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 19th 🌙
10.00 - 10.30 Unconference Kick-Off - DIVA
10.35 - 11.20 Unconference Session 1 - DIVA
10.30 - 11.30 Imagining the DeSci Stack - CURTGIN
11.25 - 12.10 Unconference Session 2 - DIVA
12.15 - 13.00 Unconference Session 3 - DIVA
14.00 - 15.00 Intentional Codes: Digital Art, Law, and the Architecture of Slower Futures - DIVA
15.00 - 16.00 Build Week Kick-Off - DIVA
16.00 - 17.00 Idea Pitches & Team Formation - DIVA
16.00 - 17.00 🔥 AsaDAO: Building Community from the Grill Up - CURTGIN
17.00 - 18.00 Town Hall & Unconference Debrief - DIVA
20.30 - 22.30 Community Dinner 🇮🇹MMMM such wow, good PASTA 🍝 - TAVERN
☀️ May 18th 🌙
7.30 - 10.00 Breakfast - SIGNINA Hotel
10.00 - 10.30 Village Tour - meet in town square
10.30 - 11.00 Solarpunk Futures with d/acc:
• Moderator: Victoria Soelle
• Vitalik Buterin
• Tomasz Stańczak
• E. Glen Weyl
• Puja Ohlhaver
11.00 - 11.30 E. Glen Weyl: Prosocial Media
11.30 - 12.00 Ales Flidr: FROs, tech roadmapping and Far-UVC as a case study
12.00 - 12.30 Puja Ohlhaver: Community Currencies
12.30 - 13.30 Self-Organized Lunch
13.30 - 13.45 Christian Larsen: Decentralizing Neuroscience and Neurotech
13.45 - 14.00 Catalin Mitelut: The State of Whole-Brain-Emulation (in mammals)
14.00 - 14.15 Bharat Harbham: Truth-Telling-Machines and Science
14.15 - 14.30 Yesh: Resilient Foods
14.30 - 15:00 d/acc Q&A with Christian, Catalin, Bharat, & Yesh
15.00 - 15.30 Robot Demonstrations with Robert Clarke & Ronald Lanton Steven David
{d/acc ⏩️ cypherpunk}
15.45 - 16.00 Amir Taaki
16.00 - 16.30 Cypherpunk Panel:
• Moderator: John Marshall
• Amir Taaki
• Rachel Rose O’Leary
• Benoit
16.30 - 17.00 Zeugh: Anticapture & Governance Resilience
17.00 - 18.00 Jarrad Hope (remote) & Sterlin Lujan: Fireside Chat on Farewell to Westphalia
20.00 - 22.00 Community Dinner in Tavern
⁃ Hungarian theme by Erin & Shem
☀️ May 17th 🌙
9.00 - 9.30 Coffee
9.30 - 10.00 Opening & Introduction to Zuitzerland
10.00 - 10.45 Zuitzerland Keynote & Q&A with Vitalik Buterin
10.45 - 11.00 Break
11.00 - 11.45 Panel: d/acc the Swiss Way
Moderator: Victoria Soelle
Alexis Roussel
Janis Graubins
Una Wang
Theo Beutel
11.50 - 12.30 Panel: Permanent Zuzalu Hubs
Moderator: Tomas Ruta
Kyle MacLean Smith
Chance McAllister
Victoria Soelle
Yesh
Veronica
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.10 d/acc Technology Experiments at Zuitzerland
Zulink with Alberto Centonze and John Marshall
Zuitzerland App with Vlad Avesalon
Zuitzpass & EPFL Blockchain Student Association with Gustave Charles
14.15 - 15.00 Fireside Chat: d/acc and the Future of Ethereum with Tomasz Stańczak and Vitalik Buterin
15.00 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 15.45 Laax Keynote with Reto Gurtner
15.45 - 16.45 Zuitzerland Visions for the Future & Build Week Roadmap
17.00 - 17.50 Optional Group Photo
17.50 Gondola A
18.10 Gondola B
18.30 Gondola C (LAST GONDOLA)
Don’t miss this or you’ll have to hike down the snowy mountain!
🏘️ 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?