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
Topical Scope
- 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
Organisation by the Technical University of Munich
- Chair: Georg Carle
- Organizing committee chairs: Filip Rezabek, Veronika Bauer, and Nina Schwanke
Venue
- 02 and 03 June 2026
- TUM-IAS Institute of Advance Studies
Program
TBD - you can look forward to two days full of interesting sessions mixing keynotes, panels, and other formats.
Organizing committee
