Speaker Bio: Alena is the Co-founder and Technical Director of S3 Collective, a nonprofit organization committed to advancing the cannabis, hemp, and other botanical industries through collaboration, education, and standardization. She has nearly a decade of experience managing one of the nation’s first cannabis testing laboratories and implementing quality management systems (QMS) in the cannabis and hemp industries. Alena is the chair of the Laboratory Subcommittee of ASTM International’s Committee D37 and co-chair of the National Cannabis Laboratory Council (NCLC). She has also led several marijuana rulemaking groups in Colorado on topics such as QMS, sampling, and process validation and is a former chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the National Cannabis Industry Association (NCIA). Before entering the cannabis industry, she worked in biochemistry and neuroscience labs performing drug discovery research at Florida Atlantic University, Envoy Therapeutics, and the University of Colorado-Anschutz. Alena has a MS in Biomedical Sciences and a BS in Biology from Florida Atlantic University.