Events

03/10/2019

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

On Thursday October 3rd the C4DT will kick off the IoT Security workgroup with its launch workshop held at the EPFL. Nine C4DT partner companies will develop an understanding of each other's challenges and needs in IoT Security and share insights on such projects. Prof. David Atienza and Dr. Amir Aminifar from the C4DT-affiliated Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) provide insights into their state-of-the-art research.

02/10/2019 16:00 — 19:30

Type of event : c4dt-conference

Facebook's Libra project continues to fuel the news headlines and stirs passionate discussions, for example, on its technological robustness, its macro-economical and societal impact as well as the FINMA's regulatory response. The C4DT organises a panel discussion this topic on Wednesday the 2nd of October from 16h to 18h @ EPFL room BC 420, A networking aperitif until 19h30 will round off the event. Please note that this event is by invitation only.

24/09/2019 14:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

by Prof. Ben Zhao, Univ. of Chicago The lack of transparency in today’s deep learning systems has paved the way for a new type of threats, commonly referred to as backdoor or Trojan attacks. In this talk, Ben Zhao will describe two recent results on detecting and understanding backdoor attacks on deep learning systems. September 24th, 2019 @ 14:15, room BC 420

05/09/2019

Type of event : other-conference

The Swiss Crypto Day is an informal event to promote research in cryptology in Switzerland. It will take place at irregular intervals. The first edition takes place in September 2019 and is hosted by the crypto group at the University of Bern. Please save the date.

05/09/2019 — 06/09/2019
09:00

Type of event : other-conference

The Cyber-Defense Campus holds its inaugural Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Defence and Security on the 5-6 September 2019 at the SwissTech Center in Lausanne. Speakers will be drawn internationally from all defence and security areas of industry, academia, military and government. The discussed AI topics will range from new scientific findings to the benefits and usability of AI techniques. For more information please click here...

04/09/2019 14:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

In this talk, Dan Bogdanov will start by introducing secure computing technologies and their potential in enterprise and government use. He will then look at a focus group study of the barriers of adopting such technologies based on interviews in many industries. September 4, 2019 @ 14:15 in BC 410

03/09/2019

Type of event : other-conference

For its 3rd Digital Day, digitalswitzerland organises a debate on gaming, e-commerce and cyber-risques. 4 experts discuss at the Café Saint Pierre in Lausanne the risks and opportunities of our digital society, answer your questions and give some tips for moving safely in the digital world. September 3, 2019, 17-19h @ Café St. Pierre, Lausanne

23/07/2019 10:00 — 11:15

Type of event : other-seminar

By Prof. Wei Meng, Chinese University of Hong Kong Click is the prominent way that users interact with web applications. Attackers aim to intercept genuine user clicks to either send malicious commands to another application on behalf of the user or fabricate realistic ad click traffic. In this talk, Prof. Wei Meng investigates the click interception practices on the Web. Tuesday July 23rd, 2019 @10:00, room BC 420

03/07/2019 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

Kasra Edalatnejad presents DataShare, a decentralized and privacy-preserving global search system that enables journalists worldwide to find documents via a dedicated network of peers. This work stems from the need of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for securing their search and discovery platform. Wednesday, July 3rd 2019 @16:15, room BC 410

20/06/2019 10:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

by Prof. Raluca Popa, UC Berkeley Many organizations wish to collaboratively train machine learning models on their combined datasets for a common benefit (e.g., better medical research, or fraud detection). However, they often cannot share their plaintext datasets due to privacy concerns and/or business competition. In this talk, Helen will be presented, a system that allows multiple parties to train a linear model without revealing their data, a setting we call coopetitive learning.

20/06/2019 09:00 — 17:00

Type of event : other-conference

This conference, organized by the University of Geneva and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, aims at presenting selected legal and policy aspects of cybersecurity in a crosscutting approach. C4DT's Sotiria Kechagia participates in this event via a talk on “Liability, privacy and security in medical data sharing: The Swiss experience”. Thursday, June 20th, 2019 @ 9h00-17h00 University of Geneva, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve 40, 1204 Genève, Room MR080

19/06/2019 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

Wide-area data stores enhance fault tolerance and response times, and they enhance scalability. Yet even in the absence of failures, these wide-area deployments can degrade the interaction latency between nearby clients. Cristina Basescu presents Crux, the first general framework that addresses these issues by building locality-preserving data stores. Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 @16:15 room BC 410

13/06/2019 — 14/06/2019

Type of event : other-conference

EPFL's IC School invites you to the 2019 edition of the IC Summer Research Institute (SuRI), held in Lausanne (EPFL, BC 420) on June 13-14. The conference brings together renowned researchers and experts from academia and industry who will present their latest research in cybersecurity, privacy, and cryptography. The event is open to everyone and attendance is free of charge. For more information and to register please click here...

