by Brooke Gilbert, NCIA Director of Events and Education

NCIA’s biggest and most influential event, the Cannabis Business Summit & Expo, wrapped up a few of weeks ago in Oakland, CA. We hope you had as much fun as we did! Did you miss out on attending, or would you like to relive your experience? Check out these event highlights below to get a glimpse into this year’s edition of the Cannabis Business Summit & Expo:

• Our largest event to date with 5000+ attendees.

• Keynote address from President Vicente Fox, the former president of Mexico, who spoke about the social injustices created by the war on drugs and the positive effects of global cannabis legalization. Listen to his full keynote here.

• Eighty thousand square feet of sold-out exhibit space featuring 250+ exhibitors, and 33 media and industry partners.

• Twenty hours of educational content over three days, featuring six workshops and 30 breakout sessions spread across five educational tracks and led by 150+ industry experts.

• Two plenary sessions, one featuring a discussion of the strategies to reform Internal Revenue Code Section 280E, and the second featuring a discussion of the results of a 16-month stakeholder-driven process that resulted in a comprehensive white paper detailing regulatory recommendations for packaging and labeling of cannabis products.

• Twelve tours at four locations including analytical testing laboratories Steep Hill Labs and CW Analytical Labs, as well as retail cannabis facilities Magnolia Wellness and Berkeley Patients Group.

• On-site bookstore and book signings from current cannabis industry authors including John Hudak, Ewe Blesching, Chris Conrad, Steve DeAngelo, Jorge Cervantes, and Donna Shields.

• One hundred seventy-three press personnel from 65 outlets joined us for the three days, generating 1.4 billion impressions worldwide.

• #CannaBizSummit received 177,278 impressions on Twitter.

View the entire official photo album from the 4th Annual Cannabis Business Summit & Expo online here: TheCannabisIndustry.org/CBS17Blog

A big THANK YOU to all our attendees, volunteers, speakers, sponsors, exhibitors, and partners for contributing to another successful year at our Cannabis Business Summit & Expo.

We look forward to seeing you at a future event! Register today for one of our upcoming Quarterly Cannabis Caucuses, taking place throughout the month of July, as well as our first-ever California Cannabis Business Conference, taking place September 21 – 22 in Anaheim, CA, in partnership with the California Cannabis Industry Association.

Find out more at TheCannabisIndustry.org/Events.