Gaurav Singh
Gaurav is part of the Nemo product team at Ridecell, and does advanced AI-based data analytics for ADAS & AD data. He brings a strong AI and machine learning background to his role having previously worked on developing software for autonomous driving and computer vision applications. Gaurav is a Masters in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
Robert Hoban
Robert Hoban sits at the center of the world’s largest commercial cannabis industry network. As the cannabis industry commercialized, Bob was widely credited for creating the class of lawyers now known as “cannabis attorneys.” He has truly transcended the practice of law and is regularly involved in assembling and structuring large-scale cannabis industry M&A transactions. Above all else, Bob is a cannabis industry expert.
Since 2008, Bob deliberately constructed the Hoban Law Group (HLG) to become the world’s leading full-service commercial cannabis industry law firm. For more than a decade, HLG represented the cannabis industry’s titans in every aspect of the commercial cannabis industry around the world. In June of 2021, HLG was acquired by
international law firm, Clark Hill. Bob joined Clark Hill as a Member, Member-in-Charge of Clark Hill’s new Denver Office, and the Co-Leader of its Cannabis Industry Practice Group.
From 2010-2016, Bob served as one of the Nation’s first cannabis policy instructors at the University of Denver, where he regularly lectured regarding cannabis topics, and led a University-sanctioned research practicum concerning the efficacy of marijuana regulation. Given this academic background, Bob has been asked to work with the governments of more than thirty countries on crafting commercial cannabis public policy.
Bob has consistently been recognized as one of the most influential people in the global cannabis industry by a variety of organizations and publications over the course of the past ten-plus years. Since 2013, Bob has achieved the Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating, awarded to only those lawyers with the highest ethical
standards and professional ability. He was recently named a “Cannabis Law Trailblazer” by the National Law Journal, and he has been consistently recognized as one of “Denver’s Top Cannabis Lawyers” for nearly a decade.
Bob is a Forbes contributor and frequently appears in media coverage as a legal expert on cannabis and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of cannabis events around the world. He has conducted hundreds of interviews regarding marijuana policy for international, national, state, and local media outlets. Major media outlets like the
New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, CNN, Rolling Stone, Forbes, VICE, MSNBC, and Bloomberg all have called on Bob for his unique perspective on the cannabis industry.
Riccardo Badalone
Riccardo Badalone is a passionate and driven tech entrepreneur. For the last 20 years, he has led multi-disciplinary teams and built category-defining companies from the ground up. He is currently the CEO of C2RO in Montreal, which under his leadership has become a global provider of Privacy-Aware Video Analytics AI Software and one of the most trusted AI software companies in the world.
Prior to C2RO, Riccardo was a co-founder and CEO of Diablo Technologies. Over a period of 15 years, he and his team built a business that dominated the High-Performance Enterprise Memory/Storage space and delivered cutting-edge technology solutions to Fortune 500 companies across the US, Europe and China.
Riccardo is an active member of the Montreal Startup Ecosystem. As part of MentorConnect Montreal, Riccardo is helping companies by providing strategic guidance to improve culture, productivity and accelerate success.
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