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”.
  
• 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.

• 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.
  
  Join us for a special lecture by Professor Eric S. Maskin of Harvard University, recipient of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Renowned for his pioneering work in game theory, Professor Maskin will provide an accessible introduction to “mechanism design”—one of the foundational theories of modern economics.
  

  How can we design institutions that lead to desirable social and economic outcomes, even when individuals act in their own self-interest? In this lecture, Professor Maskin will explore this question through real-world examples such as auctions, voting systems, and market regulations. He will present a powerful framework for understanding incentives, fairness, and decision-making mechanisms.

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.