Ethan Nadelmann is host of the weekly podcast, PSYCHOACTIVE, as well as founder and former executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the nation’s leading drug policy reform organization. Described by Rolling Stone as "the point man" for drug policy reform efforts and “the real drug czar,” Ethan is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad. He was born in New York City, received his BA, MA, JD and PhD in Political Science at Harvard, taught at Princeton University (from 1987 to 1994) and then founded and directed first The Lindesmith Center (1994-2000) and then DPA (2000-2017). He also co-founded the Open Society Institute’s International Harm Reduction Development program. Ethan has authored two books on the internationalization of criminal law enforcement -- Cops Across Borders and (with Peter Andreas) Policing The Globe. His TED Talk on ending the drug war has over two million views, with translations into 28 languages.

Lynn Marie Morski, MD, JD, is president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, host of the Psychedelic Medicine Podcast, and Medical Director for Nue Life Health. She sits on the advisory boards of VETS, Inc (Veterans Exploring Treatment Solutions), Psychedelics Today, and Cybin. Dr. Morski received her medical degree from St. Louis University School of Medicine, completed family medicine residency at Mayo Clinic, and did her sports medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona. She later received her law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and is a member of the California Bar.

Ariel Clark (she/they) is an attorney and co-founder of Clark Howell LLP, a women-steered business, corporate and regulatory law firm focused on cannabis, hemp and psychedelics. As decriminalization and research efforts expand across the nation for plant-based and other historically misunderstood compounds, Clark Howell LLP is actively engaged in the conversation regarding interconnectedness-driven law reform and lawyering, and helping to shape policy that emphasizes open source, ethical business models that reimagine a new role for capitalism in commercialization. Ariel is a founding Board Member of the Psychedelic Bar Association, Board Representative to the Religious Use Committee, and Member of the Legislation and Regulation Committee. Ariel is General Legal Counsel to Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, serves on Chacruna’s Board, and is also a member of the Council for the Protection of Sacred Plants. Among other organizational leadership roles, she founded and ran the Los Angeles Cannabis Task Force, she co-founded and serves on the Executive Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Cannabis Law Section, and she co-founded the Cannaboss Womxn’s Circle. She has been recognized by Rolling Stone as one of 18 “Women Shaping The Culture of Tomorrow”; Cannabis Business Executive as “75 Most Important Women in Cannabis”; mg Magazine as “30 Most Powerful Cannabis Lawyers”; and Entrepreneur’s “Top 100 Cannabis Leaders.”

Bethany Gomez is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Brightfield Group, a consumer insights & analytics company focused on emerging opportunities, including cannabis, CBD, psychedelics and more. 

Sean T. McAllister is an attorney specializing in the intersection of regulatory and corporate law, and also is an experienced commercial litigator. He has been a leader in the emerging industries of cannabis, hemp, and psychedelic medicines.  Sean is licensed to practice law in Colorado and California.

Amanda Reiman, PhD, is the VP, Public Policy Research for New Frontier Data, the Founder of Personal Plants, and Co-Founder of SACRΞD GARDΞN.

David Heldreth is a leading scientist, inventor and educator in the cannabis and psychedelic communities. He is the founder and CEO of Panacea Plant Sciences, a biotechnology company developing a portfolio of cultivation, extraction, processing, formulation and medical treatment intellectual property and patents around the cannabis plant, psychedelic life forms, and other medicinal crops.

Named one of Fortune magazine’s 7 Most Powerful People in America’s Marijuana Industry, Ricardo Baca is a 25-year veteran journalist, Clio Awards juror, keynote speaker, two-time TEDx veteran, Marketer of the Year and drug policy futurist. He served as The Denver Post’s first-ever marijuana editor and founded news vertical The Cannabist, where he extensively covered the advent of adult-use cannabis and related issues across the country and around the world, as seen in the feature documentary Rolling Papers (Netflix). In 2016, Ricardo launched Grasslands: A Journalism-Minded Agency to work directly with business leaders in highly regulated industries, including cannabis and psychedelics. Named Marketer of the Year by AdCann in 2019 and 2021, Ricardo has received numerous accolades for his trailblazing work throughout the media paradigm, and continues to columnize for AdWeek, mg and other publications. Ricardo is considered to be the world’s first and "most prestigious" marijuana editor; one of Brookings Institution’s 12 Key People to Watch in Marijuana Policy; one of Time magazine’s 140 best Twitter feeds; one of Sensi magazine’s 24 Cannabis Pioneers Who Matter.

