BSA Blockchain Conference
Privacy and Verifiability
EPFL, March 7th
Our Vision
We believe in a future where blockchain technology serves as a cornerstone of innovation and progress.
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Conference Schedule
Main Stage
Panel 1: Don't trust: prove, verify
Panel 2: Does privacy have a usecase? (privacy applications)
Panel 3: TradFi & Defi with privacy
Panel 4: regulation in privacy-enhancing technologies
Zuitzerland
Panel 5: Verifiability: scaling blockchain to new heights (zk scalability)
Side Stage 1: BC05
Peterson Yuhala: Secure Computation with TEE
Guillaume Michel: Intro to IPFS
Amir Taaki: DarkFi: Anonymous P2P Agorist Markets
Ziyi Guan: Breaking Verifiable Delay Functions in the Random Oracle Model
Mate Soos: hevm, a flexible symbolic execution framework to verify EVM bytecode
Feltroid Prime: Optimised Noir and Groth16 verification on Starknet with Garaga
Christian Knabenhans: Making lattice-based PETs easy to use
Simon Malatrait: Designing your first ZK-VM with Circle STARKs: a Brainfuck AIR for STWO
Handan Alper: zkSharding, scaling Ethereum with sharded rollups
Sylve Chevet: The future of Internet is signed and verified
Leona: Stateless space
Akaki Mamageishvili: BoLD: Fast and Cheap Dispute Resolution
Piotr Mikołajczyk: Boulevard of broken proofs
Phillip Jovanovic: ARKE: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery
Side Stage 2
Bastiaan Quast: nostr: bitcoin crypto (secp256k1) for social media: demos self-contained clients & a 'stories' format-spec
Jeff Burdges: Zero-knowledge continuations useful ring VRFs
Julian Arcium: Privacy 2.0 with Arcium
François-Xavier Wicht: How Privacy Impacts Storage In Cryptocurrency
Pim Keer: Mechanics of the Bitcredit Protocol
Maciej Kalka: Web Proofs Demystified - a deep dive into zkTLS
Claude Barde & Sergey Kisel: Midnight - Empowering data protection apps
Sisyfos: Starknet Ecosystem
Damian Straszak: Privacy vs Bad Actors
François-Xavier Wicht: Toxic Decoys: A Path to Private Blockchain Scalability
Kassandra.eth: Stealthereum: open-source tools for onchain stealth NOW
Alexander Linton: How Decentralised Messaging Protects Privacy
Nicolas Sierro: Self Sovereign Identity for Age assurance with ZK Proofs: from data privacy compliance to successful usage through suited business model
Maxim Orlovsky: Ultraviolet: A new generation of privacy-first ultra-scalable smart contracts made with client-side validation (RGB) and zk-VM (SONIC).
And much more during our Hackathon the following days!
Check out the HackathonPanels
SPEAKERS
Peterson Yuhala
Postdoctoral Researcher on confidential computing at UniNE
Guillaume Michel
Research Engineer at Interplanetary Shipyard
Mate Soos
Ethereum Foundation
Micha Roon
Head of Engineering at the Hashgraph Association
Feltroid Prime
Applied Cryptography Engineer, member of Herodotus and Garaga
Ziyi Guan
Ph.D. student at the EPFL Theory Group
JP Aumasson
CSO & Co-founder of Taurus Group
Maxim Orlovsky
Director at the Institue for Distributed and Congnitive Systems
Bettina Sosa
Head of DevRel at Partisia
Jeff Burdges
Applied Cryptography Researcher at Web3 Foundation
Ariel Ben Hattar
CMTA
Laura Kiviharju
Data Protection Cybersecurity & AI Governance Specialist
François Xavier Wicht
PhD student in the Cryptology and Data Security Group at UniBern
Rie
Chief of staff at Intmax
Yunus Gürlek
Mina Community Core Developer - zkVot
Alan Szepieniec
co-founder of Neptune Cash
Luis Bezzenberger
Product Lead at Brainbot for Shutter Network
Pim Keer
Pre-doctoral researcher on Security and Privacy at TU Wien
Maciej Kalka
Researcher at VLayer Labs
Claude Bardeciej
Developer Relations Engineer at Midnight
Simon Malatrait
Smart Contract Hacker & Developer
Julian Deschler
Co-Founder of Arcium
Handan Alper
Researcher at =Nil
Gurgen Arakelov
Co-founder & CEO of Fairmath
Leona Hioki
Co-founder of Intmax
Sylve Chevet
Co-founder & CEO of Hylé
Piotr Mikołajczyk
Aleph Zero
Damian Straszak
Aleph Zero
Kassandra.eth
Cryptographer
Akaki Mamageishvili
Senior Research Scientist at Offchain Labs
Amit Taaki
Darkfi
Alexander Linton
President of the Session Technology Foundation
Trang
Founder of Holistik
Christian Knabenhans
Ph.D. student at the EPFL COMPSEC lab
Isla Munro
Zuitzerland
Nicolas Sierro
Product & Project Manager at Privately
Vlad Avelson
Zuitzerland and Cosimo Capital
Bastiaan Quast
ValiQ Security GmbH
Phillip Jovanovic
Full Professor in Information Security at UCL
Sisyphus
Exploration Team Lead at Starkware
Jordi Baylina
Co-Founder of Polygon & Privado ID.
Einar Rasmussen
Inversed Tech