2025 Summit Schedule

Time	Session	Location
8:15 – 9:15	Registration	Concourse in front of Meeting Room 1
9:15 – 9:30	Welcome	Meeting Room 1
9:45-11:00 Workshop Block #1	Learning from Local Cooperative Ecosystems Across New York State	Meeting Room 2
9:45-11:00 Workshop Block #1	Inclusive Entrepreneurship Using the Rapid Response Co-op Development Model	Meeting Room 1
9:45-11:00 Workshop Block #1	Unstuck: How to Negotiate the Power of Mental Models to Manage Conflict and Resolve Disputes	Meeting Room 3
9:45-11:00 Workshop Block #1	A Regional Strategy to Scale-up Conversions of Existing Businesses to Cooperative Ownership: Learning from the Northeast Transition Initiative	Meeting Room 4
11:15-12:30 Workshop Block #2	New York State Policy Campaigns Advancing Economic Democracy.	Meeting Room 1
11:15-12:30 Workshop Block #2	Co-ops In the Care Economy	Meeting Room 2
11:15-12:30 Workshop Block #2	Meeting the Moment: Cooperative Resilience in Tumultuous Times	Meeting Room 3
11:15-12:30 Workshop Block #2	Cooperative AI and the Radically Democratic Power of the Audit	Meeting Room 4
12:30 – 1:15	Lunch	Boxed lunches can be picked up in Meeting Room 1.
1:30 – 2:45 Workshop Block #3	Building Cooperative Policy and Ecosystems At Scale: Learning from statewide organizing models outside of NY	Meeting Room 2
1:30 – 2:45 Workshop Block #3	Employee Ownership & Collective Bargaining: Contrasting & Complementary Means of Worker Power	Meeting Room 1
1:30 – 2:45 Workshop Block #3	NYS Cooperative Financing Landscape	Meeting Room 3
1:30 – 2:45 Workshop Block #3	Effective Cooperative Meeting Facilitation	Meeting Room 4
3:00-3:45	Keynote Cooperative Leadership to Meet the Moment – Resilience, Resistance, and Movement Building	Meeting Room 1
3:45 – 5:00	Emergent Breakouts	Meeting Room 1
5:00-5:30	Closing Remarks and Next Steps	Meeting Room 1
6:00 – 9:00	Afterparty	The Larkin Hi-Fi (Nearby bar at 199 Lark St).