Workshop on Tokenization and Digital Twins

On 18–19 March 2026, the Zug Institute for Blockchain Research (ZIBR) will host a workshop on the Philosophy and Ethics of “Tokenization and Digital Twins: Negotiating Reality and Fiction”. The workshop brings together scholars from philosophy, ethics, and blockchain research to discuss conceptual and normative questions surrounding tokenization and digital twin technologies. Keynote speakers include Matthias Braun, Atay Kozlovski, and Muriel Leuenberger.
Event Highlights:
Event Agenda
09:30

Welcome and Introductions

10:00

Keynote: Atay Kozlovski (Delft)
Digital Twins Everywhere: Promise, Perils, and the Ethics Of A Growing Phenomenon

11:00

Ana Barbosa (Porto):
Tokenizing The Dead: Feminist Posthumous Data Sovereignty and Spectral Digital Twins

12:00

Riccardo Valenti (PhD Venice, Paris):
Tokenized Absence: A Micro-Phenomenological Analysis of Deathbots as Digital Twins

13:00

Lunch

14:00

Keynote: Matthias Braun (Bonn):
Ending A Simulation Of Your Body: A Case of Fracticide?

15:00

Christoph Engel-Bunsas (ZIBR):
Deepfakes

16:00

Emanuele Martinelli (Zurich):
AI, Blockchain, And Economic Agency

17:00

End Day 1

Day 2: 09:30

Keynote: Muriel Leuenberger (Zurich):
When Should We Act for Ourselves? Digital Twins, Delegated Agency and the Meaningful Life

10.30

Eike Düvel (Karlsruhe):
Digital Twins As Personal Representatives In Public Deliberation

11.30

Georgy Ishmaev (INRIA):
Moral Costs Of Incentives In Decentralized Systems

12:30

Lunch

13:30

Jay Hani (Vienna):
From Epistemology To Ontology: Blockchain Digital Twins and The Institutional Authority of Energy Data

14:30

Eli Guenzburger (ZIBR):
Digital Twins: Plato’s Perfect Forms Or Technological Utopianism?

Eli Guenzburger (ZIBR):
Digital Twins: Plato’s Perfect Forms Or Technological Utopianism?

Registration is free
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