Mara Gordon is a cannabis advocate, entrepreneur, and researcher. She has harnessed her background as a process engineer to create therapeutic dosing regimens for thousands of patients around the world, drastically improving their health, quality of life and longevity.

Aotearoa New Zealand is well positioned to leverage its resilient urban/rural commercial and societal ecosystems to create a vibrant, sustainable and balanced future-focused bioeconomy. This enormous potential to be a true global leader in healthy communities, added-value circular value chains and environmental sustainability - with an economy built around the export market drivers in this space – will require new approaches to collaboration, technology investment and policy support.