Exploring the bleeding edge intersection between Blockchain and Cybersecurity
Happening on 12 - 13 November 2018, is the Blockchain and Cybersecurity Workshop jointly organized by the Singapore Cybersecurity Consortium and NUS Crystal Center! The event will see domain experts from Academia and the Industry sharing their knowledge and expertise on the hottest topics in the 21st Century.
Join us, as we unravel the mysteries and uncertainties behind the sharing economy, covering topics ranging from Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies to Cybersecurity and Data Protection. Gain first hand insights from the brightest minds in the cutting-edge research of technology and network with leading Industry Practitioners.
Ticket Price and Registration
Staff from Singapore Government Agencies: $80.00
Students and Staff from Singapore Schools / Institutes: $80.00
Others: $100.00
Register using your organization email address (gov.sg / edu.sg) to qualify for the ticket price of $80.00
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Meet our invited speakers
University of California, Berkeley
Dawn Song is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. Her research interest lies in deep learning, security, and blockchain. She has studied diverse security and privacy issues in computer systems and networks, including areas ranging from software security, networking security, distributed systems security, applied cryptography, blockchain and smart contracts, to the intersection of machine learning and security. She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, the Faculty Research Award from IBM, Google and other major tech companies, and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She is ranked the most cited scholar in computer security (AMiner Award). She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. Prior to joining UC Berkeley as a faculty, she was a faculty at Carnegie Mellon University from 2002 to 2007. She is also a serial entrepreneur, including Ensighta Security (acquired by FireEye Inc.) and Menlo Security. She is currently the founder and CEO of Oasis Labs, creating privacy-first cloud computing on blockchain.
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National University of Singapore
I am an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at National University of Singapore. I work on computer security, and its intersection with formal methods and programming languages. My present research projects are on cryptocurrencies, trusted computing, binary analysis, and web security. I got my Phd in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2012 and visited Microsoft Research Redmond during the summer of 2015.
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Chainstack
Eugene is CTO and Co-founder of Chainstack, a multi-cloud and multi-protocol Platform as a Service that empowers businesses to rapidly build, deploy, and manage decentralized networks and services.
Before Chainstack, Eugene held a role of VP Engineering at Acronis and has been working with blockchain for more than 3 years, including researching blockchain for data protection and building production-grade solutions on Ethereum. Eugene has vast experience in building and leading top R&D teams on a global scale, passion to lead research, build new products, as well as working with global innovators and research groups. Prior to Acronis, Eugene headed the Security Research team at GeoEdge and was Head of Anti-Malware Team in the leading cybersecurity company.
Eugene holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Bauman Moscow State Technical University and a CISSP certification.
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TNO Singapore
Dr. Mark van Staalduinen, his main interest lie in the understanding of cybercrime innovation due to the current pace of technologies, like Blockchain and IoT. Besides his scientific profile, he has a strong focus on law enforcement. He is a seconded cybercrime expert to INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation in Singapore. He is innovation manager at TNO with focus on Dark Web, Blockchain and IoT Security. He received his MSc in Electrical Engineering from Delft University of Technology (DUT) in 2003. Dr. van Staalduinen has been employed by TNO since 2007. He received his PhD from DUT’s Department of Information and Communication Theory in 2010. Since 2012 full-time committed to innovations in cyber security. Since January 2016, Dr. van Staalduinen holds position at TNO Singapore to strengthen international partnerships in his capacity of deputy director of the Singapore office.
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Standard Chartered Bank
Dan is a thought leader and veteran in enterprise security for large financial services. With an extensive career covering security engineering, cybercrime and threat intelligence, he is passionate about pushing the boundaries of technology and promoting security as a core customer requirement.
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KPMG in Singapore
Yap Kwong Weng is a Principal Advisor with KPMG in Singapore. He develops the firm’s strategy in Singapore and focuses on transformation and growth strategy, including regional M&A projects. He has accumulated years of experience in frontier market entrepreneurship, organizational strategy, and research focusing on market growth, geopolitics, change management and entry strategy in ASEAN. Prior to joining the private sector, he trained as a US Navy SEAL and spent a 12-year military career in the Singapore Commandos jumping from planes and navigating dense jungle terrain in Southeast Asia.
