Ownership Economy Summit 2026
Power,
participation,
and shared
upside.
A summit for the builders, investors, policymakers, founders, creators, and community leaders shaping a more participatory economy.
The Ownership Economy is a movement to put power back in the hands of people, communities, ecosystems, and sentient machines. It asks one urgent question: what would the economy look like if more people had a real stake in the value they help create?
Barcelona
ECOSYSTEM Summit · September 17, 2026
New York City
Ownership Economy Summit · October 1, 2026
Why this gathering
A forum for the next economy.
For decades, people created value while platforms captured the upside. The summit brings together practical models for ownership, governance, capital, data rights, community wealth, and decentralized networks.
Build
Explore new structures for shared ownership, platform participation, community infrastructure, and mission-preserving companies.
Fund
Connect investors, allocators, foundations, and catalytic capital with ownership-aligned models and market opportunities.
Govern
Discuss policy, legal design, worker ownership, data rights, and the institutions needed for durable shared upside.
Who attends
A room designed for cross-sector ownership.
Investors, operators, policy leaders, foundations, founders, builders, academics, and ownership practitioners across the field.
What we explore
The ownership stack.
The summit connects ideas that usually live in separate rooms: employee ownership, onchain governance, public goods, AI, data, community capital, housing, energy, and policy.
Employee ownership and shared equity
Data rights and AI value creation
Onchain governance and public goods
Community wealth and local ecosystems
Ownership-lens investing
Energy, land, housing, and infrastructure
Policy, law, and institutional design
Founders, exits, and mission preservation
Inside the summit
People, panels, and practical conversations.
Moments from past Ownership Economy gatherings — speaker sessions, working rooms, and the conversations that continue between them.
Our Community
Adriana Abizadeh-Barbour
Executive Director, Kensington Corridor Trust
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
Brian Vo
Chief Executive Officer
Delilah Rothenberg
Co-founder & Executive Director
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 Weiner
Founding Partner & President, Jason Wiener P.C.
John Dyck
CEO, CESMII – The Smart Manufacturing Institute
John Garry
General Partner, Garry Elevator
Juan Dumas
Co-Founder and Partner, MELIQUINA
Howard Brodsky
Co-operative leader and entrepreneur
Kevin McDonough
Head of Engineering, OpenMined Foundation
Kevin Owocki
Co-Founder
Kristen Cordell
Senior Director, Policy, Grand Challenges Canada
Martin Smith
CEO and Co-Founder, CommonShare
Matthew Epperson
Georgia Center for Employee Ownership
Michelle Moore
CEO, Groundswell
Rachel Merfalen
Executive Director, Tennessee Center for Employee Ownership
Rebecca Kern
Director of Capital & Growth, Catch Together
Sheila R. Foster
Professor, Columbia University Climate School
Yev Muchnik
Senior Of Counsel, Jason Wiener | p.c.
Register
Join the 2026 Ownership Economy Summit.
Choose Barcelona or New York City and take part in a cross-sector conversation about the future of ownership, governance, and shared value.