Employee Ownership Events
Events across the ownership economyverse. Updated ~weekly
Last updated April 1st, 2026. For more regional US events, check out NCEO, ESOP Association, EOX State Centers, and the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives
April 4: Trent-Towne Market’s Reimagining Your Community and Its Future panel in Trenton, NJ
Apr 6-9: NCEO’s Employee Ownership Conference in Milwaukee
April 9: ImpactPHL’s Employee Ownership as a Community-Anchored Alternative to Extractive Capital webinar
April 17: St. Mary’s University’s Making Sense of AI with the Cooperative Movement webinar
April 23: Common Trust’s Owners Session: Turning Culture Into Ownership webinar with Cypress Valley Meat Company
🆕 | May 1: The Center for Community Wealth’s Testing the Case for Financial Aggregation in Community Ownership webinar
May 2: Cooperative Development Foundation’s 5k in DC
May 5-8: The ESOP Association’s National Conference in Washington, D.C.
May 5: IFG New York 2026 Conference featuring David York who will be speaking on steward ownership and purpose trusts
May 7-9: The Economy of Francesco’s event in Assisi, Italy
🆕 | May 15: Rutgers NJ/NY Center for Employee Ownership’s Business Exit Planning Conference in New Brunswick
May 15-16: The California Co-op Conference
May 23: The Economy of Francesco’s International Conference on Franciscan Economics in Sansepolcro, Italy
June 2-3: The Aspen-Rutgers Employee Ownership Ideas Forum in DC
June 2: The Grunin Center’s Conference on Legal Issues in Social Entrepreneurship and Impact Investing, with a track on ownership investing
June 15-16: OEOC and NCEO’s Is an ESOP right for you? in Columbus, OH
June 16-17: NCEO’s New [ESOP] Manager Workshop in Denver, CO
July 16-17: ESCA’s Midwestern Regional Policy Seminar in Chicago
June 19 (probably): UK EOT Day in Birmingham
June 28-30: ESOP Association’s CFO Summit in Sonoma, CA
June 28-30: Rutgers Institute’s Future of Equity Symposium in Palo Alto, CA (see RSVP, proposal submission form, and 2025 program)
July 8-10: 2026 IAFEP Conference at the University of Mondragon University in Oñati, Spain
Aug 23-25: ESOP Association’s CEO Summit in Ranchos Palos Verdes
Aug 29-Sep 3: Economy of Francesco’s Economics of Fraternity summer school in Germany
Sep 15-17: International Cooperative Alliance’s General Assembly in Panama
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 23-25: ESCA’s Federal Policy Conference & Lobby Day in DC
September 25-26: The 2026 Worker Cooperative Conference will be held September 25-26 at Roxbury Community College in Boston, MA
Sept 28-29: 2026 Working Class Insights Forum in Middleburg, VA
Sep 29-Oct 1: ESOP Association’s Great Lakes Regional Conference in Indianapolis
Oct 1: Iowa Center for Employee Ownership’s Annual Conference in Ankeny, IA
Oct 19-21: ICA Group’s 10th Annual National Home Care Cooperative Conference in Tacoma, Washington
Oct 26-27: ESCA’s Pacific Regional Policy Seminar in Coronado, CA
Sep 1-3: The Great Game of Businesses’ 2026 conference in St. Louis, Missouri
Sep 1-4: The Royal Geographical Society’s Democratising the Economy conference in London
Nov 12–15: The 12th Platform Cooperativism Consortium Conference in Bangkok, Thailand
2027 (🙀)
Mar 10-12: ESOP Association’s Western Regional Conference in Denver
