From fc21general at ifca.ai Thu Feb 11 12:16:06 2021 From: fc21general at ifca.ai (FC General Chairs) Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2021 12:16:06 +0100 Subject: [fc-announce] Call for Participation: FC21 (registration open) Message-ID: <13619474533fce323ef9ddc1a6f540d3@unipay.nl> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (FC21) March 1-5, 2021 Virtual https://fc21.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. ********************************************************************** VIRTUAL EVENT Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to hold the conference in Grenada as previously announced. We are instead arranging an online combination of prerecorded full-length video presentations and live sessions consisting of short presentations and Q&A, keynote addresses, rump session, general meeting, and some social/networking events. ********************************************************************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE We have assembled a vibrant program featuring technical presentations of 50 full papers and 4 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review from 227 submissions. For full details please visit https://fc21.ifca.ai/program.php ********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS Four affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference: CoDecFin'21: 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance DeFi'21: 1st Workshop on Decentralized Finance Voting'21: 6th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting WTSC'21: 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts More details on the workshops can be found at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/workshops.php ********************************************************************** REGISTRATION Registration information is available at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/registration.php ********************************************************************** This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association. Additional information about the conference can be found at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/ ********************************************************************** From fc21general at ifca.ai Fri Feb 26 11:28:50 2021 From: fc21general at ifca.ai (FC General Chairs) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 11:28:50 +0100 Subject: [fc-announce] Final Call for Participation (starts Monday, invited speakers announced) Message-ID: <87k0qvdswt.fsf@unipay.nl> FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (FC21) March 1-5, 2021 Virtual https://fc21.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. ********************************************************************** VIRTUAL EVENT Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are unable to hold the conference in Grenada as previously announced. We have instead arranged an online combination of prerecorded video presentations and live sessions consisting of shorter presentations with Q&A, invited presentations, rump session, general meeting, and some social/networking events. ********************************************************************** INVITED SPEAKERS The program includes a fireside chat with SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce (moderated by Zaki Manian), and a keynote by Whitfield Diffie. ********************************************************************** RUMP SESSION FC21 will also include the popular "rump session" of short, informal presentations on works in progress, off-the-cuff ideas, and any other pertinent topics. Any attendee is welcome to submit a presentation. See https://fc21.ifca.ai/rumpsession.php for further details. ********************************************************************** SOCIAL/NETWORKING EVENTS Access to the conference sessions will be via a portal that includes rooms in which participants can gather and interact. These rooms will remain open during the sessions and outside of conference hours, and attendees are encouraged to meet up there when they are not following a talk. Scheduled networking events will be held in these rooms (some use may also be made of zoom breakout rooms during the breaks). ********************************************************************** GENERAL MEETING All participants are welcome to join the annual general meeting, at which we will report on the status of the event and the organization, present statistics related to submission and acceptance, and discuss future planning. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and contribute to the discussion. ********************************************************************** TECHNICAL PROGRAM We have assembled a vibrant program featuring technical presentations of 50 full papers and 4 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review from 223 submissions. For full details please visit https://fc21.ifca.ai/program.php ********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS Four affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference: CoDecFin'21: 2nd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance DeFi'21: 1st Workshop on Decentralized Finance Voting'21: 6th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting WTSC'21: 5th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts More details on the workshops can be found at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/workshops.php ********************************************************************** REGISTRATION Registration information is available at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/registration.php ********************************************************************** This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association. Additional information about the conference can be found at: https://fc21.ifca.ai/ **********************************************************************