From fc20general at ifca.ai Wed Nov 27 23:13:18 2019 From: fc20general at ifca.ai (FC General Chairs) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 23:13:18 +0100 Subject: [fc-announce] Call for Participation: FC20 (registration open, early registration deadline in three weeks) Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2020 (FC20) February 10-14, 2020 Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia http://fc20.ifca.ai/ ********************************************************************** ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on commercial contexts. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. The goal of the conference is to bring security and cryptography researchers and practitioners together with economists, bankers, implementers and policy-makers. Intimate and colourful by tradition, the FC program features invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations and panel discussions. ********************************************************************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE We have assembled a vibrant program featuring technical presentations of 34 full papers and 2 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review from 162 submissions. For full details please visit http://fc20.ifca.ai/program.html ********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS Four affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference: AsiaUSEC'20: 1st Asian Workshop on Usable Security CoDeFi'20: 1st Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance VOTING'20: 5th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting WTSC'20: 4th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts More details on the workshops can be found at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/workshops.html ********************************************************************** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: December 18, 2019 Registration information is available at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/registration.html ********************************************************************** CONFERENCE HOTEL Rooms at the conference hotel should be reserved by December 18, 2019 to take advantage of the group block. Participants are encouraged to book their room ASAP to avoid disappointment. Information on room rates and reservations is available at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/accommodation.html ********************************************************************** AIRLINE DISCOUNTS Discounted airfares to Kota Kinabalu have been arranged for those attending the conference. Information about the discounts is available at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/travel.html ********************************************************************** STUDENT GRANTS We hope to be able to award stipends to student participants to help defray the cost of attendance. Stipend applications should be submitted by December 18, 2019. Details can be found at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/stipends.html ********************************************************************** This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association. Additional information about the conference can be found at: http://fc20.ifca.ai/ **********************************************************************