Program

Day 1: Thursday, November 7, 2019

• 9:00AM

  Registration Opens 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

• 11:00AM

  Coopathon! Designing an Index of the Digital Co-Op Space 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Danny Spitzberg

• 6:00PM

  THIS IS ZAMBIA by PilAto 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Fumba Chama

• 6:15PM

  Welcome by Trebor Scholz 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Trebor Scholz

• 6:30PM

  Introduction by David Van Zandt, President of The New School 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  David Van Zandt

• 6:40PM

  Platform Co-ops & the Green New Deal 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Mundano, Oriol Alfambra Serrano, Dieter Janecek, John McDonnell, Raz Godelnik, Édith Darin

• 8:00PM

  Break 

• 8:30PM

  Screening: What is Democracy? 

  The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium - Room N101, Ground Floor
  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
  66 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Trebor Scholz, Astra Taylor, Greg M. Epstein

• 8:30PM

  Imagining Common Futures 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Ben Gansky

Day 2: Friday, November 8, 2019

• 8:00AM

  Registration Opens 

  Main Lobby - Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

• 9:30AM

  Welcome & Introduction by Tim Marshall, Provost of The New School 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Tim Marshall

• 9:45AM

  Who Owns the World? The State of Platform Cooperativism, Trebor Scholz 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Trebor Scholz, Jutta Treviranus, Cheryl Li, Ned Zimmerman, Travis F. Higgins, Danny Spitzberg

• 10:30AM

  Video Address by United States Senator Kirsten Gillibrand 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Kirsten Gillibrand

• 10:40AM

  Gig Worker, Freelancer, Self-Employed: Who Is Watching out for Them? 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur, Sandrino Graceffa, Yvon Jadoul, Doug O’Brien, Matthew Brown

• 11:30AM

  Break 

• 11:50AM

  Platform Co-ops Unplugged 

  Wollman Hall - Room B500, 5th Floor
  The Eugene Lang Building
  65 West 11th Street, NYC

  Mark Graham, Patrick M. Karanja, Nicole Alix, Kriangsak Teerakowitkajorn, Denny Mews, Stacco Troncoso, David O’Connell, Éder Lemke, Jesse Brown, Itir Erhart, Abdul Nasser, Marina Gorbis, Travis F. Higgins, Vitor Romero Moulin Teixeira, Daniel Blake, Hal Plotkin, Seeta Peña Gangadharan

• 12:00PM

  Co-Design Potluck: Designing Tech Together 

  Hirshon Suite - Room I205, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Cheryl Li, Ned Zimmerman

• 1:30PM

  Lunch Break 

• 1:45PM

  Screening of “GIG– The Uberization of Work” by Carlos Juliano Barros 

  The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Auditorium - Room N101, Ground Floor
  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
  66 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Carlos Juliano Barros

• 3:00PM

  Town Hall 1- The Capital Conundrum 

  Theresa Lang Community and Student Center - Room I202, 2nd Floor
  Arnhold Hall
  55 West 13th Street, NYC

  Kevin McQueen, Christopher Mackin, Felix Weth, Emma Back, Nathan Schneider, Olivera Marjanovic, Ludovica Rogers, Amelia Evans

• 3:00PM

  Town Hall 2- Labor Power for the Platform Economy Now! Digital Labor Is Not Free. 

  Room UL104, Basement Level
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Rebecca Lurie, Sabine Kock, David O’Connell, Fredrik Söderqvist, Ra Criscitiello, Tina Vu Pham, Maru Bautista, Luciana Bruno, Camile Just, Minsun Ji, Erik Forman

• 3:00PM

  Town Hall 3- Data Co-ops as a Path Toward Data Sovereignty 

  Room UL105, Basement Level
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Koray Caliskan, Vanni Rinaldi, Ron Kim, Yeshimabeit Milner, Rob Stone, Matthew Cropp, Morshed Mannan, Maggie Hughes, Jun Kawasaki, Rafael A. F. Zanatta

• 3:00PM

  Town Hall 4- Intersectional Solidarity: Against Misogyny and Racism in Co-ops 

  Room A404, 4th Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC

  McKenzie Wark, Jessica Gordon-Nembhard, Sujatha Jesudason, Mark Lipton, Leo Sammallahti, Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur

