© EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL HEMP ASSOCIATION
June 21-22, 2022
AGenda
09:30 - 12:30
General Meeting
- 1. Introduction and Welcome!
- 2. Adoption of the agenda
- 3. Update on the EIHA members and the Secretariat
- 4. Reporting on EIHA activities and relevant policy updates
- a. Agriculture and environment
- b. Textile and non-woven
- c. Construction materials
- d. Feed
- e. Food
- f. Novel Food
- 5. AOB
12:30 - 14:00
Networking lunch
14:00 - 14:15
Welcome and Introduction
Lorenza Romanese
Managing Director, EIHA
Daniel Kruse
President, EIHA
14:15 - 16:00
International markets and developments
Moderator: Lorenza Romanese - Managing Director, EIHA
Patrick Atagi
President, National Industrial Hemp Council
Hongliang Ding
President, Hemp Fortex Industries Ltd
Rohit Sharma
Chairman of the Indian Industrial Hemp Association
Lorenzo Rolim da Silva
President, Latin America Industrial Hemp Association
Ted Haney
President and CEO, Canadian Hemp Trade Asssociation
16:00 - 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00
Cannabinoids
- Toxicological profile of cannabinoids - Antonio Conto
- Germany and Europe – update on CBD and the medicinal THC market - Joscha Krauss
- CBD as pharmaceutical ingredient - Boris Banas
Moderator: Lorenza Romanese - Managing Director, EIHA
Boris Banas
Co-Founder and CSO, CBDepot s.r.o.
Jacopo Paolini
CSO, Enecta
Joscha Krauss
CEO, Medical Hemp GmbH
Antonio Conto
Managing Director, ChemSafe
18:00 - 20:00
Networking Cocktail
09:00 - 09:15
Welcome and Introduction
Lorenza Romanese
Managing Director, EIHA
Daniel Kruse
President, EIHA
09:15 - 10:35
Farming and processing
- Hemp4Textiles project: long fibres varieties trials - Veronique Troch, Hanne Pappaert
- Cretes solutions for harvesting and scutching hemp for long fibres - Stefaan Declerck
- Innovative harvesting technologiess - Mark Reinders
- On the Right Side of History: The Whole Plant Potentials of Industrial Hemp in the context of LULUCF and the EU Carbon Cycles Framework. - Chris Allen
Moderator: Francesco Mirizzi - Senior Policy Advisor, EIHA
Stefaan Declerck
CEO, Cretes
Chris Allen
Director, Hemp Federation Ireland
Hanne Pappaert
PhD, UGent
Veronique Troch
Lecturer and Researcher, HoGent
Mark Reinders
CEO, Crop Ability North Netherlands
10:35 - 11:05
Coffee Break
11:05 - 12:30
Hemp in construction
Moderator: Francesco Mirizzi - Senior Policy Advisor, EIHA
Hervé Pottier
CEO, CAVAC
Daniel Daviller
Vice-President, Construire en Chanvre
Olivier Beghin
CEO and Co-founder, IsoHemp
Marco Cappellari
Product manager, VICAT
Steve Allin
Director, International Hemp Building Association
12:30 - 14:30
Networking Lunch
14:30 - 15:30
Hemp Food and Feed
- EU-wide THC max levels and their positive impact on the hemp food sector - Daniel Kruse
- Hemp protein: new market opportunities - Florian Pichlmaier, Jacek Kramarz
- Nutritional characterization of hemp and utilization in animal feeding - Lucia Bailoni, Monica Cutrignelli
Moderator: Lorenza Romanese - Managing Director, EIHA
Monica Cutrignelli
Professor, University of Naples Federico II
Lucia Bailoni
Professor, University of Padua
Jacek Kramarz
Executive VP, East Hemp Group
Florian Pichlmaier
Co-Founder and CEO, Signature Products
Daniel Kruse
President, EIHA
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:15
Varieties and breeding
- USDA initiative on hemp germplasm - Zachary Stansell
Moderator: Lorenza Romanese, Francesco Mirizzi - Senior Policy Advisor, EIHA
Christophe Février
General Manager, Hemp-IT Coop
Francesco Folcarelli
Marketing Director, CBD Seed Europe and Business Development Manager at DoddHeres Ltd
Zachary Stansell
Research Geneticist, Plant Genetic Resources Unit (PGRU) USDA
Jacopo Paolini
CSO, Enecta
17:15 - 17:30
Conclusions
Daniel Kruse
President, EIHA
Speakers
Jason Argyris
Researcher at Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG) CSIC-IRTA-UABtural Genomics (CRAG)
Roberta Ascrizzi
Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Pharmacy, University of Pisa, Italy
Tanja Bagar
CEO and Chairman of the Expert Council of the International Institute for cannabinoids, Slovenia
M Ayanda Bam
CEO, BCubed Africa Cannabis Consulting Co-Founder, Friends of Hemp South Africa
Joy Beckerman
Board of Directors, U.S. Hemp Roundtable
Kate Carmody
Chairperson of the Irish Hemp Cooperative, Ireland
Andrea Cerrato
Ph.D. student at University of Rome La Sapienza
Cinzia Citti
Post doctoral fellow at the Institute of Nanotechnology of the National Council of Research (CNR NANOTEC)
Antonio Conto
Managing Director, ChemSafe
Rémi Cornerier
Entrepreneur, Chanvre Eco System
Joan Cruanyes
PhD of University of Catalunya, Spain
Rafael Dulon
CEO HANF FARM GmbH
Mathieu Ebbesen-Goudin
CEO of VirgoCoop, France
Jonas Eder-Hansen
Public Affairs Director, Global Fashion Agenda
Dannie Elsner
CEO Charlotte’s Web
Jason Fung
Deputy General Secretary of Chinahemp Alliance, Supply chain manager of Hemp Fortex Industries Ltd
Luca Gelardi
Sales Director nutraceutical ingredients EMEA region
Giovanni Gioia
CEJA
Ted Haney
President and CEO, Canadian Hemp Trade Asssociation
Adam Jarubas
Member of the European Parliament
Joscha Krauss
CEO, Medical Hemp GmbH
Daniel Kruse
President, EIHA
Marco Manfroni
Policy Officer at the European Commission
Livia Menichetti
Director General of EHPM, the European Federation of Associations of Health Product Manufacturers
Francesco Mirizzi
EIHA Senior Policy Advisor
Maria Cristiana Moliterni
CREA - Research Centre C for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Jacopo Paolini
CSO, Enecta
Vincent Placet
Research Engineer - Université Franche-Comté
Mark Reinders
CEO, Crop Ability North Netherlands
Lorenza Romanese
Managing Director, EIHA
Michael Ruckle
Director of Plant Science, Puregene AG
Michael Scannell
Deputy Director-General, DG Agriculture and Rural Development at the European Commission
Lorenzo Rolim da Silva
President, Latin America Industrial Hemp Association
Veronique Troch
Lecturer and Researcher, HoGent
Rick Trojan
President - Hemp Industries Association
Simona Vasile
PhD, researcher, HOGENT University of Applied Science and Arts (FTILab+)
Lutz Walter
Secretary European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing
Catherine Wilson
EIHA Vice President
Malgorzata Zimniewska
Professor at the Institute of Natural Fibers and Medicinal Plants National Research Institute, Leader of hemp textile research team
Alberto Ziveri
CEO and founder of Operacampi, Italy