Leveraging the Cooperative Advantage

The Center for Cooperatives and the ND Council for Cooperatives is hosting CO-OPERATE 2023 in Jamestown August 9-10. 

Celebrate, collaborate and expand the impact of co-ops by re-energizing the value proposition of the cooperative business model. CO-OPERATE 2023 will bring co-op directors, employees and members together for two days of resource sharing, networking and learning. Hear from speakers on a variety of topics, including innovations in cooperatives, workforce challenges, evolving member expectations and the value of the cooperative business model.

This two-day event is hosted by the Quentin Burdick Center for Cooperatives in partnership with the North Dakota Coordinating Council for Cooperatives.

Program will include:

• COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT: FROM IDENTITY CRISIS TO THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW PARADIGM - Daniel Cote - honorary, HEC Montreal, adjunct professor, St. Mary’s University
• INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN COOPERATIVES AND RURAL COMMUNITIES - Keri Jacobs - Executive Director of the Graduate Institute of Cooperative Leadership
• HOW NORTH DAKOTA BECAME THE MOST CONNECTED STATE - Carissa Swenson - Executive Director of the Broadband Association of North Dakota
• OPTIMIZING YOUR EMPLOYEE CULTURE WITH EOS - Patrick Metzger - Founder/CEO of The Greenhouse (Patrick was a speaker at DakCU’s New Ideas Conference last October.)
• SECURE YOUR COOPERATIVE'S FUTURE: ESSENTIAL CYBER SECURITY STRATEGIES AND BEST PRACTICES - John Nagel - Cybernet Security
• BUILDING ECONOMIC RESILIENCE THROUGH COOPERATIVES - Frayne Olson - Quentin Burdick Center For Cooperatives, NDSU

The event will take place Aug 09 - 10, 2023 at North Dakota Farmers Union, 1415 12th Avenue SE, Jamestown, ND. Additional information and registration is available here.