• 3:00PM

  Town Hall 5- Distributed Governance 

  Room U304, 3rd Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Ela Kagel, Javier Creus, Francesca Martinelli, Chiara Chiappa, Ali Ercan Özgür, Novita Puspasari, Mike Cook, Rich Jensen, Simon Pek

• 5:00PM

  Break 

• 5:30PM

  Global Movement Updates 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Trebor Scholz, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Osamu Nakano, Ela Kagel, James de le Vingne, Mario De Conto, Martijn Arets, Novita Puspasari, Vanni Rinaldi, Sabine Kock, Lisa Pointner

• 7:00PM

  Break 

• 7:30PM

  We Are Animals, A Children’s Strike 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Gabo Camnitzer, Sixth Street Youth Program

• 8:00PM

  Fireside Chat with Anand Giridharadas interviewed by Wilma Liebman (Followed by Q&A) 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Anand Giridharadas, Wilma B. Liebman

• 9:45PM

  A Night of Liberation 

  Starr Foundation Hall - Room UL102, Basement Level
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  The New School Hip Hop Collective

Day 3: Saturday, November 9, 2019

• 8:00AM

  Registration Opens 

  Main Lobby - Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

• 9:00AM

  Welcome by Executive Dean Mary Watson, Schools of Public Engagement, The New School 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Mary Watson

• 9:05AM

  Special Address by the New York City Deputy Mayor 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  J. Phillip Thompson

• 9:15AM

  Owning Our Power: Young Lions of the Co-op Movement 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Sylvia Morse, Maru Bautista, Mike Cook, Oriol Alfambra Serrano, Nuria Soto, Txiki Blasi, Martin Van Den Borre, Emma Back, Hays Witt, Damiano Avellino, Emanuele Dal Carlo, Jen Horonjeff, Riccardo Carboni

• 10:45AM

  Digital Co-op Fractals: Iterations, Patterns, Questions 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Luciana Bruno, Amelia Evans, Joseph Blasi, Melissa Hoover, Gar Alperovitz, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Juliet Schor, Hal Plotkin

• 12:00PM

  Break 

• 12:15PM

  Research Reports by the Fellows of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy 

  Tishman Auditorium - Room U100, Ground Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Francis Mwongela Mikwa, Morshed Mannan, Minsun Ji, Luciana Bruno, Jonas Pentzien, Amelia Evans

• 1:15PM

  Lunch Break 

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 1- Cooperation: Best Practices 

  The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th St, NYC

  Micky Metts, Greg Brodsky, Howard Brodsky, James de le Vingne, Jonny Gordon-Farleigh, Antti Virolainen, Riccardo Carboni, Lisa Pointner, Mario De Conto, Osamu Nakano

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 2- Showing Up for One Another 

  Room A406, 4th Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC

  Esteban Kelly, Mariela Benavides Espronceda, Jordi Picas Vilà, Sixth Street Youth Program, Lindsey Lusher Shute, Damiano Avellino, Stacco Troncoso

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 3- Building a Tech Industry That Is Better for All 

  Room 404, 4th Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC

  Greta Byrum, McKenzie Jones, Cheryl Li, Jill Dimond, Marcel de Oliveira Coelho, Louis Cousin, Ned Zimmerman, Una Lee, Bastien Sibille, Seeta Peña Gangadharan

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 4- Wrestling Back Independence with Media Co-ops 

  Room U304, 3rd Floor
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  , Heather Chaplin, William Clark, Victoria Alexander, Miles Hadfield, Ela Kagel, Sabine Kock, Dave Boyle

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 5- Practitioners on Organizational Leadership 

  Room UL104, Basement Level
  The University Center
  63 Fifth Avenue, NYC

  Mary Watson, Michele Kahane, Austin Robey, Joseph Cureton, Mariana Vilnitzky, Denny Mews, Francesca Martinelli, Emma Back, Nuria Soto, Oriol Alfambra Serrano, Txiki Blasi, Leo Sammallahti

• 2:45PM

  Town Hall 6- The Legal Kit for Starting Platform Co-ops in the U.S. 

  Room 517, 5th Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC

  Katharina Pistor, Shannon Zhang, Ricardo Samir Nuñez

• 4:15PM

  Break 

• 4:30PM

  The Morning After the Coming Silicon Valley Bust 

  The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC

  Sandeep Vaheesan, Nathan Schneider

• 5:00PM

  Cooperators of the World, Unite! Finale 

  The Auditorium - Room A106, Ground Floor
  Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
  66 West 12th Street, NYC