Only One Week Until SPARK 2025!

Only One Week Until SPARK 2025!

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The SPARK 2025 program is your ticket to success! From inspiring keynote speakers to transformative panels and networking opportunities, this year's lineup is designed to ignite ideas and spark connections.

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Stacey Duffy, All Nations

Stacey Duffy is the Director of Retail for All Nations, where she spearheads the development and expansion of the company’s retail arm.

Focused on crafting beautiful, immersive spaces that celebrate heritage, she weaves the story of All Nations with a distinct Indigenous perspective on cannabis.

Alongside her professional endeavours, Stacey is deeply committed to sharing the Indigenous journey—its struggles, triumphs, and rich history—to inspire and educate those in the cannabis industry eager to learn from her own experiences as a fellow learner.

You can see Stacey in Bridging the Gap: Licensed & Illicit Cannabis.

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Mike Skrypnek is the founder of the UnLimited Worth Project, an international bestseller of nine books, mental health advocate, and corporate wellness trainer.

He is a sought after business strategist who has shared his insights and wisdom with thousands of passionate purpose-driven entrepreneurs, business leaders, and executives. His coaching focuses on purpose at the intersection of personal, professional, and philanthropic development.

Mike is our lunchtime keynote speaker, delivering his inspiring talk Profound Leadership through Emotion Awareness: The REAL key to Emotional Intelligence.

Mike Skrypnek, Grow Get Give Coaching

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Crystal Hamilton, Knowbie

Crystal Hamilton, founder of Knowbie, has a career deeply rooted in the hospitality industry.

From washing dishes to serving as a Sommelier, she has firsthand experience of the challenges restaurant and retail staff face—especially when it comes to access to proper training. Crystal has built a successful career in hospitality and is passionate about helping others do the same by making education more accessible across the industry.

She launched Knowbie to provide engaging, tech-enabled training that boosts staff confidence, enhances skills, and helps businesses thrive.

Crystal will be a panellist in How Winning Hospitality Companies are Leveraging Technology & Data to Succeed in 2025.

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Paul Kamon is a cannabis connoisseur and expert cultivator who couples his passion for cannabis with decades of expertise in destination tourism and hospitality. He served as marketing director, executive director, and destination development director for Sunshine Coast Tourism, was the lead tourism consultant for the award-winning BC Ale Trail, and co-founded of the annual Vancouver Craft Beer Week festival.

Paul's next endeavour has him joining Canadian cannabis industry veterans Adam Clarke (Stratus Designs) and Dustan McLean, (Parkland Flower, Big League Cultivation) to create West Coast Weedery, a new farmgate cannabis producer retail store (PRS) on Galiano Island.

Paul will share his expertise as a panellist in the session Exploring Canna Tourism & Hospitality.

Paul Kamon, West Coast Weedery

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Jim Taylor, Benchmark Sixty

For over two decades, Jim Taylor has fuelled the growth of a leading restaurant brand and helped hundreds of others navigate the ever changing restaurant industry. Most recently, Jim has taken on a venture as a partner in Le Crocodile by Rob Feenie, an iconic French restaurant in the heart of Vancouver, BC, and authored his first book, Bold Operations - Building the Foundation of Strategic Excellence in Restaurants.

As the Founder and CEO of Benchmark Sixty Restaurant Services, Jim has worked alongside restaurant companies in North America and the UK to help them better understand their business model, help them optimize productivity, and turn data in to profit. Jim is working to change the way restaurants look at and measure employee workload and productivity in order to improve the hospitality industry, it’s margins, and retention rates.

Catch Jim presenting How to Drive Profit in Modern Hospitality Businesses.

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With a program full of industry experts, thought leaders, and policy makers, SPARK 2025 is the liquor and cannabis event of the year! Check out the rest of our speakers and sessions here and get your tickets now while you still can.