Events

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.

27/03/2019

Type of event : other-conference

The CV Summit is a unique event held in the heart of the Crypto Valley – in Zug hosting almost 1000 attendees. Switzerland and Lichtenstein have established themselves as the Crypto Valley, through the openness of the Swiss government it has become home of some of the most renowned crypto and blockchain companies such as: Aragon, Ethereum and many more who have established themselves in Zug.

27/03/2019 09:00 — 18:30

Type of event : other-workshop

The 2nd SDSC-Connect workshop named "Paving the way for Digital Manufacturing" will take place at the Kursaal, Bern. It will address the sometimes unforeseen challenges in a data-driven world and leading industry experts will share their views on the 4th industrial revolution we are experiencing.

27/03/2019 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

In this talk, Nicolas Badoux presents MinFuzz, his approach to discover and remove prunable code blocks to improve fuzzing effectiveness. First, he will discuss which computations are "skippable". His system targets particularly decompression, decryption, and checksum computations [...]

25/03/2019 — 29/03/2019
09:00 — 17:00

Type of event : c4dt-course

Being able to understand fundamental data protection challenges, interpret the technical implications of cyber, data protection and privacy law, advise third parties, and communicate properly with technical experts who develop and maintain digital systems are crucial for lawyers. With these goals mind this course is developed by C4DT in close cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and builds on the first course held for its lawyers at the end of February 2018.

20/03/2019 14:00 — 18:00

Type of event : other-workshop

The JPEG committee calls for industry/academic participation to its 3rd workshop on media blockchain. This free public workshop will be held in Geneva on Wednesday the 20th of March 2019 in conjunction with the 83rd ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (JPEG) Meeting. Please register at the latest by Friday 15 March 2019 by filling out the following 2 forms: Form 1 (select “Invited expert” as membership category) and Form 2 (for logistical reasons).

06/03/2019 15:15 — 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

2018 was a crazy year for privacy. The General Data Protection Regulation came into force in May, and new revelations on the personal data ecosystem were making headlines on a weekly basis. I will give the behind the scenes for a lot of these events, question why they didn’t happen earlier, and offer some thoughts (...)

27/02/2019 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

By Georgia Fragkouli Abstract Can we improve Internet transparency without worsening user anonymity? For a long time, researchers have been proposing transparency systems, where traffic reports produced at strategic network points help assess network behavior and verify service-level agreements or neutrality compliance. However, such reports necessarily reveal when certain traffic appeared at a certain network (...)

11/02/2019 12:00

Type of event :

This event is the follow-up to the highly successful Swiss Blockchain Summer School 2017 and an IACR Cryptology School and is jointly organized by EPFL, ETHZ, and The Initiative for CryptoCurrencies & Contracts (IC3). It brings together students (Bachelor, Master, PhD), academic researchers, industry professionals, and government employees for an in-depth exchange on the latest (...)

28/12/2018 13:30

Type of event : c4dt-conference

Four days of talks, tutorials & workshops, on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with top speakers from around the world, at EPFL. 26–29 January 2019, SwissTech Convention Center AI & Trust January 28 13:30–17:00 & January 29 9:00–12:30 The conference includes a track on AI & trust co-organised by C4DT

12/12/2018 15:00

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by Sebastian Meiser (UCL) and Esfandiar Mohammadi (ETH Zurich) Anonymity Trilemma: Anonymity, Low Latency, and Low Bandwidth Overhead — Choose Two 15h00 – 12 December 2018, EPFL BC410

06/12/2018 10:15

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

A growing number of wearable devices are becoming available. By their ability to measure physical activity and physiological characteristics such as heart rate, blood pressure, sleep patterns, etc., they constitute a cornerstone for the quantified self and personalized health. Yet, unavoidably, they bring a number of challenges in terms of security and privacy. 10:15-13:00 – (...)

29/11/2018 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by Elissa Redmiles From Normative to Descriptive Solutions to Problems in Security, Privacy & Machine Learning 16h15 – 29 November 2018 EPFL BC420

14/11/2018 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by Ludovic Barman Reducing Metadata Leakage from Encrypted Files and Communication with PURBs 16h15 – 14 November 2018 EPFL BC410

02/11/2018 11:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by Enis Ceyhun Alp RBurnBox: Self-Revocable Encryption in a World of Compelled Access 11h15 – 2 November 2018, EPFL BC410 Recent work by Nirvan Tyagi, Muhammad Haris Mughees, Thomas Ristenpart, and Ian Miers, which was presented at Usenix Security 2018. More info

17/10/2018 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by David Froelicher Drynx: A Decentralized, Secure, Verifiable System for Statistical Queries and Machine Learning on Distributed Databases 16h15 – 17 October 2018, EPFL BC410

03/10/2018 16:15

Type of event : c4dt-seminar

presented by Bogdan Kulynych ClaimChain: Improving the Security and Privacy of In-band Key Distribution for Messaging 16h15 – 3 October 2018, EPFL BC410 Dry-run for the 2018 Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES’18). More info

26/02/2018 — 02/03/2018

Type of event : c4dt-course

A group of lawyers and policy workers from the International Red Cross (ICRC) and other organizations concluded a computing and digital trust awareness-raising training at EPFL.The week-long course in collaboration with C4DT is intended to equip them with the tools to evaluate the impact of information systems on their humanitarian activities. The course starts from computing basics and touches cloud computing, information security and privacy preservation.