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Dan Herer to give keynote remarks in Kathmandu!
Hemp entrepreneur Dan Herer will give keynote remarks to inaugurate the first Asian Hemp Summit Feb. 1-2 in Kathmandu. Dan is Director of the California-based Jack Herer Foundation, which works to advance the hemp industry by carrying on the work of his late father, legendary hemp visionary and advocate Jack Herer, author of the landmark hemp tome, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” The Foundation embraces education, community and farming, emphasizing how industrial hemp can impact lives. Dan is also an industrial hemp developer who works with a team of scientists studying hemp and biomass sciences.
See you in Kathmandu!
Join us in Kathmandu, Nepal February 1-2, 2019 as we explore Asia’s vast and fast-moving industrial hemp sectors.
What we’ll explore:
- Investing in Asian Hemp
- Cultivation & Harvesting
- CBD
- Food & Drink
- Health & Beauty, Cosmetics
- Textiles & Accessories
- Building Materials & Construction
- Biocomposites
- Farming Equipment
- Extraction & Other Processing Technology
- Import/Export
- Research & Development
Your travel: Arriving to Kathmandu
Book your hotel room: $90 – $100
NOTE: This is NOT the registration form for the Summit; it is ONLY to confirm your room at Gokarna Forest Resort, the Summit venue. To sign up for the conference, go here.
Speakers
Dan Herer: Keynote Speaker
Hemp entrepreneur Dan Herer is Director of the California-based Jack Herer Foundation, which works to advance the hemp industry by carrying on the work of Dan’s late father, legendary hemp visionary and advocate Jack Herer, author of the landmark hemp tome, “The Emperor Wears No Clothes.” The Foundation embraces education, community and farming, emphasizing how industrial hemp can impact lives. Dan is also an industrial hemp developer who works with a team of scientists studying hemp and biomass sciences.
Daniel Kruse
CEO, HempConsult GmbH
& Hempro International GmbH & Co. KG
Kruse, who has been in the hemp industry since 1995, is a senior advisor to entrepreneurs, startups, investors and other industry stakeholders through HempConsult GmbH, an independent consulting firm. Hempro Int. is a vertically integrated Dusseldorf-based producer and wholesaler of hemp foods, bulk raw materials for food, textiles, accessories and cosmetics. Kruse has a background in banking and studied in the USA and Germany. He is also a member of the board of directors at the European Industrial Hemp Association, and a Senior Adviser to HempToday.
Paul Benhaim
CEO at Elixinol Global Ltd.
One of the world’s leading experts in hemp foods and CBD, Benhaim led efforts to open the Australian market for hempseed-based food for humans — which happened last spring. Benhaim led Elixinol Global’s launch on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) last January just as national legislation was opening export possibilities for medical cannabis. Then the company launched on the OTCQX Best Market exchange in the USA.
Phil Warner
Ecolife Science, Australia
Warner has more than 20 years hemp industry experience in China, Bhutan, Thailand, New Zealand, Australia, Europe, Africa and North & South America. He set up the world’s biggest most diverse cannabis gene seed bank. His former company, Ecofibre is an internationally recognized enterprise in hemp production and market development which invested more than $15 million into research and development of new high yield commercial plant varieties, agriculture and processing.
Steve Allin
International Hemp Building Association
Allin pioneered the International Hemp Building Association (IHBA), which he serves as director. An author, teacher and consultant on ecological building, Allin has been building with hemp and promoting hemp’s use in construction all over the world for the last 20 years. He is currently involved in projects to rebuild with hemp in the post-earthquake areas of Haiti and Nepal.
Wolf Jordan
Wolf Jordan & Co, Belgium
Wolf is one of Europe’s leading experts in eco-construction and the production of high quality natural paints, plasters and renders for the building industry. He is the founder and sole owner of Wolf Jordan & Co., which operates out of Greenbizz, a Brussels-based incubator that backs growth of startups and small firms focused on sustainability. Wolf’s company produces binder formulas for hempcrete construction, and natural oils and waxes for wood and stone. An old-world craftsman with more than 36 years’ experience in natural materials, Wolf is also a lecturer, educator and innovator who has worked on building projects all over the world.
Carl L. Sheeler
Founder, Two Bears Farm, USA
Carl Sheeler is a 25+ year financial expert who found hemp on a holistic journey to maintain balance in life and purpose. A former United States Marine Corps combat officer, Carl is also co-founder, with his wife Sara, of Two Bears Farm, an agro-tourism destination that offers organically grown full spectrum hemp extract and CBD for cannabis connoisseurs; Two Bears Farm comprises 80 acres with 12,000 sq. feet of greenhouses in the Rocky Mountains at Durango, Colorado, USA.
