2024 HCE Speakers

2024 Hawaii Cannabis Expo Speakers

Kirk Reid – How to talk to your budtender and understand test results
Feb 2 – Room 1: 6PM – Introduction to Anandemide, THC, CBD and our Endocrine System. How to talk to your BUDTENDER and understand test results.
Feb 3 – Room 1: 1PM – How to use Cannabis to help treat breast cancer.
Feb 3 – Room 2: 5PM – Freeze Drying Tips and Tricks with Captain Kirk
Feb 4 – Room 2: 2PM – How signaling of cancer relates to cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system to help cancer proliferation

Joseph Cerecedes – Mushrooms: Ancient History – Modern Science
Feb 2 – Room 1: 4PM – Mushrooms: Ancient History – Modern Science
Feb 3 – Room 1: 3PM – Mushrooms: Ancient History – Modern Science
Feb 4 – Room 1: 12NN – Mushrooms: Ancient History – Modern Science

Wendy Gibson-Viviani PTA/RN/BS – What is the Endocannabinoid system, and how does CBD interact with it? 
Feb 2 – Room 2: 4PM – CBD and THC: The Power Couple 
Feb 3 – Room 1: 10AM – Endocannabinoid System Health
Feb 4 – Room 1: 10AM – CBD and THC: The Power Couple 

Me Fuimaono-Poe – The History of Cannabis in Polynesia
Feb 3 – Room 2: 12NN – Panel Discussion on Patient Protections
Feb 4 – Room 2: 12NN – History of Cannabis in Polynesia

Bo Le Grand – Cannabis for Endometriosis
Feb 3 – Room 1: 12NN – Cannabis for Endometriosis
Feb 4 – Room 1: 1PM – Cannabis for Pets

Justin Lehmann – Culture and the Bond of the Plant
Feb 3 – Room 1: 4PM – Culture and the Bond of the Plant Pt.1
Feb 4 – Room 2: 11AM – Culture and the Bond of the Plant Pt.2

Empress Modupe Olufunmi Jacobs – Reparatory & Restorative Justice in Hawai’i’s Legal Cannabis Industry
Feb 3 – Room 1: 2PM – Reparatory & Restorative Justice in Hawai’i’s Legal Cannabis Industry
Feb 4 -Room 2: 1PM – Reparatory & Restorative Justice in Hawai’i’s Legal Cannabis Industry

Amy Neilson – CBD for Diabetes
Feb 2 – Room 1: 3PM –  Cannabis and Crohn’s
Feb 3 – Room 1: 11AM – CBD and diabetes
Feb 4 – Room 1: 11AM – Cannabis and metabolic syndrome

Alexis Muller – The Potency of Knowledge: Elevating Cannabis Consumer Value
Feb 2 – Room 1: 5PM – The Potency of Knowledge: Elevating Cannabis Consumer Value Pt. 1
Feb 3 – Room 2: 3PM – The Potency of Knowledge: Elevating Cannabis Consumer Value Pt. 2

Jenny Dills – Surviving Corporate Cannabis
Feb 2 – Room 2: 6PM –  Surviving Corporate Cannabis Pt. 1
Feb 3 – Room 2: 11AM – Preserving Culture in Cannabis Industry

Ian Rassman –  Activism at NORML and the medical cannabis donation program, as well as insights into payments and banking in the Cannabis industry
Feb 3 – Room 1: 5PM – Activism at NORML , the medical cannabis donation program, and Insights into payments and banking in the Cannabis industry
Feb 4 – Room 2: 10 AM – Activism at NORML , the medical cannabis donation program, and Insights into payments and banking in the Cannabis industry

Hawaii Alliance for Cannabis Reform – Cannabis Policy in Hawaii Panel Discussion
Feb 3 – Room 2: 1PM – Cannabis Policy in Hawaii Panel Discussion

Marcus Moates –  Co-Founder of Nature’s Lab Extracts 
Feb 2 – Room 2: 3PM – Extraction: Between Solvent vs. Solventless vs. Solvent-free Extractions

Aaron Zeeman – Founder of Big Island Genetics
Feb 3 – Room 2: 2PM – The future of the Legacy Growers in Hawaii: Current local cannabis culture

Ken Estes – Founder of Granddaddy Purp
Feb 3 – Room 2: 10AM – “Breedera Perspective” Growing Grandaddy Purp Genetics.

Masters of Breeding Panel hosted by Kre8 Genetics, Destiny Genetics, Neon Kitty, Jungle Genes, and Frost World Genetics
Feb 4 – Room 2: 3PM – Everything under growing

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