PAST EVENT
SPEAKERS
Marissa Wright is an independent consultant on business strategy, market analysis, and new market entry for global firms, based in Vancouver, Canada. She has 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur and developing new business in North America across a wide range of industries and is an active member of Keiretsu Forum, the world’s largest early-stage angel investor network.
Dr. Adi Zuloff-Shani is a biomedical research and development executive with over 20 years of strategic and operational leadership in the healthcare industry, and a deep understanding of therapeutics development in heavily regulated environments.
Previously the Executive Director of MAPS Canada for 10 years, Mark is an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia's School of Population and Public Health, and has published on the issue of drug control policy and psychedelics. Mark also worked in the addictions field in counselling, supervisory and management positions for 28 years.
HOST
Shannon Smadella is an award-winning social entrepreneur and business strategist with deep experience in psychedelic advocacy and organizational leadership. A former board member of MAPS Canada, spokesperson and operations director of World Psychedelics Day, and co-director of the International Psychedelics Awareness Foundation, she has hosted hundreds of interviews with leaders in psychedelic research and policy. She is currently completing her MBA, and oversees community development for Clearmind Medicine.