Workshops & Tours

Hands-on, inside a working greenhouse

Friday workshops and facility tours bring cultivation education to life. Learn inside a working commercial facility, explore real-world systems, and engage directly with experienced growers, consultants, and industry experts.

Workshop tickets are sold out.

General Admission to the conference is still available — workshops are the only sold-out item.

Conference Tickets
Living soil
Tour
IPM
  • Guided greenhouse tours

    Walk through Collective Elevation's living soil greenhouse with the team that runs it - from canopy management to harvest flow.  Available to all ticket holders.

  • Living soil systems

    See living soil at commercial scale and learn the inputs, biology, and maintenance behind it.

  • Hands-on cultivation workshops

    IPM scouting, and substrate work - actual hands in actual plants, not slides about plants.  Workshops included in Full Conference Tickets only.

  • Technical demos

    Sponsor-led demos of environmental controls, monitoring, biologicals, and processing equipment. Included for all ticket holders.

  • Q&A with workshop leaders

    Dedicated Q&A and small-group conversation time with every workshop lead.  

Friday Lineup

The morning & early afternoon workshops

A preview of the hands-on sessions running Friday morning through early afternoon, before the facility tours and vendor village kick off.

01
019:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Bryant Mason

Measuring What Matters: Soil, Plant & Environmental Monitoring

Data-driven cultivation is the key to scaling a commercial facility without sacrificing quality. In this interactive, live-demonstration workshop, Bryant Mason of Soil Doctor Consulting moves out of the classroom and into the field to show you exactly how to track the health of your crop and soil in real time.

02
0210:45 AM – 11:45 AM

Dr. Nicole Gauthier

Boots on the Ground: Advanced Crop Scouting and Disease Diagnostics

Early detection is the best defense against crop-destroying pathogens. Plant Pathologist Dr. Nicole Gauthier equips growers, agronomists, and field managers with the essential toolkit for effective crop scouting and field diagnostics.

03
0312:00 PM – 12:30 PM

Tad Hussey & Brandon Hudson, KiS Organics

From Environment to Irrigation: A Systematic Approach to Troubleshooting Your Grow

A fast-paced, 30-minute forensic breakdown of a grow space using a Dichotomous Key — a reliable, step-by-step decision tree — to eliminate guesswork and isolate the root cause of your issues.

04
041:30 PM – 3:00 PM

Suzanne Wainwright-Evans

Cannabis Pest Management: Biological Controls & Real-World Solutions

A practical deep-dive into the most common insects, mites, and pests plaguing modern cannabis production, covering identification, biology, and cutting-edge management strategies including biological control agents and biopesticides.