Shoumeng Yan
Shoumeng Yan is the director of confidential computing of Ant Group. His research interests focus on TEE (such as SGX), MPC, and all the privacy preserving computing technologies. He leads the R&D of SOFAEnclave confidential computing stack. His team open sourced Occlum LibOS (https://github.com/occlum/occlum) which is a memory safe LibOS for Intel SGX with secure and efficient multi-tasking capabilities. Before joining Ant Financial, Shoumeng was a senior staff research scientist at Intel Labs, with a focus on secure isolation technologies, and made significant contributions to Intel products. Shoumeng got his Ph.D in CS from Northwestern Polytechnic University in 2005 before joining Intel. Shoumeng filed more than 20 patents.
Nitin Dhavate
Malcolm Dowden
Malcolm Dowden is a Legal Director at Global100 law firm Womble Bond Dickinson. He has extensive international experience of contractual, legislative and regulatory drafting in relation to data protection, privacy and emerging technologies. Recent projects have included analysis of technological solutions to otherwise intractable legal problems, including the data protection risks that stem from blockchain and distributed ledger. Malcolm also lectures in cyber and technology law at the University of Winchester, and contributed a chapter on EU and UK regulation to The Law of Artificial Intelligence and Smart Machines (American Bar Association, 2019).
Karni Gilon
Karni Gilon, has a M.S.C from Weizmann institute in Mathematics and Computer Science; Worked in several prominent Hi-tech fields, including distributed network switching at Broadcom; Studied Data Science and Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with several publications; Works in NLP research and Technology in Citi Innovation Lab in Tel Aviv.
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza
Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza (PhD in Telecom.) is a senior researcher at the EPFL Laboratory of Data Security (Switzerland) and the CEO and co-founder of Tune Insight (https://tuneinsight.com). He has more than 15 years of R&D experience in information security, applied cryptography and privacy protection; he has been the scientific coordinator of several European and national projects; he has been part of the editorial board of four journals on Information Security and part of the organizing committee and TPC of more than 20 workshops and conferences in this area. He has coauthored more than 40 publications in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and holds 5 granted international patents. His work is focused on applied cryptography for the protection of sensitive signals in distributed and outsourced environments, with a special interest in secure machine learning and software-based confidential computing. He actively contributes to the Homomorphic Encryption standardization efforts (https://homomorphicencryption.org), and to the design and development of the Lattigo cryptographic library (https://github.com/ldsec/lattigo).
Frank Wiener
As co-founder and president of the MPC Alliance, and marketing leader for Sepior, Frank is actively involved in the market application of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and its role in elevating the security and privacy of digital information and analysis. Frank has a long history in security and networking, working for innovative startups like Sepior to fortune 500 companies like AT&T. Frank’s has supported executive leadership roles in engineering, product management, marketing, business development, sales and general management.
Daniel Rawlings
Dan Bogdanov
Dr. Dan Bogdanov met his first significant privacy challenges while working with the data collection systems of the Estonian Genome Center. This inspired him to start researching cryptographic solutions for privacy problems. He is the inventor of Sharemind, a secure multi-party computation system for collecting, sharing and processing private data. Sharemind is a new kind of computer that analyses digital data without seeing the individual values. This achieves beyond-the-state-of-the-art data protection, as has been demonstrated in various applications processing tax, education, genomic and financial data.
Dr. Bogdanov has been a research team lead for multiple privacy technology research projects with DARPA – an agency of the United States Department of Defense, European FP7 and Horizon 2020. He is the co-author of the ISO/IEC 29101 standard on the architecture of privacy-preserving systems and the ISO/IEC 19592 standard on secret sharing. Today, Dr. Bogdanov leads the Information Security Research Institute at Cybernetica, an Estonian company creating information security, e-Governance and maritime security solutions. He is a board member of the MPC Alliance, an industry organisation of companies developing and using secure multi-party computation technology.
Dr. Dalia Khader
Dr. Dalia Khader, a CISSP, GSEC,GCCC is currently the divisional CISO in Swiss Life Global Solution, based in Luxembourg. She has over 15 years of experience in the field of Cybersecurity. Dalia started her career in academia where she did extensive research in Modern Cryptography. After finishing her doctorate degree in University of Bath, Dalia worked as a research associate in University of Luxembourg and as a Security Architect in a telecom service provider. Throughout those years she has continuously volunteered to teach university level courses and have given specialized trainings. Her background in academia and industry helped her obtain strong theoretical and practical background in the field of cyber security. Her goal is to make complex cyber security concepts in the reach of everyone.
