policy Matters: High Stakes in the Heartland – Missouri’s Cannabis Landscape

Positioning for Prosperity: Insurance Essentials for Social Equity Awardees

Policy Matters: Golden State Green - Regulating California's Cannabis Industry

Puff, Pass, Prosper: The Insider's Guide to Operating a Consumption Lounge

Policy Matters: Charting the Course – Examining Michigan’s Cannabis Regulations

Policy Matters: Navigating the New Normal - A Regulator’s Outlook on Federal Momentum

Committee Insights: Where Risk Assessment Integrity Meets Policy

Committee Insights: Cannabis Vaping - Avoid Being an Easy Target

Mapping the Vape Landscape: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here?

Committee Insights: Balancing the Scales - Social Equity in Legal Cannabis Delivery

Service Solutions: Seed to Sprout – Defining an Engaging Employee Experience for Retention & Performance

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team | HHS Recommends Rescheduling: Now What?

Policy Matters | America in Miniature Goes Green: Maryland's Journey to Adult-Use Cannabis

Committee Insights: Cracking the Code – Unraveling the Challenge of Coverage for Novel Cannabinoids

Service Solutions: Adapting to New Economic Realities – How Cosolvent Extraction Can Minimize Your Processing Costs and Increase Your Margins

Committee Insights: Concepts for Regulatory Consideration - Shifting the Conversation from “Cannabis vs. Hemp” to “The Cannabinoids” (Minor, Novel & Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part V)

Committee Insights | Know Your Hazards: Occupational Health and Safety Considerations in Cannabinoid Ingredient Manufacturing (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part IV)

Committee Insights| From Lab to Label: Safeguarding Consumers in the Cannabinoid Product Landscape (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part III)

Catalyst Conversations: It Takes an Educational Ecosystem to Empower a Community

Committee Insights: Meet the Minors (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part II)

Committee Insights: NCIA Mythbusters – Is Cannabis Safer Than Alcohol?

Catalyst Conversation: What’s Hot for 2023?

Catalyst Conversations: Gain an Edge and Make an Impact – Community Benefit Agreements

Committee Insights: Defining the Conversation (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part I)

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Rolling Back or Rolling Up - Green Wave in 2023?

Committee Insights: How To Use A Marketing Mindset To Raise Capital For Your Cannabis Company

Committee Insights: The Pathway to Greater Equity in New York’s Adult Use Cannabis Market

Service Solutions: Show Me the Money - The Current State of Cannabis Lending

The Health Practitioners Essential Role in the Changing Cannabis Landscape

Committee Insights: Cannabis Ballot Initiatives in the November 2022 Election

Service Solutions: The Devil is in the Details - Claiming Your Employee Retention Credit as a Cannabis Business

Service Solutions: Does Your Video Surveillance Monitoring Method Put Your Business at Risk?

Changing the Game for Women in Cannabis

Cannabis Consumption Lounges and the Next Wave of Hospitality Disruption

Opportunity Granted: California Agencies Providing Funding to Assist Success, Protect the Environment, and Establish Equity

Service Solutions: Taking Your Profits Higher - Navigating the Maze of Cannabis Marketing

Service Solutions: Scarcity Shouldn't be Scary - How to Fund Your Growth

Meet the Cannabis Influencers: Everything You Need to Know About Influencer Marketing

Service Solutions: Enforcing Cannabis Contracts – The Benefits of Alternative Dispute Resolution Processes

Committee Insights: New Vaporizer Emission Tests - History, Overview, and Benefits

Committee Insights: Don't Take Their Word For It - How To Read Your Insurance Policy!

Cannabis Educators Virtual Roundtable hosted by NCIA's Education Committee

Committee Insights: Creating a Sustainable Industry in a Practical, Impactful, and Holistic Manner

Committee Insights: WTF is VPD? - Controlling Transpiration from Propagation to Flower through Vapor Pressure Deficit

Committee Insights: Protecting Innovations in Cannabis Technology

Committee Insights: Competing Against Big-Ag with Federal Legalization

Committee Insights: Leveraging the Current Health Crisis as an Ethical, Mission-based Cannabis Company - A Townhall Discussion on Health Equity

