Special Topics Webinars

We host free webinars offered by co-operative sector leaders on special topics in business, management, governance, economics and social movements.

Upcoming Webinars

• Making Sense of AI in the Co-operative Movement (10:00-11:30am ET).
  • April 10: AI for Cooperatives - Risks, Dependencies and Ethical Limits. More here.
  • April 17: The Commons and Open Cooperativism. More here. 
  • April 24: Cooperative Digital Infrastructure & Data Centers. More here.

Enjoy Our Webinar Recording Library 

• Law & Co-operatives - Friend or foe? Exploring the legal landscape about, for, and against co-ops was held on October 24, 2024, with the International Cooperative Alliance and IUS Cooperativum. 
• Accelerating Worker Ownership: A Strategy Session on Co-op Development in the Digital Economy and Beyond with researcher-practitioner Emi DoAman Bardia (Platform Cooperativism Consortium), Matt Kendon,  (CoTech, Space4, Outlandish), Tara Merk (Exit to Community Collective), Katie Michels (Start.coop), Ludovica Rogers (UnFound Accelerator), and Jonny Sopotiuk (Union Co-operative Initiative) held June 29, 2023. The event has also served as a launch event for Co-operatives, Work, and the Digital Economy: A Knowledge Synthesis Report, by Greig de Peuter, Gemma de Verteuil, and Salome Machaka, which is freely available here. Find more details on the event and speakers here.
• Co-operatives in the Digital Age: Digital maturity, data and transition with Deborah Moore and Bob Yuill held May 26, 2022
• Isthmus Engineering: A Case Study on Worker Co-op Governance with Ole Olson (worker/member) and Margaret Lund (researcher) held March 1, 2022. Read the case study here.
• Global Research on Environment and Co-ops (ICA-EU Partnership) with Jeffrey Moxom, Simren Singh and Melvin Khabenje held October 18, 2021. Read the Cooperation for the Transition to a Green Economy (2021) report here.
• Digging into the Global Research on Youth and Co-ops with Jeffrey Moxom, Simren Singh and Melvin Khabenje, March 2021
• A Broader History of Co-operation: from Europe to the World with Nazik Beishenaly, February 2021
• How Inter-cooperation Strengthens Co-operatives, Economies, and Communities facilitated by Karen Miner, Cory Munden, Kelly Storie and Colette Lebel and hosted by Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, February 2021
• Indigenous Rights and Inclusion in Co-operatives with Mary Nirlungayuk, Joanne Stone-Campbell and Lisa Clatney, November 2020
• Indigenous Rights and Inclusion in Co-operatives with Dr. Priscilla Settee & Dr. Isobel Findlay, November 2020
• Passing the Torch - Propelling Co-ops Forward with Erin Hancock, Iva Jankovic, Josh Noble, and Tim Ross hosted by Canada's Emerging Co-operators, Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, November 2020 
• The Co-operative Advantage with Dr. Daniel Côté, November 2020
• Co-operatives and New Economic Paradigms with Dr. Sonja Novkovic  October 2020
• The Co-operative Model - Its Contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and New Economic Paradigms with Sonja Novkovic, hosted by the ICA Coop Academy #coops4dev), October 2020
• Another Way? How about Business Conversions to Co-operatives with Dr. Marcelo Vieta and Dr. Fiona Duguid hosted Co-operatives and Mutuals Canada, September 2020
• Lessons from Argentina's Worker Recuperated Enterprises: Co-operatives in Times of Crisis with Dr. Marcelo Vieta, May 2020
• Break Free from Our Systems Prison - A Human-Centred Way of Thinking About and Managing Co-operatives with Bob Cannell, April 2020
• Co-operation and the Preston Model: Beyond 'Urban Regeneration' with Julian Manley, March 2020
• Learn What Content Marketing and the Fifth Co-operative Principle have in Common (and how to leverage it) with Michael T. Jackson, March 2020
• Living our Co-op Values: Applying an Intercultural Development Model to Achieve Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion with LaDonna Redmond, February 2020
• What Does Ethical Banking and Finance Look Like? with Goran Jeras, April 2018
• CUSO Wealth Strategies, with Jay Corrado, a peer-to-peer webinar hosted in collaboration with the Co-operative Management Education Alumni and Student Co-operative, February 2018
• Modo Carshare Co-op, with Patrick Nangle and William Azaroff, a peer-to-peer webinar hosted in collaboration with the Co-operative Management Education Alumni and Student Co-operative, January 2018