The world’s Free Cities conference
Liberty in Our Lifetime
Prague, Czech Republic
14-15 October 2023
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Liberty in Our Lifetime is the annual conference for the global Free Cities community. Join hundreds of likeminded supporters of liberty in the heart of historic Prague for an unmissable weekend of ideas, networking and fun. The two-day program will showcase the latest from Free Cities projects as well as talks on broader topics related personal liberty. Click the play button to watch our short film “Parallel Structures for Progress”, filmed at last year’s event.
Great Speakers
Hear from representatives of the world’s leading Free Cities projects.
New Experience
Experience historic Prague at our new venue in the heart of the city.
Networking
Network with like-minded supporters of liberty from across the globe.
Sponsor
Showcase your project to potential residents and investors by becoming a sponsor.
Why attend Liberty in Our Lifetime?
The Liberty in Our Lifetime conference is the best place to learn about Free Cities: self-governing territories that uphold individual rights and freedoms. Representatives from Free Cities projects in Honduras, the US, Germany, Norway and beyond will join to share updates on progress and explain how you could benefit from moving to or doing business in a Free City. Travelling alone? Don’t worry. There’ll be icebreaker activities and plenty of opportunities to get to know new people. Tickets are limited so get yours now to avoid disappointment!
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Tickets
Tickets
All Access Ticket
(Early Bird Discount)
€499
Access to the full two-day conference program.
Access to the VIP dinner on Saturday 14th October.
Access to talk recordings
General Admission
(Early Bird Discount)
€299
Access to the full two-day conference program
Access to talk recordings
VIP Dinner
(Early Bird Discount)
€200
Access to VIP dinner only
Young Person’s Ticket
(Early Bird Discount)
€29
Access to the full two-day conference program.
Available to people aged 26 or under on October 14 2023.
Online Ticket
€29
Access to conference livestream
Access to talk recordings following the event
Speakers

Titus Gebel

Patri Friedman

Patrik Schumacher

Ivan Ko

Rahim Taghizadegan

Peter Young

Vera Kichanova

Marc-Felix Otto

Mason Leschyna

Mark Edge

Tudor Iliescu

Alex Voss

Daniel Prince

José Luis Cordeiro

Sondre Bjellås

Stefan Kraus

More speakers coming soon...
Scenes from our 2022 event
Sponsors
Liberty in Our Lifetime is proud to partner with a range of sponsors that share our vision for upholding human freedom. Interested in becoming a sponsor? You can find out more about our packages here.
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Stefan Kraus
CEO of Henley & Partners
Stefan Kraus is the Chief Operating Officer of Henley & Partners and a member of the Executive Committee. Prior to joining Henley & Partners, Stefan worked in the consulting and private equity business, where he managed the acquisition and sale of several companies. At McKinsey & Company, he advised clients in strategic, operational, and organizational projects. Stefan holds a master’s degree with distinction from the University of Vienna and an MBA (Dean’s list) from the London Business School. He oversees Group IT, HR and Real Estate and is responsible for the Delivery Offices of Henley & Partners. Being based in the Vienna office, Stefan also advises clients on becoming residents or citizens in Austria.

Sondre Bjellås
Founder, Liberstad
In 2017, Sondre co-founded Liberstad with John Holmesland. Their project is based on the principles of Voluntaryism, private property rights, and Austrian Economics, and aims to establish a Free Private City in Norway. Sondre has an extensive background as a software developer, having worked on various open-source blockchain and decentralized software projects. The software he has created is actively used by the citizens of Liberstad and is available for use by other Free City projects. During his talk, Sondre will share details of progress made in Liberstad, provide insights into the daily lives of its residents, and outline the future plans for the project.

Titus Gebel
Foundation Council President
Dr. Titus Gebel is the inventor of the Free Private Cities concept and CEO of TIPOLIS. He is a serial entrepreneur with a doctorate in law who has founded a number of companies, including multinational energy and resources group Deutsche Rohstoff AG. In 2015, Titus resigned as CEO of Deutsche Rohstoff to devote himself entirely to his new project: Free Cities.
Titus wants to create an entirely new product in the “market of living together” which aims to fast-track economic and societal progress. His new enterprise, TIPOLIS, focusses on the practical side of Free Cities implementation by partnering commercially with trade zones and city authorities around the world.

Patri Friedman
General Partner, Promomos Capital
Patri Friedman spent 10 years coding at Google, starting in 2004, and has run the angel fund ZIG since 2011. His personal investments include Palantir (2009 => IPO 2020) and Matterport (2011 => IPO 2021). In 2008, he founded the Seasteading Institute with seed funding from Peter Thiel, in 2009 started Ephemerisle, the largest self-organizing festival on water, and in 2011 co-founded Future Cities Development which had the first MOU for a modern charter city in 2012.
Patri is on the board of the Startup Societies Foundation and advises a variety of new governance projects. He speaks and interviews regularly around the world. He has a BS in Math from Harvey Mudd, an MS in CS from Stanford, and an MBA.

Patrik Schumacher
Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects
Dr. Patrik Schumacher is principal of London-based Zaha Hadid Architects, with a track record of highly esteemed and award-winning projects.
He is teaching at various architectural schools in Europe and the US including Harvard University. Additionally, he has been involved in several master plan projects worldwide, such as Singapore One North. His contribution to the discourse of contemporary architecture includes the concept of a market-based urban order. He will support the planning and design of Free Cities.

