Prof. Dr. Ghassan Karame



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  • Larger-scale Nakamoto-style Blockchains Don't Necessarily Offer Better Security, NTU Blockchain Symposium, Singapore, September 2024 (Invited talk)

  • How to transfer Disruptive Technologies, ECSO Start-up Awards, Bochum, Germany, March 2024 (Keynote)

  • Towards Trustworthy Platforms, EURECOM, Nice, France, November 2023 (Invited talk)

  • Securing Blockchains with TEEs, EURECOM, Nice, France, November 2022 (Invited talk)

  • Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technologies, Computer Science Tag, Ruhr-University Bochum (Virtual), Februray 2022

  • Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technologies, International Workshop on Blockchain and Cloud Computing, co-located with AsiaCCS 2021 (Virtual), June 2021 (Keynote talk)

  • Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchains, TU Delft Blockchain Symposium, March 2021, (Keynote talk)

  • Dealing with Disruptive Events: Are we Prepared to Survive?, DACHSec Virtual Cybersecurity Summit, May 2020, (Remote panelist)

  • Blockchain Security – Experience with PoW Blockchains, Dagstuhl Seminar 19451 "Biggest Failures in Security", Dagstuhl, Germany, November 2019

  • On the Security and Scalability of Existing Blockchains, Blockchain Enterprise Days, KuppingerCole Events, September 2019, Frankfurt, Germany (Invited talk)

  • Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technologies, ICIAM 2019 Industry Day, Valencia, Spain, July 2019 (Invited talk)

  • On the Security and Scalability of PoW-based Blockchains, Padova University, Summer School on Blockchain Security and Privacy,  Padova, Italy, June 2019 (Invited talk)

  • Reconciling Security and Functional Requirements in the Cloud, DACHSec Cybersecurity Summit, May 2019, Munich, Germany (Invited talk)

  • Blockchain Networks, IMDEA Networks Annual Workshop, May 2019, Madrid, Spain (Invited talk)

  • Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchain Technologies, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2019 (Invited talk)

  • On the Security and Scalability of PoW-based Blockchains, Chain-in Conference, Porto, Portugal, July 2018 (Keynote talk).

  • On the Security and Scalability of PoW-based Blockchains, Summer School Croatia, Split, Croatia, June 2018 (Invited talk).

  • Towards Scalable and Secure Industrial Blockchains, ITU-T, Geneva, Switzerland, April 2018.

  • Towards Scalable and Secure Industrial Blockchains, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2018 (Invited talk).

  • Reconciling Security and Functional Requirements in the Cloud, Secure Cloud Storage and Services Workshop, Oslo, Norway 2017 (Invited talk).

  • On the Security and Scalability of PoW-based Blockchains, RISE/SICS Security Day, Stockholm, August 2017 (Keynote talk).

  • On the Security and Scalability of PoW-based Blockchains, EBSIS Summer School, Timmerdorstrand, July 2017 (Invited talk).

  • Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchains, NEC Blockchain Tutorial, Tokyo, Japan, June 2017.

  • Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchains- The PoW Experience, CyCon, Tallinn, Estonia, May 2017 (Invited talk).

  • On the Security of PoW-based Blockchains, Tutorial at ACM ASIACCS 2017, Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2017.

  • Towards Scalable and Secure Blockchains – the PoW Experience, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2017 (Invited talk).

  • On the Security and Scalability of Bitcoin's Blockchain, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, February 2017 (Invited talk).

  • Blockchain: Potential and Impact, Seminar talk at NEC's iExpo Exhibition, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan, November 2016.

  • On the Security and Scalability of Bitcoin's Blockchain, Tutorial at ACM CCS 2016, Vienna, Austria, October 2016.

  • Open Challenges in Blockchain Security, EEMA Trust in Digital World, The Hague, The Netherlands, June 2016.

  • Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin, IBM Research Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2016 (Invited talk).

  • Open Challenges in Blockchain Security, 9th International View of the State-of-the-Art of Cryptography and Security and its Use in Practice, Intel post-Eurocrypt workshop, Vienna, May 2016

  • Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin, Aalto Univeristy, Helsinki, Finland, January 2016 (Invited talk).

  • Secure Data Storage, ZISC Seminar, Zuerich, Switzerland, January 2016.

  • Tampering with the Delivery of Blocks and Transactions in Bitcoin, Facebook Limited UK, London, UK, October 2015 (Invited talk).

  • Data security vs storage efficiency and mutli-tenancy, ICT 2015, networing session on key challenges in security/privacy in untrusted environments, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2015.

  • Outsourced Proofs of Retrievability, IBM Research, Zuerich, Switzerland, February 2015 (Invited talk).

  • On the Security Provisions of Bitcoin,  Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, December 2014 (Invited talk).

  • Software-Defined Networking: Overview and Outlook, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, KSA, April 2014 (Invited talk).

  • On the Security Provisions of Bitcoin, Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, February 2014 (Invited talk).

  • Software-Defined Networking: Overview and Outlook, ZISC 2013 Workshop (Securing Future Communication Networks against Emerging Threats), Zuerich, Switzerland, October 2013 (Invited talk).

  • Security and Privacy of Bitcoin, University of Trento, Italy. June 2013 (Invited talk).

  • Privacy vs Accountability in Bitcoin, Financial Cryptography 2013 (Rump Session), Okinawa, Japan, April 2013.

  • How to Outsource Computations to Untrusted Helpers? American University of Beirut, Lebanon, December 2012 (Invited talk).

  • Trusted Computing, ETH Zurich, Zuerich, Switzerland, March 2012 (Invited talk).

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