CEO, FLUENT

David Vautrin is the CEO for FLUENT. Vautrin began his cannabis career in 2016 starting up CannaRoyalty in California. CR was a vertically integrated operator including cultivation, processing, manufacturing and distributed to over 500 dispensaries. The company rapidly developed into an early-stage MSO, rebranded to Origin House and successfully sold to Cresco in 2020.
Thereafter, Dave returned to New York to participate in the burgeoning cannabis market.

Vautrin played an instrumental role starting up The Travel Agency in 2022, which operates three stores in NYC. In June of 2024, joined RIV Capital as CRO to expand the retail operations and lead the statewide wholesale business. RIV is vertically integrated and serves both medical and adult consumers. Vautrin assumed the Interim CEO role at RIV Capital to support the impending combination with Cansortium. The combined company has 42 retail locations and cultivation

PARTNER, FOLEY HOAG LLC

With 18 years of legal practice and 6 years in the cannabis industry, Jeff leverages his legal expertise and deep cannabis industry knowledge to serve as a trusted adviser to cannabis industry operators, investors and ancillary businesses on early-stage corporate structuring and financing, joint ventures, M&A, strategic partnerships, and commercial contract negotiations of all types, as well as state and federal regulatory matters.

CO-FOUNDER, THE CANNABIS COLLECTIVE

Shahbaaz Kara-Virani (SKV) lives at the intersection of technology, revenue & leadership. He spent 7 years at Salesforce before building top companies in the global cannabis industry including Lift & Co, Dutchie, & KIND.

Currently, he is the principal of SKVentures which invests, advises and acts as a fractional growth/revenue officer for market leading cannabis companies. Shahbaaz has also Founded CannAcquire, a retail acquistion platform based in Canada as well as Co-Founded The Cannabis Collective in New York.

CHIEF REVENUE OFFICER, TERPENE BELT FARMS

Andrew Lowitz is a founding member and Chief Revenue Officer of Terpene Belt Farms Andrew is a career Commercial Executive, Chief Revenue Officer, Board Member and Executive Team Advisor. He is responsible for strategic and operational commercial leadership, modeling and execution across Marketing, Business Development, Sales, Customer Growth/Retention Andrew is also the Co-Founder of Cannabis Collective - a think tank community built to support leaders in the burgeoning Cannabis industry.

CO-FOUNDER & CEO, PROHIBITION PARTNERS

Stephen is Co-Founder & CEO of Prohibition Partners, a global leader in cannabis tech, data and media. Stephen is a highly regarded cannabis thought leader, who frequently contributes to Bloomberg, Financial Times and The Economist on the industry and is a regular public speaker, having presented at over 100 events including – SXSW and Adweek. He collaborates with investors, entrepreneurs and regulators to identify, qualify and maximize the opportunities in the global cannabis industry.

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CO-FOUNDER, CANNABIS MEDIA COUNCIL

Amy Deneson is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Cannabis Media Council, a first-of-its-kind trade association on a mission to deprogram the war on plants by ending the mainstream media moratorium on cannabis advertising. Under her leadership, the Council launched their inaugural CLIO award-winning PSA campaign "I'm High Right Now," which has reached all 50 states and the Spanish language version “Estoy High Ahora Mismo” was created in Puerto Rico and celebrated globally. She is the primary author of FULL SPECTRUM: Guidelines for Responsible Cannabis Advertising, the industry’s first set of nationwide, self-regulatory standards–now in its third edition and updated annually. In 2019, she co-founded Pheno, an omnichannel advertising agency for cannabinoid brands, businesses, and revolutions. Additional executive leadership roles include Curaleaf, House of Puff, and blur. She lives in New York City.