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Jessica Billingsley's first foray into the cannabis industry was a direct investment in one of the first licensed marijuana companies in Colorado. But when she was tasked with identifying software to support the endeavor, she failed to find anything. So Jessica turned that vacuum into an opportunity and developed a seed-to-sale software, known as MJ Freeway, for the new industry. In this episode, Jessica talks about her journey from interested investor to CEO of a publicly traded cannabis firm, Akerna. Jessica shares: Why she left her own IT services company to work with cannabis. The differences between heading a private firm and a publicly traded one. How the cannabis industry has evolved over the past decade. Where the next opportunities for the market might be. Who is Jessica Billingsley? Jessica Billingsley is an accomplished innovator, executive and board member in public and private international technology with more than 20 years of experience. She co-founded MJ Freeway in 2010, where she served as president until April 2018 and CEO until the company was acquired by MTech Acquisition Corp. to form Akerna. Shortly after that acquisition, Jessica led Akerna to become the first cannabis technology company listed on Nasdaq.

Jessica Billingsley's first foray into the cannabis industry was a direct investment in one of the first licensed marijuana companies in Colorado. But when she was tasked with identifying software to support the endeavor, she failed to find anything. So Jessica turned that vacuum into an opportunity and developed a seed-to-sale software, known as MJ Freeway, for the new industry. In this episode, Jessica talks about her journey from interested investor to CEO of a publicly traded cannabis firm, Akerna. Jessica shares: Why she left her own IT services company to work with cannabis. The differences between heading a private firm and a publicly traded one. How the cannabis industry has evolved over the past decade. Where the next opportunities for the market might be. Who is Jessica Billingsley? Jessica Billingsley is an accomplished innovator, executive and board member in public and private international technology with more than 20 years of experience. She co-founded MJ Freeway in 2010, where she served as president until April 2018 and CEO until the company was acquired by MTech Acquisition Corp. to form Akerna. Shortly after that acquisition, Jessica led Akerna to become the first cannabis technology company listed on Nasdaq.

When Tyler got out of the Army as a 23 year-old, he witnessed Cannabis save the life of his grandmother, who was unable to treat her back pain with opioids. He then began working for one of the first licensed vertically integrated cannabis companies in Boulder, Colorado, Boulder Kind Care. He helped them relocate and build their cultivation facility, including equipment selection and installation. For a few years he worked his way through almost every one of the positions across the cannabis vertical. He has held cultivation management positions, dispensary positions, and eventually was the director of compliance for Boulder Kind Care. After helping a couple other local vertically integrated companies transition from Medical to Dual/Medical & Recreational companies in the Colorado market, he then went to work for MJ Freeway as an Operational Implementation Specialist. Having been a beta user of MJ Freeway and the only one with perspective on “both sides” of the software, he was responsible for the implementation and “go live” of well over 400 operations in the cannabis industry, across the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Spain, Including the first 4 dispensaries in 4 states (NV, MN, AK, FL). He has spoken at countless conferences and events, trained thousands of operators on both Cannabis plant/product knowledge, compliance, tools/software, and helped create a lot of their educational content and SOP documentation. After 3 years, he then went to work for Canna Advisors (one of the most prestigious, professional, and successful consulting companies in the industry) as their Director of Client operations, advising both pre-license and post-license clients on operational set-up and efficiencies. He also created their Strategic Partner Program, negotiating deals for their high-quality clients with vendors of ancillary cannabis products. He even represented a client as an expert witness in an appeals case where he spent over an hour taking questions from the State AG, they got the license. Since then, he has helped multiple start-ups as Director of Operations and Chief Strategy Officer, primarily in the California Market. https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-stratford-7ab7b254/ tyler@stratfordcannabisconsulting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ryan Douglas And Nina Simosko Join us today to help celebrate 10 years of The National Cannabis Industry Association. The Hurdles For A Cannabis Startup with Ryan Douglas of Ryan Douglas Cultivation. As Master Grower from 2013 to 2016, he directed cultivation for Tweed Inc., Canada’s largest licensed producer of medical cannabis and the flagship subsidiary of Canopy Growth Corporation. As one of the company’s first employees, he helped drive the organization’s early success by designing the production facility, selecting the genetics, and hiring and training staff to produce 70,000 plants and process 6 tons of dry cannabis annually. His work at Tweed has been featured in Vice, New York Times, Bloomberg News, and on National Public Radio. The cannabis industry in its current form is relatively new and fresh and still quite entrepreneurial. A lot of “start-ups” being formed and launched, especially with every year, new states legalizing medical or adult-use cannabis. There’s a lot of people listening to this show right now who might be launching cannabis businesses in their states soon. We discuss what advice Ryan has as someone who has worked directly with start-ups in the cannabis space. Also, some common challenges or hurdles that start-up operators might not think about. The Future Of Cannabis As An Essential Business with Nina Simosko. Nina serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Akerna, a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s companies and investments also include MJ Freeway, Ample Organics, Last Call Analytics, Leaf Data Systems, solo sciences, and ZolTrain. Nina brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience to her role. We talk about current events, and the good news during all this is that cannabis businesses have been deemed “essential”. But there are some differences in how we’re operating. There’s delivery and curbside pickup etc so we walk through that customer-to-sale process now and how it’s different. Looking even further into the future here, we ask if she is anticipating any further changes than what we’ve already seen. As well as How will dispensaries reach their customers and what will be new and different in how we’re operating in this new normal. Nina is extremely well suited to her current role with Akerna. She oversees all of the company’s revenue generation streams, builds strategies to drive revenue growth, and plays a pivotal role in aligning revenue generation processes across the entire organization.

