21– -–  23 November 2025
☞ Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam

Welcome to G10 festival of great ideas on philosophy, science, and art.

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Founded in 2016, the G10 Festival is one of the most special “think festivals” in Europe. Speakers are selected for their distinctive approach to unconventional thinking.

AIM OF G10

A unique opportunity to delve into the minds of the world’s leading thinkers. Make the invisible visible by drawing special connections.

Today, the world craves a thoughtful approach to the future, especially as new powers within society—like artificial intelligence, superlearning, wars, neuroscience, happiness, and knowledge—come to the forefront.

Explore 2025 program

DAY 1

FRIDAY NOV-21
12:00
DOORS & BOOKSTAND OPEN
13:00-14:00
TALK, Q&A
Take Back Control: The Shaolin Way to Master Yourself
SHI HENG
YI
In-person appearance
(Pending)
14:00-15:00
TALK, Q&A
How Do We Experience Time ? The Infinite Paradox
Boris Acket
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
15:00-16:00
TALK, Q&A
Europe on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
Ivan Krastev
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
16:00-16:15
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
16:15-16:45
SAXOPHONE
Ties Mellema, saxophones: The Space in Between
Ties Mellema
In-person appearance
(Pending)
16:45-17:45
TALK, Q&A
Understanding China: The Major Economy, a Decentralised Economy
Ke yu
Jin
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
17:45-18:00
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
18:00-19:00
TALK, Q&A
Generating Truth and Reality: The War with Information
Dmytro Kuleba
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
18:45-19:45
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
19:15-20:15
TALK, Q&A
A Beautiful Emptiness: An Attempt to Resist Our Obsession with Productivity
Lieke Knijnenburg
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
20:15-20:30
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
20:30-21:30
TALK
Zero Point: All Words Are Not Equal (Part One)
Slavoj Žižek
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
21:45-23:00
Q&A
Q&A WITH Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
23:00-23:30
BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND

DAY 2

SATURDAY NOV-22
12:00
DOORS & BOOKSTAND OPEN
13:00-14:00
TALK, Q&A
TBD
TBD
In-person appearance
(Pending)
14:00-14:45
TALK, Q&A
TBD
TBD
In-person appearance
(Pending)
14:45-15:00
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
15:00-16:00
TALK, Q&A
TBD
TBD
In-person appearance
(Pending)
16:00-17:00
TALK, Q&A
Jungle Keeper of the Amazon
Paul Rosolie
Livestream (Confirmed)
17:00-17:15
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
17:15-17:45
MUSIC
Joop Koopman and Friends
Joop Koopman
In-person appearance
(Pending)
17:45-18:45
TALK, Q&A
Why We’re Getting Poorer — and How We Can Fix It
Cahal Moran
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
18:45-19:15
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
19:15-20:15
TALK, Q&A
On Male Sexuality
Lucy Cooke
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
20:15-20:30
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
20:30-21:30
TALK
Zero Point: All Words Are Not Equal (Part Two)
Slavoj Žižek
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
21:45-22:45
Q&A
Q&A with Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
In-person appearance
(Confirmed)
22:45-23:00
BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND

DAY 3

SUNDAY NOV-23
17:30
DOORS & BOOKSTAND OPEN
18:30-19:30
TALK, Q&A
Hacking Our Way Out of the Universe
Roman Yampolskiy
In-person appearance (Confirmed)
19:30-20:30
TALK, Q&A
TBD
Yanis
Varoufakis
Livestream (Confirmed)
20:30-20:45
BREAK, BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND
20:45-21:45
TALK, Q&A
TBD
TBD
In-person appearance (Pending)
21:45-22:45
TALK, Q&A
The Return of the Dire Wolf: A Gateway to Life’s Greatest Mystery
TBD
Livestream & In-person appearance
(Pending)
22:45-23:00
BOOK SIGNING
AT BOOKSTAND

LOCATION

Zuiderkerk

The Zuiderkerk is a 17th-century Protestant church in the Nieuwmarkt area of Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. The church played an important part in the life of Rembrandt and was the subject of a painting by Claude Monet.

Zuiderkerkhof 72,  

1011 HJ Amsterdam

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