Summit Info

Who Is the Summit for?

The Summit is for the officers of small, medium and large cooperative and mutual enterprises who want to discuss their concerns about the current and future challenges they all share.

Through these discussions, they will be able to find ways of tackling their development and performance challenges. The Summit will also give them an opportunity to set up a worldwide network to create a real sphere of influence in economic and political arenas, and ensure that cooperatives and mutuals take their rightful place on the world stage.

The Summit is mainly for:

  • presidents, CEOs and members of the boards of directors and managing committees of cooperatives and mutuals
  • senior management and members of the boards of cooperative and mutual associations
  • future officers of cooperatives and mutuals
  • members of governments, diplomats and consuls of countries where the cooperative model is well-established
  • representatives of the regulatory authorities
  • representatives of international organizations
  • academics, researchers and economists interested in the cooperative and mutualist model
  • Cooperative and mutual representatives of various sectors: agriculture, forest, retail, insurance, banking, goods and services, health, etc.;
  • national and international media