Jessica Billingsley serves as Akerna’s Chief Executive Officer. In June 2019 she became the first CEO of a cannabis ancillary company to be listed on Nasdaq. She co-founded MJ Freeway in 2010, where she served as President until April 2018, and later as the CEO until MJ Freeway was acquired by MTech to form Akerna. In 2015, she was named as one of Fortune’s Most Promising Female Entrepreneurs, in 2018, she was named one of Inc. Magazine’s 100 Female Founders, and in 2019, she was named to Entrepreneur’s inaugural list of 100 Powerful Women.Prior to MJ Freeway, Jessica earned her degree in Communications and Computer Science from the University of Georgia and later became CEO and founder of Zoco, a technology services firm with clients across the United States. With 20 years of technology and systems experience in rapidly scaling businesses, Jessica is a highly regarded executive in both the tech and cannabis space.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC’s) aka blank check companies are a topic that gets very little attention but is worth learning about. Now, you may have never heard of this investment vehicle, but they are making an impact on the finance sector of the cannabis industry.  Heard of MJ Freeway?  They were acquired by a […] The post Cannabis SPACs appeared first on GreenGrowth CPAs.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC’s) aka blank check companies are a topic that gets very little attention but is worth learning about. Now, you may have never heard of this investment vehicle, but they are making an impact on the finance sector of the cannabis industry.  Heard of MJ Freeway?  They were acquired by a […] The post Cannabis SPACs appeared first on GreenGrowth CPAs.

Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPAC’s) aka blank check companies are a topic that gets very little attention but is worth learning about. Now, you may have never heard of this investment vehicle, but they are making an impact on the finance sector of the cannabis industry.  Heard of MJ Freeway?  They were acquired by a […] The post Cannabis SPACs appeared first on GreenGrowth CPAs.

Nina serves as Chief Commercial Officer for Akerna, a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s companies and investments also include MJ Freeway, Ample Organics, Last Call Analytics, Leaf Data Systems®, solo sciences, and ZolTrain.With more than 20 years of technology industry experience, she has spearheaded strategic innovation initiatives for global Fortune 100 companies including Oracle, SAP, and most recently, NTT Group. Nina oversees both Akerna and MJ Freeway’s revenue generation streams, builds strategies to drive revenue growth, and plays a pivotal role in aligning revenue generation processes across the Akerna organization. Previously, Nina was President and CEO of NTT Innovation Institute Inc. (NTTi3), the prestigious Silicon Valley-based innovation center for NTT Group, one of the world’s largest ICT companies. Prior to NTT i3, Nina was responsible for leading the creation and execution of Nike Technology strategy, planning and operations world-wide. At SAP, she was the Senior Vice President of SAP’s Global Premier Customer Network (PCN) where she led both the PCN Center of Excellence and SAP’s Global Executive Advisory Board. During her eight-year tenure, she was a part of SAP’s Global Ecosystem & Partner Group which was charged with continuing to build and enable an open ecosystem of software, service and technology partners together with SAP’s communities of innovation.Ms. Simosko currently sits on the Advisory board at Santa.io, AppOrchid and Reflektion and she has also been a member of the advisory boards at Appcelerator and Taulia.Nina can be found on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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The Future Of Cannabis As An Essential Business with Nina Simosko. Nina serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Akerna, a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s companies and investments also include MJ Freeway, Ample Organics, Last Call Analytics, Leaf Data Systems, solo sciences, and ZolTrain. Nina brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience to her role. We talk about current events, and the good news during all this is that cannabis businesses have been deemed “essential”.

