Session Selector
Win a panel featuring your “high-deas.”
Thank you for your interest in presenting at the National Cannabis Festival! We know the cannabis community is full of creative, big thinkers and we want to give you the platform to have your discussion ideas featured at the festival.
Application Deadline: Application materials must be submitted by/before March 21, 2025
How to Enter
Fill out the application form below. Panels, workshops and demos will be selected using 2 factors: votes from our panel of expert judges; and, the number of likes/shares on social media. Once applications close on March 21, the judging period will open and last until March 30. We encourage you to share your session idea on social media using the #NCFSessionSelector hashtag and ask your friends to like and share your post.
Application Deadline: Application materials must be submitted by/before March 21, 2025
Judging will take place: March 21-30, 2025
Winners will be announced in early April via email. If you have any questions about your application, please email molly@nationalcannabisfestival.com.
Each panel only needs one entry!
Issue areas for session proposals
Cannabis and DC Home Rule
Cannabis in Food and Beverages
Cannabis Culture
Protecting Small Business
Social Equity and Racial Equity
Federal Policy
Technology
State Policy
Workforce Development
Patient Access
Environmental Impact
Natural Medicine and Psychedelics
Cultivation/Regenerative Agriculture
Things to Know
NCF’s Session Selector Contest is an opt-in contest designed to amplify the voices in our community
Selected sessions will be scheduled as 30-60 minutes in length depending on the theme, number of participants, session plan, and schedule in the pavilion
Sessions should have no more than 4 speakers per discussion/workshop/demo, etc.
If your session is selected, all of your speakers will receive complimentary Weekend Early Entry Passes that will give them access to NCF through express lanes on both days of the festival.
NCF does not provide travel compensation for speakers so please take that into account when applying/inviting folks to take part
