What Cannabis
Insurance Buyers Want
A live, online conference featuring real-world conversations with cannabis risk managers, operators, and the insurance professionals who serve them.
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Why attend the Insuring Cannabis Summit?
It's a full-day of presentations and information anyone can access from home or office.
Learn from the Experts
Our speakers are the best in the industry and will share their knowledge and insights with you.
Network with Peers
Connect with other professionals in the industry and share your experiences.
Get Inspired
Hear from industry leaders and get inspired to take your business to the next level.
Stay Informed
Get the latest news and updates on the industry and stay ahead of the curve.
What We'll Cover Summit Topics
The Virtual Summit explores the insurance challenges and opportunities facing today's cannabis industry, featuring real-world conversations with the people buying insurance, managing risk, and operating cannabis businesses.
What Cannabis Insurance Buyers Want
Hear directly from cannabis risk managers about their insurance programs, what coverages they're purchasing, what brokers do well, where they fall short, and how you can bring more value to your clients.
Inside a Cannabis Operation
Take a behind-the-scenes look at a cultivation and retail operation. Learn how cannabis businesses manage risk, where exposures exist, and what brokers should understand before quoting coverage.
Risk Management
Discover the operational risks facing cannabis businesses—from cultivation and processing to retail—and how insurance professionals can help clients reduce losses before claims occur.
Insurance Products & Market Trends
Learn which coverages are most in demand, how the marketplace is evolving, and where new business opportunities are emerging for agents and brokers.
Compliance & Regulatory Changes
Stay current on changing cannabis regulations, licensing requirements, and compliance issues that impact underwriting and coverage decisions.
Claims & Loss Trends
Explore real-world cannabis claims, emerging loss patterns, and lessons insurers and brokers can apply to better protect their clients.
Emerging Opportunities
Discover growing niches such as cannabis hospitality, infused products, hemp, and ancillary businesses that are creating new insurance opportunities.
Calling All Speakers Want to be a Speaker?
We are in the process of developing a compelling agenda with top-notch speakers for the event. Do you have a topic related to insurance and risk in the world of cannabis, hemp and CBD that you would like us to consider?
Apply To Be A SpeakerLast year's line up was 🔥
Here are the knowledgeable speakers that gave their expert insights last year. As we get closer to the event, we'll announce this year's rock stars.
Beth Ossino
Vice President, Casualty Claims Manager
Golden Bear Insurance Company
Ian Stewart
Regional Managing Partner
Wilson Elser
Morgan Fox
Political Director
NORML
Norman Ives
Cannabis Practice Leader
Amwins
Shauna Blackburn
Executive Vice President of Underwriting and Development
CIS Insurance Services, LLC
Jesse Parenti
Founder & CEO
JP Squared Consulting
Gillian Schauer
Executive Director
Cannabis Regulators Association
Corey Tobin
Director, Symphony Grow
Symphony Risk Solutions
Rod Kight
Attorney
Kight Law
Stephanie Bozzuto
CEO
Bozzuto Group
Summer Wilson
Director of Brokerage Operations
Alchemy Insurance Solutions
Michael DeNault
Practice Leader, Cannabis
World Insurance Associates LLC
Neil Willner
Counsel
Vicente LLP
Michael Kirk
Underwriter
One80 Intermediaries, Cannasure
The Agenda
Hear directly from cannabis insurance buyers, risk managers, and operators in a full day of panels and presentations you can access from your home or office.
Panel 1: Risk Management
Panel 2: Insider Operation
Cannabis Trivia & Chatroom Q&A with Patrick Wraight
Join the Buzz: Throughout the summit, put your cannabis knowledge to the test! At the start and end of each presentation, a trivia question will be unveiled. Engage with fellow attendees by leaving comments and providing your answers to the trivia questions for a chance to win some awesome prizes.
And don't miss the chance to interact with Patrick Wraight, Director of Education at the Academy of Insurance, who will be in the chatroom ready to answer your insurance-related questions and share expert insights throughout the event!
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What will the sessions feature?
Each session will be filled with industry leaders, executives and experts in the field as they sound off on the challenges, changes and new opportunities facing the insurance business in this unique industry.
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