Keynote I: Building a High-Availability and Path-Aware Internet with SCION

Adrian Perrig, Professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

Adrian Perrig

Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He is also a co-founder of and board member at Anapaya Systems, an advisor to Mysten Labs, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at City University in Hong Kong. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and is an ACM and IEEE Fellow. Adrian’s research revolves around building secure systems — in particular his group is working on the SCION next-generation Internet architecture.

Abstract. With the increase of safety-critical traffic on the Internet, a challenge is to provide high availability in the presence of adversarial components. The SCION next-generation network architecture has been explicitly designed for security and scalability, applying novel approaches for achieving resilient control-plane operation and inter-domain end-to-end communication in the presence of active attacks. SCION has been in production use for critical infrastructure communication since 2017, with expanding deployments and use cases since then. Operating side-by-side with today’s Internet, SCION offers a communication fabric that is largely fault-independent from today’s BGP-based infrastructure.

In this talk, we highlight use cases, technical and business aspects of SCION that provide security properties such as geo-fencing and path validation, and enable new business models for ISPs. We will also discuss interoperability, how the fault-independence with today’s infrastructure is achieved, and how the deployment and co-existence with today’s infrastructure is accomplished.

With the rapidly expanding SCION deployment, exciting research opportunities arise. For instance, how can we harness native multipath with dozens of path options for enhancing communication quality? How can we drive deployment to provide benefits to any application? The availability of SCION connectivity brings up these and many new questions — opening up exciting paths for new explorations.

Keynote II: Towards Provably Private Analytics at Scale

Hamed Haddadi, Professor at Imperial College London, UK.

Hamed Haddadi

Hamed Haddadi is the Professor of Human-Centred Systems at the Department of Computing at Imperial College London. In his industrial role, he is the Chief Scientist at Brave Software where he works on developing privacy-preserving analytics protocols. He is also the Co-Founder and CSO of Mulini SRL, focusing on securing consumer and industrial cyber physical systems. He enjoys designing and building systems that enable better use of our digital footprint, while respecting users’ privacy.

Abstract. Large-scale product analytics have become increasingly important in understanding various product usage and performance trends in industry. Collecting such detailed information often comes at the cost of either setting up complicated telemetry systems, or jeopardising on user privacy principles. This space is only going to get more complicated with the rapid adoption of agentic AI workflows in our daily routines. In this keynote talk, I will discuss the latest developments in practical, attemptable telemetry systems, while addressing systems and security challenges in dealing with confidential computing workflows handled by cloud and edge-based AI agents.

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Anna Brunstrom, Full Professor at Karlstad University, Sweden.

Anna Brunstrom

Anna Brunstrom received her B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics from Pepperdine University in 1991, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the College of William & Mary in 1993 and 1996. She joined Karlstad University in 1996, where she is currently a Full Professor and Research Manager for the Distributed Systems and Communications research group. Her research interests include transport protocol design, low-latency Internet communication, multipath communication, and mobile broadband performance evaluation. She is a Co-Chair of the RMCAT Working Group within the IETF and has authored over 200 international journal and conference papers.

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