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Monday, July 26
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Monday, July 26
8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
  • Monday, July 26:  8:30 AM - 1:30 PM
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Monday, July 26
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Monday, July 26:  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
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Monday, July 26
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
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Tuesday, July 27
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
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Tuesday, July 27
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Co-Chair(s)
Carlotta Mast
SVP & Market Leader
New Hope Network
Co-Chair(s)
Thomas Aarts
Founder & Principal, NCN & Nutrition Business Journal
Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
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Tuesday, July 27
8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  8:30 AM - 8:50 AM
The supplement market saw record growth of 14.5% in 2020, driven by obvious categories like immune health and multivitamins, but the story doesn’t stop there. Learn about the other pandemic-driven trends that led to this historic growth, including COVID-adjacent health conditions and a major disruption in sales channel dynamics. Most...
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Speaker
Claire Morton
Senior Manager of Data & Insights, Nutrition Business Journal
New Hope Network
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Tuesday, July 27
8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  8:50 AM - 9:10 AM
Most brands are experiencing record demand, but what that means for deal making and investment is still evolving. Certain strategic players like Nestle and Unilever are doubling down on the category with multiple acquisitions, but the pharma universe is holding back. Venture and private equity investment activity is at an...
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Speaker
William Hood
Managing Director & Founding Partner
William Hood & Company
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Tuesday, July 27
9:15 AM - 9:40 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  9:15 AM - 9:40 AM
Entering a post-COVID marketplace, there is an unprecedented number of owner-operated and family-run brands facing a complex growth landscape. In this discussion, William Hood & Company's Jill Staib and RoundTable Healthcare Partners Senior Partner Andrew Hochman will discuss the potential value of private equity for these brands, the various roles...
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Speaker
Andrew Hochman
Senior Partner, NBJ
RoundTable Healthcare Partners
Speaker
Jeff Boutelle
CEO
Pharmavite LLC
Speaker
Jill Staib
Managing Director and Partner
William Hood & Company
Speaker
Tobe Cohen
EVP & President, Specialty Brands
MegaFood
Speaker
William Hood
Managing Director & Founding Partner
William Hood & Company
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Tuesday, July 27
9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  9:35 AM - 10:05 AM
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Tuesday, July 27
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
The supplements industry has withstood many calls for updating DSHEA—the regulatory system that has on the whole liberated the industry to innovate and provide access to a self-care model that empowers citizens. But we are in a rare moment with a Democratic Biden administration and a pro-regulatory Democratic Congress, and...
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Speaker
Peter Reinecke
Founder
Reinecke Strategic Solutions, Inc.
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Tuesday, July 27
10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  10:35 AM - 11:00 AM
The single greatest asset the supplements industry has is the confidence and trust of the consumer. If we lose customer safety and quality, it’s game over. Staying in integrity with consumers is Job 1—made all the more difficult with the post-pandemic supply-chain problems laid bare. A dozen of the largest...
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Speaker
Betsy Crater
Nonfood QA Manager
Wegman's
Moderator
Loren Israelsen
Founder and President
UNPA
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Tuesday, July 27
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  11:00 AM - 11:20 AM
NOW Health Group opened Amazon’s eyes to the array of untested, sub-par supplement products the online behemoth was selling. Jim Emme, longtime industry leader and president of NOW, reveals his perspective on how Amazon could clean up the supplements industry and ensure quality products—what the FDA, trade groups and industry...
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Speaker
Jim Emme
CEO
NOW Foods
Moderator
Thomas Aarts
Founder & Principal, NCN & Nutrition Business Journal
Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
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Tuesday, July 27
11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  11:20 AM - 11:35 AM
In a globalized world, confidence is paramount to sustain sales. Brands require it. Consumers demand it. The fate of the supplements industry relies on a successful, relationship between China and the U.S. A new collaboration between the world’s two largest economies is addressing quality standards, testing and certification and supply...
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Speaker
Loren Israelsen
Founder and President
UNPA
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Tuesday, July 27
11:35 AM - 11:55 AM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  11:35 AM - 11:55 AM
Going into 2020 we were all talking about changing market dynamics and evolving consumer behaviors and relationships with health and nutrition. Then came COVID and altered the market further, many today wonder where this leaves us, what has changed, and what has remained the same. Join Eric Pierce from New...
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Speaker
Eric Pierce
VP of Business Insights
New Hope Network
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Tuesday, July 27
11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  11:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Immunity is of course the leading supplement category today. Other growing categories include adaptogens, stress, relaxation and sleep. How are supplement brands changing their retail and distribution strategies? How will channel strategies evolve in the industry? Trends research from PMDP offers a divergent and intuitive if complementary view from the...
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Speaker
Bill Weiland
Founder, President and CEO
Presence Marketing/ Dynamic Presence
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Tuesday, July 27
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
An omnichannel strategy is now more important than ever for successful brands – but how can e-commerce insights and data influence brick and mortar strategies and vice versa? Hear perspectives from an e-commerce and Amazon data expert, a brick and mortar retail expert, and a brand that has successfully bridged...