Ivan Ko
CEO, Victoria Harbour Group
Mr Ivan Ko is the CEO of Victoria Harbour Group and Chairman of RECAS Group and a Director of At Home Foundation.
Mr Ko was born in Hong Kong and speaks fluent Cantonese, English and Mandarin. He graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 and studied a master degree course in real estate development in the University of Hong Kong.
Mr Ko has 27 years of real estate development and real estate finance experience in Hong Kong, China, Macau, US and UK. He was the Chairman and CEO of a mortgage service company – Advantage China Limited which he set up in JV with the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank), Deutsche Bank, Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO) and another institutional investor. He was the Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Asset Management of two listed financial institutions – SW Kingsway Capital Holdings Limited and Value Convergence Holdings Limited, in which he set up real estate funds for the China and Macau market. He set up the RECAS Group in 2004.

Rahim Taghizadegan
Chief Economist, Free Cities Foundation
Rahim Taghizadegan is the last Austrian economist of the Austrian School in the direct tradition and has been teaching at universities in Austria, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, and Germany.
As one of the last Viennese polymaths, he is also a physicist (specialization in nuclear physics and complex systems), philosopher, investor and entrepreneur.
He has written more than a dozen books, some of them best-sellers, and is the founder of the private university Scholarium in Vienna, where the Austrian School is kept alive in its original interdisciplinary form of the Hayek- and Mises-Circles. He is originally from Iran, but has grown up in Austria and studied in Switzerland and the US.

Peter Young
Managing Director, Free Cities Foundation
Peter is the managing director of the Free Cities Foundation. He leads the operational management of the foundation, with oversight over project delivery, communications and finance.
Before joining the Free Cities Foundation, Peter spent most of his career based in Beijing supporting trade links between the UK and China.

Alex Voss
Senior Advisor, Free Cities Foundation
Alex is a Senior Advisor of the Free Cities Foundation. He has a background in investment banking and joined Titus Gebel as the CFO of TIPOLIS Corporation from its beginning.
Alex lives in Chicago and is working to expand the ideas of the Foundation to the Americas. He studied economics and finance at University of Chicago and Notre Dame and holds the CFA Charter. More recently Alex has formalized his study of Austrian Economics under the tutelage of the Mises Institute.

Marc-Felix Otto
Foundation Council Member, Free Cities Foundation
Marc-Felix Otto is a Foundation Council Member of the Free Cities Foundation, having supported the idea of contract-based government for over 20 years and authored scientific articles on the topic of coercion together with Rahim Taghizadegan.
He is a Partner at The Advisory House, a leading management consultancy to the energy industry in S/A/G.
Marc holds a PhD in Physics and lives with his wife and two sons in Switzerland.

Mason Leschyna
Chair, Atlas Island
Mason Leschyna is the Chair of Atlas Island, an organization dedicated to supporting individual sovereignty by applying the principles of Free Cities to the world of seasteading. Atlas Island aims to become an archipelago of independent seasteading platforms which adhere to a common set of rules that protect natural rights. The project has a five-stage plan for developing an online community of seasteaders into a full offshore community. You can find out more about Atlas Island on their official website: Atlas Island.

Mark Edge
Mark Edge co-founded Free Talk Live 20 years ago with the aim of spreading peace, love and liberty around the world. His show has over 200 stations, has received numerous awards, and has been ranked as one of the most influential political radio shows in the United States. Mark’s early exposure to innovative business ideas through thousands of hours of radio interviews has helped him to become a successful investor. Mark is leading the development of Coral Beach Village: a purpose-driven community for conscientious individuals who value freedom, crypto, and private property rights.
Find out more
Follow the links to find out more about Coral Beach Village, Free Talk Live, its affiliate station Liberty Radio Network and follow Mark on Twitter.

Tudor Iliescu
Ambassador, Free Cities Foundation
Tudor is a Free Cities Foundation ambassador who has worked in diverse places across 4 continents.
Having co-founded and co-lead several NGOs, a political party, multiple tech startups, and other entrepreneurial initiatives, Tudor gained insights relevant to advancing freedom.
His talk at Liberty in Our Lifetime will draw applicable lessons from the intriguing evolution of parallel governance in the Balkans.
Use the links to follow Tudor on Twitter or connect on LinkedIn.

Vera Kichanova
Senior Economist, Free Cities Foundation
Dr Vera Kichanova is an urban economist exploring the future of private governance. Besides the Free Cities Foundation, she works at Zaha Hadid Architects as urban policy advisor. Vera’s career has spanned roles including elected Municipal Councillor in Moscow, Editor-in-Chief with Atlas Network in Kyiv, and President of the Oxford Hayek Society. She is a Frédéric Bastiat Fellow at the Mercatus Center (US), a contributor to the Adam Smith Institute (UK) and a Mont Pèlerin Society member.Vera holds a PhD in Political Economy from King’s College London, a Master of Public Policy from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Journalism from Moscow State University.

Daniel Prince
Podcaster and Author
Daniel is author of the book Choose Life, host of the Once BITten! podcast and a father of four. His book offers practical advice for adventurous families seeking to engage in long-term world travel while providing their children with first-rate education. For the past six years Daniel has taken his children on an educational journey across twenty countries, that has allowed them to experience diverse cultures, develop practical skills, and achieve impressive academic results.
Find out more
Follow the links to find Daniel on Twitter, check out his Once BITten! podcast and his book Choose Life.

José Luis Cordeiro
José Luis Cordeiro Mateo is a Venezuelan-Spanish engineer, economist, futurist, and transhumanist, who has worked on areas including economic development, international relations, Latin America, the European Union, monetary policy, comparison of constitutions, energy trends, cryonics, and life extension. José’s books include The Great Taboo, Constitutions Around the World: A Comparative View from Latin America, El Desafio Latinoamericano and La Muerte de la Muerte. His talk at Liberty in Our Lifetime will focus on the possibility of establishing Free Cities in space.