DAY 1 Tuesday, 7th July 2026
04:00 PM
Meeting Point: Pontile Lugano Centrale (vis à vis Burger King at Piazza Riforma)
Boat trip on Lake Lugano
06:30 PM
Welcome, Speech & International Panel on Data Sovereignty
07:15 PM
Standing Dinner offered by TBTA
the Ticino Blockchain Technology Association
the Ticino Blockchain Technology Association
DAY 2 Wednesday, 8th July 2026
4th ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2026
09:15 AM
Welcome Speeches
DAY 2 Wednesday, 8th July 2026 | Morning
Presentations for the Bold and Game-Changing Awards
10:10 AM
Project 1 Start Up Garage SUPSI
Project 2 Start Up Garage SUPSI
10:45 AM
Project 4 "Human dignity in economics"
11:15 AM
Break
11:15 AM
Project 6 RaySpace
11:30 AM
Project 7 Health Me
11:45 AM
Project 8 Data Integrity: Blockchain applications in MedTech and RegTech SaaS Platforms
12:00 PM
Project 9 :"From Aid to Empowerment:
Stablecoin-Based Humanitarian Payments in Haiti"
12:15 PM
Project 10 BIDI - Double Impact: Rewarding ecology, growing economy
Stephan Klaus - CEO | Delivering AI-Driven Innovation & Digital Transformation Solutions at Apps with love
12:30 PM
Start eVoting Bold Award 2026 and Game-Changing Award 2026 & LUNCH
DAY 2 Wednesday, 8th July 2026 | Afternoon
Keynote Speeches by the Award Winners 2026
02:00 PM
Break
02:15 PM
Keynote Speech by the Academic Excellence Award Winner 2026
Sir CHRISTOPHER PISSARIDES (via Teams)
SIR Christopher Pissarides - Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010.
02:40 PM
Conversation between Daron Acemoglu and Elena Panaritis
Elena Panaritis - CEO of Panel Group & President of Thought For Action and Leader of the «70% Informals» campaign
Impact Award Winner 2025
Impact Award Winner 2025
Dr. Daron Acemoglu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and Nobel Prize 2024 in Economic Sciences
03:00 PM
Panel on Human Dignity
With the two Award Winners Anino Emuwa, Elena Panaritis and Thomas Schiffelmann
Elena Panaritis - CEO of Panel Group & President of Thought For Action and Leader of the «70% Informals» campaign
Impact Award Winner 2025
Impact Award Winner 2025
03:30 PM
Break
AI in the context of the UN SDGs
03:45 PM
AI Impact Summit 2026 Host INDIA – India's policy on AI: today and outlook
Ambassador of India to Switzerland
04:00 PM
AI Impact Summit 2027 Host SWITZERLAND – Switzerland's policy on AI: today and outlook
Prof. Dr. Andreas Furrer - Attorney-at-Law (MLL) and Professor of Law at the University of Lucerne (CH)
04:15 PM
AI Impact Summit 2028 Host UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UAE– UAE's policy on AI: today and outlook
HRH Hissa Abdullah Al Otaiba (Ambassador of United Arab Emirates to Switzerland)
H.E. Dr. Hissa Al Otaiba / TBC - Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the Swiss Confederation and non-resident Ambassador to the Principality of Liechtenstein
04:30 PM
Summary
04:45 PM
End of Summit Day 1 (end of eVoting)
DAY 2 Wednesday, 8th July 2026 | Evening
AWARD CEREMONY AT SUPSI
06:30 PM
SUPSI
Award Ceremony at SUPSI
BOLD AWARD 2026 (eVoting)
GAME-CHANGING AWARD 2026 (eVoting)
VISIONARY AWARD 2026
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD 2026
IMPACT AWARD 2026 – City of Lugano
GAME-CHANGING AWARD 2026 (eVoting)
VISIONARY AWARD 2026
ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD 2026
IMPACT AWARD 2026 – City of Lugano
08:00 PM
Parco Ciani, 6900 Lugano
Standing Dinner at Villa Ciani
DAY 3 Thursday, 9th July | Morning
4th ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2026
09:15 AM
Welcome
Leveraging blockchain towards Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing
09:30 AM
City of Lugano – Impact Award Winner 2026
Dr. Lorenzo Barisone - Statistics and Data Innovation Manager at L*3 and Office of Statistics, City of Lugano
09:50 AM
Panel on Leveraging Blockchain towards Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing with a special focus on risk management (decarbonization and water)
Paolo Bortolin - Director Business development and Senior Relationship Manager at BIL Suisse Private Bank - Lugano
Prof. Dr. Andreas Furrer - Attorney-at-Law (MLL) and Professor of Law at the University of Lucerne (CH)
10:20 AM
Break
Leveraging blockchain towards UN SDGs with Focus on EDUCATION & SKILLS
10:45 AM
STEAM: 360-degree Synchronicity
Unconventional vocations have the potential to enrich the quality of life and social fabric.
The insertion of arts in science & technology-based education adds a dimension that has direct practical and business implications
The insertion of arts in science & technology-based education adds a dimension that has direct practical and business implications
11:05 AM
Recognizing Competencies through Tokenized Skills and Digital Badges
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Sommaruga - Professor in semantic and multimedia systems, Startup Garage ICT & Digital Innovation, Innovative Technologies Department, SUPSI
11:30 AM
Panel on ESG in Higher Education
Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Sommaruga - Professor in semantic and multimedia systems, Startup Garage ICT & Digital Innovation, Innovative Technologies Department, SUPSI
Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur
12:00 PM
Lunch
ESG in the Core Business and as Business Model
01:00 PM
Deep Dive into best practices from Indian ESG Leaders
Girish Luthra - Chairman, Luthra Group | Visionary Leader | Sustainability Advocate | Innovator in Waste & Water Management
Leveraging blockchain towards UN SDGs with Focus on
INFRASTRUCTURE & COMMUNITY BUILDING
01:45 PM
Input by Exponential Science Foundation
Juan Ignacio Ibañez - General Secretary of the MiCA Crypto Alliance and Director of ESG and Policy at Exponential Science Foundation
02:15 PM
Input on Data Sovereignty by TXT Group
02:45 PM
Panel "Twin Transition: Challenges and Opportunities"
Juan Ignacio Ibañez - General Secretary of the MiCA Crypto Alliance and Director of ESG and Policy at Exponential Science Foundation
Giacomo Poretti - Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at SUPSI, President of Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association TBTA
03:15 PM
Break
Leveraging Blockchain towards SDGs and Post-SDG era
with Focus on Human Dignity
03:30 PM
Lugano Consensus on Human Dignity
A Digital État Civil in the Age of AI and Agentic Systems
A Digital État Civil in the Age of AI and Agentic Systems
An initiative of the ESG Center of Excellence, in cooperation with the international Think Tank The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking and the Global Action Tank Thought4Action
03:45 PM
Final Panel on "ESG and Blockchain: The Way Forward"
Prof. Dr. Crenguta Leaua - Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Founder The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking
Dr Francesca Casalini - Lecturer & Researcher, SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, Milan
04:10 PM
Summary, Final Remarks Summit 2026 and Outlook
04:30 PM
Farewell Aperitif
05:30 PM
End of Summit
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