The Summit is the premier podium of choice for opinion leaders and senior policymakers to announce, share and explain important initiatives in the fields of CSR, ESG and Blockchain by exploring the convergence, challenges and opportunities in these fields.
The confirmed speakers and participants for the Summit 2025 include policymakers, diplomats, academicians, consultants, corporate leaders, lawyers, CSR, ESG and Blockchain experts from across the globe including Switzerland, Italy, France, Eastern Europe, India. South Africa and South America.
Tuesday, 8th July 2025
04:00 PM
Boat trip on Lake Lugano (on invitation only)
Meeting Point: Pontile Lugano Centrale (vis à vis Burger King at Piazza Riforma)
06:00 PM
Pre Summit Event (on invitation only)
Location: Via Peri 21B, 6900 Lugano
06:30 PM
Welcome, Speech & International Panel on Digital Product Passport (DPP)
07:15 PM
Standing Dinner
Wednesday, 9th July 2025
ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2025
09:15 AM
Welcome Speeches
Giacomo Poretti - Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at SUPSI, President of Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association TBTA
09:45 AM
Presentations for Bold and Game-Changing Awards 2025
Project 1: Start Up Garage SUPSI
Project 2: 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)
10:45 AM
Project 5: www.hypercube.eco
11:15 AM
Break
11:30 AM
Project 7: Swiss Subnet
World’s first blockchain to apply to a well-known certification body to be evaluated according to an extended protocol.
11:45 AM
Project 8: Swiss Subnet
«Why Switzerland Needs a Subnet, and Why it Matters Globally»
12:00 PM
Project 9
"Human dignity in economics from the perspective of a humanitarian organization"
12:15 PM
Project 10
“Crafting a Greener Tomorrow: SRK’s ESG Commitment towards Natural Diamonds”
12:30 PM
Start eVoting Bold Award and Game-Changing Award & LUNCH
TWIN TRANSITION: Placing ESG & Blockchain at the Core of Business Transformation
01:30 PM
"Building an ESG Roadmap for the Jewellery & Watch Industry"
01:45 PM
"Purpose Meets Precision: ESG and Blockchain Synergy"
02:00 PM
The Data Provenance Imperative: Reference Architecture for Supply Chain Transparency
02:30 PM
The Economics of Water – Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good
Introduction
02:40 PM
Water Positive through Water Tokens
03:00 PM
Q&A and Open Discussion
03:15 PM
Break
Leveraging blockchain towards Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing
03:30 PM
Keynote Speech by "Visionary Award Winner 2025"
03:50 PM
"Sustainable Business Models; from Net Present Value to Net Future Value"
Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur
04:10 PM
Panel on Sustainable Finance & Impact Investing
Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur
04:40 PM
Summary
05:00 PM
End Summit Day 1 (and end of eVoting)
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)
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
10:25 AM
«Designing Bhutan’s Innovation Ecosystem for a Startup Economy: Leveraging Blockchain and Good Governancefor Trust-Centric Growth»
10:45 AM
Tourism Destination & Strategy, 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
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’
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
04:00 PM
Innovation Airlite®
04:15 PM
Summary
04:25 PM
Final Remarks Summit 2025 and Outlook
04:30 PM
Farewell Aperitif
05:30 PM
End Summit
06:00 PM
Screening of the movie «70% Informals» by Elena Panaritis
Cinema IRIDE, Piazza S. Rocco 3, 6900 Lugano
Speakers summit 2025
Daron Acemoglu
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and Nobel Price 2024 in Economic Sciences
Paolo Bortolin
Deputy CFO and Member of the City's Blockchain & Crypto Task Force / Lugano's Plan ₿ at City of Lugano
Francis Fukuyama
Political Scientist, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University
Crenguta Leaua
Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Founder The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking
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Elena Panaritis
CEO of Panel Group & President of Thought For Action and Leader of the «70% Informals» campaign
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
Giacomo Poretti
Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Senior Researcher and Lecturer at SUPSI, President of Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association TBTA
Tenzin Rondel Wangchuk
Ambassador, Permanent Mission of the Kingdom of Bhutan to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland
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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
Location
Via la Santa 1, - 6962 Viganello TI - Svizzera
SUPSI, Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana, Campus Universitario, Aula Polivalente
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