Anar Artur
CEO, HempMongolia
Artur started HempMongolia, the first and only company in Mongolia licensed and authorized to conduct hemp cultivation, production and export. He graduated from Raffles International University, Mongolia in business and marketing. Before starting HempMongolia in 2016, Artur served as marketing supervisor at leading Mongolian private companies including MCS Coca Cola LLC. and Petrovis LLC.
Riki Hiroi
Each Japan
Hiroi’s Nigata-based consultancy is an adviser on the import, export and wholesale hemp markets. A long time leading Japanese cannabis advocate, Hiroi is also a mentor to Japanese cannabis entrepreneurs. He is also director of HempToday Japan.
Nivedita & Dhiraj Shah
SHIV, Nepal
The Shahs are founders of Shah Hemp Inno-Ventures, Nepal. The company sources hemp “wildcrop” – feral, reoccurring cannabis plants – from locals for a growing range of applications and products in health & beauty and hemp construction along with the textiles. Through “hEmpowering Bottom Up,” SHIVworks to advance economic and social development among Nepalese women. SHIV also works closely with the International Hemp Building Association, and has completed several hemp construction projects for poor villagers and for public medical facilities.
Hana Gabrielova
Hempoint, Czech Republic
Gabrielova is one of Europe’s pioneering and most innovative hemp entrepreneurs and activists. She is a widely recognized expert and consultant on everything from hemp farming to patient focused certification (PFC) for medical cannabis, through her affiliation with the Prague-based International Cannabis and Cannabinoids Institute.
Henry Wieker
Henry’s Hemp Harvester, Germany
Wieker is helping to ease the harvesting and processing stages for small and medium-sized farms and has been doing intense research and development for the past three years. He is an electrical engineer and owner of Henry’s Hempharvester (HHH), a startup which is developing the machine. He’ll eventually target sales at small hemp agricultural enterprises up to 200 ha that grow hemp for CBD extraction, food and other niche products – and who struggle with laborious hand-harvesting methods, limiting efficiency.
Morris Beegle
WAFBA & NoCo Hemp Expo, USA
In his 30 years in the music and entertainment industry, and as president of Hapi Skratch Entertainment, Beegle worked in a multitude of sectors including production, merchandising, licensing, distribution, media manufacturing, event coordination, and sales. This experience helped Morris develop a powerful network of contacts, visionaries, and a model for the emerging agricultural hemp and cannabis industry. Morris sits on advisory boards for PureHemp Technology, The Hemp Business Journal, HempToday.net, and HempStead Project H.E.A.R.T. In 2012, after the introduction of Amendment 64 to Colorado voters, he founded Colorado Hemp Company. In 2015, WAFBA (We Are For Better Alternatives) was created as an umbrella for Colorado Hemp Company, TreeFreeHemp.com (hemp paper and printing services), The NoCo Hemp Expo (the largest hemp-centric expo and tradeshow in the world), and other developing projects and brands.
Rick Trojan
Hemp Road Trip, USA
Rick brings more than 21 years of entrepreneurial expertise, a vast global network and passion to cannabis. Motivated by extensive history, positive impact and the plant itself, Rick understands the need to accurately portray the benefits of a once flourishing plant stigmatized through a century of propaganda. He constantly strives to build a platform to encourage Hemp potential through strategic alliances. His journey began as a personal experience that launched his passion for this cause, creating the Hemp Road Trip in 2015. He continues to expand education to other continents where cannabis legalization has led to an industrial boom. His work assists in uniting the industry on a global scale by bridging the gaps, building the foundations and extending the overall network. Trojan brings his passion, extensive business experience, and global cannabis networks on the quest to educate and develop solutions. He serves as Vice President of Hemp Industries Association, and a board member of Vote Hemp, Industrial Hemp Research Foundation, and Colorado HIA.
Kehrt Reyher
Editor & Publisher, HempToday
Reyher is founder of HempToday, and co-founder of The Nakło Foundation, which supports environmental protection, entrepreneurship and green industry thought leadership globally; and historical preservation, economic development and tourism at the local level. Kehrt is founder and past President, CEO and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VFP Communications, a Warsaw-based B2B media company. A former European Bureau Chief for Smart Grid Today, he previously worked in the USA at The Providence Journal, The Detroit News and USA Today.
Arne Verhoef
HempHub, South Africa
A trained biologist, Arne is also a horticulturist and developer of CBD health products based on hemp and other healing plants. He also manages The Stokvel Collective, a Community Supported Agriculture project that seeks to spread regenerative agriculture through grassroots action.
