The meeting kicked off with a warm welcome from Prof. Erkay Savas (Sabanci University) acknowledging enCRYPTON Project and announcing the upcoming conference LightSec 2025 to be held on 1-3 September 2025 in İstanbul, Türkiye. The introduction was followed by Kamil Otal from TÜBİTAK BİLGEM and Steering Committee member Kurt R Rohloff from Duality Technologies. A highlight of the morning was the keynote by Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede, COSIC (KU Leuven), offering a talk entitled “Hardware acceleration for FHE: Strategy and Applications”.
Throughout the day, engaging breakout sessions covered crucial topics such as security, use cases & benchmarking and hardware interfaces led by experts Yuriy Polyakov, Shruthi Gorantala and Florent Michel. These discussions played a key role in shaping the next steps for standardization and implementation in this evolving field.
