Save the Date:  Cooperative AI Conference  

Istanbul, Turkey | November 11–14, 2025 

🔗 Visit the conference website to read the full introduction to Cooperative AI and register now to join us in Istanbul. Seats are limited.

Cooperative AI, the first global conference on cooperatives and artificial intelligence, held during the UN Year of Cooperatives, centers collective ownership, ecological care, and democratic governance within the broader context of the solidarity economy.

This conference creates a radical space for researchers, activists, labor organizers, cooperative leaders and doers, whistleblowers, solidarity economy organizers, technologists, and open-source builders from across the globe. The 4-day conference asks not only how AI can be governed by cooperative principles, but how cooperatives can use, build, educate for, and integrate AI into their models and infrastructures. The aim isn’t solely novelty, but innovation toward our mutual purpose.

Convened in partnership between the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and NeedsMap, the event is organized by Prof. Trebor Scholz (Platform Cooperativism Consortium/The New School), and Stefano Tortorici (Scuola Normale Superiore). Our call for practitioners and researchers is open, submit here.

In the lead-up to the event, The New School offers a 15-week online course on Cooperative AI—learn  more and register your interest here.