Speakers

Patrick Atagi

President and CEO, National Industrial Hemp Council of America (NIHC)

Anne Wiper

CEO, NSF Textile Innovation Engine in North Carolina

Patrick Brown

Owner/Operator, Brown Family Farms

Steve Groff

CEO and Chief Innovation Officer, Cedar Meadow Farm

Terry Moran

Sales Director, Kanda Hemp

Melissa Nelson

Owner / Field Scientist, Performance Crop Research, LLC; Co-Owner, South Bend Industrial Hemp

Dr. Larry Smart

Professor of Plant Breeding & Genetics, Cornell University

Dr. David Suchoff

Assistant Professor, NC State University

David Camby

Co-Owner, Biophil Natural Fibers, llc

David Culp

North American Sales Manager, Laroche Nonwovens Division, ANDRITZ

Jason Finnis

Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation Officer, Bast Fibre Technologies Inc

Satish Hodage

Chief Technology Officer, YUJ Labs llc

Naiden Kremenliev

Co-Founder, Argonne Fiber, LLC

John Lupien

Systems Designer and R&D Manager, Consolidated Carbon

Sandra Marquardt

President, On the Mark Consulting

John Peterson

CEO & Founder, Dakota Hemp

Siyan Wang

PhD Student and Research Assistant, NC State University

Guy Carpenter

President, Bear Fiber, Inc.

Dave Cook

Owner, Tuscarora Mills

Arlo Estill

Co-founder and Owner, Hempsmith Clothing

Dr. Raoul Farer

Professor, Wilson College of Textiles TECS; Executive Deputy Director, The Nonwovens Institute

Ding Hongliang

President, Hemp Fortex Industries Ltd

Maciej Kowalski

Founder and CEO, Kombinat Konopny

Dr. Andre West

Professor and Director of Zeis Textiles Extension, NC State

Jerry Zhao

VP of Strategy & Operations, Tongda Group

Dr. Sang-Hyon Chu

Senior Research Materials Engineer, NASA Langley Research Center

Sergiy Kovalenkov

Founder, Hempire Holdings

Matthew Mead

Founder and CEO, Hempitecture

Dr. Lokendra Pal

EJ Woody Rice Professor and University Faculty Scholar

Dr. Trey Riddle

Chief Financial Officer, IND HEMP

Dr. Daniel Walczyk

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Associate Director, New York Fashion Innovation Center; Co-Director, Seed To City Center

Dr. Katie Copenhaver

R&D Staff, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Joseph Carringer

Lead Strategist & Project Manager, Canna Markets Group; Business Development, HempToday

Mark D'Sa

SVP Business Development, Panda Biotech

Olaf Isele

Chief Technology Officer, Trace Femcare, Inc.

Lawrence Serbin

Owner, Hemp Traders and Pure Fiber Innovations