The North American Worker Co-operative and Business Successions Conference will be held October 11th through 15th, 2011, in Quebec.  The Conference is structured as two distinct and consecutive events:

An International Conference on Business Successions and Employee Ownership to raise awareness of worker co-operatives and related models as an alternative for businesses without successors and  develop the expertise of stakeholders through the exchange and analysis of their experience.

A North American Conference  of Worker Co-operatives, with the theme “Co-operation without Borders" to provide a venue for the worker co-operative movements in Quebec, the rest of Canada and the United States to come together and share experiences, to develop the expertise of worker co-operators through the exchange and analysis of best practices in the management and governance of a worker co-op and to officially launch the North American sub-region of CICOPA-Americas, to be known as “CICOPA-North America.” 

Via the Canadian Worker Cooperative Federation

Other 2011 conferences

• July 8-10, 2011: Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
• September 5-7, 2011: Western Worker Cooperative Conference