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Moderator
Claire Morton
Senior Manager of Data & Insights, Nutrition Business Journal
New Hope Network
Speaker
Daniel Harari
Head of Business Development
ClearCut Analytics
Speaker
Kathryn Peters
Chief of Staff
SPINS
Speaker
Robert Row
Digital Marketing & Analytics Manager
Nordic Naturals
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Tuesday, July 27
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  12:40 PM - 1:10 PM
We will close out the day with an interactive session to kvetch and congratulate on the crazy-mad year that was 2020. Catch the toss mic and have your say - say what you've been experiencing on the topic of Amazon, DTC and retail standards. This will be a moderated discussion...
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Tuesday, July 27
1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
  • Tuesday, July 27:  1:15 PM - 2:45 PM
Share a meal and be inspired as we dive into the tools of conscious activism as a valuable framework needed to lead as an impactful business leader in today’s nutrition industry....

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    Keynote
    Bethany Davis
    Director of Advocacy & Government Relations
    FoodState and MegaFood
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    Tuesday, July 27
    2:45 PM - 5:15 PM
    Tuesday, July 27
    5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
    • Tuesday, July 27:  5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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    Tuesday, July 27
    6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
    • Tuesday, July 27:  6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
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    Tuesday, July 27
    9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
    • Tuesday, July 27:  9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  8:30 AM - 8:40 AM
    Co-Chair(s)
    Carlotta Mast
    SVP & Market Leader
    New Hope Network
    Co-Chair(s)
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
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    Wednesday, July 28
    8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  8:40 AM - 9:40 AM
    Generational change is transforming the nutrition industry—from how consumers shop, buy, and pay to how they think about health, wellness, and their future. Accurately understanding how to navigate this generational change—particularly Millennials and Gen Z—is absolutely critical to the future of the industry and to drive dramatic growth.  Bestselling generations...
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    Keynote
    Jason Dorsey
    Gen Z and Millennial Speaker, Expert, and Researcher
    The Center for Generational Kinetics, LLC
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    Wednesday, July 28
    9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  9:40 AM - 10:00 AM
    Speaking the language of Gen-Z doesn’t mean Googling the latest slang, it’s about matching the message to the medium, mastering Instagram, talking TikTok and choosing not only the right influencer but the right plan for what the influencer can bring to your marketing. In this session, we’ll hear from Andrew...
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    Speaker
    Andrew Suzuka
    Founder/CEO, NBJ
    Super Sauces Inc.
    Moderator
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
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    Wednesday, July 28
    10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
    Gen-Z has been experiencing the world through a screen since their moms handed them an iPad to quiet them on long road trip. Those screens have since drawn them into video games as entertainment but as social life and a significant component of pop culture. Supplement companies from startups to...
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    Speaker
    Jarrod Jordan
    Chief Marketing Officer & Digital Transformation
    Iovate Health Sciences
    Moderator
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
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    Wednesday, July 28
    10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  10:50 AM - 11:10 AM
    Raising cash to build a business is a challenge for every brand, but for entrepreneurs of color that task can be even more complicated. As one of few black leaders in the overwhelmingly white supplement industry, Naturade CEO Claude Tellis knows all about those challenges, and those complications, and in...
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    Speaker
    Claude Tellis
    CEO
    Naturade
    Moderator
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
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    Wednesday, July 28
    11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
    Dr. Ken Redcross is a concierge physician and experiences a unique relationship with the supplement industry. As an MD, he bridges the world between mainstream medicine and nutritional intervention. As a Black man, he navigates a world where diversity is rare. In this conversation with NBJ Editor in Chief Rick...
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    Speaker
    Ken Redcross, MD
    CEO & President
    Redcross Communications, Inc.
    Moderator
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
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    Wednesday, July 28
    11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    Keynote
    Tia Mowry
    Entrepreneur, actress, author, and Co-Founder
    Anser
    Tracks: 
    Wednesday, July 28
    12:00 PM - 12:07 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  12:00 PM - 12:07 PM
    Speaker
    Mr.  Keith Ferrazzi
    CEO
    Ferrazzi Greenlight
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    Wednesday, July 28
    12:07 PM - 12:30 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  12:07 PM - 12:30 PM
    We will close out the day with an interactive session to kvetch and congratulate on the crazy-mad year that was 2020. Catch the toss mic and have your say - say what you've been experiencing on the the topic of the future of work post-COVID. This will be a moderated...
