Michael Lustenberger
Conference Chair
Senior Research Associate Blockchain & Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
Institute for Organizational Viability, ZHAW School of Management and Law
Conference Impressions of last year’s DAWO24
Outcome of last year’s DAWO24
DAOs are a rapidly growing phenomena, and the importance of these new organizational structures is only going to increase over the next years with the further adoption of blockchain technology. Research on how to build more inclusive and democratic systems representing cooperative values needs more consideration and DAWO is a testbed for continues conversation.
The 2-day workshop brings together researchers examining the potential of DAOs, leveraging a culture of participation to fosters innovation and knowledge transfer between academics to advance DAO as a new organizational structure. We expect that the workshop yields a variety of novel research opportunities, which will set a basis for continuous collaboration among participants of the workshop.
Join us for the Second European DAO Workshop in Zurich 2025 (DAWO25) to initiate the discussion and collaboration.
Important Dates
Full Paper Submission
Author Notification
– Abstract-Only Submission
– Camera-Ready Full Paper Submission
Final Acceptance Notification (Abstract-Only & Camera-Ready Full Papers)
European DAO Workshop
Keynote Speakers
The workshop include pioneers in organizational design and governance research, cryptoeconomic experts, and academic leaders shaping the future of DAOs
Ying-Ying Hsieh
Assistant Professor at Imperial College Business School london (UK)
Ying-Ying Hsieh is an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. Her research takes an organization design lens to investigate extreme forms of decentralized coordination and governance among autonomous actors. More recently, Ying-Ying works with a large international team of organization design scholars to explore various aspects of layer 2 DAOs, including the consensus formation across levels, decision structure, and leadership emergence in DAOs.
Samer Hassan
Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University and Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Samer Hassan is an activist and interdisciplinary researcher, Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). His research revolves around decentralized collaboration, combining Computer Science and Social Sciences. He was awarded EU’s largest individual research grant, a 1.5M€ funding from the European Research Council (ERC) to study blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (P2P Models).
Jason Potts
Professor at Royal Melbourne Institute OF Technology
Jason Potts is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is one of the world’s leading cryptoeconomists and DAO researchers, specialising in digital institutions and innovation. Recent books include Innovation Commons: The Origin of Economic Growth (OUP), and Institutional Acceleration: The Consequences of Technological Change in a Digital Economy (CUP).
Workshop Moderators
The workshop moderators include academics and practitioners coming from the fields of DAO & AI, DAO and Digital Democracy, DAO Legal & Regulation
Theodor Beutel
DAO & Digital Democracy
Blockchain Governance Researcher, Center for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA) / Ethereum Foundation
Uwe Serdült
DAO & Digital Democracy
Professor e-Society Lab, Ritsumeikan University, Japan / Principle Investigator, Center for Democracy Studies Aarau (ZDA)
Mariana de la Roche
DAO LEGAL & REGULATION
Founder, BlackVogel Consulting / Former Lead Project Manager, IOTA Foundation
Salomé Bernhart
DAO & AI
Founder, HundredX / Idependent Researcher on Decentralized Autonomy
Björn Assmann
DAO & Tooling
Staff Research Scientist at DFINITY
Lara Schmid
DAO & Tooling
Engineering Manager Governance at DFINITY
Panelists
The panel brings together experts in DAO research across blockchain economics, DeFi, digital asset law, and DAO governance.
Valerie Laturnus
Assistant Professor in Finance, Durham University Business School
Fabian Schär
Professor for Distributed Ledger Technology (Blockchain) and Fintech, University of Basel
Ann Sofie Cloots
Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge
Daniel Liebau
(Moderator), Researcher at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Conference Committee
The conference committee consists of the conference chair, the steering committe and the organization committee