Committee Insights: HR & Retail - The Shared Battle

Committee Insights: Cannabis and COVID-19 - What We Know and What We Don’t

Cannabis in the Empire State - Considerations, Implications and Ramifications

Committee Insights: 10 Tips in 20 Minutes - A Guide to Building Winning Campaigns

Going Green: Considerations for Businesses & Policymakers

Service Solutions: Capturing the $27 Billion Opportunity in Legal Cannabis Manufacturing

Service Solutions: Stay Compliant and Increase Productivity with an Effective Safety Program

Catalyst Conversations: Risk, Security, and Insurance Mean Something Completely Different in Regulated Cannabis

Conscious Cultivation through Integrated Pest Management (IPM)

5 Growth Hacks Cannabis Retailers Can Learn from Mainstream Retailers

CAOA or Chaos? - Unpacking the Cannabis Administration & Opportunity Act

Committee Insights: Taking HR Higher as a Strategic Partner

Advanced Risk Mitigation for Cannabis: Best Practices and Policies

Policy Council Conversations: The Medicine and Research of Cannabis

From Subculture to Pop Culture - Creating a Culturally Relevant Cannabis Brand

How to Increase Product Safety When We Don’t Know What “Safe” Is

Enterprise Risk Management: How to develop a Risk Assessment for your Canna-Business

Learn How to Grow Your Cannabis Business with Acumatica Cloud ERP

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: One for You, Nineteen for Me - Let's Talk Section 280E!

Is Your Current Payroll Provider Cannabis Compliant?

Future Proofing Cannabis Manufacturing Processes - From Sustainability To Acquisition Readiness

Recent Events Motivating Further Cannabis Testing Standardization

Third Party Certifications

Holistic Energy Management Solutions by APPI Energy

Are You Ready for the New Wave of Cannabis Capital?

Best of 4/20 Marketing Campaigns

Catalyst Conversations: How to Maximize Your Marketing Budget & Efforts

Fireside Chats with NCIA’s Government Relations Team: Delta-8 (Members Only)

Top Challenges for Cannabis Industry Employers Emerging from the Pandemic

Policy Council Conversations - Creating Gender Parity

Hot Topics for Accounting and Tax for the Cannabis Industry

Catalyst Conversations: Demystifying Facilities Design Planning

Looking to the North: Lessons Learned From Canada

How Your Facility Design Ensures Business Success

Marketing Innovations to Accelerate Retail Growth & Awareness

No Time to Waste – Putting Equity First In The Mid-Atlantic Region

Energy Use and Working Towards Standardizations in Regulations

Best of Breed Approach to Cannabis Resource Planning

Leveraging Technology for your Advertising & Marketing

Payment Apps & Banking Services for Cannabis DO Exist | KIND Financial

Get Creative: Out of the Box Ideas to Market Your Cannabis Retail and Product Brands

Future Proofing Your Business - Vaping Product Regulation Preparedness

Cannabis Business Culture & Hiring Practices Are Rapidly Changing…For The Better!

Blazing the Trail - Black Cultivators in Cannabis

Committee Insights: New States Licensing Framework and Insurance Requirements

Catalyst Conversations: 2021 Cannabis Industry Business Opportunities

Service Solutions: Why Good Manufacturing Practices are Critical for Cannabis Edibles Success

Coming out of the Dark Ages: The Future of Controlled Environment Agriculture in Sealed Greenhouse Cultivation

Committee Insights: How to Develop a Risk Management Program for Your Cannabiz

Committee Insights: Retail Cannabis During a Pandemic

Committee Insights: Harvesting, Ergonomics of Trimming and Contracting

Catalyst Conversations: Opportunities for HBCUs in the Cannabis Industry

Service Solutions: The Road Ahead - Cannabis Compliance in 2021 and Beyond

Service Solutions: “A Budding Industry” - How Filtration Solutions Can Help with Cannabis Extraction

Service Solutions: Which Companies are Leading in the Retail Software Segment

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Spotlighting State Ballot Initiatives

Committee Insights: MYTHBUSTERS - Cannabis Kills?

Catalyst Conversations: The Data You Need To Win

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Let's Talk About Hemp, Baby!

