Ownership Economy Summit, October 1, 2026
New York City agenda.
See the complete NYC programme across every room, with concurrent sessions aligned side by side.
Complete programme
Every room, on one schedule.
Shared sessions occupy a full row. When the programme splits, each room stays in its own column so you can compare sessions without losing the time of day.
Registration, coffee, and curated networking
Check in, have coffee, and meet other attendees through curated introductions.
Welcome and Lessons from ECOSYSTEM Summit in Europe: How the World Is Approaching Ownership
A concise frame for the day and a broader definition of the ownership economy.
Stability, Control and Upside: A Plenary on Corporate Forms, Ownership and the Future of Wealth Creation
Jason WienerTitleFounder and PrincipalCompanyJason Wiener P.C.Jahed MomandTitleCofounder and General PartnerCompanyCerulean VenturesYev MuchnikTitleFounding PartnerCompanyLaunch Legal LLCMartin SmithTitleCEO and CofounderCompanyCommonShare
A conversation about ownership design and how different institutional forms can give workers, users, and communities a meaningful stake in the value they create.
Federation, Data Sovereignty and Interoperability: What U.S. Manufacturing Can Learn from Europe
John DyckTitleCEOCompanyCESMII, The Smart Manufacturing Institute
A look at federated data systems, shared standards, and trusted digital infrastructure that can strengthen manufacturers, suppliers, workers, and smaller firms.
Building a Meaningful Culture of Ownership
Anna-Lisa MillerTitleExecutive DirectorCompanyOwnership Works
How leaders can make employee ownership part of everyday operations through shared knowledge, responsibility, care, and company processes.
Morning networking break
Coffee, conversation, and time to connect before the parallel morning program.
Building Local Ecosystems for Employee Ownership
Matthew EppersonTitleLocal Outreach CoordinatorCompanyGeorgia Center for Employee OwnershipAndrea Steffes-TuttleTitleFounder and DirectorCompanyThe Well Economy LabRachel MerfalenTitleExecutive DirectorCompanyTennessee Center for Employee OwnershipIlla BurbankTitleExecutive DirectorCompanyNorth Carolina Employee Ownership Center
Place-based leaders share how local development, workforce systems, funding, and community institutions can make employee ownership more familiar and scalable.
Who Owns the Energy Transition?
Michelle MooreTitleCEOCompanyGroundswellJuan DumasTitleCofounder and PartnerCompanyMELIQUINADr. Jens LowitzschTitleDirectorCompanyKelso Institute Europe
Community, tribal, ratepayer, and local institution ownership of clean energy and grid infrastructure.
Frontiers in Ownership Investing: Building Human Agency in the Age of AI
Delilah RothenbergTitleCofounder and Executive DirectorCompanyPredistribution Initiative
An investor perspective on how employee ownership, data rights, cooperative platforms, and shared upside can help workers participate in the gains created by artificial intelligence.
Managing the Future of Work
Dr. Bill CastellanoTitleProfessor and Institute DirectorCompanyRutgers University
Research on technological and demographic change, worker financial security, and policies that broaden access to equity ownership.
Portable Security for the Ownership Economy: A New Social Contract for Independent Work
Steven HillTitlePolicy Director and JournalistCompanyIndependent
A practical portable benefits model that allows every hiring company to contribute toward healthcare, leave, retirement, and other protections for independent workers.
From Labels to Shared Rails: Ownership as the Missing Layer in Trusted Commerce
Dr. Elizabeth BennettTitleProfessor of International AffairsCompanyLewis and Clark College
How certification, traceability, and market infrastructure can recognize whether workers, suppliers, and producer communities share in the upside they help create.
The Ownership Economy Certification: Update and Progress
Martin SmithTitleCEO and CofounderCompanyCommonShare
An update on making ownership structures transparent and verifiable, including how governance, accountability, economic participation, and worker voice can be assessed credibly.
Hosted lunch tables
Curated table conversations across founder transitions, finance, policy, energy, land, and housing.
Owning the Inputs to Intelligence
Carl FredlundTitleStrategy DirectorCompanyMobility DataKevin McDonoughTitleHead of EngineeringCompanyOpenMined FoundationJan EeckhoutTitleProfessor of EconomicsCompanyLondon School of EconomicsAsher JayTitleChief Network ArchitectCompanyShareholder Democracy
How the people and institutions generating data can govern its use through data rights, privacy-preserving computation, shared standards, and new value-sharing models.
Ownership and Investment Innovation as a Solve for Market Failure
Austin RobeyTitleFounderCompanySubvertBrian VoTitleChief Investment OfficerCompanyConnect HumanityRebecca KernTitleDirector of Capital and GrowthCompanyCatch Together
A discussion of ownership and investment structures designed to address market failures while preserving community benefit and shared value.
Housing Commons, Community Ownership and Land Stewardship
Sheila FosterTitleProfessorCompanyColumbia Law SchoolAdriana Abizadeh-BarbourTitleExecutive DirectorCompanyKensington Corridor Trust
Community land trusts, resident ownership, cooperative real estate, and housing models designed to resist speculation.
Onchain Coordination, Programmable Ownership and Internet-Native Governance
John GarryTitleGeneral PartnerCompanyGarry ElevatorKevin OwockiTitleCofounderCompanyGitcoinJahed MomandTitleCofounder and General PartnerCompanyCerulean Ventures
Legal, technical, and operating architectures for public goods, decentralized organizations, protocols, and internet-native institutions.
Designing the Worker-Owned Future
Golda VelezTitleStaff Software Engineer and AdvisorCompanyYou.com and LinkedTrust
Field examples of tools that embed earned governance, shared ownership, and participatory decision-making into everyday startup workflows.
What Workers Want: Lessons from the American Job Quality Study
Molly BlankenshipTitleAssociate Vice PresidentCompanyJobs for the Future
Findings from more than 18,000 workers on financial wellbeing, culture and safety, development, agency and voice, and sustainable working conditions.
Through the LP Lens: Investing in the Ownership Economy
Caleb BallouTitleCofounderCompanyTrimtab Impact
What limited partners examine when assessing ownership-focused funds, including financial alignment, worker and community benefits, governance, scalability, risk, and catalytic capital.
State of the Field: What the Latest Research Tells Us About Employee Ownership
Dr. Bill CastellanoTitleProfessor and Institute DirectorCompanyRutgers UniversityTrevor Young-HymanTitleAssistant ProfessorCompanyUniversity of PittsburghJason SpicerTitleAssociate ProfessorCompanyBaruch College, CUNYJegoo LeeTitleAssociate Professor of ManagementCompanyUniversity of Rhode IslandEric HoytTitleAssistant Professor of EconomicsCompanyUniversity of Rhode Island
A research-focused review of the latest evidence on employee ownership, moderated by Dr. Bill Castellano.
Building the Next Layer of the Ownership Stack
Thom TownsendTitleExecutive DirectorCompanyOpen OwnershipHoward BrodskyTitleCofounder and ChairmanCompanyCCA Global
A closing synthesis on how capital, policy, research, technical assistance, worker voice, leadership, and market infrastructure can work together to expand durable ownership.
Closing reception
Continue the day's conversations with speakers and attendees at the closing reception.
Optional Networking Dinners
Optional small group dinners for attendees who want to continue connecting after the formal program.
Programme details follow the official NYC agenda Registered attendees receive schedule updates from the event team.
New York City, October 1, 2026
Choose your sessions and register.
Ownership Economy Summit at 140 Broadway, Manhattan.