A Co-Created Program

The agenda for the Summit will be co-created with confirmed participants leading up to the event. The program will strive to address a range of outcomes and issues

  • Sharing best practices for governing Open enterprises from legal and fiduciary perspectives
  • Documenting board development and board health exemplars, including recruiting, onboarding, internal communication and accountability
  • Characterizing the contrasts, trade-offs and other significant aspects of elected vs  appointed boards and board members
  • Naming and navigating the range of power dynamics between boards, project leaders and their broader communities
  • Balancing roles and delineation of decision making and collaboration between board, staff, and community
  • Expanding board representation by recruiting and developing new board members
  • Exploring processes that embed succession planning and leadership development at all levels of governance
  • Aligning board norms and values with community norms and values, in particular with regard to privacy vs Open-ness
  • Addressing challenges in formulating and sustaining longer-term strategy at both organization and programmatic levels
  • Examining what constitutes healthy purpose/practice aligned governance 
  • Mapping the range of financial sustainability models
  • Maintaining core Open values and principles in the face of financial and sustainability challenges