    • Breakout

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    Co-Chair(s)
    Rick Polito
    Editor-in-Chief, Nutrition Business Journal
    New Hope Network
    Co-Chair(s)
    Thomas Aarts
    Founder & Principal, NCN & Nutrition Business Journal
    Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
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    Wednesday, July 28
    12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    12:40 PM - 1:20 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  12:40 PM - 1:20 PM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Event
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    • Wednesday, July 28:  2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • Service
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    Wednesday, July 28
    6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Wednesday, July 28
    7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
    • Wednesday, July 28:  7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
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    Thursday, July 29
    7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  7:00 AM - 7:30 AM
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    Thursday, July 29
    7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
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    Thursday, July 29
    7:50 AM - 8:10 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  7:50 AM - 8:10 AM
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    Thursday, July 29
    8:20 AM - 8:45 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  8:20 AM - 8:45 AM
    Co-Chair(s)
    Bill Giebler
    Content & Insights Director
    Nutrition Business Journal
    Co-Chair(s)
    Thomas Aarts
    Founder & Principal, NCN & Nutrition Business Journal
    Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
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    Thursday, July 29
    8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  8:45 AM - 9:45 AM
    Regeneration has two meanings. It refers to regenerating life on earth. And it refers to a new generation of humanity coming together to reverse global warming. A significant economic sector is agriculture. That puts a particular responsibility on proactive supply chain management and integrity. Supplements companies have a role to...
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    Keynote
    Paul Hawken
    Executive Director, Founder
    One Generation, Regeneration.org
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    Thursday, July 29
    9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  9:45 AM - 10:10 AM
    Systems are complex, and any effort to improve the food system—for equity and diversity, for sustainability and biodiversity, for nutrition and health—quickly reveals the overlap of these issues. Julie Collins, founder of carbon neutral snack brand Moonshot and Planet FWD, a platform that aims to help other brands in sustainability...
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    Moderator
    Bill Giebler
    Content & Insights Director
    Nutrition Business Journal
    Speaker
    Julia Collins
    Founder & CEO
    Planet FWD
    Tracks: 
    Thursday, July 29
    10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
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    Thursday, July 29
    10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  10:40 AM - 11:05 AM
    In herb cultivation, USDA organic certification is just a start. Leading brands and suppliers are turning toward Regenerative Organic Certification (ROC) or other regenerative programs to produce botanicals in a fashion that mitigates climate change. Herb Pharm farm manager Matt Dybala will share the 42-year-old supplement company’s proactive stance on...
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    Moderator
    Bill Giebler
    Content & Insights Director
    Nutrition Business Journal
    Speaker
    Matt Dybala
    Director of Agricultural Ops
    Herb Pharm
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    Thursday, July 29
    11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  11:05 AM - 11:30 AM
    Joel M. Evans, M.D. is the co-director of the Institute for Functional Medicine’s (IFM) course on COVID-19 and the leader of the project to create the IFM Clinical Guide to Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC)—also known as long or chronic COVID-19. Functional medicine, with its fundamental aim at finding root...
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    Moderator
    Bill Giebler
    Content & Insights Director
    Nutrition Business Journal
    Speaker
    Joel Evans, MD
    Founder
    The Center for Functional Medicine, Stamford, CT
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    Thursday, July 29
    11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
    • Thursday, July 29:  11:30 AM - 11:50 AM
    Dr. Grace McComsey, VP of Research and Associate Chief Scientific Officer at University Hospitals (UH) Health System in Cleveland, Ohio, a network of twenty hospitals that serves over 1.6M patients will present the finds of a newly published study independently correlating the impact of Vitamin D and Vitamin K2 deficiency...
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    Speaker
    Andrew Myers, ND
    Co-Founder, CEO & Chief Science Officer
    NutraGenetics
    Moderator
    Bill Giebler
    Content & Insights Director
    Nutrition Business Journal
    Speaker
    Grace McComsey, MD, FIDSA
    Vice President of Research and Associate Chief Scientific Officer
    University Hospitals Health System
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    Thursday, July 29
    11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
    • Thursday, July 29:  11:50 AM - 12:10 PM
    Moderator
    Carlotta Mast
    SVP & Market Leader
    New Hope Network
    Speaker
    Stephanie Ray, ND, BCN, CNHP
    Co-Founder, CEO, President, and Formulator.
    BIORAY, Inc.
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    Thursday, July 29
    12:10 PM - 1:05 PM
    • Thursday, July 29:  12:10 PM - 1:05 PM
    Keynote
    David Horsager, MA, CSP, CPAE
    CEO
    Trust Edge Leadership Institute
    Tracks: 
    Thursday, July 29
    1:05 PM - 1:15 PM
    • Thursday, July 29:  1:05 PM - 1:15 PM
    Co-Chair(s)
    Carlotta Mast
    SVP & Market Leader
    New Hope Network
    Co-Chair(s)
    Thomas Aarts
    Founder & Principal, NCN & Nutrition Business Journal
    Managing Director, Nutrition Business Advisors
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    Thursday, July 29
    1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
    • Thursday, July 29:  1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
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    Thursday, July 29
    1:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    Thursday, July 29
    2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Thursday, July 29:  2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
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