April 15, 2016

NCEO Annual Conference Sets Another Record

Executive Director

A record-setting 1,683 people attended the NCEO's 2016 Employee Ownership Conference in Minneapolis this week. This year's conference featured keynote speeches by trend-setting author Bo Burlingham and by Timothy Hauser of the US Department of Labor, who also hosted a conversational Q&A session with attendees. Other highlights of the conference include:

  • The announcement of thee winners of the innovations in Employee Ownership Award: Harpoon Brewing, Mission Bell, and WATG
  • 120 breakout sessions—20% more than the 2015 conference
  • A conversation with Graeme Nuttall, who led the development of UK legislation supporting employee ownership, about importing the perpetual trust model of employee ownership to the US
  • Working meetings on outreach and state employee ownership centers, including established centers from Ohio and Vermont and new executive directors: Kevin McPhillips of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership and Halisi Vinson of the Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center