Dustin Robinson, Esq. CPA is the founder of Iter Investments (a VC Fund investing in early-stage psychedelic companies); Nucleus (a venture studio launching media, data, and technology companies in the psychedelic space); Mr. Psychedelic Law (a non-profit advocating for psychedelic legal reform); and Mr. Cannabis Law (a full-service law firm for the cannabis and psychedelic industries).

Troy, The Last Captive of the Comanches, taken in the old way by Eviyah and brought into the Ohnononuh band of Numunuh as Kwinnai mahkweetsoi okweetuni (He who saves the eagle from the water). As a Founder of Sia the Piah Puha Kahni “Mother Church” of the 1918 CNAC Charter Association we have created Benefit Honoring which is an alliance building process which supports a cultural restorative governance for business based on the principles of the Convention of Biological Diversity and the Nagoya Protocols with a verifiable financial outcome.I have worked with Cactus Conservation Institute, Journey Colab and now with Panacea Plant Sciences for the future of psychedelic reciprocity. 

Liana Sananda Gillooly is a lifelong advocate for social justice, drug policy reform, ending war, and environmental protection. Before joining MAPS, she worked as Outreach & Partnerships Manager for a prominent cannabis investment and market research firm, The Arcview Group. It was through her experience witnessing the exponential growth of the cannabis industry that she became inspired to co-found the non-profit North Star, working to integrate psychedelic wisdom into emerging industry surrounding the field of psychedelics, and Auryn Project, non-profit incubator for organizations building equitable, affordable, and accessible psychedelic medicine for all. She has been a featured speaker at numerous events, lobbied Congress, lectured MBA students, given a TedX talk, and is a member of the Summit and TED communities. She a trained death midwife, vipassana meditator, and immersive artist.

Amanda Reiman, PhD, is the VP, Public Policy Research for New Frontier Data, the Founder of Personal Plants, and Co-Founder of SACRΞD GARDΞN.

JACQUELINE VON SALM, PHD is the Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Psilera, Inc. Dr. von Salm has spent her career focused on innovative drug discovery and development, especially as it pertains to neglected diseases and mental health. She has travelled the world in search for new medicines from Antarctica to the Caribbean and is a firm believer that all compounds have the potential to help patients with the right dosing and regulations. Dr. von Salm has written and lectured widely on natural products and more recently the medical potential of Cannabis sativa and psychoactive substances. Her role at Psilera is to lead the Research and Development efforts in order to better understand how psychedelic tryptamines affect neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions. Dr. von Salm graduated with honors, magna cum laude, from the University of South Florida with her B.A. and Ph.D. in Chemistry. 

Benjamin Lightburn is a proven entrepreneur and leader specializing in the research, development and commercialization of novel extraction technologies; Ben is currently applying this experience to the development of natural psychedelic medicines as CEO and Co-Founder of Filament Health.

Simeon Schnapper is the founding Partner of JLS, a plant medicine fund. His introduction to psychedelics came 30+ years ago in Chicago where he studied with Dr. Robert E.L. Masters and Jean Huston Ph.D. who authored the seminal book The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience: The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche. As a life-long student of Psychedelics he a keen awareness of the cultural, regulatory and the nascent venture landscape of the mushrooming industry. As the president of the Hinman Foundation he formulated the vision and led all efforts on the ground in Tibet, Nepal, Myanmar, India, Mongolia and Bhutan. Simeon co-founded the High Art Collective in 2008, the world’s first Psychedelic Art Gallery and Marijuana Dispensary praised as a paradigm shift at the very beginning of the end of prohibition. Simeon advises several psychedelic and impact startups, is an Aspen Institute Fellow and a member of the New York Mycology Society.

Scarlet Masius is Head of Community at Tactogen. Their desire to create systemic change for global healing has lead them to be a network builder and activist in the psychedelic community for many years. Scarlet is also a board member at North Star Project. They have a passion for creative initiatives to nurture the growing psychedelic community.

Michael Huttner is an investment banker, corporate and political strategist, attorney, author and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Next Titan Capital, where he is responsible for overseeing capital raises and M&A transactions. Prior to Next Titan, Huttner developed and led both the cannabis and psychedelics investment team at Young America Capital, where he worked on private placements as well as mergers and acquisitions. He also worked as Policy Advisor to Colorado Gov. Roy Romer and clerked at the Clinton White House for the Office of the Counsel to the President.

Jeff Zuber is a founder of Zuber Lawler. He focuses on high-stakes intellectual property, and regulatory and commercial litigation. He does this work for Fortune companies and funds, as well as leading cannabis companies. He is increasingly focused on representations relating to the emerging psychedelics industry. He’s had extreme success representing clients in hotly contested corporate and partnership disputes in the “plant” medicines industry going back 16 years. He recently won a $65 million award in an arbitration over a cannabis distribution contract relating to The Weekend Box, including punitive damages and attorney’s fees. Jeff is also a founder of Psychedelia Magazine He is a graduate of Indiana University School of Law Bloomington.

As co-founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats, Neil is passionate about sharing the science-backed benefits of psychedelics in conjunction with the contemplative practices that support holistic wellbeing. ‍A Captain in the US Army Special Operations 2nd Ranger Battalion, Neil was deployed once to Iraq, and twice to Afghanistan. After, as an MBA/MIA masters student at Columbia University, he suffered from depression and PTSD. This led him to alternative wellbeing practices and marked the start of a profound healing journey with mindfulness and psychedelics. Prior to Beckley Retreats, Neil worked as the Chief Growth Officer for a $450M private equity portfolio company where he was responsible for all strategy and growth planning. Before that he worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Co, where he also co-led the internal mindfulness program.

Todd Shapiro, after being a top rated Radio Show host & a brilliant Marketing Entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience, has recently moved on from mainstream media to concentrate his efforts on being the CEO of Red Light Holland. Shapiro also has an incredible history as one of North America's most professional & effective Brand Ambassadors and Influencers having worked with Canopy Growth, Samsung, Canada Goose, Canadian Tire & Boveda Inc. Todd Shapiro, recently was an Honorary Chair for the Road Hockey To Conquer Cancer for the Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation and is a supporter of CAMH and the Polar Bear Foundation. Todd currently also sits on the Board of Directors for Red Light Holland.

Sutton, Nāēqtaw-Pianakiw (comes first woman), is program manager at the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund. She is the first official trustee for the philanthropic fund, the Journey Reciprocity Trust. She is also the co-founder, president and co-director of the Urban Indigenous Collective.  Afro-Indigenous of the Menominee and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she holds a BA in Psychology with a minor in sociology from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and a Master in Public Health with a concentration in Global Health from NYU School of Global Public Health. In 2022, Business Insider recognized her as one of the 16 most influential women shaping Psychedelics.

As the Chief Innovation Officer at First Person - an innovative, science-driven cognitive performance company, founded by a unique team of visionaries and mushroom experts who believe that the heart of wellness is in the mind -, Chris brings over 20 years of experience in product and business development. For the past five years he has focused exclusively on innovative product development in the functional foods  and medicinal mushrooms space. Chris brings experience exploring, experimenting, and conducting extensive research on the relationship between functional foods/medicinal mushrooms and metabolic, brain, and mental health. 

Kelsey Ramsden was named Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneur two years running and is recognized globally for building multiple, multimillion-dollar businesses both offline and online.  She has founded and run diverse businesses ranging from construction to psychedelics, and is the former president and CEO of MindCure Health.

A pioneer in the cannabis and psychedelics industry, Ronan Levy has inspired millions of people to find healing and inspiration through elevated states of consciousness. His work and entrepreneurial endeavors have been featured in The New York Times, CNBC, Nature, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, The Economist, Report on Business, Robb Report and more. He presently serves as Chairman and CEO of of Field Trip Health & Wellness Ltd. (TSX-V: FTHW),  the largest global provider of psychedelic-assisted therapies, co-founder of Reunion Neuroscience Inc. (NASDAQ: REUN), co-author of The Trip Journal (Libra Publishing) and The Ketamine Breakthrough (Hay House; Spring 2023), host of the podcast Field Tripping: Epic Trips in Psychedelics, and Executive Producer on the forthcoming documentary Ordinary Trip.