He took the leap to head to Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia as a General Manager with Jebsen & Jessen (SEA) and also helmed an energy company dealing with oil blocks, construction and infrastructure. In 2014, he co-founded an e-commerce platform in Vietnam that provides online services for global travellers with local experiences. CNN named the company “one of the top 10 start-ups to watch out for in Asia” only a year later after it was formed. In 2018, it is named as one of the most creative start-ups by WEF. In addition to private sector expertise, he is the Regional Advisor (Indochina) of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Asia’s leading public policy school, where he taught executive education programs on change management, regional markets and organizational leadership to senior policy makers and business leaders. Kwong Weng is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He holds a PhD in Crisis Strategy from the University of Glasgow.
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Nanyang Technological University
Professor Lam Kwok Yan is a renowned Cyber Security researcher and practitioner. Professor Lam has collaborated extensively with law-enforcement agencies, government regulators, telecommunication operators and financial institutions in various aspects of Infocomm and Cyber Security in the region. He is the Lead P.I. of the SPIRIT Programme, an S$11,000,000 programme on smart nation research funded by NRF. Prior to joining NTU, he has been a Professor of the Tsinghua University, PR China (2002-2010) and a faculty member of the National University of Singapore and the University of London since 1990. He was a visiting scientist at the Isaac Newton Institute of the Cambridge University and a visiting professor at the European Institute for Systems Security. In 1997, he founded PrivyLink International Ltd, a spin-off company of the National University of Singapore, specializing in e-security technologies for homeland security and financial systems. In 2012, he co-founded Soda Pte Ltd with a HK-based medical clinics operator. Soda (or Safe of Data App), the Winner of the Most Innovative Start Up Award at the RSA 2015 Conference, is a technology start-up which specialises in data security protection of mobile cloud users. In 1998, he received the Singapore Foundation Award from the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry in recognition of his R&D achievement in Information Security in Singapore. He received his B.Sc. (First Class Honours) from the University of London in 1987 and his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1990.
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National University of Singapore
Abhik Roychoudhury is a Professor of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on software testing and analysis, software security and trust-worthy software construction. His research group has built scalable techniques for testing, debugging and repair of programs using systematic semantic analysis. The research on automatically repairing programs at a large scale contributes to the vision of self-healing software. He has been an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2013-19). He is currently leading the TSUNAMi center, a large five-year long targeted research effort funded by National Research Foundation in the domain of trust-worthy software. He is also the Lead Principal Investigator of the Singapore Cyber-security Consortium, which is a consortium of around 40 companies in the cyber-security space engaging with academia for research and collaboration. His research has been funded by various agencies and companies, including the National Research Foundation (NRF), Ministry of Education (MoE), A*STAR, Defense Research and Technology Office (DRTech), DSO National Laboratories, Microsoft and IBM. He has authored a book on "Embedded Systems and Software Validation" published by Elsevier (Morgan Kaufmann) Systems-on-Silicon series in 2009, which has also been officially translated to Chinese by Tsinghua University Press. He has served in various capacities in the program committees and organizing committees of various conferences on software engineering, specifically serving as Program Chair of ACM International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA) 2016 and General Chair of ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) 2022. He has served as an Editorial Board member of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) during 2014-18. Abhik received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2000.
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National University of Singapore
Keith is Associate Professor at the prestigious National University of Singapore School of Computing, and Affiliate Professor with NUS Business Analytic Centre. Passionate about bringing real-life into the classroom he regularly engages students to broaden their experience before they graduate. As part of his service mandate with School of Computing, he consults companies on Innovation, Customer Centricity, and Actionable Intelligence. Selected examples are: Retail & Supply Chain: GUCCI, P&G, Bollore, Panasonic & SAP Financial Services: KPMG, Goldman Sachs, DBS and China Construction Bank. As an inventor, he recently received a patent on a financial intelligence tool design. Previously, he worked at the Estee Lauder Companies in a variety of global supply chain roles, and Accenture in financial services and government. Keith has a Bachelor’s in Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a Master’s in Business Administration from Cornell University. Outside of work he is an avid sportsman, author, private pilot, fencer, and family man. Born in Long Island, he has spent most of his life in New York till moving to Singapore in 2012 where he currently resides.
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Yale-NUS
Ilya Sergey is a tenure-track Associate Professor at Yale-NUS College (Singapore). Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at University College London (UCL) and a postdoctoral researcher at IMDEA Software Institute (Spain). Dr Sergey has obtained his PhD at KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2012. Prior to joining academia, he spent a part of his career in industry, working at JetBrains Inc.
His main interests are in programming languages, formal verification, program analysis and synthesis. In recent years, Dr Sergey has been mostly focusing on developing sound and scalable methodologies for building provably correct concurrent and distributed systems (with applications to blockchains and smart contracts). He also designed and co-developed Scilla, a programming language for safe and secure smart contracts. His earlier work was advancing the state of the art in static analysis for higher-order languages and programming language design.
