Dr. Joseph Blasi, a renowned expert on employee ownership will lead a groundbreaking session on the state and distribution of employee ownership in technology companies. This unprecedented analysis will delve into the current landscape of employee ownership and assess whether it is sufficient to create significant distributional effects within the United States. The session will critically examine the impact of existing models of employee ownership and explore innovative policy proposals that could enhance the economic and social impact of employee ownership.

Dr. Blasi's insights will provide a deeper understanding of the potential for employee ownership to address economic inequality and empower workers in the rapidly evolving technology sector. Blasi is Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing and Beyster Professor of Employee Ownership at Rutgers. He formerly served full-time as a advisor to the US Treasury Department in the Biden Administration on employee share ownership.