The People’s Disruption: Platform Coops for Global Challenges

Douglas Rushkoff Founder, Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens

Pia Mancini Co-Founder, Open Collective & Chair, Democracy Earth Foundation

Joseph Blasi Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing, Rutgers University

Ana Manzanedo Publicist & Fellow in the Workable Future Initiative of the Institute for the Future

Alex Wood Researcher, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK

Raz Godelnik Associate professor of strategic design and management, The New School

Jim Kennedy Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate development at Associated Press

Debby Kaplan Pioneer and Thought Leader in the Disability Civil Rights Movement

Camille Kerr Founder & Principal of Upside Down Consulting

danah boyd Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research & Founder/President, Data & Society.

Ashley Taylor Cultural Activist

Howard Brodsky Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CCA Global Partners

Sam Witherbee Launched Peers.org & Co-Founder, Groundswell.org

Brianna Wettlaufer Co-Founder, Stocksy

Ela Kagel Managing Partner, SUPERMARKT

Ingrid Burrington Writer, Cartographer, & Comedien

Mara Zepeda Managing Director, Zebras Unite

Lieza Dessein Strategic Project Manager, SMart & Board of Directors, Coop

Damiano Avellino Co-founder, Fairbnb

Elena Como Head of Research& Evaluation, LAMA Agency,

Marina Gorbis Executive Director of the Institute for the Future (IFTF)

Yochai Benkler Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard University

Jutta Treviranus Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre

Michelle Miller Co-Founder and Co-Director of Coworker.org

Juan Jose Rodriguez Co-Founder, Aarhus Makers

Hal Plotkin Former Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education

Teresa Munchick Co-Founder, The Movement

Deb Socia Executive Director, Next Century Cities

Marcy Chong Director of Research, Public Division, Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Lucius Gregory Meredith Musician and Mathematician

Nuno Silva Founding Member, Stocksy United

Duncan Wallace Education Officer, Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals

William Azaroff Executive Lead, Vancity

David Hammer Executive Director, ICA Group

Brad Burnham Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures

Thorben Wieditz Lead, Fairbnb.ca Campaign

Caitlin Pierce Director of Advocacy and Member Engagement, Freelancers Union

Aaron Tanaka Director, Center for Economic Democracy & Co-Founder, Boston Ujima Project

Marco Tognetti Co-Founder and Executive Director, Lama Agency & Design Management Professor, ISIA University in Florence

Alicia Garza Strategy and Partnerships Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance & Fo-founder, Black Lives Matter Network

Fredrik Söderqvist Senior Economist, Unionen

Alicia Trepat Pont Fellow, Workable Future Program at the Institute for the Future

Jamie Burke CEO of Outlier Ventures, Europe's first blockchain venture capital firm

Palak Shah Founding Director of Fair Care Labs & Social Innovations Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance

Yaso Cordova Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center, & Fellow at Digital Harvard Kennedy School and CTS-FGV

Christina Jennings Executive Director, Shared Capital Cooperative

Danny Spitzberg Lead Researcher, Turning Basin Labs

Brendan Martin Founder & Director, Working World

Jen Horonjeff Founder and CEO of Savvy Cooperative

Maru Bautista At-Large Director, Center for Family Life

Mathias Sager Founder, Platform Cooperativism Japan Consortium in Tokyo

Felicia Wong President and CEO, Roosevelt Institute

Derek Razo Co-ZFounder & Partner, Purpose Economy Ventures

Juliet Schor Professor of Sociology at Boston College

Abigail Solomon Founder, Carina

Trebor Scholz New School professor and Founding Director of the Platform Cooperativism Consortium

Matthew Cropp Community Operations Team Coordinator, Social.coop

Maribel Torres Founding Member, Brightly Cleaning of Staten Island Co-op

Antti Virolainen Co-founder and COO at Sharetribe

Nathan Schneider Assistant Professor of Media Studies, The University of Colorado Boulder

Sasha Costanza-Chock Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT, Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio

Julie Miller Markoff Systems Change Architect, Non-Executive Director, Social Investor and Mother

Ana Martina Rivas Membership Director, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives