A brief schedule is below. For more background and information on the Daylong Development Intensive, go to: http://conference2012.usworker.coop/coop-dev-intensive
Schedule
8:30-9:30am
Introduction and Context
9:30-10:30
OPENING PLENARY: DIVERSITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, FUNDING
Worker Cooperative-Initiated Development Models: Valley Alliance of Worker Cooperatives, MadWORC
Worker Cooperative Developers: Arizmendi, WAGES
Developing Worker Cooperatives as Part of a Larger Strategy or Program: USW/Mondragon, MIT/CoLab
10:45-12:30
Morning Sessions
The Challenges of Cooperative Development and Sustainability: “The Tough Stuff”
Roy Messing, Ohio Employee Ownership Center; Deb Goldberg, WAGES Cooperatives
Coop Development Models: Lessons for Boston
Julie Matthaei, Solidarity Economy Network; Fred Rose, Wellspring and Public Policy Program, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Juan Leyton, Neighbor to Neighbor; Aaron Tanaka, Boston Workers Alliance
Cooperative Members' Perspectives on the Developer Relationship
Members of cooperatives to be announced
12:30 - 1:45
LUNCH PLENARY: ACCOUNTABILITY
First Do No Harm: The Real Risks in Cooperative Development
Conversation convened and guided by Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Stacey Cordeiro
2:00-3:45
Afternoon Sessions
Crowd Funding, Technology Startups and Cooperatives: A New Era of Innovation?
Luan Cox, GreenUnite.com; Michael Peck, Mondragon USA; Jon Guice, Combined Power Cooperative
Community Organizing, Community Economic Development and Worker Cooperatives: Urban and Rural Models
Camille Pannu, Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment; others TBA
Co-op Conversions: Can We Have Some More, Please?
Don Jamison, Vermonth Employee Ownership Center; Noemi Giszpenc, Cooperative Development Institute
3:45-4:00
Coffee Break
4-5pm
CLOSING PLENARY: DIVERSITY, DOCUMENTING SUCCESSFUL PRACTICES
Suggested directions, Lessons from the Day, Looking Ahead, Principles for Worker Cooperative Development?
Reports back from the listeners