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8Future Founding Assembly
29 October 2026
Lucerne, Switzerland
Found a global institution in one day — instead of joining it years later.
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- Maximum 40 participants
- By personal invitation
- One day · founding act
8Future pilots enterprises and people into new technologies. On 29 October the institution is founded — and the people in the room decide what it becomes.
There will only ever be one first 8Future circle.
- Date
- 29 October 2026
- Place
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- Room
- Maximum 40 participants
The Moment
What happens on 29 October in Lucerne — and what you can still shape.
On 29 October 2026, a deliberately selected group of entrepreneurs, founders, scientists and political leaders will gather in Lucerne to bring 8Future to life.
On that day we finally shape a global idea — and you can be part of this birth as a co-founder. Before an institution becomes established, there is a short moment when its foundations can still be moved. This is that moment.
There will only ever be one founding period. You can join an institution later. You can only help found it once.
Why 8Future
The gap this institution exists to close, from knowledge to impact.
8Future is an idea challenging the future.
New technologies accelerate faster than ever before in human history. Institutions and enterprises hit their boundaries on the way to aligning with that future. Individuals lose their orientation entirely.
The idea of 8Future is to pilot all these stakeholders into new technologies — to build the path from what is known to what is actually decided and done.
From knowledge to impact
- 01
Knowledge Creation
Research, technology and lived expertise produce insight.
- 02
Integration
Insight is connected across disciplines and stakeholder systems.
- 03
Decision Architecture
Connected insight is turned into a structure that decisions can be made in.
- 04
Activation
Decisions become mandates, relationships and initiatives.
- 05
Impact
Consequences appear beyond the room — and raise the next questions.
Why Now
Why the speed of change makes this format necessary — and overdue.
The future has started to run at hyper speed instead of walking.
The Intersection
The defining questions of the future increasingly exist between domains.
- 01
Artificial Intelligence changes Medicine.
- 02
Medicine changes Longevity.
- 03
Longevity changes Demography.
- 04
Demography changes Economies and institutions.
- 05
Economies influence Capital.
- 06
Capital determines what can scale.
- 07
What scales creates societal and environmental consequences.
- 08
Those consequences create the next questions institutions must understand.
Returns to 01 — the next Intelligence Cycle begins
What 8Future Is
The format, stated plainly — and what it is deliberately not.
Not another place to talk about the future.
Everyone in the room carries part of the intelligence — and is expected to use it.
- An audience
- A room in which everyone contributes
- A speaker hierarchy
- A table without a stage
- A programme to consume
- A working day with an outcome
- A one-off event
- The founding of a permanent institution
The Assembly is a format of the institution. It is not the institution itself.
The Founding Assembly
The four things the room decides on 29 October, and the hard facts of the day.
One day. Four decisions that outlast it.
This is not a conference audience. It is the first circle: deliberately small, carefully composed, and asked to shape what 8Future becomes rather than to attend it.
There will only ever be one first 8Future circle.
- 01
Challenge the Purpose
Ask whether this institution deserves to exist at all.
- 02
Strengthen the Principles
Decide what 8Future must never trade away.
- 03
Sharpen the Questions
Set the questions the institution will work on for years.
- 04
Define Your Contribution
Decide what you and your enterprise bring — on stage, and in the work that follows.
- Date
- 29 October 2026One day, from morning to late evening.
- Location
- Lucerne, Switzerland
- Participants
- Maximum 40 participantsEntrepreneurs, founders, scientists, investors, family offices, executives, banking and institutional leaders.
- Founding act
- Signing of the founding of 8Future by the participants
The Questions
What deserves our attention before it becomes obvious?
- 01
How will artificial intelligence change not only productivity, but human agency?
- 02
What does longevity mean for societies and economies designed around today's lifespan?
- 03
Which technologies deserve capital before markets fully understand them — and which should not be accelerated simply because they can be?
- 04
How do we distinguish progress from acceleration?
- 05
What responsibilities accompany the ability to shape the future?
- 06
What are today's institutions structurally unable to see?
- 07
Which environmental and intergenerational consequences must be considered before decisions scale?
- 08
What questions should 8Future investigate next?
The People
Who is in the room, and who is initiating 8Future.
Diversity of intelligence, not diversity of titles.
The room is composed so that no single form of intelligence can dominate it. Each perspective is present because the questions cannot be answered without it.
Scientists and researchers
Knowledge at the point where it is still uncertain.