The Future Of Cannabis As An Essential Business with Nina Simosko. Nina serves as Chief Revenue Officer for Akerna, a global regulatory compliance technology company in the cannabis space. Akerna’s companies and investments also include MJ Freeway, Ample Organics, Last Call Analytics, Leaf Data Systems, solo sciences, and ZolTrain. Nina brings more than 20 years of technology industry experience to her role. We talk about current events, and the good news during all this is that cannabis businesses have been deemed “essential”.

Customer loyalty platform for the cannabis industry with Jeffrey Harris, CEO, and Founder of Springbig. Today, we learn about an innovator in loyalty marketing technology, who recently announced that it reached a five million customer milestone, establishing the company as one of the fastest-growing CannaTech companies in the cannabis industry. Springbig has partnerships with some of the leading POS providers in the cannabis space, including Flowhub, Cova, MJ Freeway, Treez, and Greenbits. They have worked alongside retailers to send over 50,000 campaigns by way of over 90,000,000 text messages and have seen close to 600,000 rewards redeemed in return.

Customer loyalty platform for the cannabis industry with Jeffrey Harris, CEO, and Founder of Springbig. Today, we learn about an innovator in loyalty marketing technology, who recently announced that it reached a five million customer milestone, establishing the company as one of the fastest-growing CannaTech companies in the cannabis industry. Springbig has partnerships with some of the leading POS providers in the cannabis space, including Flowhub, Cova, MJ Freeway, Treez, and Greenbits. They have worked alongside retailers to send over 50,000 campaigns by way of over 90,000,000 text messages and have seen close to 600,000 rewards redeemed in return.

Part two of our interview with Brie Ramsay, CEO of RMCC! We talk about her history in the cannabis industry before creating RMCC, as well as the infamous MJ Freeway crash! Learn all about the headaches and all-nighters that led to Brie start her own cannabis compliance company!

Jessica Billingsley and Samantha Ford at The Benzinga Cannabis Capital Conference. Our first guest is CEO of the first cannabis compliance technology company to be traded on Nasdaq making her the first CEO from this market to bring a company to a major U.S. exchange. She has recognized for Fortune’s “Most Promising Women Entrepreneur Award,” is also recognized as one of Inc.’s “Female Founders 100,” and was chosen for Entrepreneur Magazine’s inaugural 100 Powerful Women list. Jessica Billingsley has served as MJ Freeway’s Chief Executive Officer since April 2018. She co-founded MJ Freeway in 2010 and served as President from 2010 to April 2018. Prior to MJ Freeway, Jessica was CEO and founder of Zoco, a technology services firm with clients across the United States. Next, we talk to Samantha Ford of Protis Global. Samantha is all about the hustle. She is sharp, fun and quite exceptional at most things she puts her mind to. She’s been in executive search for over 20 years. She successfully built a search practice in the 90’s placing high-level equity professionals with top wall street firms nationwide and ultimately became one of the top search professionals in the brokerage industry. Needless to say, she knows her way around people, business and numbers. What more could we ask for? After spending a month in Nepal, she decided to leave the corporate world and go out on her own where she continued to focus on wall street.

The first cannabis compliance technology company with Jessica Billingsley, CEO of Akerna (formerly MJ Freeway). Our next guest is CEO of the first cannabis compliance technology company to be traded on Nasdaq making her the first CEO from this market to bring a company to a major U.S. exchange. She has recognized for Fortune’s “Most Promising Women Entrepreneur Award,” is also recognized as one of Inc.’s “Female Founders 100,” and was chosen for Entrepreneur Magazine’s inaugural 100 Powerful Women list. Jessica Billingsley has served as MJ Freeway’s Chief Executive Officer since April 2018. She co-founded MJ Freeway in 2010 and served as President from 2010 to April 2018. Prior to MJ Freeway, Jessica was CEO and founder of Zoco, a technology services firm with clients across the United States.

Ten years ago, guest Jessica Billingsley introduced the first tracking software into the cannabis space. That company MJ Freeway grew massively and recently merged with MTech Acquisition Corp to become a global technology behemoth called Akerna. In this interview we talk about what her company does and why it’s important, what it’s like being a woman in a male dominated industry, and what rock climbing has taught her about business.

