SPEAKERS

Jessica is a part of the Audience and Identity product team and is responsible for the Audience Data Matching Service and other identity products. Before joining Magnite, Jessica’s ad tech product experience spanned across Freewheel, Xandr, and large Publishers in the U.S., where she developed an expertise in addressable solutions and business strategies. She holds an M.S. and B.S.E. from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Joshua Baron joined DARPA’s Information Innovation Office (I2O) as a program manager in August 2017. His research interests include cryptography, privacy, and anonymity. In DARPA, Dr Baron runs multiple programs that focus on privacy technologies, including secure multi-party computation and zero knowledge.

Sebastian is a Research Engineer at Robert Bosch GmbH. His work focuses on making privacy-enhancing technologies easily adaptable to the needs of the wide range of application domains at Bosch. In this context, Sebastian also works as one of the maintainers and main contributors of Carbyne Stack, an open source platform for cloud-native Secure Multiparty Computation.

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. Boneh heads the applied cryptography group and co-directs the Computer Security Lab. Dr. Boneh’s research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. He is the author of over 200 publications in the field, and is a recipient of the 2014 ACM prize and the 2013 Godel prize. In 2016 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Luís received a Lic. in Technological Physics Engineering from Technical University of Lisbon, and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently with the NIST cryptographic technology group, computer security division. Among his activities at NIST, he is currently involved with the Privacy Enhancing Cryptography, Threshold Cryptography, Interoperable Randomness Beacons and Circuit Complexity projects.

Jordan Brandt is the CEO at Inpher, a Secret Computing® company pioneering privacy-preserving analytics and machine learning; he also serves on the board of directors for the MPC Alliance. As a Technology Futurist, Jordan’s research and insight on cybersecurity, AI, and robotics have been featured in print and live broadcast internationally on Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Financial Times, Wired and other business and technology press. He is the former CEO and cofounder of Horizontal Systems, acquired by Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK) in 2011. He went on to serve as the director of Autodesk’s corporate investment fund, while also teaching and conducting research as a Consulting Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. Jordan completed his undergraduate work at the University of Kansas and his PhD in Building Technology at Harvard, where he worked on research programs for the Office of Naval Research and the Air Force Research Laboratory. In 2014 he was selected as one of Forbes ‘Next-Gen Innovators’.

Mark contributed to the Cloud First policy for the UK Public sector and was one of the founding architects for the UK Governments G-Cloud programme. Mark developed the initial CloudStore which enabled the UK Public Sector to procure cloud services from over 3,500 suppliers. The UK Public Sector has now purchased over £10Bn+ of cloud services. Mark led the development of the United Nations Global Platform. A multi-cloud platform for capacity building within the national statistics offices in the use of Big Data and its integration with Government data sources. Mark has most recently been supporting the UK public sector in the development of strategies to enable the use of Big Data and Machine Learning.

Frederick Jansen is a Senior Director of Engineering at Magnite, working on building and deploying next-generation privacy-enhancing solutions. Prior he was CTO at Nth Party, and Associate Director of Engineering at Boston University’s Innovation Lab, where he worked on one of the first large-scale MPC deployments.

Meiko works in the fields of cybersecurity and privacy. Currently, his research focus is on privacy engineering, especially on mapping legal requirements from the GDPR and other European legislations to privacy-preserving technical architectures.

Liina Kamm is a senior researcher at Cybernetica. She has been researching ways to analyse data so that the privacy of the individuals is preserved. She was one of the first to show that secure multi-party computation can be used to guarantee privacy in genome-wide association studies. She is currently working on making secure multi-party computation faster, more capable and more user friendly.

Ryo is a member of NTT and engaged in research and development of technologies for secondary use of data, especially secret computation technologies. He is an editor of the international standard for secure computation in ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27. He was also involved in formulating rules for the secondary use of statistical data at the national statistics center of Japan.