11/06/2019 — 13/06/2019

Type of event : other-conference

This year the Scala Days conference will be held in Lausanne, 11-13 June, at the SwissTech Convention Center. It's the first time the conference is coming back to Switzerland after having started here in 2010.

07/06/2019 10:00 — 12:00

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

The C4DT Workshop on the difficulties of deploying E-Voting will take place on Friday June 7th from 10:00 to 12:00 in conference room BC 420. Professors Carmela Troncoso, Bryan Ford and Edouard Bugnion will be welcoming Mr. Denis Morel and Mr. Olivier Esseiva from Swiss Post, Mr. Christophe Vigouroux from l’État de Genève, and Mr. Thomas Hofer formerly from l’État de Genève.

06/06/2019

Type of event : c4dt-conference

This joint CMTA – C4DT conference will be held on the 6th of June 2019 at EPFL's SwissTech Convention Center from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m, following on from the EPFL School of Computer and Communication Sciences' Research Day. Speakers and panelists at the conference will discuss the first experiences made in Switzerland with the tokenization of securities and the professional custody of digital assets, as well as the future shape of trading platforms for digital assets.

06/06/2019 09:00 — 17:30

Type of event : other-conference

The Cyber-Defence Campus (CYD Campus) organizes its first conference on the 6th of June at the KKThun in Thun. It will focus on „Applied Cryptography“ and provides an ideal platform for participants from academia, industry and government to exchange information and present results on timely topics. The conference is free for governmental employees, students and academics. For more information and to register please click here...

06/06/2019 09:00 — 16:30

Type of event : other-conference

The School of Computer and Communication Sciences (IC) invites you all to attend this year's IC Research Day, held at EPFL's SwissTech Convention Center on the 6th of June, where world-leading experts will present and discuss their work toward building trust in a digital world. EPFL researchers will showcase ongoing research projects and engage with the audience. Registration is free. Discover the full program here...

04/06/2019 11:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

Citizens have a right to an explanation of the decisions affecting them. However, if AIs are to be used in decision procedures, how can we explain complex AI systems to the general public, while so many computer scientists find them inscrutably opaque? In this presentation, an optimistic approach to this seemingly hopeless question will be presented.

20/05/2019 16:15 — 17:15

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

This workshop will be held on the 20th of May 2019 the the EPFL and aims to inform researchers and industrial partners, active in the field of cybersecurity / digital trust, about current opportunities to fund multilateral projects (collaborative projects involving multiple research and industry partners) using H2020 as well as other Swiss and EU sources of financing. Please note that this is a closed C4DT community event.

14/05/2019 10:00 — 16:30

Type of event : other-conference

The UZH Blockchain Center is organising a Swiss-wide Symposium on Blockchain Research to take place on the 14.05.2019 in Zürich. In such an event, two principles are fundamental: (1) Academic, interdisciplinary programme; (2) Federal coverage. It is just fair (and interesting) to learn what Universities of this country are doing in the area now. This allows to form a sense of community, find possible synergies and plainly learn. Please register for this event.

13/05/2019 — 14/05/2019
09:00 — 16:30

Type of event : other-conference

This conference will take place at the University of Lausanne on May 13th & 14th in the context of the CANVAS EU project. Many international experts will give presentations, in particular governmental CERT representatives. Participation is free of charge but registration is mandatory as the number of places is limited to 90 participants.

10/05/2019 09:30 — 12:30

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

C4DT’s first workshop on the topic of Digital Identity will take place at the EPFL in Lausanne on Friday the 10th of May. The objective is to share insights in 4 application verticals, namely eHeath, IoT, e-Gov and Humanitarian, developing common understanding of digital ID, and to leverage opportunities for interaction and collaboration. Please note that this workshop is a closed event and by invitation only. More details will follow…

08/05/2019 16:15 — 17:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

While showing great promise, smart contracts are difficult to program correctly, as they need a deep understanding of cryptography and distributed algorithms, and offer limited functionality, as they have to be deterministic and cannot operate on secret data. In this talk, Ceyhun Alp presents Protean, a general-purpose decentralized computing platform that addresses these limitations.