Service Solutions: Beyond Bankruptcy – Options for Cannabis Companies

Service Solutions: Managing Cannabis Business Operations During a Crisis

Catalyst Conversations: A Regulator’s Perspective on Social Equity

Service Solutions: Cleaning Validation in the Cannabis Industry

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Thinking It Through - A Discussion on Cannabis & the 2020 Election with Think Tanks

Committee Insights: Capital Raising & Deal Flow for Social Equity Operators and Applicants

Committee Insights: Enforcing Cannabis-Related Contracts in Federal Court

Policy Council Conversation: Interstate Commerce - Environmental, Economic, and Social Equity Implications

Service Solutions: Get Connected - Exploring the newest NCIA Member Benefit

NCIA Committee Insights: What are Standards Development Organizations and How Will They Shape Federal and Global Cannabis Policy?

NCIA Committee Insights - What’s Going On With Social Equity In Illinois?

NCIA Committee Insights: The Endocannabinoid System and Cannabis for Industry Employees

Service Solutions: Level-Up Your Cannabis Business

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: SAFE Banking: What Will It Take?

NCIA Committee Insights: Practical Tips for Cannabis Businesses Impacted by Property Damage and Theft

NCIA Committee Insights – How Can You Get More Engaged With NCIA? Let’s Talk Committees!

Policy Council Conversations: Just Say No - Keep the DEA out of Cannabis Research

NCIA Committee Insights: Understanding Label Claims

NCIA Committee Insights: Cannabis Retail Success and Strategies

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team - Highlighting Advocacy

All Gave Some, Some Gave All – A Policy Discussion on the Veterans Cannabis Conundrum

NCIA Committee Insights – Managing Novel Risks During The COVID-19 Crisis (Part 2)

NCIA Committee Insights – Managing Novel Risks During the COVID-19 Crisis

Illinois Adult-Use Market – What's happening and what comes next

Protecting Your Cannabis Brand

Managing Novel Risks during the COVID-19 Crisis Part II: What You Need to Know about SBA, CARES Act and Other Financial Assistance Programs.

Staying Politically Engaged in the Age of Coronavirus: An Update from Washington, D.C.

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12/19 - Exclusive Members-Only Town Hall on DEA's Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing

12/19 - Exclusive Members-Only Town Hall on DEA's Cannabis Rescheduling Hearing

01/14 - Committee Insights: Hot Topics in HR

01/14 - Committee Insights: Hot Topics in HR

Webinar Recording Archive

Service Solutions: Mastering Data-Driven Success in the Cannabis Industry

Service Solutions: Mastering Data-Driven Success in the Cannabis Industry

Committee Insights: Unlocking Compliance - Understanding Cannabis Marketing Regulations

Committee Insights: Unlocking Compliance - Understanding Cannabis Marketing Regulations

Committee Insights: Rescheduled Realities – Redefining Cannabis Manufacturing

Committee Insights: Rescheduled Realities – Redefining Cannabis Manufacturing

Committee Insights: Redefining Cannabis Marketing – Strategies for Success in a Schedule III Landscape

Committee Insights: Redefining Cannabis Marketing – Strategies for Success in a Schedule III Landscape

Committee Insights: Taking the Long View - Strategic Facility Design Considerations for the Schedule III Era

Committee Insights: Taking the Long View - Strategic Facility Design Considerations for the Schedule III Era

Committee Insights: Advancing Cannabis Science - Research Opportunities and Challenges Post-Rescheduling

Committee Insights: Advancing Cannabis Science - Research Opportunities and Challenges Post-Rescheduling

Committee Insights: Schedule III & Section 280E - What Does It Mean for Me?

Committee Insights: Schedule III & Section 280E - What Does It Mean for Me?

Committee Insights: Professional Resources for Cannabis Industry Insights

Committee Insights: Professional Resources for Cannabis Industry Insights

Committee Insights: Navigating Cultivation Environmental Requirements

Committee Insights: Navigating Cultivation Environmental Requirements

Committee Insights: Dabinar – Dabbing 101

Committee Insights: Dabinar – Dabbing 101

Policy Matters: High Stakes in the Heartland – Missouri’s Cannabis Landscape

Policy Matters: High Stakes in the Heartland – Missouri’s Cannabis Landscape

Positioning for Prosperity: Insurance Essentials for Social Equity Awardees

Positioning for Prosperity: Insurance Essentials for Social Equity Awardees

Policy Matters: Golden State Green - Regulating California's Cannabis Industry

Policy Matters: Golden State Green - Regulating California's Cannabis Industry

Puff, Pass, Prosper: The Insider's Guide to Operating a Consumption Lounge

Puff, Pass, Prosper: The Insider's Guide to Operating a Consumption Lounge

Policy Matters: Charting the Course – Examining Michigan’s Cannabis Regulations

Policy Matters: Charting the Course – Examining Michigan’s Cannabis Regulations

Policy Matters: Navigating the New Normal - A Regulator’s Outlook on Federal Momentum

