4th Edition of the TUM Blockchain&Cybersecurity Salon

Aims

Exploring core technologies for security, scalability, and privacy in blockchain and cybersecurity systems
Discussing applications and solutions with requirements met by these core technologies, and to which extent these technologies provide value
Exchange on methods for assessment of distributed systems, with focus on P2P layer, smart-contract security, and cryptographic innovations
Extend to intersection of cybersecurity solutions and distributed systems
Bridge academia, industry, and students and introduce recent topics from various layers of the blockchain stack and cybersecurity
Introduce current technologies to startups, SMEs, and enterprises to bring research into practice

Individual layers of Blockchain Protocols spanning hardware, peer-to-peer network, consensus, execution layers, applications, and ecosystems
Innovative scalability and privacy technologies, such as zero knowledge proofs or trusted execution environments
Cybersecurity solutions for AI, access management, identity solutions, …
Design, verification, and implementation of smart contracts logic
Methods and tools for performance assessment
Overview of possible optimization solutions and their applicability to blockchain solutions
Applications and use-cases of distributed and decentralized systems and their open challenges
Supply chain security

Chair: Georg Carle
Organizing committee chairs: Veronika Bauer, Stefan Genchev, Martin Monperrus, Filip Rezabek, Nina Schwanke, and Christof Ferreira Torres