zkSummit11

April 10th 2024 - Athens

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Join us for the 11th edition of the Zero Knowledge Summit – zk11.

This edition bring together the best thinkers and builders to discuss the latest in zero knowledge research, zk use-cases, cryptographic primitives, privacy and maths.

This one-day invite-only event will consist of a mixture of topic oriented talks & workshops.

Attendees will primarily be researchers, cryptographers, practitioners, founders and developers working on zero knowledge topics.

Confirmed Speakers

Schedule

  • 10:00 Welcome to zkSummit & Sponsor intros – Anna Rose

    10.30 SNARK proving ASICs - Justin Drake (Ethereum Foundation)

    11.00 Binius: a Hardware-Optimized SNARK - Jim Posen (Ulvetanna)

    11.30 BREAK

    12.00 STIR: Reed–Solomon Proximity Testing with Fewer Queries - Gal Arnon (Weizmann Institute) & Giacomo Fenzi (EPFL)

    12.30 Arke: Privacy-Preserving and Decentralised Contact Discovery - Nicolas Mohnblatt (Geometry Research)

    13.00 LUNCH

    14.00 ZK Email: Novel ZK Applications Unlocked by Portable Provenance - Aayush Gupta & Sora Suegami (ZK Email)

    14.30 The Role of Decentralized Proving Networks in the Modular Stack - Uma Roy (Succinct)

    15.00 BREAK

    LIGHTNING TALKS

    15:30 Make Lurk Work - Chhi'mèd Künzang (Lurk Lab)

    15:45 o1VM: Building a Real-World zkVM for MIPS - Danny Willems (o1Labs)

    16:00 2PC is for P2P: A TLSN-Based On/Off-Ramping Protocol - Sachin Kumar (ZKP2P)

    16:15 Pushing the Performance and Usability of Zero Knowledge Proofs - Daniel Dore (Lita)

    16.30 BREAK

    17.00 Aptos Keyless: Blockchain Accounts without Secret Keys - Alin Tomescu (Aptos Labs)

    17.30 ZK Fireside - Anna & Friends

  • 10.30 The Last Challenge Attack - Oana Ciobotaru (OpenZeppelin)

    11.00 Pretty Optimal: Integrating Application-Specific Circuits and zkVMs - Victor Graf (RISC Zero)

    11.30 BREAK

    12.00 1 Circuit, 5 Rollups: Building a Re-Usable DA Integration for ZK Rollups - Connor O'Hara (Celestia)

    12.30 Circle STARKs - Ulrich Haböck (Polygon Zero) & Shahar Papini (StarkWare)

    13.00 LUNCH

    14.00 Insights into Practical Folding - Mara Mihali (Aztec Labs)

    14.30 Natively Compatible Super-Efficient Lookup Arguments - Matteo Campanelli (Matter Labs)

    15.00 BREAK

    LIGHTNING TALKS

    15:45 Mechanism Design for ZK-Rollup Prover Markets - Wenhao Wang (Yale University)

    16:00 Protecting against Bad Actors in Private Systems - Damian Straszak (Aleph Zero)

    16:15 Sharing Randomness in Distributed Proving - Tamir Hemo (Succinct)

    16.30 BREAK

    17.00 Folding, Codes and Linear Algebra - Alex Evans (Bain Capital Crypto)

    17.30 Common Pitfalls and Optimization for Modern Cryptographic Protocol Implementations - Shresth Agrawal (Common Prefix)

  • 10.30 SCRIBE: Asymptotically Optimal Streaming SNARKs - Tushar Reddy Mopuri (University of Pennsylvania)

    11.00 Application of Graph Methods for Efficient Quotient Polynomial Computation in Halo2 - Karthik Inbasekar (Ingonyama)

    11.30 BREAK

    12.00 ZK Consensus: One Proof to Rule Them All - Calum Moore (Payy)

    12.30 Mopro: Client-Side Proving on Mobile Made Easy - Oskar Thoren (Independent)

    13.00 LUNCH

    14.00 Polynomial Acceleration for STARK VMs - Alan Szepieniec (Neptune)

    14.30 Anonymous Credentials Based on Programmable Zero-Knowledge - Johannes Sedlmeir (SnT, University of Luxembourg)

    15.00 BREAK

    LIGHTNING TALKS

    15.30 ZkSnap - End-to-End Private Voting at No Cost to Users - Rahul Ghangas (Aerius Labs)

    15:45 Proteus: Proof of Transformation for AI Provenance - Daniel Bessonov & Rohan Sanjay (Proteus)

    16:00 MPC-Enabled Proof Markets - Daniel Kales (TACEO)

    16:15 To Compute or Not to Compute on FPGA, That is The Question - Tibor Tribus & Vladimir Marcin (MAYA-ZK)

    16.30 BREAK

    17.00 ZK in Restricted Environments - Can State-of-the-Art Systems Run on Smartcards? - Silur (Independent)

    17.30 Compiling to ZKVMs - Alberto Centelles (Anoma)

  • 10:30 ZK Building Blocks for Electronic ID Verification: from Signature Verification to Mobile Proving - Théo Madzou (Ocelots)

    11.30 BREAK

    12.00 zkPassport: Secure and Private Identity Using Your ePassport - Michael Elliot & Derya Karli (zkPassport)

    13:00 LUNCH

    14:00 Insights from and on Taxonomy of ZKP Vulnerabilities - Gyumin Roh (KALOS)

    15:30 Let's Build Something Impossible Using Multi-Party FHE - Janmajaya Mall (Gauss Labs)

    17:00 Securing Tomorrow: A Deep Dive into ZK for Automated Regulatory Compliance - Maya Krasovsky (independant)

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