IC3 Spring Retreat 2016

May 17-18, 2016 – New York City, NY

Our first IC3 retreat in NYC on May 17, 2016 was a great success, with more than 80 attendees from industry and academia. The slides and video from the retreat are now available.

Schedule

Session	Speaker	Time
Tuesday, 17 May
Breakfast + Registration		8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Short intro and event preview Video \| Slides	Ari Juels	9:00 – 9:15 a.m.
Session: Introduction to new cryptocurrency technologies	(Chair: Emin Gun Sirer)
Tutorial on: Blockchain advances (and the 80 definitions of “blockchain”) Smart contracts–opportunities and technical obstacles Video \| Slides	Andrew Miller	9:15 – 9:50 a.m.
Town Crier: An Authenticated Data Feed Video \| Slides	Ethan Cecchetti, Kyle Croman, and Fan Zhang	9:50 – 10:10 a.m.
High performance and scalability for blockchains with Bitcoin-NG Video \| Slides	Ittay Eyal	10:10 – 10:30 a.m.
Mingle!		10:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Session: Decentralized blockchains	(Chair: Robbert van Renesse)
Blockchain analysis and hybrid consensus	Rafael Pass	11:00 – 11:20 a.m.
Fruitchain Video \| Slides	Elaine Shi	11:20 – 11:30 a.m.
Fireside chat + discussions	Blythe Masters, Ari Juels	11:30 – 12:15 p.m.
Lunch
Session: Consortium / centralized blockchains	(Chair: Lorenzo Alvisi)
Solidus: Confidential Transactions Reimagined Video \| Slides	Ethan Cecchetti	1:15 – 1:30 p.m.
Honey Badger BFT Video \| Slides	Andrew Miller	1:30 – 1:45 p.m.
Federated consensus Video \| Slides	Robbert van Renesse	1:45 – 2:00 p.m.
Verifiable Databases Video \| Slides	Emin Gun Sirer	2:00 – 2:07 p.m.
Session: Smart contracts	(Chair: Rafael Pass)
Verifying information security of code in dynamic systems Video \| Slides	Andrew Myers	2:07 – 2:22 p.m.
SGX and smart contracts Video \| Slides	Warren He, Dawn Song, and Mitar Milutinovic	2:22 – 2:37 p.m.
Hawk: Confidential Smart Contracts Video \| Slides	Elaine Shi	2:37 – 2:52 p.m.
Coffee		2:52 – 3:22 p.m.
Etherscrape Video \| Slides	Andrew Miller	3:22 – 3:37 p.m.
Session: Industry perspectives	(Chair: Andrew Miller)
Blockchain opportunity areas	IBM	3:37 – 3:52 p.m.
A hardware company’s perspective on blockchains	Mic Bowman (Intel)	3:52 – 4:07 p.m.
VMware for blockchain: secure, scalable and reliable infrastructure for emerging blockchain technologies	Ittai Abraham (VMWare)	4:07 – 4:22 p.m.
Session: Blockchains in action
Gyges: Criminal Smart Contracts Video \| Slides	Ari Juels	4:22 – 4:32 p.m.
Falcon Network and the construction of fast wide-area interconnects Video \| Slides	Soumya Basu	4:32 – 4:47 p.m.
Blockchain sculpture Video \| Slides	Phil Daian	4:47 – 4:57 p.m.
Retreat dinner		6:00 p.m. – drinks run out
Wednesday, 18 May
Breakfast		9:00 – 9:30 a.m.
Session: 5-10 minute (lightning) talks	(Chair: Andrew Myers)
A short survey on zero-knowledge about ledgers Video \| Slides	Abhi Shelat	9:30 – 9:35 a.m.
Miniature World: An emulation platform for large-scale networks Video \| Slides	Adem Efe Gencer	9:35 – 9:45 a.m.
Contract law and smart contracts Video \| Slides	Bill Marino	9:45 – 9:50 a.m.
Problem-solving sessions	(Chairs: Ittay Eyal and Andrew Miller)
Group discussions		9:50 – 11:20 a.m.
Conclusion Speech		11:20 – 11:25 a.m.
Final chance for mingling		11:25 – 12:00 p.m.