Ten years ago, guest Jessica Billingsley introduced the first tracking software into the cannabis space. That company MJ Freeway grew massively and recently merged with MTech Acquisition Corp to become a global technology behemoth called Akerna. In this interview we talk about what her company does and why it’s important, what it’s like being a woman in a male dominated industry, and what rock climbing has taught her about business.

The team from Soulful Cannabis joins Realign with the Divine and provides an overview of the current yet ever-shifting Medical Marijuana Industry in Pennsylvania. We share our personal healing experiences working with this plant medicine and what brings the soul element to Soulful Cannabis. About Soulful Cannabis Soulful Cannabis is a collective working to make the cannabis industry the best version of itself. They forge relationships, develop mind-shifting content and host events in service of social equity in the cannabis industry, where social equity is a big picture view of community impact, opportunity, diversity, patient advocacy and social justice. Soulful Cannabis act as stewards; serving as light-holders for the leaders joining the collective, amplifying and cross-connecting their efforts with other groups.  The Soulful Cannabis team includes Skip Shuda, Jason Mitchell & Julia Kline.   The Team Skip Shuda started Soulful Cannabis in 2018 after recognizing that the emerging cannabis industry could use some help in being the "best version of itself". Skip is a serial entrepreneur, medical marijuana operations executive, digital marketing specialist and startup business advisor. From January 2017 until April 2018 he was the Chief Operating Officer of one of Pennsylvania's first medical marijuana dispensaries. He helped the team achieve a ranking of #8 out of 255 statewide dispensary applicants, ensuring a successful application. Skip oversaw the first sale to take place in the southeastern part of PA and the move to an operational status of two dispensaries. Jason Mitchell has been working with patients in medical and adult use cannabis stores since 2009. He has worked in a variety of cannabis-related roles including General Manager, Store Manager, Sales Associate and Educational Instructor. He has worked on numerous cannabis industry activities in both medical and adult-use markets including, sourcing genetics at grow operations, working with patients on a one-on-one basis as well as staff management point-of-sale setup with MJ Freeway, Flowhub, Metric and Leaf. Julia Kline has over 20 years of experience working with patients in the health and wellness field. After she became a Registered Nurse in 2009, she began working in the emergency department where she witnessed the growing opioid epidemic. Reminded of the Hippocratic Oath she took, she knew she needed to be an ambassador of change. This solidified her interest in cannabis as medicine, supporting the alternative. Connect with Soulful Cannabis www.soulfulcannabis.com  

Nine years ago MJ Freeway created Seed To Sale cannabis tracking software.   Many people believe that the transparency that the software provided was instrumental in cannabis acceptance and the foundation of the legal cannabis industry.   Jeannette Ward- Horton joins Dan Humiston on the Raising Cannabis Capital podcast to talk about their robust software and their pending transition to becoming a publicly traded company.  Learn more about purchasing stock in their company at MJBulls.com  Produced By MJBulls Media

Tahira Rehmatullah, Managing Partner of Hypur Ventures and CFO of MTech Acquisition Corp talked with Rena Sherbill about the evolution of the cannabis industry, MTech's merger with MJ Freeway, the importance of pivoting and the formality of legalization.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this awesome new episode, Brandon welcomes Tahira Rehmatullah to the show. Tahira has quite the cannabis story. After starting at Privateer and running the Marley brand, Tahira is now managing director of Hypur Ventures and CFO of MTech, which just merged with MJ Freeway. Brandon and Tahira dive deep into the usage of SPAC's, the rise of cannabis M&A, and how she balances her life + mind as an operator and an investor in the cannabis industry. Tune in, listen up, and get acquainted with Tahira!

This Week In Marijuana Business News for the week ended Nov. 16, 2018, with host Jill Reddish.  News in this episode: Lawsuit throws German cannabis program into limbo; deadline delayed to Dec. 11 Green Thumb Industries buys Nevada cannabis business in $290 million deal MTech, MJ Freeway name their merged marijuana company 'Akerna' Ohio now anticipates some medical cannabis sales in December Los Angeles reaches marijuana licensing deal for current applicants Chart: Colorado on pace for record-setting, billion-dollar year of recreational cannabis sales MJBizCon 2018 begins with record attendance, reflecting marijuana industry's rapid growth Sponsored by: Citizen Green Community Subscribe to both of our podcasts on iTunes, Stitcher and here on our site!

Where "Wall Street" meets "The Street", join top dealmaker Michael Miller on a journey down the "green rush highway".

Where "Wall Street" meets "The Street", join top dealmaker Michael Miller on a journey down the "green rush highway".

