Kym Byrnes is the CEO and Founder of Cannabis with KymB (@cannabiswithkymb), a social media education platform to educate and empower the cannabis community in New York City and across the country. In addition to Cannabis with KymB, Kym serves as the Director of Distribution for Tribe Tokes, VP of Community for CannaGather, and, as an ambassador for Women Grow, Lululemon, and Nugg.

Kym's efforts at Tribe Tokes were recently highlighted in Forbes. She is an active member in and advocate for the cannabis community. She encourages participation in events and networking to help uplift others. Education and teaching has been at the heart of Kym's lifetime of work - prior to her involvement in the cannabis industry, Kym was a nutrition and healthy lifestyle coach and Pilates Manager at Equinox providing hundreds of hours of fitness instruction to improve people's wellbeing. 

Kristin L. Jordan is senior counsel with the Cannabis Law practice group at Greenspoon Marder LLP. She has over 20 years of real estate, state licensing, and governmental regulatory experience. In addition to her legal practice, Ms. Jordan is a Co-Founder of the Cannabis Cultural Association and served as its first Executive Director. She is also the Founder of Mannada, a NYC-based professional event production company serving the cannabis industry, which produces the Cannabis Law Summit, Cannabis Media Summit, Cannabis Real Estate Summit, Cannabis Medical Summit, and The Maze, a weekly event listing newsletter.

Kristin currently serves as Regional Representative for the National Cannabis Bar Association, is a member of the Committee on Cannabis for the NYS Bar Association, serves on the Public Policy Committee of the Minority Cannabis Bar Association, facilitates the Asian Cannabis Roundtable, and acts as the East Coast Representative for Asian Americans for Cannabis Education.

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Francesca Vavala’s path to cannabis entrepreneur is an indirect but meaningful one. She launched her post college career as a high school English Literature teacher and searched for the perfect fit in secondary education. After six years, her entrepreneurial spirit won over her teacher heart, and she left to pursue a career as a Realtor®. Ultimately, a personal tragedy and a desire to be of greater service landed her in a position to help found a cannabis sales agency. Born a conjoined twin, Francesca’s sister, Emily suffered from Cerebral Palsy. In 2013, Emily passed away from pneumonia. Not long after Emily passed, Francesca discovered cannabis may have helped Emily cope with the aspiration that caused her fatal pneumonia.

Francesca’s discovery gave her new purpose. Vavala started in the marketing department with her eventual partner Mike’s company, The Alias Group, in 2015. Quickly moving up the ranks and employing her background in education, content creation, and sales, Mike turned to her as a natural partner to co-found Alias Cann, a sales and customer service agency specifically for the cannabis industry. Today, Francesca helps U.S. cannabis companies grow and educate through the full-service sales and customer management services offered by Alias Cann and by sharing her story.