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Haibo Chen is a Professor at the School of Software, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where he co-founds and leads the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS). He currently also serves as the Chief Scientist for OS and directs the OS Kernel Lab. Haibo's main research interests are building scalable and dependable systems software, by leveraging cross-layering approaches spanning computer hardware system virtualization and operating systems. He is currently the steering committee co-chair of ACM APSys and Chair of ACM SIGOPS ChinaSys, serves on program committees of ASPLOS 2019, EuroSys 2019, Usenix ATC 2019 and SOSP 2019 and the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Storage.
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Conflux-Chain
Ming Wu got B.S. degree of computer science from University of Science and Technology of China in 2002, and got PhD degree of computer system architecture from Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science. He joined Microsoft Research Asia after that, and left in Sep, 2018 when he positioned as Senior Research Manager. During that period, his major research interests include debugging and testing methodologies for distributed systems, distributed transaction processing, graph processing, and machine learning platforms. He has published many quality papers in top conferences of system area including SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, ATC, EuroSys, SoCC, VLDB, etc. He has served community as PC member in conferences OSDI, ASPLOS, HotDep, MiddleWare, and as Publication Chair in SOSP'17. He is now the CTO of Conflux-Chain, and works on blockchain-related research and engineering management.
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University College London
I am a PhD student at the Information Security Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London. I joined in October 2016. My supervisors are Professor George Danezis and Dr Sarah Meiklejohn. My research interests include the intersections of peer-to-peer systems, distributed ledgers and information security.
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BNY Mellon
Hans is the Head of International Technology for BNY Mellon responsible for leading technology innovation and delivery in Asia Pacific and Latin America.
Hans has a wealth of experience in enabling organisational cultural change and rapidly delivering technology solutions in the financial services, telecoms and consumer electronic industries, to reduce both operational risk and expense and simultaneously enable the creation of new revenue streams.
He is a member of the Global BNY Mellon Technology Operating Council, a regional co-chair of the BNY Mellon Women’s Initiative Network as well as a member of the BNY Mellon Asia Pacific Leadership Council. Hans is also a BNY Mellon representative on the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) Fintech Working group and has an active interest in technology evolution and trends as well as the rise of Fintech’s and API's in financial markets.
Hans has a Master of Science in International Technology Management from the University of Warwick in the UK as well as a Master of Engineering in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Liverpool. He has been a keynote speaker at multiple corporate and industry events on technology evolution and trends as well as the rise of Fintech’s and APIs in financial markets. He was a key contributor to the ABS-MAS Financial World: Finance As A Service API Playbook published by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
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Workshop on Secure Smart Contracts
Zilliqa is a new public blockchain platform for high-throughput applications. It brings the theory of sharding to practice with its novel protocol that increases transaction rates as its network expands. The latest experimental results demonstrate a throughput of more than 2,500 transactions per second, which is over 200 times higher than that of today's popular blockchains. In addition to its scalability, Zilliqa provides a secure and efficient smart contract layer to enable safe-by-design smart contract programming and enable formal verification.
The Zilliqa blockchain platform is tailored towards enabling high-throughput data-driven decentralized apps, designed to meet the scaling requirements of applications in areas such as digital marketing, payment, shared economy and rights management.
This 3 hour workshop is meant for people with programming knowledge who’re interested in learning how to develop a smart contract on Zilliqa.
Goal: By the end of the workshop, you’ll learn to write your first smart contract in Scilla.
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Quantstamp
Yohei is a full stack engineer with experience working at both startups and large tech companies. Before joining Quantstamp, Yohei was in Seattle working on Amazon Go, the no-checkout convenience store. He first got involved with blockchain through arbitrage and bot-trading and is now a big believer in the future of smart contracts. At Quantstamp, Yohei spends half of his time conducting audits and the other half working with enterprises in Asia to figure out how to adopt blockchain technology with a focus on security.
Zilliqa
Yaoqi is the co-founder and Head of Technology for Zilliqa. He’s leading the development of a new public blockchain Zilliqa for high-throughput applications. He holds a Ph.D. from National University of Singapore. His prior experience focuses on building secure/privacy-preserving web and distributed systems with cryptographic mechanisms. He proposed several technologies in his research as the building blocks for next-generation blockchain, addressing consensus and privacy issues. His research work has been published in top international conferences, such as CCS and USENIX Security. He has received the Best Paper Award in W2SP and ICECCS. His work was acknowledged by Google and Apple, and has received media coverage including Bitcoin Magazine, Dailydot and Gizmodo.