Giacomo Poretti - Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at SUPSI, President of Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association TBTA
Marco Casanova - Board ESG Center of Excellence, Host ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards
09:45 AM
Presentations for Bold and Game-Changing Awards 2025
Project 1: Start Up Garage SUPSI Project 2: Start Up Garage SUPSI
10:15 AM
Project 3: Community Energy
is a future technology platform on blockchain technology aiming at promoting, developing and managing Renewable Energy Communities
Giuseppe (Beppe) Carrella - Membro del Comitato Scientifico, Fondazione per la Sostenibilità Digitale
10:30 AM
Project 4
UltraCivic.com by Francisco Del Villa (Founder and CEO)
Aditya Singh - Chair ESG Center of Excellence, Director Athena School of Management, Mumbai
05:00 PM
End Summit Day 1 (and end of eVoting)
Marco Casanova - Board ESG Center of Excellence, Host ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards
Evening
06:30 PM
Award Ceremony at SUPSI
BOLD AWARD 2025 (eVoting) GAME-CHANGING AWARD 2025 (eVoting) ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD 2025 (Jury) IMPACT AWARD 2025 (Jury) VISIONARY AWARD 2025 (Jury)
With the active participation of Daron Acemoglu (Nobel Price 2024 in Economic Sciences) and Francis Fukuyama (renowed Political Scientist)
08:00 PM
Standing Dinner at Villa Ciani
Thursday, 10th July 2025
ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2025
09:00 AM
Welcome
09:15 AM
Digital Bonds: A revolution or just an evolution?
Paolo Bortolin - Deputy CFO and Member of the City's Blockchain & Crypto Task Force / Lugano's Plan ₿ at City of Lugano
09:40 AM
Host Country BHUTAN (Celebrating 40 years of bilateral relations with Switzerland)
Welcome by Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk (Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the UN in Geneva)
Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk - Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
09:50 AM
"The Great Fourth King of Bhutan: Unconventional statesman and political visionary"
Francoise Pommaret - Director of Research Emerita at the CNSR National Centre for Scientific Research in France, Associate Professor at the College of Language and Culture CLCS, Royal University of Bhutan, Honorary Consul of France to Bhutan 2020-2024
10:10 AM
"Gross National Happiness, GNH Bhutan"
Lhatu Lhatu - Executive Director GNH Center, Bhutan
10:25 AM
«Designing Bhutan’s Innovation Ecosystem for a Startup Economy: Leveraging Blockchain and Good Governancefor Trust-Centric Growth»
Damcho Rinzin - Director Department of Tourism, Bhutan
11:00 AM
Break
Leveraging blockchain towards UN SDGs with Focus on Human Dignity
11:20 AM
Keynote Speech by "Impact 2025" Award Winner Elena Panaritis
Elena Panaritis - CEO of Panel Group & President of Thought For Action and Leader of the «70% Informals» campaign
11:45 AM
Panel on the initiative «Bretton Woods 5.0»
Democratization through Tokenization Implementing an alternative economic model based on human dignity, expanding prosperity to each individual by fighting informality and securing property rights
Elena Panaritis - CEO of Panel Group & President of Thought For Action and Leader of the «70% Informals» campaign
Francis Fukuyama - Political Scientist, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
12:15 PM
Lunch
Leveraging blockchain towards UN SDGs with Focus on EDUCATION & SKILLS
01:30 PM
Input 1 Tokenizing Skills
Lorenzo Sommaruga - Professor in semantic and multimedia systems, information systems and networking institute, Innovative Technologies Department, SUPSI
01:50 PM
Input 2 Fostering sustainability in higher education!
Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur
02:10 PM
Panel with Prof. Lorenzo Sommaruga and Johanna Wagner
Lorenzo Sommaruga - Professor in semantic and multimedia systems, information systems and networking institute, Innovative Technologies Department, SUPSI
Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur
02:30 PM
Break
Leveraging blockchain towards UN SDGs with Focus on INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY BUILDING
02:45 PM
SWISS SUBNET
redefining digital ownership by combining Swiss innovation with the transformative potential of blockchain technology.
How SWISS SUBNET is contributing to revolutionize the Blockchain World - „Swiss Subnet – World‘s first mover as certificated Blockchain“ - Strategic Partner of the initiative “Bretton Woods 5.0” - ‘democratization through tokenization’
03:00 PM
Q&A and Discussion
03:15 PM
Break
03:30 PM
Final Panel on «ESG & Blockchain: the way forward. »
Crenguta Leaua - Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Founder The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking
Toni Caradonna - Winner ESG meets Blockchain Game Changing Award 2024, Entrepreneur at heart
Colin Cheng - Chairman, The Moon Group, Taiwan, President of Taipei Digital Asset Association
Kamil Tylinski - Head of Data Intelligence at Exponential Science
04:00 PM
Innovation Airlite®
Massimo Bernardoni - Co Founder and Director presso Airlite® / The Blue Planet Spa
Director of Research Emerita at the CNSR National Centre for Scientific Research in France, Associate Professor at the College of Language and Culture CLCS, Royal University of Bhutan, Honorary Consul of France to Bhutan 2020-2024