Date: Sunday March 23-24, 2025
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Exact details TBD

This meeting is hosted by Prof. Erkay Savaş of Sabancı University.

Somewhat-Co-located with RWC in Sofia Bulgaria. Istanbul is an ancient city that is also a modern transportation hub. The most convenient flights to Sofia require transiting Istanbul, and we have located the 8th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting to both highlight Istanbul’s cosmopolitan beauty as a city, and to take advantage of easy travel to Sofia Bulgaria for RWC 2025.

Overview

Based on the success of our previous standards meetings, and the founding of the HomomorphicEncryption.org group, we are pleased to announce the 8th HomomorphicEncryption.org Workshop. The workshop is targeted at application developers, security practitioners, and homomorphic encryption experts. Along with technical standards discussions, the program also includes sessions on software tools for developing and benchmarking homomorphic encryption solutions, hardware acceleration approaches, and industry applications of homomorphic encryption. The workshop is also a great place for PhD students to meet representatives from industry and academia. 

We will have this meeting where Europe and Asia meet, in Istanbul Turkey for this event, with a clear target to strengthen the engagement with the broader international FHE and cybersecurity communities and raise awareness among end-users and potential adopters of homomorphic encryption. 

Please note that the workshop will take place in-person. If you would like to contribute to, or suggest, topics in the agenda, please, let us know.

Thanks in advance. We are looking forward to seeing you in Istanbul!

Keynote

TBD

Breakout Sessions

Like all of our standards meetings, breakout sessions are a big part of our gathering and effort so we can make focused progress on specific time-sensitive and important aspects of our community development. If you attend, you will be invited to attend at least one of the breakout groups of your choice.

The details of the coming breakout sessions are TBD.

Agenda

TBD

Steering Committee

Jung Hee Cheon (SNU/CryptoLab, jhcheon@snu.ac.kr)
Kristin Lauter (Meta)
Kurt Rohloff (Duality Technologies, krohloff@dualitytech.com)
Rachel Player (Royal Holloway, Rachel.Player@rhul.ac.uk)
Ro Cammarota (Intel Corp., rosario.cammarota@intel.com)
Shai Halevi (AWS)
Yuriy Polyakov (Duality Technologies, ypolyakov@dualitytech.com)