Los Angeles: Cannabis Business Conference 

Monday, March 25th, 2019 6:00 PM-9:00 PM 

Tickets: https://bit.ly/2SJglIK

Location: Zuber Lawler Offices: 350 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA

Tentative Schedule (subject to change)

5:30 PM: Registration and Deal Making
5:45 PM: Opening Remarks by The Cannabis Society
6:00 PM: Keynote by Tom Zuber Managing Partner of Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP.
6:20 PM: Keynote
6:40 PM: Investments in Cannabis Panel
7:05 PM: Impact of Hemp Legalization in the Market Place Panel
7:35 PM: Product Innovation Panel
8:00 PM: Deal Making
9:00 PM: Conference Conclusion

Confirmed Guest Speakers:

Tom Zuber, Managing Partner of Zuber Lawler & Del Duca LLP.

Tom Zuber has advised some of the most iconic companies in the world on their patent and trademark portfolios. He is at the cutting edge of cannabis patent and trademark law. Tom holds a law degree from Columbia Law School, a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard Government School, and a biomedical engineering degree from Rutgers University, where he graduated with highest honors.

Derek Pellizzari – CEO and Director for Urbania Investment Group

With over 26 years of experience specializing in business development, Derek has a successful track record leading both mid and large size companies to achieve their revenue goals through effective cost management, marketing and sales. He was vice president of Golden Eagle Group, one of the largest agricultural corporations in Canada, as well a division of the Aquilini Investment Group. Vice President of Sale and Marketing at Rubicon Organics, a publicly traded licenced producer of cannabis since 2015 in Washington, California and Canada. Derek is currently a partner and managing director at Kika Marketing and Communications Inc, a full-service marketing, design and web agency with an international reach and offices in Vancouver, Montreal and Manila.

Eugene Morgulis, Director of Legal & Strategic Initiatives, National Association of Cannabis Businesses

As the NACB’s LA-based executive and Director of Legal & Strategic Initiatives, Eugene Morgulis oversees the creation of the organization’s National Standards and heads up its Symposium program. Eugene’s legal career began at the international law firm Ropes & Gray in Boston, MA. His practice included Regulatory, Cybersecurity and Data Privacy law. In 2013, he was awarded the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice Recognition Award for his work on NAACP v. Galvin, which expanded access to voter registration for low-income Massachusetts citizens. More information about the NACB can be found at NACB.com.

Ted Lichtenberger, Co-Founder of Flower Co.

A former McKinsey and Company consultant with restructuring turnaround and CPG specialty, Ted Lichtenberger is a serial entrepreneur. Ted started in cannabis by co-founding Humboldt Legends a premium preroll brand which celebrates Humboldt’s legacy cultivators and terror. Along the way, Ted built West of West, Humboldt Legend’s plant touching sister company, and which now has +6 state licenses including volatile extraction, distribution, and manufacturing. Then, Ted co-founded and helped grow Old Pal to +$20M ARR business in less than a year before going full time on Flower Company. Flower Company is a wholesale cannabis membership club (the Costco of cannabis). It is live in LA, SF, Vallejo, and East Bay. Ted is a graduate of UVA McIntire School of Commerce & Amherst College.