What It’s Like in a Worker-Owned Creative Technology Cooperative

Gwendolyn Pasquarello

The Emma Technology Co-op is a five-year-old worker-owned and democratically run creative technology consultancy. They do software consulting in the new media and interactive technology industries. In this talk, you will hear why they chose to start a co-op specifically and how they felt that it could provide a fairer and more stable career path than either a traditional “tech job” or continuing their individual freelancing practices. With that established, the talk will go on to cover how they built our business to address their needs and reflect their politics and sensibilities. If you’ve ever wondered what a day job without bosses or shareholders could look like, this talk can show you their vision for that.

Saturday 2100 Gramercy Park Suite


Gwendolyn Pasquarello is a founding worker-owner and creative technologist with the Emma Technology Co-op. Her client work includes interactive experiences, theme park attractions, games, weird websites, and more. The co-op aims to enable its members in both their professional creative technology work and in their personal art practices.