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Call for Lightning Talk Proposals

2025 Virtual Cooperative Law Conference: Sharing Innovations, Emerging Trends, and Current Issues in Co-op Law and Development

 


Submission Deadline: July 30, 2025
Submit Your Proposal: go.osu.edu/cooplawtalks
Lightning Talk Date: September 24, 2025
Event Location: Online

Are you passionate about the future of cooperative enterprise? Do you have insights into innovations, emerging issues, or practical challenges shaping the cooperative landscape through law?

We invite cooperative member-owners, developers, attorneys, accountants, organizers, educators, and advocates to submit proposals for Lightning Talks—dynamic, 5–7-minute presentations—at our upcoming Virtual Cooperative Law Conference on September 23-24, 2025.

This is your chance to spotlight:

  • Cutting-edge legal frameworks for cooperative enterprise
  • Recent case law or legislative developments
  • Tools and strategies for cooperative growth, governance, and alignment
  • Cross-sector innovations or interdisciplinary approaches to development, governance, financing, or management
  • Innovations in cooperative law from abroad that could help address challenges in the United States

Whether you’re sharing a bold idea, a cautionary tale, or a call to action, we want to learn from you! Let’s spark ideas and grow the cooperative legal community — together.

Hosted by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences Center for Cooperatives at Ohio State and planned collaboratively by cooperative practitioners, the 2025 Virtual Cooperative Law Conference is a space to grow the knowledge and network of professionals who can support collaborative, community-based, or cooperative enterprises, including professionals expanding their transactional business toolbox who are new to the cooperative model.

Online Event Details
Online events are hosted by the CFAES Center for Cooperatives at Ohio State via Zoom. Participants can join via the Zoom application on a computer or mobile device or by telephone. Unless otherwise noted, events will not be recorded. Registrants will receive Zoom connection details via email prior to the event.

Online events will be presented with automated closed captions. If you wish to request traditional CART services or other accommodations such as interpretation, please contact Ann Luther at luther.111@osu.edu or 740-289-1952. Requests made two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.  

 

A Successful “Food and Farm: Social Media” held in Fairfield County on March 19

The CFAES Center for Cooperatives, OSU Direct Food and Agricultural Marketing program at OSU South Centers, and OSU South Centers Small Business Development Center recently collaborated to present Food and Farm: Social Media at the Fairfield Agricultural Center in Lancaster, Ohio on March 19.  The free workshop hosted 13 participants with interests in learning and gaining information on marketing their food and farm businesses with different social media platforms.

Participants talking with Christie Welch at Food and Farm: Social Media in Fairfield County on March 19.

Christie Welch, Direct Food and Agricultural Marketing Team for OSU Extension, interacting with participants.

Attendees were introduced to connecting better with their customers. Christie Welch, who leads the Direct Food and Agricultural Marketing Team for OSU Extension, provided detailed information on best practices and keeping your profiles current and up-do-date. Understanding short videos, how to create them, and applications that can assist you with content was reviewed. Christie went over the importance of engaging with your customers on social media and how to make interactions meaningful.

Melanie Sherman and Melissa Carter, Business Counselors with the OSU South Centers Small Business Development Center, presented on how artificial intelligence can be beneficial for marketing and how to use AI content to assist with marketing needs. Different AI platforms were explored as a group.

During the workshop, attendees were able to review their social media profiles and update to make current. Different platforms were reviewed with the group and worksheets were provided that went over the necessities of what information should be included on social media.

Contact Ann Luther (luther.111@osu.edu) with any questions about the Food and Farm Marketing: Social Media.