15 years in marketing and growth strategy at Google and PayPal. Iulia played a pivotal role in bringing crypto to mainstream as Head of Crypto GTM at PayPal. She holds an MSc in Marketing from EDHEC Business School in France and a dual BSc in Political Sciences and International Economic Relations.

Kurt Nielsen holds a PhD in Business Economics and did combined graduate studies at the University of Copenhagen, University of Toronto and UC Berkeley. He has been pioneering the use of advanced distributed cryptography as Associated Professor at University of Copenhagen and most notably as co-founder of Partisia, Sepior and Partisia Blockchain Foundation. He has worked as entrepreneur, researcher, and consultant across industries and with a special focus on strategic decision making, applied information economics, advanced cryptography, mechanism design and data science in broad terms.

Mariana is a cryptographer in the Privacy, Safety and Security Research Division of Google, who focuses on developing new techniques for privacy preserving computation. Some areas of her research include secure multiparty computation, privacy preserving machine learning, private information retrieval, secure aggregation, zero knowledge proofs, cryptographic obfuscation and others. Prior to joining Google she was a faculty at Yale University and a research scientist at SRI International.

Dr. Fabio Ricciato graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1999 and obtained a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies in 2003 from University La Sapienza, Italy. Between 2004 and 2017 he has worked as senior researcher, academic professor and research manager for different academic institutions across Italy, Austria and Slovenia, dealing with diverse research topics in the fields of telecommunications, networking, signal processing and computer science. Between 2015-2017 he served as Associate Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. In 2018 he joined the European Commission, DG Eurostat, first as a member of the Eurostat Task Force on Big Data and then in the Eurostat Unit dealing with Innovation and Methodology in Official Statistics. His current interests revolve around the role of new technologies and non-traditional data sources for the modernization of official statistics production.

Sanjay Saravanan leads a team of Research Scientists at Meta with a focus on developing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for many applications within Meta and the advertising industry. His team represents Meta across industry groups such as W3C Private Advertising Technology Community Group, World Federation of Advertisers, and IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau) Tech Lab to co-develop privacy-focused solutions for the advertising ecosystem

Ben is a senior software engineer, working on Facebook’s industry engagement efforts on ads and privacy. He represents Facebook in forums like the W3C Private Advertising Technology Community Group. He is one of the authors of Meta and Mozilla’s “Interoperable Private Attribution” proposal.

Tim helps clients navigate the intersect between, data collaboration, data science and privacy. Specialising in fully homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge proof, he is passionate about Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET) and their applicability in solving some of the toughest real world challenges. He has been actively involved in the PETs community for the last 6 years, most recently as Head of Strategic Engagements with an Australian listed start-up before joining Deloitte.

Triin Siil is a legal expert in the domains of e-governance and e-health. She has designed legal frameworks for innovative data-driven services and conducted legal analyses involving electronic identity, electronic signing, B2G and G2B re-use of data, and official statistics. She is a renowned practitioner of intellectual property, data protection, competition and IT law.

Triin Siil is a legal expert in the domains of e-governance and e-health. She has designed legal frameworks for innovative data-driven services and conducted legal analyses involving electronic identity, electronic signing, B2G and G2B re-use of data, and official statistics. She is a renowned practitioner of intellectual property, data protection, competition and IT law.

Dr. Nigel Smart is a professor in the COSIC group at the KU Leuven. He has held two ERC Advanced grants. He was Vice President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (2014-2016) and is a Fellow of the IACR. He was co-founder of Unbound Security and the Real World Cryptography conference.

Erik Taubeneck (he/him) is a Research Scientist at Meta focused on privacy enhancing technologies. A co-author of Interoperable Private Attribution, a proposed web standard, Erik builds industry solutions that unify privacy, cryptography, and data science into novel products.

Frank is a co-founder and president of the MPC Alliance. He was previously the CMO of Sepior, which was recently acquired by Blockdaemon, where he leads marketing for the Digital Asset Security business.