Keynotes

Senator Tick Segerblom is the author of Nevada's Medical Marijuana law, SB 374, which was adopted by the 2013 legislature.  He served as Co-Chair Nevada's recreational marijuana initiative - Treat Marijuana Like Alcohol - which passed in November, 2016, with 55% of the vote.  As Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee he is pushing Nevada forward in all areas of cannabis legislation.

John Vardaman is an attorney with extensive experience in the enforcement and application of federal laws and policies concerning the Bank Secrecy Act, money laundering, and other financial crimes. He served with the U.S. Department of Justice for 10 years identifying and addressing threats related to the financial system and national security, and worked for the Department of the Treasury on a range of terrorist financing issues in the wake of 9/11. 

Featured Speakers

Chloe Grossman is a Policy Specialist at Vicente Sederberg and is also Deputy Director of VS Strategies, a government affairs sister company of Vicente Sederberg. She also serves as the founding Deputy Director of the Council on Responsible Cannabis Regulation, a cannabis policy and advocacy non-profit organization. Chloe is a member of the Minority Cannabis Business Association's Policy Committee and is the Research Director for the National Cannabis Industry Association's federal Policy Council. 

Katy Young represents both plaintiffs and defendants in business disputes and real estate claims, including matters for cannabis industry litigants. She graduated from University of the Pacific cum laude and received her law degree from University of San Francisco where she graduated magna cum laude. She has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer Rising Star for 2014 through 2017.

Mary L. Shapiro started her law firm in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District in 2009 after ten years at the renowned firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew, LLP. At Evoke Law, Mary counsels a broad range of clients in owning, enforcing, protecting and profiting from their intellectual property. True to her founding mission of providing practical and affordable intellectual property legal counsel, she simultaneously adds real business value (rather than merely creating legal expenses) for private and public companies alike.

Lara L. DeCaro is a business attorney and mediator. She has concentrated her legal career in the areas of intellectual property, corporate governance and compliance, commercial transactions, real property, estate planning, and mediation. Lara takes pride in getting to know her clients and working with them from start-up to wind-up.

Brian Vicente, Esq., is a partner and founding member of Vicente Sederberg LLC. He served as the co-director of the Amendment 64 campaign and was one of the primary authors of this historic measure, which resulted in Colorado becoming the first state in the nation – and the first geographic area in the world – to make the possession, use, and regulated distribution of marijuana legal for adults. Vicente was given the Gideon award for his free speech advocacy during the 2008 Democratic National Convention.