Today on Grassroots Marketing we are joined by Mikaela McLaughlin from SpringBig, Stephanie Moriarty, Abe Insurance Principal & Commercial Insurance Broker, and Tim Morse of the Battalion One Fire Protection.Talking about Cannabis-centric CRMs and Loyalty with the Business Development Manager at springbig Mikaela McLaughlin. Springbig provides cannabis retailers with the most effective, intuitive, and robust loyalty marketing and communications tools to keep customers coming back more often (and keeping them happy). Through partnerships with some of the leading POS providers in the cannabis space, including Greenbits, Cova, flowhub, Korona, Leaflogix, MJ Freeway and Treez, springbig has worked alongside retailers to send over 12,270 Campaigns and has seen 60,616 rewards redeemed in return! springbig’s dedication and expertise have allowed retailers to see immediate and significant ROIs on their marketing initiatives.Stephanie is an Insurance agent with a family history of 65 years in the insurance business. Prior to insurance, I spent a decade in the wine business so I can appreciate the world of "vices". They speak about Cannabis Business Insurance employment practices liability, product liability & workers comp.Account Manager. 10+ years background in Fire Protection/Fire-Life Safety Some basic and some unique aspects of Fire Protection as they apply to the Cannabis industry for growth, extraction, etc. They speak on the basics of Fire-Life/Safety, Specifics of FLS as applied to Cannabis operations. Also how to keep buildings and operations robust performers vs. problems that can surface where codes and ordinances of certain jurisdictions are involved.

Today on Grassroots Marketing we are joined by Mikaela McLaughlin from SpringBig, Stephanie Moriarty, Abe Insurance Principal & Commercial Insurance Broker, and Tim Morse of the Battalion One Fire Protection.Talking about Cannabis-centric CRMs and Loyalty with the Business Development Manager at springbig Mikaela McLaughlin. Springbig provides cannabis retailers with the most effective, intuitive, and robust loyalty marketing and communications tools to keep customers coming back more often (and keeping them happy). Through partnerships with some of the leading POS providers in the cannabis space, including Greenbits, Cova, flowhub, Korona, Leaflogix, MJ Freeway and Treez, springbig has worked alongside retailers to send over 12,270 Campaigns and has seen 60,616 rewards redeemed in return! springbig’s dedication and expertise have allowed retailers to see immediate and significant ROIs on their marketing initiatives.Stephanie is an Insurance agent with a family history of 65 years in the insurance business. Prior to insurance, I spent a decade in the wine business so I can appreciate the world of "vices". They speak about Cannabis Business Insurance employment practices liability, product liability & workers comp.Account Manager. 10+ years background in Fire Protection/Fire-Life Safety Some basic and some unique aspects of Fire Protection as they apply to the Cannabis industry for growth, extraction, etc. They speak on the basics of Fire-Life/Safety, Specifics of FLS as applied to Cannabis operations. Also how to keep buildings and operations robust performers vs. problems that can surface where codes and ordinances of certain jurisdictions are involved.

Entrepreneurs Amy Poinsette and Jessica Billingsley are capitalizing on one of the fastest-growing businesses in the US, marijuana. Co-founders of MJ Freeway, they share what it takes to scale, raise capital and build a great team culture.  How to Find Amy and Jessica on Social Media: Follow Amy and Jessica on Twitter @AmyPoinsett @JessBillingsley https://twitter.com/MJFreeway https://facebook.com/MJFreeway https://facebook.com/JessicaLBillingsley http://www.linkedin.com/in/apoinsett http://www.linkedin.com/in/jessicalbillingsley https://instagram.com/jessicalbillingsley More at https://wingspodcast.com Review WINGS on iTunes and win a chance to Mastermind in person one-on-one with host and entrepreneur Melinda Wittstock Like WINGS! https://facebook.com/wingspodcast Follow us on Twitter @MelindaWings Our sponsors: Your Return on Authenticity™: Apply for Verifeed’s social media accelerator  Springboard Enterprises: The Accelerator for Female Founders Zero Limits Ventures: Valuation Enhancement and Capital Acquisition Strategies

