IWC Second Annual Conference
IWC is excited to announce its second annual conference. Explore employment opportunities, discuss pertinent legal topics, and network!
Customer Service Basics: Product Matching
Build customer loyalty by connecting customers and patients around their needs
Dispensary Customer Service Basics: Bonding with Customer Personas
Enhance your customer loyalty and volume of customers by preparing your budtenders to anticipate customer needs.
Dispensary Customer Service Basics: Consultative Selling
Surveys show that cannabis customers will go out of there way to go to dispensaries that offer a better customer experience. A well trained budtender will not only build customer loyalty, but those customers will tell their friends to check it out.
Cannabis Resume Writing Workshop
This interactive workshop will help you sharpen your resume as you prepare for your career in cannabis.
Responsible Vendor Training
Taught by industry experts with actual dispensary experience, we don't just read the rules and regulations out loud, we provide instruction on how to build customer relationships while operating in a compliant manner.
Weed Girls: A 420 Limited Capacity Event
one-of-a-kind cannabis-inspired evening of fun, femme, and community.
Trademark Workshop
We will discuss how to conduct a trademark search to identify other companies existing trademark rights in a proposed mark. We will then discuss how to determine the strength of a proposed trademark and how best to protect trademark rights on a federal level.
IWC Monthly Networking Session
The hour-long networking session is fully focused on building connection, alignment, and community among IWC members. Moderated by our guest speaker, LizMarie Palomo, General Manager, Columbia Care Inc., Chicago.
Illinois Women In Cannabis Tech Fellowship Info Session
Build the Future with Founder Institute and Illinois Women in Cannabis
Intro to Design Thinking – The Power of Leveraging Your Consumer’s Insights
In this session, PinPoint Collective will introduce us to the power of human-centered design in three phases: research, synthesis & implementation. They will offer tips & tricks around defining and listening to your consumers, tools for concepting new ideas to establish brand loyalty and processes for implementing successful solutions.
Virtual: Highly Educated: What’s needed to be on the forefront of corporate cannabis education?
A diverse panel of local industry leaders will offer valuable insight through a candid conversation focused on emerging employment opportunities within the cannabis industry.