Fireside Chat: Bruce Schneier
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A fireside chat from the International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future. Bruce has created a wide range of cryptographic methods including Skein (hash function), Helix (stream cipher), Fortuna (random number generator), and Blowfish/Twofish/Threefish (block ciphers). Bruce has published 14 books, including best-sellers such as Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. He has also published hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. Currently, Bruce is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
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International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Federico Charosky
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Federico Charosky, CEO Quroum CyberFederico is a seasoned cybersecurity executive with over 25 years of distinguished experience across the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. He specialises in cyber risk management, security operations, and incident response, Federico has dedicated his career to safeguarding organisations against the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats. In 2016, he founded Quorum Cyber, a premier cybersecurity firm backed by private equity, headquartered in Edinburgh with offices across the UK, North America, and the UAE. At Quorum Cyber, our mission is to...
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International Conference in Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Colin Cook
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International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Blockchain/DLT in Financial Services
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Chair: Stephen Ingledew OBE, Chair, Fintech Scotland Nishant Govil: MD, Innovation Adoption, BlackRock Kara Kennedy: Head of Digital Assets, JP Morgan Nick Jones: CEO Zumo. Dia Banerji: Imagine Ventures.
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International Conference on Digital Trust, AI and the Future: Blockchain/DLT in Business and Society
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Date: 24 June 2025 Chair: Peter Ferry, CEO, TRUST Centre of Excellence. Martin Doherty Hughes: Former MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain. Martin Trotter: Regtech leader, BRS Grant Thornton Martin Halford: CTO SICCAR and Tech Steering Committee Accord Project Chris Tate: CEO Condatis.
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Ralph C Merkle
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Ralph is a co-inventor of public-key cryptography, the inventor of cryptographic hashing, created Merkle's Puzzles, the co-inventor of the Merkle–Hellman knapsack cryptosystem, and invented Merkle trees. He received his B.S. in computer science in 1974 from UC Berkeley and a PhD. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1979. More recently, he is a researcher and speaker on cryonics. Ralph was a research scientist at the famous Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center), and a nanotechnology theorist at Zyvex. He has also been a Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, a senior...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Rosario Gennaro
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Rosario Gennaro is a Professor of Computer Science at City University of New York (CUNY) and a Director for the Center for Algorithms and Interactive Scientific Software (CAISS). 1996, he received his PhD from MIT and was a researcher at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center until 2012. Rosario's most recent work includes privacy and anonymity in electronic communication, along with proactive security to minimise the effects of system break-ins. He has received over 24,500 citations on his work and has an h-index of 72, and has published classic papers of “Non-interactive verifiable...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Tal Rabin
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Tal is a Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a Manager at AWS. Previously, she was the head of research at the Algorand Foundation and head of the cryptography research at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Centre. In 2014, she was defined as one of the 22 most powerful women engineers by Business Insider, and a Woman of Vision for innovation by the Anita Borg Institute. In 2018, she was defined by Forbes as one of the World's Top 50 women in Tech, and in 2019, she was awarded the RSA Award for Excellence in Mathematics. In 2023, she was...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Vinod Vaikuntanathan
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Vinod is a professor of computer science at MIT and a principal investigator in the IT Computer Science and AI Lab. He completed his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2003, and his PhD in 2009 from MIT. His main supervisor was Shafi Goldwasser. Vinod is seen as a world leader in the area of cryptography, especially within fully homomorphic encryption. He has co-authored many classic papers and which are seen as third generation of homomorphic encryption, including on "Trapdoors for hard lattices and new cryptographic constructions", and "Fully...
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World-leaders in Cryptography: Srini Devadas
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Srini Devadas an Edwin Sibley Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His current research interests are in applied cryptography, computer security and computer architecture. Srini was awarded an a master's and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley - under the supervision of Arthur Richard Newton. He was an inventor of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs), and, In 2014, he received the IEEE Computer Society's Edward J....
info_outlineDon Smith leads the CTU Threat Research group at Secureworks. His career starting with the creation of dns in 2005, and which was acquired by SecureWorks in 2009. He has extensive knowledge in cybersecurity and is seen as a world-leader in the field. Don is also the industry co-chair of the Strategic Cyber Industry Group in the National Cybercrime Unit at the UK National Crime Agency and a member of the UK National Cyber Advisory Board. He is also the co-chair of the Cyber League at the NCSC.