Zuitzerland 2025 Summit
Zuitzerland is building a permanent hub to foster technological and scientific innovation, community, and experimentation in Switzerland, beginning with a residency in May for builders and thinkers to pioneer and shape this ambitious project.
Borne out of the Zuzalu and d/acc defensive accelerationism movements, Zuitzerland aims to be a network state and society sandbox: where defensive technologies like web3 & cryptography, open source BCI & AI, and biotechnology meet governance and funding mechanism innovations in the uniquely decentralized Swiss context, in order to imagine, design, and experiment with alternative future systems.
The Zuitzerland Summit is the culmination of the first two weeks of our 2025 residency, kicking off our third and final Build Week to integrate our learnings into tools, frameworks, and objects for the long-term Zuitzerland project.
We’re thrilled to announce some of the brilliant minds joining us for the Zuitzerland Summit, including Vitalik Buterin, E. Glen Weyl, Audrey Tang, Amir Taaki, Tomasz Stańczak — and many more to come!
Summit Overview
May 17th 9am-5pm: Zuitzerland Summit on a Mountain Summit
Keynote Sessions for Zuitzerland Themes
Swiss Governance & Democracy
Technology, Economics, & Innovative Funding
Network States, Parallel Societies, and Start-Up Cities
Privacy & Cryptography, Legal Engineering, Cognitive Sovereignty
Future Living Design, Decentralized Science
Unconference Discussions
Gondola Schedule:
Up the mountain: 8:30, 9:00, 9:30, & 11:30
These are the only available gondola times to the mountain summit location
Gondola rides exclusive to Zuitzerland Summit ticket holders and Zuitzerland residents
Down the mountain: 17:30 & 18:30
May 18th 9am-1pm: d/acc Day 1
Introduction to d/acc
d/acc workshops
keynote presentations on state of the art science, technology innovations & research for defensive technologies
panel discussions
May 19th 9am-1pm: d/acc Day 2
keynote presentations
panel discussions
followed by Zuitzerland Build Week Kick-Off at 4pm
🏘️ Summit attendees will need to secure their own accommodation. A discount code to book directly with our venue will be shared with attendees in May.
👽 Want to co-live and co-build Zuitzerland with us? Join us as a resident May 1st - 26th: https://bit.ly/applyzuitz25
Zuitzerland Residents get free access to the entire Zuitzerland 2025 Summit, and will help shape the agenda during the first 2 weeks of our residency!
Throughout the residency, we’ll be asking big questions, including:
What do residency and citizenship mean in the age of zuzalu-inspired network states and societies?
How can we build on — and even improve — Switzerland’s proven governance models for the era of frontier technology?
How can we accelerate tech innovation safely with a permanent Zuzalu node here in Switzerland?
How can Swiss principles of citizenship, solidarity, and subsidiarity guide us in building governance systems that protect individual freedom and collective prosperity?
How can Zuitzerland, as a society sandbox, support the responsible acceleration of frontier tech in Switzerland and beyond?