From blockchain to quantum computing, the future of emerging technologies in Naples

NapulETH Open Village is back, the international event that places Naples at the center of global innovation and as a Mediterranean laboratory of the future, where dialogue between disciplines, cultures and generations becomes a tool for shared growth. After the success of the first edition, which gathered over 900 participants including developers, investors, students and companies, the 2025 edition will take place from 15 to 19 July in the suggestive Villa Doria D'Angri, historic headquarters of the Parthenope University, located in via Francesco Petrarca, 80, in Naples . The aim of NapulETH is to transform Southern Italy into a point of reference for technological innovation, a place where young talents, companies and institutions can meet, create synergies and build the future. In this sense, Parthenope University plays a strategic role as a scientific and cultural partner of the initiative, hosting the entire event and promoting the active involvement of the academic world.

A program divided into four days

• July 15–16: Hackathon open to students and developers, organized in collaboration with the Blockchain for Good Alliance, an international initiative that promotes the ethical use of blockchain to address real social and environmental challenges.
• July 17–18: Conferences, panels and workshops with speakers from around the world, to explore emerging technologies and the ethical, economic and social implications they entail.
• July 18 (afternoon): Startup Challenge in collaboration with the certified incubator Fare Impresa, to promote the best entrepreneurial ideas and foster dialogue between young innovators and investors.
• July 19: Closing of the works, individual meetings and high-impact networking.

NapulETH 2025 will address a broad spectrum of topics: blockchain, decentralized finance (DeFi), artificial intelligence, asset tokenization, digital identity, sustainability, privacy, and quantum computing. Quantum will be the focus of the new Quantum Track, a line of highly specialized content that is already attracting international experts and scholars. The goal is to activate an accessible, yet rigorous, debate on what we will call “technology” in the next ten years.

Art, Web3 and architecture: NapulETH Visions is born Alongside the tech sessions, NapulETH 2025 opens a new frontier with NapulETH Visions, a curatorial project designed to investigate the convergences between Web3 and contemporary art. With the inaugural exhibition Foresta di Cristallo, curated by Alessio Esposito, an exhibition path comes to life that will be hosted from 17 to 19 July in the historic spaces of Villa Doria D'Angri, transformed for the occasion into a live and interconnected exhibition ecosystem. Inspired by the novel of the same name by JG Ballard, the exhibition offers a reflection on the post-human world and on the new forms of hybridization between nature, machine and information. The works of Clarissa Falco, Lorenzo Lunghi, Adriano Tenore and Emilio Vavarella interpret these scenarios through installations, sculptures and immersive environments, giving shape to the fluid mechanisms that today redefine the concepts of value, identity and coexistence.

The dialogue between art, technology and architecture contributes to breaking down classical dichotomies – human/machine, physical/digital, aesthetic/economic – suggesting new horizons for the collective imagination and for the economies of the future.

An event for those who build the future NapulETH is not only designed for insiders. It is a meeting place for those who imagine the future and those who want to make it concrete: startuppers, entrepreneurs, students, researchers, institutions, creatives, traditional companies. The event is open to all entities that want to innovate, hybridize knowledge, create value. With the patronage of the Campania Region and the Municipality of Naples, and the active participation of universities such as Parthenope and Federico II, NapulETH strengthens its vocation as a bridge between the territory and the world, between education and business, between research and society. Among the confirmed institutional speakers is also the Hon. Marcello Coppo, head of the interparliamentary group on digital assets.