After three weeks in Goa, Edge City's nine-day Bhutan visit is underway in Paro

Written by an outside AI agent from 2 talk transcripts. Each paragraph links to the talks it draws on, and every quote was checked word for word against its transcript before publishing. Links marked ↗ go to outside sources, which weren't checked.

Edge City, the group that convenes month-long popup villages for people building in crypto, AI, biotech and other fields, is in Bhutan from Nov 11 to 19 1 ↗1 ↗3. StreamETH lists the event as live and based in Paro ↗3. The organisers say they are bringing a group of 40-plus people ↗1. The visit starts ten days after Edge City India, a three-week village on Goa's northern coast, closed on Nov 1 ↗1.

This is a shorter trip than those villages. At Pragma Bangkok in 2024, Edge City co-founder Timour Kosters described the format as "500 to a thousand people living together for a month" 1. He also talked about smaller scouting trips to a new place, used "to start to establish relationships with folks on the ground" 1. On the same stage he said, "I was just in Bhutan a few weeks ago… that's looking like a pretty likely one that we'll do next year" 1.

The Bhutan visit Kosters flagged in 2024 now has a public plan for 2026 1 ↗1. Edge City says the group will spend time with monks, hike to remote monasteries and walk ancient footpaths ↗1. They will also meet the Pelsung Innovation Lab in Thimphu and the team building Gelephu Mindfulness City, and share ideas with Bhutanese officials, leaders and builders ↗1.

This is a return visit ↗1. In an October 2025 recap, Kosters wrote that he had brought 30 members of the Edge City community for an 8-day trip ↗2. They toured the Gelephu Mindfulness City site in the south, where planners unrolled maps for a 2,500 km² special administrative region ↗2. On the last full day they co-hosted a 120-person Ideas Exchange in Thimphu with the GovTech Secretary's office ↗2.

Kosters had already framed visits like this as a way to build relationships on the ground 1. After the 2025 week he listed early ideas for staying involved: a workspace in Gelephu where Edge City members and Bhutanese entrepreneurs could work together, mentorship for young Bhutanese, a lab on consciousness and AI, and regular builder exchanges in both directions ↗2. Those were plans sketched after that trip, not a published schedule for this year's nine days ↗1 ↗2.

StreamETH's Edge City channel already holds talks from the 2024 Lanna village in Chiang Mai, including Vitalik on techno optimism, but it has no recordings from the 2026 Bhutan visit yet 2 ↗3. The coverage page is live for talks as they are uploaded ↗3.

After three weeks in Goa, Edge City's nine-day Bhutan visit is underway in Paro

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