“It’s a great group and each meeting I find someone I’m excited to connect with.”
“The more I engage with this community the more I realize how valuable it is to be part of this community.”
The RSPA Cannabis Community helps members meet and network with others interested in the cannabis vertical, helps members learn from each other’s experiences and insights, and fosters business development opportunities for RSPA members, all in a vendor-neutral atmosphere.
Among the topics discussed during our community meetings are establishing partnerships (with vendors, VARs, ISVs, distributors, cannabis MSPs), the cannabis technology stack, the cannabis software landscape, compliance, new regulations, emerging opportunities, and market-specific challenges for VARs and ISVs.
The RSPA Cannabis Community is home to many of the top organizations in retail cannatech. The RSPA and 11 of our member companies are listed among the Leading CannaTech Influencers by The CannaTech Group.
Because the RSPA is North America’s largest community of VARs, software developers, vendors, and distributors in the retail, restaurant, grocery, and cannabis verticals, the association is strongly positioned to meet the needs of IT solution providers who serve cannabis dispensaries. The RSPA is at the forefront of educating the point of sale industry about the cannabis vertical:
- Forecasting VAR/ISV Opportunities with Cannabis Rescheduling
- 2024 Cannabis Outlook for VARs & ISVs
- MJBizCon 2023 Analysis: No Cannabis Boom – Also Not Doom & Gloom
- Legislation Analysis: What the Future Holds for the Cannabis Industry
- The Pulse of Today’s Cannabis Industry
- “We Have to Be More Creative” Say Cannabis VARs & ISVs
- Community Conversation with Saphira Galoob, National Cannabis Roundtable Director
- eBook: 7 Elements of a Successful Cannabis VAR
- MJBizCon 2022 Analysis: Cannabis Industry Oughta Turn That Frown Upside Down
- MJBizCon 2021: A Deep-End Plunge into the Lucrative Cannabis Vertical
- RSPA Trusted Advisor Ep. 58: How to Sell Technology to Cannabis Dispensaries
- RSPA Trusted Advisor Ep. 40: Cannabis Opportunities for VARs and ISVs in 2021
- Dispensary Retailers Focus on POS Technology First, Cannabis Second
- Cannabis Tech Conference Reveals Vertical’s Possibilities (and High Hurdles) for POS VARs
- RSPA Trusted Advisor Ep. 11: Cannabis and CBD Vertical Opportunities for VARs and ISVs
- RSPA Trusted Advisor Ep. 22: Cannabis Vertical Deep Dive with 420MSP’s Harry Brelsford
- Cannabis 101 – Understanding the Opportunity (member-only access)
For more information about the community, please contact the RSPA’s Jim Roddy at JRoddy@GoRSPA.org.