FHE SUMMIT

July 10, 2024, ETHCC

Organizers

Sponsors

Media Partner

Speakers

Pascal Paillier
Zama, CTO
Nigel Smart
Zama, Chief Academic Officer
Gurgen Arakelov
Fair Math, CEO
Remi Gai
Inco, CEO
Wei Dai
1kx, Research Partner
Ravital Solomon
Sunscreen, CEO
Christian Pusateri
Mind Network, Co-founder
Rookie Wang
Privasea, Research Lead
Tarun Chitra
Gaunlet, CEO
Michael Gao
Fabric, CEO
Guy Itzhaki
Fhenix, CEO
Jan-Pieter D'Anvers
Belfort, Co-Founder
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
Flashbots, Senior Research Scientist
Dimitris Mouris
Nillion, Senior Cryptography Researcher
Nitanshu Lokhande
Rize Labs,  Co-Founder
Jiapeng Zhang
Sight AI,  Co-Founder
Derek Walkush
Variant Fund
Joe Andrews
Aztec, Co-Founder
Sylvain Bellemare
IC3, Research
Felipe Flores
Security Labs
Yannik Schrade
Arcium, CEO
Bidhan Roy
Bagel, CEO
Yehonatan Scaly
dWallet, Co-Founder
Advait Jayant
Supersight, Founder
Julie Shi
Pokerr
Auryn Macmillan
Gnosisguild

Agenda

8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Welcome and Introduction
Remi Gai
Founder, Inco Network
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Hardware Acceleration: The key to FHE’s full potential
Jan Pieter D’Anvers
Co-Founder, Belfort
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Accelerating FHE and ZK with on a single chip: Architecture and Applications for the Verifiable Processing Unit (VPU)
Michael Gao
CEO, Fabric
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Accelerating Programmable Bootstraps for FHE with Wavelet Approximations
Dimitris Mouris
Senior cryptography researcher, Nillion
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
From Theory to Practice - Fully Homomorphic Encryption and FHE-Based Face Recognition
Rookie Wang
Research Lead, Privasea
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Rolling Out the Future: FHE Rollups and Coprocessors in Action
Guy Itzhaki
CEO, FHENIX
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
FHE Bridge for FHE Chain
Christian Pusateri
Head of BD & Marketing, Mind Network
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
What ingredients does Private DeFi need to finally cook?
Tarun Chitra
CEO, Gaunlet
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Lunch Break
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Panel Discussion:
Evaluating Tradeoffs Among Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (MPC, ZK, FHE, TEE)
Derek Walkush (Moderator)
Variant Fund
Nigel Smart
Chief Academic Officer, Zama
Joe Andrews
Co-founder, Aztec
Dimitris Mouris
Senior Cryptography Researcher, Nillion
Sylvain Bellemare
Research, IC3
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
A Component-Based Approach to Building Fully Homomorphic Encryption Applications
Gurgen Arakelov
CEO, FairMath
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Advanced FHE Protocols for the Blockchain
Nigel Smart
Chief Academic Officer, Zama
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
MEV mitigation with (T)FHE - how to enable searchers to blindly backrun a user transaction with pre-trade privacy
Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
Senior research scientist, Flashbots
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Threshold FHE in CeFi/DeFi
Ravital Solomon
CEO, Sunscreen
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Introducing the Universal Confidential Computing Layer
Remi Gai
Founder, Inco Network
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
The Synergies of Blockchains and FHE
Wei Dai
Research Partner, 1KX
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Break
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Incognito Happy Hour 🍻
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Why there can't be an FHE rollup on Bitcoin
Nitanshu Lokhande
Co-Founder, RizeLabs
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Verifying FHE computations with SPARC
Jiapeng Zhang
Co-Founder, Sight AI
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Homomorphic Encrypted Mixnets
Felipe Flores
Security Labs
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM
MPC vs FHE
Yannik Schrade
CEO, Arcium
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Private Machine Learning using FHE
Bidhan Roy
CEO, Bagel
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
The intersection between FHE and MPC: Threshold FHE
Yehonatan Scaly
Co-Founder, dWallet
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Using FHE for consensus for AI models
Advait Jayant
Founder, Supersight
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Crash Course in TFHE
Furkan Akal
Inco Network
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
FHE x Gaming: Build a fully onchain card game with FHE
Julie Shi
Pokerr
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Encrypted execution environments and Collusion resistant voting
Auryn Macmillan
Gnosisguild

Where and when

Brussel
July 10, 2024