FHE.org digest #24: FHE.org 2025 Submissions, Upcoming Winter Meetups, Latest updates
Latest news from the FHE.org community.
🎉 FHE.org 2025 Submissions
This year we had a record number of submissions to the FHE.org 2025 conference. After recieving 45 submissions last year for FHE.org 2024 in Toronto, this year we have recieved 56 submissions from all over the world. FHE.org 2025 is sure to be our best conference yet.
Make sure to register for your tickets at https://fhe.org/2025/register as there will only be 200 seats available!
For students, reach out to us at contact@fhe.org from your academic email address and let us know you’d like to attend to apply for waiving your registration fees.
For organizations interested in showing their support alongside the list of annual sponsors for the conference, reach out to contact@fhe.org. See last year’s sponsors page here for a list of previous sponsors.
🎉 iDASH 2024
This year’s iDash competition has now concluded, with the winners of each track announced. A short paper has been published outlining how the solutions were evaluated. The winning solutions were designed by
Jean-Philippe Bossuat. The code is open source on Github, and the solution relies on on Pro7ech's Lattigo, a fork of Lattigo. There is also a video describing the solution.
Jingwei Chen, Linhan Yang, Chen Yang, Shuai Wang, Rui Li, Weijie Miao, Wenyuan Wu, Li Yang, Kang Wu, and Lizhong Dai. Their paper is available here and the code is open source on Github.
⛄ Upcoming Winter Meetups
⚠️ We’ve had a last minute schedule change for Dan Boneh’s meetup. It will now be Dec 5th, 6PM CEST. Please update your calendars accordingly!
Don’t miss the meetup, Recent Developments in SNARKS and their connection to FHE w/ Dan Boneh, a Professor at Stanford University.
This is the last meetup of the year before we take a winter break, but we’ve already begun lining up meetups for 2025 including:
General Functional Bootstrapping using CKKS
Note that starting in 2025 FHE.org will begun piloting lu.ma as the platform for organizing the online meetups to allow for more convenient RSVPing.
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Got a paper or presentation you think the community might be interested in or would make a good meetup? Get in touch at contact@fhe.org
📰🕺 Latest updates from the FHE.org community.
Previous Meetups and Meet the Community interviews you may have missed:
062 Privacy-Preserving Graph ML with FHE for Collaborative Anti-Money Laundering w/ Fabrianne Effendi
063 A Fast Heuristic for Mapping Boolean Circuits to Functional Bootstrapping w/ Sergiu Carpov
Meet the Community w/ Fabrianne Effendi
Meet the Community w/ Seonghong Min
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