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FHE.org Hardware Day 2025

2025.09.25

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Description

🗓️ The FHE.org Hardware Day has been scheduled for Thursday, September 25th at 6pm CEST (Paris, FR).

This special edition meetup features speakers from BELFORT, Optalysys, Google, and Zama; with additional panelists from Cornami and Intel. The focus will be around topics in FHE Hardware.

The event will comprise four talks split into two sessions of two, and a separate panel session. Each talk will be 25 minutes, with a short time for questions. The panel session will be guided with some initial questions from the host, before moving to an audience-based question and answer session.

For more information and link to RSVP, see the event page on Luma: https://lu.ma/2skte98w

Schedule

Time	Session Topic	Speakers	Resources
1800 CEST	Hardware and Software Co-design of Fully Homomorphic Encryption accelerators using integrated photonics.	Flavio Bergamaschi (Optalysys) and Imon Kundu (Optalysys)	Slides
1830 CEST	Belfort - From Theory to Throughput: Deploying FHE in the Cloud	Michiel Van Beirendonck (Belfort)	Slides
1900 CEST	Panel on Hardware for FHE	Nigel Smart (Zama, Host), Ingrid Verbauwhede (Belfort), Paul Master (Cornami), and Rosario Cammarota (Intel Labs)
2000 CEST	Homomorphic Processing Unit (HPU) on FPGA	Jing-Jing Duflot (Zama)	Slides
2030 CEST	HEIR, Hardware and Benchmarking	Shruthi Gorantala (Google) and Wouter Legiest (KU Leuven)	Slides
2100 CEST	FHE.org Announcements and Closing		Slides

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