2026 speakers‍ ‍

  • Andrea Steffes-Tuttle

    Founder and Director
    The Well Economy Lab

  • Anna-Lisa Miller

    Executive Director
    Ownership Works

  • Austin Robey

    Founder
    Subvert

  • Carl Fredlund

    Strategy Director
    Mobility Data

  • Delilah Rothenberg

    Co-founder & Executive Director Predistribution Initiative

  • Illa Burbank

    Executive Director
    North Carolina Employee Ownership Center

  • Jahed Momand

    Co-founder and General Partner
    Cerulean Ventures

  • Jan Eeckhout

    PhD
    London School of Economics

  • Jason Wiener

    Founding Partner & President
    Jason Wiener P.C.

  • John Dyck

    CEO
    CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute

  • John Garry

    General Partner
    Garry Elevator

  • Howard Brodsky

    Co-Founder and Chairman CCA Global

  • Kevin McDonough

    Head of Engineering
    OpenMined Foundation
    (also Fund Manager, Angel Investor, Board Member)


  • Martin Smith

    CEO and Co-Founder of CommonShare

  • Matthew Epperson

    Athens (GA) Local Outreach Coordinator, Georgia Center for Employee Ownership

  • Michelle Moore

    CEO
    Groundswell

  • Molly Blankenship

    Associate Vice President Jobs for the Future

  • Rachel Merfalen

    Executive Director
    Tennessee Center for Employee Ownership
    Job Quality Fellow, The Aspen Institute

  • Rebecca Kern

    Director of Capital & Growth
    Catch Together

  • Sheila R. Foster

    Professor
    Columbia University's Climate School
    (also affiliated faculty, Columbia Law School)

  • Yev Muchnik

    Senior of Counsel
    Jason Wiener P.C.
    Web3 Lawyer. Legal and Tech Futurist.

  • Asher Jay

    Chief Network Architect Shareholder Democracy

  • Steven Hill

    Policy Director and Journalist

  • William G. Bill Castellano

    Professor of Human Resource Management and Director, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
    Conference Moderator · Rutgers University

  • Thom Townsend

    Executive Director Open Ownership

  • Golda Velez

    Executive Advisor LinkedTrust

  • Caleb Ballou

    Co-Founder Trimtab Impact

  • Elizabeth A. Bennett

    Professor of International Affairs and Director of Political Economy, Lewis & Clark College

  • Trevor Young-Hyman

    Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology

  • Jason Spicer

    Associate Professor
    Marxe School of Public and International Affairs · Baruch College, CUNY

  • Jegoo Lee

    Associate Professor of Management
    College of Business · University of Rhode Island

  • Eric Hoyt

    Assistant Professor of Economics
    University of Rhode Island

  • Kevin Owocki

    Co-founder of Gitcoin

  • Dr. Jens Lowitzsch

    Director Kelso Institute Europe

  • Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour

    Executive Director Kensington Corridor Trust

  • Juan Dumas

    Co-Founder and Partner MELIQUINA

  • Brian Vo

    CEO Connect Humanity