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Edge City

Monthlong popup society incubator

GlobalFounded 2024edgecity.live

Edge City runs temporary villages that pack a few hundred residents into shared housing, meals, workouts, and co-creation for about a month at a time.

Each village is designed as a society incubator rather than a conference: the point is living together, not just attending talks.

Locations rotate globally, so the brand is the format more than any single permanent campus.

Hosts monthlong popup villages where frontier tech, science, and culture people live and build together.

Edge City emphasizes four core principles:.

Building and co-creating where everyone contributes.

Multidisciplinary connections for breakthroughs.

Healthy by default environments with meals and workouts.

Multigenerational inclusion for families and elders.

High-agency builders at the forefront of technology, science, and societal governance. Eager minds that excel within innovative, interdisciplinary environments. Founders, scientists, urban planners, researchers, engineers, philosophers, storytellers.

Families with kids and elders are also welcome at Edge City's villages.

Past attendees include Vitalik Buterin, Grimes, and Laura Deming.

Location

  • Edge City’s pop-up villages have surfaced across 3 continents:
  • Apart from pop-up villages, Edge City also organizes unconferences and expeditions, aiming at exploring specific topics and evaluating potential locations for future villages
  • Edge City Denver, 2024
  • Edge City Austin, 2025
  • Edge City South Africa, 2025
  • Edge City Bhutan, 2025

Duration

  • The typical Edge City pop-up village runs for 1 to 2 months, grouping approximately 1,000 people with 200-300 full-time residents
  • Expeditions and unconferences are usually shorter (1 week), as they serve as scouting journeys for future villages

Pricing

  • • Ticket prices for Edge City's pop-up villages range from $1,000 to $3,000, depending on location, duration of stay, timing of booking, and ticket type
  • • Full programming access. Talks, hackathons, themed weeks, and spontaneous sessions
  • • Shared spaces. Co-working, gym/fitness environments, social venues
  • • Community rhythm. Group meals, workouts, and daily coordination tools
  • • Network effects. Direct access to builders, funders, and collaborators
  • • Housing, meals, personal travel are not included
  • • Edge City usually runs early bird ticket campaigns

Amenities

  • • Amenities in Edge City’s pop-up villages typically feature:
  • • Fitness classes (yoga, HIIT, strength training)

Co-working spaces

    Maker and creative spaces

      Social areas and venues

      • • Talks, panels, and hackathons

      History

      1. Edge City emerged from the Zuzalu movement, with the goal of creating a network city

      2. For 2026, Edge Esmeralda returns for its third edition, running from May 30 to June 27

      3. Edge City’s co-founder Janine Leger was a core organizer at Zuzalu

      4. 2024

        UP NEXT Edge Esmeralda '24 Healdsburg, CA June 2 – 29,

      5. 2024

        UP NEXT Aleph, Crecimiento Buenos Aires, Argentina Aug 6 – Sept 6,

      6. 2024

        UP NEXT Edge City Lanna Chiang Mai, Thailand Oct 10 – Nov 10,

      7. 2024

        UP NEXT Edge City Austin Austin, TX Mar 2 – 7,

      8. 2025

        UP NEXT Edge City South Africa Cape Town, South Africa Apr 3 – 12,

      9. 2025

        UP NEXT Edge Esmeralda '25 Healdsburg, CA May 24 – Jun 21,

      10. 2025

        UP NEXT Edge City Bhutan

      11. 2025

        Bhutan, South Asia Sept 14 – 21,

      12. 2025

        UP NEXT Edge City Patagonia San Martin, Argentina Oct 18 – Nov 15,

      13. 2025

        UP NEXT Edge Esmeralda

      14. 2026

        Healdsburg, CA May 30 – Jun 27,

      15. 2026

        UP NEXT Edge City India Mandrem, Goa, India Oct 11 - Nov 1,

      16. 2025

        Edge Esmeralda

      17. 2026

        Edge Esmeralda

      18. 2026

        Upcoming monthlong flagship popup village in Healdsburg, CA beginning May

      19. 2024

        Edge City Austin,

      20. 2025

        Edge City South Africa,

      21. 2025

        Edge City Bhutan,

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