CWI in Business 2021 on Secure Multiparty Computation (i.c.w. TNO)

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO) are pleased to invite you to the online event 'CWI in Business' on Monday 13 September.

This year’s edition revolves around Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) and the program committee consists of Ronald Cramer (CWI) and Thijs Veugen (TNO/CWI).

Registration for the webinar is closed. If you missed the webinar, you can watch it here.

The scientific area of secure multi-party computation offers a cryptographic approach for  secure data sharing and -processing. This area is gaining worldwide recognition as a potential solution to an increasing number of applications, for instance in health and finance.

During the last decade, many scientific results contributed to significant improvements of the efficiency of these techniques, thereby bringing MPC further towards maturity. On the other hand, the development of big data and artificial intelligence has established a growing need for secure data analysis mechanisms on distributed sensitive data. A further incentive is given by the requirements of the European privacy laws (GDPR).

During this event, we will give a scientific overview of the field, and present a number of use cases that were solved by means of MPC. We will touch on the entire spectrum from fundamental and applied research to applications and spin-offs.

Program:
10.00-10.30 Lisa Kohl & Ronald Cramer (CWI): Introduction
10.30-11.05 Guest speaker Marcel Keller (CSIRO's Data61): MP-SPDZ - A versatile framework for multi-party computation
11.05-11.25 Panel discussion Ronald Cramer, Lisa Kohl, Thijs Veugen & Marcel Keller: MPC fundamentals
11.25-11.40 Break
11.40-11.55 Thijs Veugen (TNO/CWI): An overview of present and future MPC applications
11.55-12.10 Mark Abspoel (CWI): Improving HIV treatment choice with multi-party computation
12.10-12.25 Martine van de Gaar (Linksight): Linksight, a TNO spin-off
12.25-12.45 Panel discussion Thijs Veugen, Martine van de Gaar, Mark Abspoel & Marcel Keller: MPC use cases
12.45 End of program
The program will be hosted by chair of the day Chris van 't Hof.
More info about the speakers and abstracts can be found on this page.