Tim Jablonski
University of Würzburg, Germany
Tim is a graduate student studying development of hemp in a biobased economy. Currently in his last year at the University of Würzburg, Germany, he is majoring in economics and Chinese studies, after having moved to China in August 2016.
About the Summit
Conference site: Kathmandu, Nepal
Venue: Gokarna Forest Resort
Dates: February 1-2, 2019
Join us in Kathmandu, Nepal February 1-2, 2019 as we explore Asia’s vast and fast-moving industrial hemp sectors. Meet key global players at the Asian Hemp Summit hosted by HempToday, the leading source for global business information about industrial hemp.
What we’ll explore:
- Investing in Asian Hemp
- Cultivation & Harvesting
- CBD
- Food & Drink
- Health & Beauty, Cosmetics
- Textiles & Accessories
- Building Materials & Construction
- Biocomposites
- Farming Equipment
- Extraction & Other Processing Technology
- Import/Export
- Research & Development
China
By far the world’s leading hemp nation, China has the biggest hemp growing fields of any contiguous market in the world. Chinese authorities earlier this decade rolled out a great plan to plant hemp on 1,333,333 ha. to produce 2,000,000 tons of fibres – and that’s only to feed the country’s textile mills, which primarily turn out exports. But other sectors – food, medical, cosmetics – are also in rapid buildup while research expands.
Aside from its landmass, huge and inexpensive work force and a massive domestic market, China is geographically positioned to take advantage of the nearby export markets of Japan, Korea, India and Australia, where demand grows for hemp food, cosmetics and health products.
All this has attracted the attention of investors who are welcomed by Chinese stakeholders.
India
Indian hemp stakeholders have said foreign investment could help the industry grow rapidly, and that the country can have a big role in the export market within five years. Opportunities are seen in the medicinal, food and cosmetics sectors, followed by textiles & fashions, bio-composites and construction.
South Korea
Imports to the Asian nation jumped are rising rapidly as South Korean consumers have swiftly taken to hemp foods as a replacement for fish oil, and spurred by consumer uptake of hemp foods driven primarily by their entry onto tele-marketing programs. Along with foods, hemp has been a source of fabric for Korea since ancient times
Hemp is cultivated for bast fiber and seed in several of the numerous fertile inland valleys of the Republic of Korea, and turned into high quality commercial hemp cloth. Stakeholders say understanding traditional hemp farming and processing strategies will guide modernization of South Korean hemp production.
Thailand
With the Thai government now allowing the cultivation of hemp for research purposes, entrepreneurs are incorporating the multipurpose plant in their products and exporting them around the world. While hemp fields are still heavily regulated and for government purposes, that’s expected to change, first to meet local demand for hemp fabrics.
Mongolia
The Mongolian government is developing a strategic plan for agriculture to create an economic growth model. The new policies, aimed at creating scalable employment and diversifying the country’s economy by focusing on sustainability, innovation and new technologies, are driving public finance programs – and giving the agricultural sector momentum. Hemp fits into that strategy perfectly, stakeholders say. With engineering and agricultural knowhow in a rapid development phase in Mongolia, early entrants can tap into a rich pool of human resources coming out of the country’s historically strong educational system.
Kazakhstan
Hemp cultivation in the country continues to expand and last year the Agriculture Ministry said around six square kilometers of hemp were cultivated in the southern Almaty region. The hopes are to increase that to 40 square kilometers this year. A processing plant opened towards the end of 2017 to serve the region. Currently, harvested seeds are exported to the Netherlands while fibre is exported to Russia and China. Although Kazakhstan officials hope to open new markets.
Sri Lanka
Within the country Cannabis sativa can be bought legally through Ayuverda herbal shops. The country is planning to produce around 25 tons of medical marihuana by the end of this year. The production side of approximately 400 hectare will supply cannabis to the traditional indigenous medicine sector and potentially it will be exported as well.
Japan
Despite its modest potential for production, there is growing enthusiasm for hemp, an ancient crop in Japan. Stakeholders see massive potential in the consumer market, projecting a need for significant imports as awareness of hemp products grows – especially food and medical hemp. Stakeholders are working hard to pass along hemp traditions and to bring young entrepreneurs into the fold.
Apply to speak at the Asian Hemp Summit
A limited number of speaker slots are still open at the Asian Hemp Summit. Apply by filling in the form below. Speakers pay the premium attendance fee of $999. Speaker selections are at the full discretion of organizers.