Artificial Intelligence
AI is moving faster than the institutions meant to govern it. 8Future’s AI track puts builders, regulators, and the people affected in the same room to decide how it gets used — before that decision gets made without them.
Lucerne, Switzerland · 29 October 2026 · Invitation-Only Workshop
Build the 8Future Institution. Don’t wait to join it.
8Future brings together the world’s most diverse thinkers and makers to drive a comprehensive, responsible shift in how we solve problems — one that protects and advances human life, freedom and dignity for generations to come.
If you received an invitation, please join us.
no later than 15 October 2026
- Focus
- AI, Longevity, Global Finance
- Room
- 40 changemakers
- Venue
- The historic Herrenhaus Dietschiberg
Why 8Future
Our Founding Belief
The world does not lack intelligence. It lacks insight — the understanding that comes from integrating what we know across disciplines, places, and people.
That connection starts locally, where ideas and decisions take real shape, and multiplies when it’s shared freely with a global network.
What We’re Building
We’re building a long-term, international institute — not a one-time event. Founding members help shape it from the start. Our goal isn’t to predict the future. It’s to understand big shifts early, see how they connect, and turn that into better decisions and real options for how we live and work.
Mission
Our mission is to boldly reimagine how progress happens — integrating intelligence across disciplines, cultures and generations to improve the decisions that shape our future.
Why Now
The future is moving faster than any single company, institution, or person can track alone. And the biggest questions increasingly sit between fields, not inside one:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Medicine
- Longevity
- Demography
- Economies & Institutions
- Capital
- What Scales
- The Next Questions
- back to Artificial Intelligence
What is the Founding Assembly
It is a day of dialogue and decision-making. This isn’t a conference.
This is the moment for you to shape something built to last. It is a rare first opportunity to convene with a special group of people in formal and informal positions of influence, people who others already turn to; curious, collaborative, and willing to challenge easy answers. You’ll be among people from different fields, generations, and parts of the world who think just as differently.
We gather to shape what 8Future becomes globally and in your local area. Miss the Founding Assembly, and you only get to join what’s already been decided.
The room is composed so that no single form of intelligence can dominate it.
Builders, scientists, and technologists. Entrepreneurs, investors, and family offices. Educators, sociologists, and institutional leaders will work together. Much of the value of the day is simply who is beside you, and how differently they see the same problem. Each perspective is welcomed because the tough questions cannot be identified or answered without it.
Through careful curation, a real diversity of intelligence, and rich dialogue, we’ll provide the conditions that make new ideas, collaborations, research, investments, and friendships possible.
Sample Agenda
We’ll sit at the table together in dialogue rather than listening to formal presentations. We’ll bring our strongest thinking on the questions that matter most, then ask you — and everyone at the table — to test it, sharpen it, and add what we’re missing.
Explore the shifts that no single field can explain on its own.
Follow where they lead — the opportunities, and the risks, that only come into view when you look across disciplines.
Find where our paths might join, in ideas, research, or collaboration.
Determine what could be possible together that wouldn’t be possible when working in silos.
Shape what 8Future becomes next — our purpose, questions, and the systemic work that follows.
What’s In It for You
You’ll leave the Founding Assembly with…
New relationships, research leads, and a mandate for what happens next.
A sharper, tested purpose for the institution.
One clear way to influence and explain 8Future, in any language.
A short list of priority questions to work on next — the Founding Intelligence Agenda.
Logistics
- Date
- 29 October 2026
- Time
- Start 9 am. Dinner ends at 9 pm, CEST.
- Price
- CHF 500 covers all meals and transportation.
Location
The Herrenhaus Dietschiberg has stood above Lucerne since 1582 and today the protected manor pairs that long history with calm, contemporary rooms made for gathering and talking, with views across the lake to the Alps. It felt right to begin a conversation about what deserves to last in a place that already has.
Our Immediate Focus
The Critical Opportunity
We will focus on three fields of innovation in October: AI, longevity, and global finance.
