Date: Sunday March 23, 2025
Hotel Dedeman, İstanbul, Türkiye
The 8th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting was held on Mar. 23rd 2025 at the Hotel Dedeman in İstanbul Türkiye, hosted by Prof. Erkay Savaş of Sabancı University. This event is generously supported by the Encrypton Project: https://www.encrypt-on.com/
Here is the website of the out hotel:
https://www.dedeman.com/en/hotels/dedeman-istanbul
Gayrettepe, Yıldız Posta Cd. No:50, 34340 Beşiktaş/İstanbul, Türkiye
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
Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede of the KU Leuven COSIC team provided this year’s keynote.
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 breakout sessions this year focus on security standards, use cases and hardware-software interfaces. These are working sessions, focused on constructive discussion to develop draft community agreement on standards recommendations we can bring to the broader community. Our standards work has successfully informed national and international standards bodies including ISO and NIST, and this meeting is intended to continue these objectives.
Agenda
- 8:00 Socialization / Coffee and light snacks
- 9:00 Welcome: Erkay Savaş, Sabancı Univ.
- 9:10 Welcome from Turkish government representative
- 9:30 Introduction from the Steering Committee Led by Kurt Rohloff of Duality Technologies
- 9:40 Keynote: Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede of the KU Leuven COSIC
- 10:30 Coffee break (provided)
- 10:45 Introduction to the breakout sessions:
– Security – Led by Ilaria Chillotti, Erin Hales and Yuriy Polyakov
– Use Cases & Benchmarking – Led by Shruthi Gorantala
– Hardware Interfaces – Led by Florent Michael, Kurt Rohloff, Flavio Bergamaschi - 11:00 Breakout sessions
- 12:30 Lunch (provided)
- 13:30 Breakout sessions collaborate/discuss
- 16:00 Summary of breakout sessions
- 16:30 Community Photo & Coffee break
- 17:00 Standardization updates:
– ISO: Ilaria Chillotti
– NIST: Luís Brandão of NIST - 17:30 Announcements and community updates.
- 18:00 Community discussion: next steps, reflections, comments. Led by Kurt Rohloff
- 18:30 Official close of the meeting. Optional evening networking.
Steering Committee
Ro Cammarota (Intel Corp., rosario.cammarota@intel.com)
Shai Halevi (AWS)
Rachel Player (Royal Holloway, Rachel.Player@rhul.ac.uk)
Yuriy Polyakov (Duality Technologies, ypolyakov@dualitytech.com)
Kurt Rohloff (Duality Technologies, krohloff@dualitytech.com)
Erkay Savaş (Sabancı University)