Speakers and Panels

Saturday

 

11:00 AM to 11:50 AM

"History, Farming Methods, & planting a U.S. Industrial Hemp Crop."
Chris Boucher (Hempstead Company)
John Dvorak (Editor, Hemp Magazine)

 

12 Noon to 12:50 PM

"Hemp Product Fasion Companies" James Cox (TerraPax)
Dave Prentis (Earth Cog Outdoor Gear Cooperative Group)
Barry Bryan (Hemp It Is)
Christian Weber (Crop Circle Clothing)
Dennis Finnerman (Crucial Creations)

 

1:00 PM to 1:50 PM

"Fiber Production From Field to Finish"
Owen Sircus (Fashion Insititute of Technology)
Dylan Hilsman (Pan World Traders)
Gero Leson (Consolidated Processors and Growers)

 

2:00 PM to 2:50 PM

"Paper Making with Hemp and Recycled Fibers"
John Stahl (Church of the Living Tree, Evanescent Press)
Jeff Lindenthal (Greenfield Paper Company)
Carolyn Moran (Vanguard Paper, Tree Free Paper Company)
Darren Novak (All Points East)

 

3:00 PM to 3:50 PM

"Hemp & the Media"
Mari Kane (HempWorld )- Moderator
Sandy Weinstein (PR Consultant)
Jeff Meyers (Former Filmmaker + Former LA Times Reporter)
Dennis Bernstein (Pacifica Radio correspondent)

 

4:00 PM to 4:50 PM

"Professionalism in Hemp Manufacturing, Marketing, Distribution and Sales: Understanding the Consumer"
Pete Brady (Hemp Times, independent writer)
Etienne Fontain (Ecolution)
Julie Lewis (Deep E Co.)
Al Haindl (Rio Rockers)

 

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

"Therapeutic Applications of the Cannabis Plant"
Chris Conrad (Author, Lecturer and Editor)
Valerie Corral (Co-Director, Wo/Man's Alliance for Medical Marijuana)
Vic Hernandez, Ph D. (researcher and clinician)
Bobby Harris (therapeutic hemp activist)

 

Sunday

 

11 AM to 11:50 PM

"Hemp Cosmetics"
Adam Steinberg & Mary Smith (Big Mountain Salve Company)
Rhonda Proghovnick (Emprys)
Jerry Shapiro (Merry Hempsters)
Jeffrey Stonehill (All Around the World Hemp)
Carol Miller (Hemp Essentials)

 

12 Noon to 12:50 PM

"Food & Nutrition"
Paul Gaylon (Herbal Products & Development/Pacific Hemp Associates),
Alan Brady (Dr. BradyÕs Hemp Seed Delights)
Lenda Hand (Humboldt Hemp Foods)
Richard Rose (Good Rella Cheese Company)
James Castetter (Nirvana Homebrews Hemp Wine)
Hungry Bear (Hemp Food and other Creations, Eugene, OR)

 

1 PM to 1:50PM

"Industrial Hemp & the Global Economy"
Tony Livoti (Monterey Bay International Trade Association)
Chris Conrad (Author, Lecturer and Editor)
Candi Penn (Director, Hemp Industrial Association)
Don Wirtshafter (Ohio Hempery)

 

2 PM to 2:50 PM

"Industrial Hemp Products- Fibreboard and Composites"
John Stahl (Paper-maker + Hemp Construction Prototypes)
Gero Leson (CPG- Consolidated Growers and Processors)

 

3 PM to 3:50 PM

"Legislative Goals for Industrial Hemp"
Lloyd Casey (Ex-Colorado Senator)
Sam Clauder (Co-author of 1998 California Industrial Hemp Initiative)
Candi Penn (Director, Hemp Industries Association, HIA)
Jeffrey Stonehill (All Around the World Hemp)

 

4 PM to 4:50 PM

"A Women's Perspective in the Hemp Business"
Mari Kane (Hemp World)
Julie Lewis (Deep E. Company)
Agi Orsi (Ortex, Hungarian Hemp Fabric)
Marie Mills (Hemp Connection)

 

5 PM to 6:30 PM

"Hemp Plant Genetics, Hemp Husbandry, Fiber Technology, Botany and Breeding, Electro-culture, Cannabinoid Chemistry, Plant Physiology, Cannabis Sativa and Cannabis Indica"
Robert A. Nelson (Author, "Hemp Husbandry")
Dave West (Plant genetic researcher)
Jack Herer (Author, The Emperor Wears No Clothes)
Hempologist John Dvorak, moderator