The architectures of shared ownership, shared governance, and shared upside
A one-day gathering in New York for founders, operators, investors, policymakers, technologists, researchers, and institutional builders working on the next generation of ownership models in North America.
Why this gathering
The ownership economy is bigger than startup equity and founder exits. It now spans mission-preserving transitions, employee ownership, onchain governance, community energy, land stewardship, policy innovation, community-controlled finance, and ownership-lens investing across multiple asset classes. This gathering is designed to connect those worlds in one room and turn them into practical relationships, strategies, and next steps.
Move beyond extractive defaults
Explore how organizations are redesigning control, succession, and accountability so value creation can be shared more broadly and governed more durably.
Look at the rails beneath the models
From data standards to stablecoins to community land structures, the day focuses on the infrastructures that make collective ownership workable at scale.
Build real follow-up, not just ideas
With long networking breaks, hosted lunch tables, and a late-day reception, the event is built for high-signal introductions, deal flow, policy coordination, and founder follow-up.
Agenda at a glance
Below is the current structure for the day. Replace the placeholders with your final date, venue, and registration links once those are set.
Registration, coffee, and curated networking
An arrival experience built for warm introductions across founders, allocators, policymakers, technologists, researchers, and operators.
Why New York, why ownership, why now
A short opening frame for the day and a clear definition of the ownership economy that extends far beyond conventional shareholder value.
Mission-preserving exits, steward ownership, and ownership transitions
A working conversation on how founders, boards, investors, and legal architects are redesigning succession so mission, worker voice, and long-term stewardship can survive capital raising, founder transition, and growth.
Federated industry data, shared rails, and trusted infrastructure
A look at how manufacturing, mobility, identity, and privacy-preserving data infrastructure are building new forms of coordination without platform capture. The focus is on trusted rails, open standards, and shared governance.
Morning networking break
A full 30-minute break designed for cross-room conversations, investor sidebars, and high-value introductions before the next two sessions.
Federating health without platform capture
A panel on interoperable, patient-centered health systems that treat data, care, and research as shared infrastructure. Expect a practical conversation about standards, trust, incentives, and governance.
Money as shared infrastructure
This session widens the money conversation beyond community banking to include stablecoins, digital-dollar rails, decentralized credit, mutual credit, and community-controlled finance. The question is what changes when money is designed as infrastructure, not just a product.
Ownership-lens investing across asset classes
A practical investor-facing session on how to underwrite ownership design across public equities, private markets, housing, donor-advised assets, community finance, and catalytic capital. The goal is to make the ownership lens legible across multiple asset classes.
Policy for the ownership economy
A policy session focused on the real levers that move ownership into the mainstream: procurement, tax design, public finance, technical assistance, state offices, city strategies, and ecosystem-building institutions.
Hosted lunch tables
An extended lunch with curated table themes spanning founder transitions, stablecoins and mutualism, policy asks, ownership-lens investing, energy ownership, and land and housing.
Who owns the energy transition?
A conversation about how clean energy, grid infrastructure, and climate resilience can be owned by communities, tribes, ratepayers, and local institutions rather than only by large incumbents. It centers governance, resilience, and local wealth creation.
Onchain coordination, programmable ownership, and internet-native governance
A deeper look at the legal, technical, and operating architectures behind shared ownership online: public-goods funding, DAO infrastructure, protocol governance, legal wrappers, token systems, and internet-native institutions.
Builders of the ownership stack
A dedicated showcase for selected startups building new tools, structures, and infrastructures for shared ownership, shared governance, and new economic coordination. Designed for investors, partners, and operators who want to see what is emerging now.
Afternoon networking break
A second 30-minute networking block for investor follow-up, partnership discussions, media conversations, policy sidebars, and curated introductions before the final concurrent sessions.
Industrial democracy at scale
A real-economy session on how employee-owned and worker-governed firms scale governance, succession, financing, and operating discipline. The emphasis is on durable institutional design, not theory alone.
Housing commons, community ownership, and land stewardship
A session on community land trusts, resident-owned communities, cooperative real estate, and anti-speculative housing models that treat land as shared infrastructure. It connects ownership to housing affordability and long-term community control.
What a Ownership stack needs next
A closing synthesis focused on what should leave the room as a live introduction, policy ask, diligence process, founder follow-up, or collaborative pilot.
Closing reception and hosted introductions
A final hour for high-signal networking, scheduled follow-up, and relationship-building across the full room.
Panel descriptions
The panels are designed to show the ownership economy as a stack of interlocking institutions, not a single trend line. Each session is built to connect practitioners working on governance, capital, infrastructure, and implementation.
Mission-preserving exits
A working conversation on how founders, boards, investors, and legal architects are redesigning succession so mission, worker voice, and long-term stewardship can survive capital raising, founder transition, and growth.
Shared rails and trusted infrastructure
A look at how manufacturing, mobility, identity, and privacy-preserving data infrastructure are building new forms of coordination without platform capture. The focus is on trusted rails, open standards, and shared governance.
Health without platform capture
A panel on interoperable, patient-centered health systems that treat data, care, and research as shared infrastructure. Expect a practical conversation about standards, trust, incentives, and governance.
Programmable money and mutualism
This session widens the money conversation beyond community banking to include stablecoins, digital-dollar rails, decentralized credit, mutual credit, and community-controlled finance. The question is what changes when money is designed as infrastructure, not just a product.
Ownership-lens investing
A practical investor-facing session on how to underwrite ownership design across public equities, private markets, housing, donor-advised assets, community finance, and catalytic capital. The goal is to make the ownership lens legible across multiple asset classes.
Policy for the ownership economy
A policy session focused on the real levers that move ownership into the mainstream: procurement, tax design, public finance, technical assistance, state offices, city strategies, and ecosystem-building institutions.
Community power and grid democracy
A conversation about how clean energy, grid infrastructure, and climate resilience can be owned by communities, tribes, ratepayers, and local institutions rather than only by large incumbents. It centers governance, resilience, and local wealth creation.
Onchain governance and programmable ownership
A deeper look at the legal, technical, and operating architectures behind shared ownership online: public-goods funding, DAO infrastructure, protocol governance, legal wrappers, token systems, and internet-native institutions.
Industrial democracy at scale
A real-economy session on how employee-owned and worker-governed firms scale governance, succession, financing, and operating discipline. The emphasis is on durable institutional design, not theory alone.
Housing commons and land stewardship
A session on community land trusts, resident-owned communities, cooperative real estate, and anti-speculative housing models that treat land as shared infrastructure. It connects ownership to housing affordability and long-term community control.
Who should be in the room
This is a curated room for people building, funding, regulating, or researching new ownership models in North America.
- Founders and operators exploring mission-preserving exits or new governance models
- Allocators, family offices, asset managers, and catalytic capital providers
- Policymakers, public-sector leaders, and ecosystem builders
- Technologists working on shared rails, public goods, and programmable coordination
- Practitioners in housing, energy, health, finance, and worker ownership
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