In this episode: Matt Shufeldt, CISO at Cognizant Health, is our feature guest this week. News from: Level3, CenturyLink, MJ Freeway, Denver Art Museum, Red Canary, LogRhythm and a lot more! Full show notes: https://www.colorado-security.com/news/2017/10/29/40-116-matt-shufeldt-ciso-at-cognizant-health We are not smarter than this 7th grader How many 7th graders have earned a cool $25,000 for their invention? One in Colorado did. The CenturyLink acquisition of Level3 is finally complete. Seven security companies make the top 100 tech companies in Colorado. Hackers are targeting the cannabis industry. A Denver museum gets pwned. Women focused accelerator gets funds. And blogs by local security companies. Did you catch our trivia question? Be the first to reply to info@colorado-security.com with the right answer and get any $25 item from the Colorado = Security store. Feature interview: Matt Shufeldt, CISO for Cognizant Healthcare, sat with Robb. Matt told the story of building his career in security, working at Sports Authority (through the good times and bad), growing a new security program at Cognizant, and gave advice for those looking to join the industry. Sign up for our mailing list on the main site to receive weekly updates - https://www.colorado-security.com/. If you have any questions or comments, or any organizations or events we should highlight, contact Alex and Robb at info@colorado-security.com Local security news: Colorado = Security store! Buy things now Robb on 9News talking online security Meet the Colorado 7th grader named 'America's Top Young Scientist' Level3 now a part of CenturyLink Top 100 Colorado Tech Companies MJ Freeway works to stay on course amid pitfalls in marijuana tracking contracts Denver Art Museum warns donors, members, employees after sensitive data breach Colorado accelerator among 20 to get funding bump from the feds Red Canary blog: The Scariest Threats? The Ones We Cannot See LogRhythm blog: SCADA Network Security Monitoring Job Openings: Virtela - Director of Systems Security Quantix - Sr. Manager, Incident Response Jewish Family Service of Colorado - Compliance Manager Western Union - Director, Information Governance IHS Markit - Compliance Training and Awareness Director GuidePoint - Vendor Relations Manager TIAA - Info Security Analyst Hitachi Vantara - Application Security Specialist - Intern Upcoming Events: This Week and Next: DenSec - Meetup South - 11/6 SecureSet - Hacking 101 Workshop: AppSec - 11/7 CSA - CCSK Training - 11/8 CTA - APEX Awards - 11/8 2017 CSA-CO Fall Summit - 11/9 ISSA DEN - GDPR Training - 11/9 ISSA DEN - Nov Chapter Meetings - 11/14-11/15 CTA - Insights Series - Are you Prepared for AI in the Workplace? - 11/15 ISSA COS - November Chapter Meetings - 11/15-16 ISSA Denver - WIS meeting - 11/16 ISACA Denver - November Chapter Meeting - 11/16 DenSec - Meetup North - 11/16 ISC2 - Steven B. Armstrong, CISSP - TOPIC: Enterprise Risk Management - 11/16 Other Notable Upcoming Events: Optiv - 2017 Solution and Program Insight Focus Group: Application Security (AppSec)  N/A View our events page for a full list of upcoming events * Thanks to CJ Adams for our intro and exit! If you need any voiceover work, you can contact him here at carrrladams@gmail.com. Check out his other voice work here. * Intro and exit song: "The Language of Blame" by The Agrarians is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Adam Smith and Aaron Houston join guest host Dan Goldman to talk about the latest developments in Trump world, the ongoing MJ Freeway service outage, and the jump by Colorado's top pot regulator to the private sector. Produced by Shea Gunther.

The MCBA has been created specifically to progress the cannabis industry by increasing diversity, creating equal access and economic empowerment for cannabis businesses, their patients, and the communities most affected by the war on drugs.  After a recent Minority Cannabis Business Association (MCBA) meeting, we turned on the microphones where the chairman Jesse Horton and some of the board members- Jennette Ward of MJ Freeway, Shaleen Title of THC Staffing, Jason Ortiz of MVFR, our old friend Shabnam Malek of Brand + Branch, Judge Shelli Hayes, Dani Kizaire Sutton and Ngaio Bealum all shared a bit. 

Today on Grassroots Marketing we are joined by Mikaela McLaughlin from SpringBig. Talking about Cannabis-centric CRMs and Loyalty with the Business Development Manager at springbig Mikaela McLaughlin. Springbig provides cannabis retailers with the most effective, intuitive, and robust loyalty marketing and communications tools to keep customers coming back more often (and keeping them happy). Through partnerships with some of the leading POS providers in the cannabis space, including Greenbits, Cova, flowhub, Korona, Leaflogix, MJ Freeway and Treez, springbig has worked alongside retailers to send over 12,270 Campaigns and has seen 60,616 rewards redeemed in return! springbig's dedication and expertise have allowed retailers to see immediate and significant ROIs on their marketing initiatives.