Policy Matters: Navigating the New Normal - A Regulator’s Outlook on Federal Momentum

Committee Insights: Where Risk Assessment Integrity Meets Policy

Committee Insights: Where Risk Assessment Integrity Meets Policy

Committee Insights: Cannabis Vaping - Avoid Being an Easy Target

Committee Insights: Cannabis Vaping - Avoid Being an Easy Target

Mapping the Vape Landscape: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here?

Mapping the Vape Landscape: Where are We and Where Do We Go from Here?

Committee Insights: Balancing the Scales - Social Equity in Legal Cannabis Delivery

Committee Insights: Balancing the Scales - Social Equity in Legal Cannabis Delivery

Service Solutions: Seed to Sprout – Defining an Engaging Employee Experience for Retention & Performance

Service Solutions: Seed to Sprout – Defining an Engaging Employee Experience for Retention & Performance

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team | HHS Recommends Rescheduling: Now What?

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team | HHS Recommends Rescheduling: Now What?

Policy Matters | America in Miniature Goes Green: Maryland's Journey to Adult-Use Cannabis

Policy Matters | America in Miniature Goes Green: Maryland's Journey to Adult-Use Cannabis

Committee Insights: Cracking the Code – Unraveling the Challenge of Coverage for Novel Cannabinoids

Committee Insights: Cracking the Code – Unraveling the Challenge of Coverage for Novel Cannabinoids

Service Solutions: Adapting to New Economic Realities – How Cosolvent Extraction Can Minimize Your Processing Costs and Increase Your Margins

Service Solutions: Adapting to New Economic Realities – How Cosolvent Extraction Can Minimize Your Processing Costs and Increase Your Margins

Committee Insights: Concepts for Regulatory Consideration - Shifting the Conversation from “Cannabis vs. Hemp” to “The Cannabinoids” (Minor, Novel & Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part V)

Committee Insights: Concepts for Regulatory Consideration - Shifting the Conversation from “Cannabis vs. Hemp” to “The Cannabinoids” (Minor, Novel & Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part V)

Committee Insights | Know Your Hazards: Occupational Health and Safety Considerations in Cannabinoid Ingredient Manufacturing (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part IV)

Committee Insights | Know Your Hazards: Occupational Health and Safety Considerations in Cannabinoid Ingredient Manufacturing (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part IV)

Committee Insights| From Lab to Label: Safeguarding Consumers in the Cannabinoid Product Landscape (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part III)

Committee Insights| From Lab to Label: Safeguarding Consumers in the Cannabinoid Product Landscape (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part III)

Catalyst Conversations: It Takes an Educational Ecosystem to Empower a Community

Catalyst Conversations: It Takes an Educational Ecosystem to Empower a Community

Committee Insights: Meet the Minors (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part II)

Committee Insights: Meet the Minors (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part II)

Committee Insights: NCIA Mythbusters – Is Cannabis Safer Than Alcohol?

Committee Insights: NCIA Mythbusters – Is Cannabis Safer Than Alcohol?

Catalyst Conversation: What’s Hot for 2023?

Catalyst Conversation: What’s Hot for 2023?

Catalyst Conversations: Gain an Edge and Make an Impact – Community Benefit Agreements

Catalyst Conversations: Gain an Edge and Make an Impact – Community Benefit Agreements

Committee Insights: Defining the Conversation (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part I)

Committee Insights: Defining the Conversation (Novel, Minor, Synthetic Cannabinoids - Part I)

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Rolling Back or Rolling Up - Green Wave in 2023?

Fireside Chats with NCIA's Government Relations Team: Rolling Back or Rolling Up - Green Wave in 2023?

Committee Insights: How To Use A Marketing Mindset To Raise Capital For Your Cannabis Company

Committee Insights: How To Use A Marketing Mindset To Raise Capital For Your Cannabis Company

Committee Insights: The Pathway to Greater Equity in New York’s Adult Use Cannabis Market