Dates: Thursday, March 5 – Friday, March 6, 2026
Location: LG Sciencepark, Seoul, South Korea
The 9th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting will be held on Mar. 5th and 6th, 2026 in the ISC building of the LG Sciencepark in Seoul, South Korea.
The registration is now open! Register here by February 11 to take advantage of the early bird rate. The registration fee will get increased on February 12.
For any inquiries related to visa invitation letters, please email contact @ desilo ai.
Accommodations at a discounted price:
- Mercure Ambassador Seoul Magok: starting from 165.000 KRW per night (tax included). This link provides a discount between March 3 and March 10. Three options are offered: room only, 1 breakfast or 2 breakfasts.
- Courtyard Marriott Botanic Park: 220.000 KRW per night (+ taxes). This link can be used to do the room reservation (best to book before February 5). Breakfast can be arranged at check-in and paid on site at a discounted rate.
Overview
Based on the success of our previous standards meetings, and the founding of the HomomorphicEncryption.org group, we are pleased to announce the 9th 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.
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 Seoul!
Tentative Agenda
Thursday, March 5, 2026
- 8:00 Socialization / Coffee and light snacks
- 9:00 Opening remarks from the HES Steering Committee
- 9:05 Welcome from LG
- 9:15 Welcome from DESILO
- 9:25 Review of agenda by the HES Steering Committee
- 9:30 Keynote by an LG Executive
- 10:00 Coffee break (provided)
- 10:30 Introduction to the breakout sessions
- 11:00 Breakout sessions
- 12:30 Lunch (provided)
- 14:00 Breakout sessions
- 16:00 Coffee break (provided)
- 16:30 Standardization updates
- 17:30 Announcements and community updates
- 18:00 Community photo
Friday, March 6, 2026
- 8:30 Socialization / Coffee and light snacks
- 9:30 Keynote by Craig Gentry: Encrypted LLM Inference with Batching Across Users
- 10:30 Coffee break (provided)
- 11:00 Summary of 1st-day breakout sessions
- 11:30 Breakout sessions
- 12:30 Lunch (provided)
- 14:00 Breakout sessions
- 16:00 Coffee break (provided)
- 16:30 Summary of breakout sessions
- 17:30 Community discussion: next steps, reflections, comments.
- 18:00 Official close of the meeting
Local Organizers
Gold Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
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Steering Committee
Ro Cammarota (Cammarota Lab)
Jung Hee Cheon (CryptoLab/SNU)
Shai Halevi (AWS)
Rachel Player (Royal Holloway)
Yuriy Polyakov (Duality Technologies)
Kurt Rohloff (Duality Technologies)