Day 1: Tuesday, November 14 CHTA National Convention 2017: Hemp Coming of Age Marriott Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 7:00 am to 8:30 am Registration and Breakfast Foyer/Victoria North 8:30 am to 9:00 am Welcome Russ Crawford, President CHTA Victoria North Greetings/Opening Remarks Suzy McDonald, Assistant Deputy Minister, Health Opioid Response Team Francis Drouin, Member of Parliament for Glengarry-Prescott-Russell Plenary Moderator: Kim Shukla, CHTA 9:00 am to 9:45 pm Blueprint for a Billion Dollar Industry Victoria North Russ Crawford & Keith Jones, CHTA 9:45 am to 10:30 am Funding the expanding Hemp Industry Charles Holmes, Hempco Canada 10:30 am to 11:00 am Health Break Sponsor: 11:00 am to 11:45 am From Canadian Hemp Fields to Victoria North High Quality Garments: A Successful History Carlos Agudelo, Logistik Unicorp 12:00 pm to 1:15 pm Lunch Sponsor: 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm Protein Innovations Canada Opportunities for the Hemp Industry Kelley Fitzpatrick, NutriScience Solutions 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions: Agronomic Research - English Agronomic Research - French Hemp Building Workshop Moderator - Jan Slaski, Innotech Moderator Marc Bercier, Bercier Seed Cleaning Moderator Nathalie Morin, Aliments Trigone
Bill May, AAFC James Coupland, FarmForest Research Christophe Fevrier, FNPC Guillaume Dallaire, Organic Farmer Gabriel Gauthier, ArtCan Benoit Chartrand, Hemp Builder 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Health Break Sponsor: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Concurrent Sessions cont d: Agronomic Research - English Agronomic Research - French Hemp Building Workshop - French Moderator - Jan Slaski, Innotech Heather Darby, Univ. of Vermont Olivier Lalonde, Logistik Unicorp Moderator Marc Bercier, Bercier Seed Cleaning -Marc Beaulieu, ChanvrExpert -Denis Rho, NRC-ACRD Moderator Nathalie Morin, Aliments Trigone Anthony Neron, Art Du Chanvre Sébastien Bélec, Hemp Builder 6:00 pm Cocktail Reception Summit (Cash Bar) 6:30 pm Mixer with Buffet Tuesday Breakfast, Health Breaks, Lunch and Buffet Supper provided for registered Delegates. Day 2: Wednesday, November 15 Plenary Moderator: Keith Jones, CHTA 7:00 am to 8:30 am Breakfast Victoria North 8:30 am to 10:00 am International Updates: India, US, EU Victoria North Rohit Sharma, Indian Industrial Hemp Association Joy Beckerman, Hemp Industries Association (US) Daniel Kruse, European Industrial Hemp Association 10:00 am to 10:30 am Health Break Sponsor: 10:30 am to 11:15 am Industrial Hemp Food Safety Project Russ Crawford, CHTA Amir Hamidi, Agri-Neo
11:15 am to 12:00 pm CBD Centre of Excellence-Concept Dr. Steven Laviolette, Univ. of Western Ontario 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch Sponsor: 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm Concurrent Sessions: Agronomy Clinic - English Agronomy Clinic - French Hemp Building Moderator Jeff Kostuik, Hemp Genetics International Brian Rozmahel, Viking Farm Will Van Roessel, Specialty Seeds Andy van Niekerk, Agrologist Moderator Marc Bercier, Bercier Seed Cleaning Christian Taillon, Ferme Taillon et fils Olivier Lalonde, Logistik Unicorp Alexandre Beaulieu, Aliments Trigone Moderator Jan Slaski, Innotech Chris Magwood, The Endeavour Centre Stewart Oliver, Hemp Builder Dion Lefebvre, 8 th Fire Innovations 3:00 pm to 3:30 pm Health Break Sponsor: 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm Commercial Fibre Developments Victoria North Dan Madlung, BioComposites Group Terry Radford, Just BioFiber Zhi Li, University of 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Eastern Delegates Reception Dalhousie (By Invitation Only) Wednesday Breakfast, Health Breaks and Lunch provided for registered Delegates Day 3: Thursday, November 16 Plenary Moderator: Russ Crawford, CHTA 7:00 am to 8:30 am Breakfast Victoria North 8:30 am to 10:00 am Town Hall Meeting Victoria North
10:00 am to 10:30 am Health Break Sponsor: 10:30 am to 11:30 am Town Hall Meeting cont d 11:45 am Closing 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Lunch Sponsor : 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm GACP Workshop - Farmers Only Victoria North (Must pre-register) Thursday Breakfast, Health Break and Lunch provided for registered Delegates. We appreciate the support of our generous Sponsors Thank You! Green Sponsor Manitoba Harvest Fresh Hemp Foods Platinum Sponsors UniSeeds, Eko-Terre and O-Hemp Inc.
Gold Sponsors Hemp Production Services, Hemp Genetics International, La Cité collégiale, Hempco Canada Superfoods and Green Hemp Industries Silver Sponsors Aliments Trigone and Canada Hemp Foods Ltd. Lunch Sponsors ArrowCorp, Naturally Splendid and EcoCert Health Break Sponsors Hemp Production Services & La Caisse Desjardins