Entrepreneurs and founders
What it takes to build something that did not exist.
Investors and family offices
What gets funded, and on which horizon.
Executives
What an organisation can actually absorb.
Banking and capital
Where capital moves, and what it makes possible.
Institutional and political leaders
How rules and legitimacy are made.
Ethics and sustainability voices
The long-term consequence of a short-term decision.
Independent thinkers
The question nobody in the system is asking.
Initiating 8Future
8Future is being initiated by a small international group with experience across entrepreneurship, institutional development, international networks and investment. The Founding Assembly brings outside judgement into the process before the foundations are fixed.
Your invitation
You are not being invited to fill a seat.
Every invitation to the Founding Assembly is intentional.
You are being invited because your experience, knowledge, judgement or perspective represents something we believe matters to this conversation — and because it cannot simply be substituted by inviting someone else with a similar title.
Your role is not to agree with 8Future. It is to help test whether its foundations are worthy of becoming an institution.
The 8Future Intelligence Cycle
From knowledge to consequence — and back to better questions.
Knowledge Creation
Science, universities, research, technology and lived expertise generate knowledge and possibility.
Knowledge Integration
Perspectives and signals are connected across disciplines, countries and stakeholder systems.
Scientific Validation
Evidence, uncertainty and assumptions are tested.
Ethical Validation
Long-term human, societal and environmental consequences are examined.
Strategic Judgement
Different forms of intelligence evaluate what matters and why.
Decision & Activation
Relevant insights become priorities, relationships, research mandates, decisions and initiatives.
Impact
Consequences are observed beyond the room.
New Intelligence
Outcomes, new signals and unresolved questions feed the next cycle.
The Journey
From 29 October 2026 to the years that follow — and where you sit in it.
Keep and defend the front seat you receive on 29 October.
If you take part on 29 October, you are already nominated for everything that follows.
- 29 October 2026
The Founding Assembly, Lucerne
A maximum of 40 participants shape the format, the content and the founding act — and secure the front seat for the whole journey.
- 12–13 May 2027
Executive Summit — around 160 participants
Everyone present on 29 October is already nominated. Here the work of the founding day meets a wider circle of leaders, and the format for the global summit is set.
- October 2027
Global Summit, Interlaken — 2,000 to 4,000 participants
The first summit at scale. You set content, formats and speaker slots for the topics that matter to you and your enterprise.
- 2028
More than 10,000 participants
The format opens further, and the institution takes its place in the annual calendar of the people who decide.
- Beyond 2027
A permanent institution
Over time, 8Future builds a network reaching towards 40,000 people across its events and its work — with a founding group that was there before any of it existed.
This is a planned journey, and a lot can happen on the way. But only if you invest one day and join on 29 October will you be captain and coach on this mission.
After 29 October
The measure of the Assembly is what becomes clearer, stronger and possible afterwards.
Success will not be measured primarily by attendance, applause or the number of conversations held. It will be measured by whether the institution leaves the room with greater clarity, stronger questions and a credible basis for continuity.
- 01
A validated and sharpened institutional purpose.
- 02
A clearer shared language for explaining 8Future internationally.
- 03
A Founding Intelligence Agenda with priority questions for deeper work.
- 04
Initial research and collaboration opportunities.
- 05
Stronger relationships between complementary forms of intelligence.
- 06
Validated principles for how 8Future should convene, integrate and decide.
- 07
A clearer mandate for the next development stage.
- 08
The beginning of an ongoing institutional intelligence cycle.
Your Invitation
How to take part — by invitation, or by telling us why you belong in the room.
Your invitation
Every participant on 29 October receives a personal invitation from us.
But we certainly do not know every interesting person in our ecosystem. If you think you should be part of this mission, tell us — directly below.
Every registration is read personally. If the Assembly on 29 October is not the right moment, we come back to you for the steps that follow.
There will only ever be one first 8Future circle.
Register your interest
Tell us why you should be in the room.
Most of the time you cannot be part of a brilliant idea or a unicorn, because nobody asked you to join. 8Future serves the world of the future — so we want to be different here as well. That is why we incorporate this idea together with its founding members, to give a global-changing institution a special base.
Future needs knowledge.
Future needs questions.
Future needs controversial discussions.
Future needs leaders. Future needs contributors.
8Future needs you.
29 October 2026 · Lucerne, Switzerland · Maximum 40 participants