Confidence in Your Cannabis: Exploring New Horizons: A Virtual Symposium

Confidence in Your Cannabis
Exploring New Horizons: A Virtual Symposium

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Event Overview:

As the cannabis industry matures its focus is shifting to long term sustainability and providing an increased level of consumer product safety. Efficient workflows in both laboratory design and analysis platforms are required to ensure sustainable business models. As the legal cannabis industry continues to evolve, new tools and techniques are being utilized to keep pace with the demand for increased product quality and safety. Innovative approaches to meeting these demands will be presented.

Key Learning Objectives:

Strategies for increasing laboratory efficiency and productivity
Novel techniques for cannabis analysis
Maintaining regulatory compliance and ensuring consumer product safety

Who Should Attend:

Future or current cannabis compliance laboratory staff
Cannabis industry regulators
Cannabis production managers

For any technical questions please contact Jordan Ramesh: jramesh@mjhlifesciences.com

Symposium Agenda:

Wednesday, February 15^th
Day One

Session 1: Optimizing Laboratory Workflows

9:00 am EST
Opening Remarks by LSSU President, Dr. Rod Hanley

9:00 am - 10:00 am EST
Keynote Lecture on Potency Inflation (Q&A Session: 15 minutes)
Julie Kowalski; JA Kowalski Science Support

10:00 am - 10:30 am EST
Considerations for Cannabis Lab Layout (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Heather Reece; Agilent

10:30 am - 11:00 am EST
Chemical Residues in Cannabis: microExtracts and Action Limits (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Vernon LaLone; Cambium Analytica

11:00 am - 11:15 am EST
Break

Session 2: New Strategies to Solve Old Problems

11:15 am - 11:45 am EST
LCMS for Potency (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Jean-Francois Roy; Agilent

11:45 am - 12:15 pm EST
LC-TOF for Cannabinoid Fingerprinting (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Mark Zierdin; Lake Superior State University

12:15 pm - 12:45 pm EST
Break

Session 3: Screening Methods for Adulteration of Cannabis Products

12:45 pm - 1:15 pm EST
LDIR for Cannabis Microplastics (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Ben Southwell; Lake Superior State University

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm EST
Using SEM for Foreign Matter Identification (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
David Edwards; JEOL, and Hannah Clause; Lake Superior State University

1:45 pm - 2:15 pm EST
Heavy Metals Contamination of Rolling Papers (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Derek Wright; Lake Superior State University

2:15 pm - 2:45 pm EST
Ask the Experts - Open Forum Q&A (Breakout Room for each session)

2:45 pm EST
Audience Raffle and Closing Remarks

Thursday, February 16^th
Day Two

Session 1: Growing Paradigms in Regulatory Compliance

8:30 am - 9:30 am EST
Keynote Lecture on How Lab Design, Workflow Optimization can Impact Accreditation and Regulatory Requirements (Q&A Session: 15 minutes)
Kate Evans; Longboard Scientific Consulting

9:30 am -10:00 am EST
Laboratory Compliance for Cannabis Testing (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Matt Abrahms; Agilent

10:00 am - 10:30 am EST
EU Pharmacopeia (Q&A Session: 5 minutes)
Jean-Francois Roy; Agilent

10:30 am - 11:00 am EST
Ask the Experts - Open Forum Q&A

11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Audience Raffle and Break

Session 2: Certificate-Based Agilent Workshop

12:00 pm - 4:00 pm EST
Everyday Data Analysis Workshop
Julie Kowalski; JA Kowalski Science Support, and Kate Evans; Longboard Scientific Consulting

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST
Q&A with Julie Kowalski and Kate Evans

4:30 pm
Closing Remarks by Agilent, LSSU, and LCGC

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