2026 speakers
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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
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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
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Kevin McDonough
Head of Engineering
OpenMined Foundation
(also Fund Manager, Angel Investor, Board Member) -

Martin Smith
CEO and Co-Founder of CommonShare
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Matthew Epperson
Athens (GA) Local Outreach Coordinator, Georgia Center for Employee Ownership
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Michelle Moore
CEO
Groundswell -

Molly Blankenship
Associate Vice President Jobs for the Future
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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
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Steven Hill
Policy Director and Journalist
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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
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Golda Velez
Executive Advisor LinkedTrust
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Caleb Ballou
Co-Founder Trimtab Impact
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Elizabeth A. Bennett
Professor of International Affairs and Director of Political Economy, Lewis & Clark College
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Trevor Young-Hyman
Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Sociology
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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
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Dr. Jens Lowitzsch
Director Kelso Institute Europe
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Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour
Executive Director Kensington Corridor Trust
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Juan Dumas
Co-Founder and Partner MELIQUINA
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Brian Vo
CEO Connect Humanity