Last updated September 9th, 2026. For even more regional events, check out NCEO, ESOP Association, EOX, and USFWC.
Sep 10: Steward Market hosts The Next Steward, an online discussion with Hannah Sandmeyer and Kate Williams
Sep 10: Kent State’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center presents ESOP Eligibility, Participation, Entry and Vesting Mechanics
Sep 10: MCM Collaborative shares their journey to becoming a psychotherapy cooperative
Sep 14-15: Ohio Center for Employee Ownership’s 2026 National Employee-Owner Summit in Chicago
Sep 15: Tompkins Bank & Trust Power Breakfast: The Power of Purpose in White Plains, NY
Sep 15: The Center for Inclusive Growth’s 2nd Annual Inclusive Growth Summit in New Haven, CT
Sep 15-16: Neighborhood Economics Galveston 2026 in Galveston, TX
Sep 15-17: International Cooperative Alliance’s General Assembly in Panama
The Asset Funders Network’s Invested in the South: CDFIs Building Assets, Strengthening Communities
Sep 15-19: Hawaii Tax Institute 63rd Annual In-Person Conference, in Honolulu, HI or via livestream
Sep 16: SO:27, the Steward Ownership Conference in Berlin
🆕 Sep 16: Follett Talks: Sociocracy, with Bernadette Wesley
Sep 16: Good Together’s Talking Shift: Is the answer to tough times taking back the economy?
Sep 16: Center for Sustainable Finance & Private Wealth hosts Integrating Philanthropy and Investing to Build Community Ownership
Sep 16-17: 6th Annual BLD Southeast Conference in DC
Sep 17: Jessica Gordon Nembhard speaks about collective courage with Júlia Martins Rodrigues in Boulder, CO
Sep 18: Asset Funders Network hosts a 3-part online series teaching on the Ownership Economy in Texas
Sep 22: Common Trust hosts a webinar where Zoe Schlag interviews P. Terry’s Co-Founder Kathy Terry on scaling a people-first business
Sep 22-23: The Great Game of Business Conference in St. Louis
Sep 22-24: ESOP Association’s Midwest Regional Conference in Des Moines
Sept 23: UWFWC’s Union Co-Ops Council meeting
Sept 23-25: ESCA’s Federal Policy Conference & Lobby Day in DC
eoa hosts an online panel sponsored by PwC titled How to Become Employee Owned
Sep 24: Kent State’s Ohio Employee Ownership Center presents ESOP Contribution and Allocation Mechanics
Sep 25-26: USFWC and DAWI’s Worker Cooperative Conference at Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA (y en español también)
Sept 28-29: 2026 Working Class Insights Forum in Middleburg, VA
Sep 29-Oct 1: ESOP Association’s Great Lakes Regional Conference in Indianapolis
Sep 30: Centre for Climate Psychology presents An Economy of Right Relationship: Robin Wall Kimmerer in Conversation with Kate Raworth
Oct 1: The Ownership Economy Summit in NYC and Barcelona
Oct 1: Iowa Center for Employee Ownership’s Annual Conference in Ankeny, IA
Oct 6: The International Center for Co-operative Management is leading a short course in the Arlington, VA area
Oct 6: The EO Capital Roadmap Roadshow in Philadelphia
Oct 6: The Next Economy and Greater Melbourne Foundation host Enrich Sahan from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in Melbourne
Oct 7-8: NCEO hosts its Women’s Summit in Detroit, MI
EOT Advisors is hosting a webinar to help business owners learn about EOTs
The Steward Ownership Academic Day in Amsterdam
Oct 8: eoa hosts its second eoaLive! at The Lowery in Manchester, UK
The Cooperative Hall of Fame 2026 Class induction ceremony in Washington, DC
Steward Ownership Festival Amsterdam in…well, Amsterdam
Oct 12-13: New Economies Conference in Bonn, Germany
Oct 12-14: SOCAP Global’s first flagship event: SOCAP 2026, in Chicago, IL
Oct 13: The EO Capital Roadmap Roadshow in Chicago
Oct 13-15: The Aspen Institute’s Aspen Ideas: Economy in Tulsa, OK
Oct 14: The Next Economy and the Paul Ramsey Foundation host Enrich Sahan from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in Sydney
Oct 15 - 16: Cooperatives Europe celebrates 20 years
Oct 17: Venture for Canada hosts the Canada Succession Summit in Calgary
Oct 19-21: ICA Group’s 10th Annual National Home Care Cooperative Conference in Tacoma, Washington
Oct 20-22: In Vancouver, Canada, Employee Ownership Canada hosts its 2026 Canadian Employee Ownership Conference
From 20-23, the Opportunity Finance Network has its OFN42 conference in New Orleans, LA
The Gap in Between conference in Valencia, SP bringing together impact-driven business leaders
Oct 21: Austin Cooperative Business Association’s 2026 Co-Opportunity Fair in Austin, TX
Oct 26-27: ESCA’s Pacific Regional Policy Seminar in Coronado, CA
Nov 1-4: The ESOP Association hosts Employee Owned 26 in Las Vegas, bringing together ESOP professionals
Nov 4: EOT Advisors is hosting a webinar to help business owners learn about EOTs
Nov 10: 2026 Southwest Ohio Employee Ownership Forum
Nov 12-13: The Institute for Business in Global Society at Harvard’s TOP26: Steward Ownership Conference in Cambridge, MA
Nov 12–15: The 12th Platform Cooperativism Consortium Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
Nov 19-20: Corporate Rebels Summit in Amsterdam
Nov 20: Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing presents the virtual Private Equity & Employee Share Ownership Symposium
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Jan 8-10: Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing hosts 2027 Kelso Workshop
Mar 10-12: The ESOP Association’s Western Regional Conference in Denver
Apr 12-14: NCEO’s 2027 Annual Employee Ownership Conference in Pittsburgh