AI, longevity, and global finance don’t move in separate lanes — they’re already shaping each other. Across all three, and where they intersect, we ask the same four questions: what does the science make possible, who benefits and on whose terms, what does it do to systems already under strain, and what does it mean for a good, long life. 8Future brings the people, like you, building, funding and governing this future into one room to work through those questions together — before the answers that will shape the coming decades get decided without us.
Longevity
Science can now extend not just lifespan, but healthy years. 8Future’s Longevity track exists to make sure that breakthrough reaches everyone, not just the people who can already afford it.
Global Finance
Money moves faster than the rules meant to govern it. 8Future’s Global Finance track brings the people building new financial systems together with the people accountable for them — before the gap between the two gets dangerous.
The Journey Ahead
The Journey Ahead
As part of the Founding Assembly, you’ll have exponential impact.
8Future has an ambitious horizon ahead. Founding members are automatically invited to all.
29 Oct 2026
Lucerne, Switzerland
The Founding Assembly
40 people. The members of the Founding Assembly.
Purpose: Review and refine our founding premise.
May 2027
Bürgenstock, Switzerland
Executive Summit
160 people. The members of the Founding Assembly + a wider group of leaders joins.
Purpose: Build the foundation. Shape the intention for the first global summit.
Fall 2027
Interlaken, Switzerland
First Global Summit
Up to 5,000 people, across 4 days.
Purpose: Demonstrate progress and set the content, format, and speaker slots that matter to you and your enterprise.
2028
Location to be determined
Annual Global Summit
10,000+ people.
2028 and beyond
Local chapters
A Permanent Institution
40,000 global network.
Purpose: Scale our impact globally: understand big shifts early, see how they connect, and turn that into better decisions and real options for how we live and work globally.
Who’s Behind 8Future
Meet The Organizing Team
The people behind 8Future have spent decades building real things — blockchain infrastructure, aviation systems, health equity programs, design practice. They lead with expertise, not ego. What matters isn’t their titles. It’s that they’ll ask the hard questions and know when to lead and when to step back and let someone else’s answer carry the room.
Founder
Tino Ahlers
Tino is trained as a physicist, he brings more than three decades of experience as an entrepreneur working across technology, leadership and transformation. His work has consistently connected people, disciplines and perspectives — an approach he now brings to building 8Future as an international institution for better-informed decisions.
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Guido Schmitz-Krummacher
Board of directors, 8Future
Guido is on the 8Future board of directors. He is a board member and CEO across global blockchain and AI ecosystems, with roles spanning ShapeShift, Cardano, and Bancor. A lawyer and economist by training, he arrived here by way of the military, war-zone NGOs, and banking — bringing an outsider’s eye and a builder’s instinct to every room.
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Svenja Leggewie
Health systems change and human-centered design
Svenja works at the intersection of health systems change, organizational science, and human-centered design. She’s the founder of For People’s Sake and The Care Futures Lab, advancing care partner health equity for the millions providing unpaid care to someone with neurodegenerative illness — building the infrastructure to make their needs visible.
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Jakob Bosshard
Web3 and digital assets
Jakob is a Web3 entrepreneur and digital-asset expert who bridges traditional finance and decentralized technology, covering tokenized securities, stablecoins, custody, and compliant markets. With 20+ years in banking, capital markets, and fintech, he’s built wallet infrastructure and advised institutions on tokenization and go-to-market across Europe, MENA, APAC, and the U.S.
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Mary Quandt
Design strategy and organization development
Mary is a design strategy, service design, and organization development professional who helps individuals, teams, and organizations reach peak performance. She specializes in shaping culture, driving agile transformation, and improving performance through design thinking and coaching — with a track record of measurable results in fast-paced, complex environments.
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Zuzana Martakova
Community and business development
Zuzana is co-founder and head of business development for Freeth’m, building partnerships and community growth for a movement creating privately-operated, self-sufficient towns. A longtime student of libertarian philosophy and free-market thinking, she works to expand collaboration opportunities for health-optimized, sustainable communities that blend nature, smart technology, and personal freedom.
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