BELFORT

Enabling Fully Homomorphic Encryption through Hardware Acceleration

a KU Leuven spin-off

Leuven Hardware Summit for Computing on Encrypted Data (COED)

23-24 May 2024 @ Faculty Club, Leuven, Belgium

We present the Hardware Summit for Computing on Encrypted Data (COED) to be held on 23-24 May 2024, at the esteemed Faculty Club in Leuven, Belgium.

The aim of this event is to facilitate connections among industrial participants who share an interest in secure computation. There are many options to accelerate the complexity of such computation, such as Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), and many target platforms: CPU, GPU, FPGA, ASIC, etc. We also see variations in acceleration of primitives (NTT/FFT, MSM, etc.).

In this event, we will delve into hardware accelerated computing of FHE, ZKP, and the compiler aspects of them. Our ultimate goal is to explore the application space accelerated computing enables.

Join us for insightful discussions, networking opportunities, and a forward-thinking exploration of the intersection between technology and privacy. 

In addition to well chosen speakers and talks, there will be opportunities for participants to take the stage and give an elevator pitch for announcing their technologies. Networking opportunities will be accompanied with a delicious buffet and lunch from the Faculty Club.

Space is limited, and thus we will be reserving places for representatives of companies that can most benefit from attending the day.

Program

Detailed program will be announced soon. Confirmed talks are as follows:

  • COSIC – Belfort Team
    Michiel Van Beirendonck
    Making FHE hardware-acceleration-friendly (and vice versa)
  • Galois/Niobium 
    David Archer
    Waiting for BASALISC: Silicon in the oven!
  • Intel 
    Ro Cammaroto
    Intel HERACLES introduces a groundbreaking near-memory computer
  • Ingonyama 
    Omer Shlomovits
    Hands-on TFHE acceleration using GPUs
  • Optalysys 
    Rob Todd / Nick New
    Hardware Acceleration of FHE using the power of light: Introducing the Optalysys Explore Platform
  • Intel 
    Alexander Viand
    Building & Standardizing an Ecosystem for Encrypted Computation with MLIR
  • Google 
    Shruthi Gorantala
    HEIR: A unified compiler for FHE with extensible backends

Practicalities

Registration

If you are interested in joining this event, please fill in this registration form. We will notify as soon as possible you to confirm your application.

Registration Form

Registration fee: 100€

Organisers

Details

Adress: Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven