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Networking

CGTN has said that “Web Summit brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry”. Experts from every industry will come together for Web Summit. Share ideas with others in your field, meet your future business partner, or seek advice from people who’ve done it all before.

Lead generation

CGTN has said that “Web Summit brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry”. Experts from every industry will come together for Web Summit. Share ideas with others in your field, meet your future business partner, or seek advice from people who’ve done it all before.

Learning and development

In our current climate, upskilling has never been more important. Web Summit’s educational content, informative masterclasses and innovative roundtables mean that you can bring valuable skills back to your office – remote or otherwise. As Inc. Magazine put it, Web Summit “attracts a diverse list of world-class speakers, and facilitates content that inspires and empowers attendees”.

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, Asia and the Americas.

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7. July 2026	Boat trip on Lake Lugano
8. July 2026	ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2026
	Award Ceremony 19.00 – 20.00, followed by standing diner
9. July 2026	ESG meets Blockchain Summit 2026

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

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Wednesday, 9th July 2025

ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards 2025

09:15 AM

Welcome Speeches

Aditya Singh - Chair ESG Center of Excellence, Director Athena School of Management, Mumbai

Michele Foletti - Mayor of Lugano

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)

Francisco Del Villar - Founder and CEO of www.ultracivic.com

10:45 AM

Project 5: www.hypercube.eco

Pietro Gorgazzini - Founder and Managing Director at www.hypercube.eco/

11:00 AM

Project 6: GAIA FIRST

Gianni Valenti - President & Founder https://www.gaiafirst.org/

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.

Andrea Sacchi - Codema Group Founder - Technical standardization innovator

11:45 AM

Project 8: Swiss Subnet

«Why Switzerland Needs a Subnet, and Why it Matters Globally»

Thierry Hess - New Business Development Swiss Subnet AG

12:00 PM

Project 9

"Human dignity in economics from the perspective of a humanitarian organization"

Thomas Schiffelmann - Head of Marketing, Handicap International

12:15 PM

Project 10

“Crafting a Greener Tomorrow: SRK’s ESG Commitment towards Natural Diamonds”

Nirav Mandir - Chief Human Capital & Sustainability Officer, Shree Ramkrishna Exports (SRK)

12:30 PM

Start eVoting Bold Award and Game-Changing Award & LUNCH

Scan the qr-code or click here to vote.

TWIN TRANSITION: Placing ESG & Blockchain at the Core of Business Transformation

01:30 PM

"Building an ESG Roadmap for the Jewellery & Watch Industry"

Jasmeet Kaur - Senior ESG and Impacts Manager at Responsible Jewellery Council

01:45 PM

"Purpose Meets Precision: ESG and Blockchain Synergy"

Nirav Mandir - Chief Human Capital & Sustainability Officer, Shree Ramkrishna Exports (SRK)

02:00 PM

The Data Provenance Imperative: Reference Architecture for Supply Chain Transparency

Micha Roon - Head of Solution Engineering, The Hashgraph Group AG

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

Pietro Gorgazzini - Founder and Managing Director at www.hypercube.eco/

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"

Reto Ringger - Founder & CEO Globalance Bank | Entrepreneur | Financial Leader | Innovator

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

Reto Ringger - Founder & CEO Globalance Bank | Entrepreneur | Financial Leader | Innovator

Johanna Wagner - Sustainability Education Sustainable Hospitality Impact and positive businesses Impact Entrepreneur

Roger Furrer - Director ERI Bancaire

04:40 PM

Summary

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

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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»

Ujjwal Deep Dahal - CEO, Druk Holding and Investments Ltd.

10:45 AM

Tourism Destination & Strategy, Bhutan

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

Susanna Tellarini - Graphic Service s.r.l.

04:15 PM

Summary

Aditya Singh - Chair ESG Center of Excellence, Director Athena School of Management, Mumbai

04:25 PM

Final Remarks Summit 2025 and Outlook

Marco Casanova - Board ESG Center of Excellence, Host ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards

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

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Daron Acemoglu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and Nobel Price 2024 in Economic Sciences

Massimo Bernardoni

Co Founder and Director presso Airlite® / The Blue Planet Spa

Paolo Bortolin

Deputy CFO and Member of the City's Blockchain & Crypto Task Force / Lugano's Plan ₿ at City of Lugano

Toni Caradonna

Winner ESG meets Blockchain Game Changing Award 2024, Entrepreneur at heart

Giuseppe (Beppe) Carrella

Membro del Comitato Scientifico, Fondazione per la Sostenibilità Digitale

Marco Casanova

Board ESG Center of Excellence, Host ESG meets Blockchain Summit & Awards

Colin Cheng

Chairman, The Moon Group, Taiwan, President of Taipei Digital Asset Association

Ujjwal Deep Dahal

CEO, Druk Holding and Investments Ltd.

Francisco Del Villar

Founder and CEO of www.ultracivic.com

Michele Foletti

Mayor of Lugano

Francis Fukuyama

Political Scientist, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University

Roger Furrer

Director ERI Bancaire

Pietro Gorgazzini

Founder and Managing Director at www.hypercube.eco/

Thierry Hess

New Business Development Swiss Subnet AG

Jasmeet Kaur

Senior ESG and Impacts Manager at Responsible Jewellery Council

Crenguta Leaua

Member Jury ESG Center of Excellence Awards, Founder The Swiss Institute for Alternative Thinking

Lhatu Lhatu

Executive Director GNH Center, Bhutan

Nirav Mandir

Chief Human Capital & Sustainability Officer, Shree Ramkrishna Exports (SRK)

Todd Morley

Co-Founder of Guggenheim Partners and CEO of Diatoms Inc.

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