Nobel Talks - Designing Progress Together

Nobel Talks – Designing Progress Together is the first virtual lecture series in the Metaverse featuring Nobel Laureates and other outstanding thinkers of our time. Organised by the Metapeace Association and powered by the University of Zurich (UZH) Blockchain Center, the series will launch on the occasion of Expo 2025 in Osaka and will run from May to October 2025. Nobel Talks is an independent contribution to the Expo’s main theme, “Designing Future Society for Our Lives,” aiming to foster global dialogue on progress, peace, and societal transformation in the digital space. The lectures will be broadcasted live in the virtual Swiss Pavilion of Expo 2025, designed by the UZH Blockchain Center, an interdisciplinary research center of the University of Zurich.

Nobel Talks creates a new form of scientific exchange in the digital space – open, accessible, and global. The goal is to inspire young people and experts worldwide to engage in the Metaverse with future-oriented questions and to experience science and technology as cornerstones of transformative development and peace.

• May 19, 2025, Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Prize Winner in Physics. Topic: Unlocking the Universe’s Secret with Neutrinos.

• June 19, 2025 at 16:30 JST / 09:30 CEST, Eric S. Maskin, 2007 Nobel Laureate in Economics “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”. Topic of Eric Maskin’s Nobel Talk: An Introduction to Mechanism Design, with live Q&A Session.
  
• July 17, 2025 at 16:30 JST / 09:30 CEST, Didier Queloz, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. Topic of Didier Queloz’s Nobel Talk: The Exoplanet Revolution and Life in the Universe.

• September 24, 2025, at 17:00 CEST Hans Rudolf Herren, Switzerland, Right Livelihood Award 2013 (alternative Nobel Prize) with the Biovision Foundation “for his expertise and pioneering work in promoting a safe, secure and sustainable global food supply”. Topic of Hans Rudolf Herren’s Nobel Talk: A Biodiversity powered Planet: The Importance of Food System Choices.
  
• October 2025, Aaron Ciechanover, Israel, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2004 “for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation”. Topic of Aaron Ciechanover’s Nobel Talk: The Revolution of Personalized Medicine.

• July 17, 2025 at 16:30 JST / 09:30 CEST, Didier Queloz, 2019 Nobel Laureate in Physics “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. Topic of Didier Queloz’s Nobel Talk: The Exoplanet Revolution and Life in the Universe followed by live Q&A session.
  
  Join Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz, Jacksonian Professor at the University of Cambridge and Professor of Physics at ETH Zurich, as he explores one of science’s most profound frontiers: the search for life beyond Earth. Celebrated for his 1995 discovery of the first planet orbiting another star—an achievement that earned him the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics—Professor Queloz will guide us through the explosive growth of exoplanet research. From planetary diversity to atmospheric biosignatures, and new clues about the origins of life, his talk offers a compelling glimpse into how the exoplanet revolution is reshaping our place in the universe.

Click here to download the app. Once you’ve registered, scan the QR-code below to get to the Virtual Swiss Pavilion.

You’ll be sent to the Island of Harmony, where the Virtual Swiss Pavilion is located on the right side. Enter the Pavilion and the Aula.