Select talks and panels

This page lists some of the talks I have given and panels I have participated in.

• Keynotes
• Guest Lectures
• Talks and panels

Keynotes

• Sustainability of PETs: cute is not enough
  Sustainable Privacy Enhancing Techniques (SusPETs) at Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability (ICT4S) 2024, Stockholm, Sweden; 24 June 2024.

• PETs: Promise, expectation, hope, and reality
  18th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC), Yokohama, Japan; 30 August 2023.

• AI Act, its enforcement and biometric surveillance
  Digital Trust Europe Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 29 June 2022.

Guest Lectures

• The EU AI Act: How we got here and where we are heading

  • International Justice Clinic at UC Irvine, Irvine, USA; 14 January 2025.

• Privacy and PETs: An Interaction with Human Rights Law

  • CMPUT 626 Machine Learning and Practical Privacy at University of Alberta, and CS848 (Fall 2024): Privacy for Data Analysis and ML at University of Waterloo (also part of Data Systems Seminar Series) , Online; 26 September 2024.

• AI Regulation in the EU

  • Constitutional Law – Master in Information Security and Cyberspace Law at Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal; 25 September 2024.
  • Digital Policy 2023-24 at University College Dublin, Online; 21 February 2024.
  • Digital Policy 2022-23 at University College Dublin, Online; 9 November 2022.
  • Information Technology Law 2022-23 at NUI Galway, Online; 6 October 2022.
  • Information Technology Law 2021-22 at NUI Galway, Online; 11 February 2022.

Talks and panels

• PETs, (c)laws and rights
  UC Irvine, Irvine, USA; 14 January 2025.

• How, who, when, and where to communicate with legislators and regulators
  Workshop on Defining Holistic Private Data Science for Practice, UC San Diego, San Diego, USA; 10 January 2025.

• Transparency? Not from the European Commission
  The 38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3), Hamburg, Germany; 27 December 2024. [Video] [YouTube]

• Panel: Towards secure AI for all: Inclusive approaches to AI security standardisation
  with Issy Hall (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK) and Chiara Giovannini (ANEC)
  AI Standards Hub, Alan Turing Institute, Online; 24 September 2024.

• The EU AI Act: Persistent frailties
  University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada; 29 July 2024.

• The EU AI Act: Persistent frailties
  Dejusticia, Bogotá, Colombia; 12 June 2024.

• Role of National Human Rights Institutions in Addressing AI Harms
  Thought Forum on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation, The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC), Online; 6 June 2024.

• Panel: The Use of AI in Decision-making by Public Authorities: Critical Perspectives
  with Tijmen Wisman (VU Amsterdam), Migle Laukite (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona) and Paola Cardozo (VU Amsterdam)
  Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), Brussels, Belgium; 23 May 2024.

• Panel: The Problems with Client-Side Scanning
  with Andrew Adams (Meiji University, Jaap-Henk Hoepmann (Radbound University and Karlstad University), Hinako Sugiyama (UC Irvine) and Jurgita Miseviciute (Proton)
  Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), Brussels, Belgium; 22 May 2024. [Youtube]

• Panel: AI in the workplace
  with Ana Dujić (German Ministry of Labour), Stefan Olsson (European Commission), Hugo Weber (Mirakl) and Pieter Haeck (Politico)
  POLITICO Tech & AI Summit, Brussels, Belgium; 16 April 2024. [Youtube]

• The EU AI Act: What is in and what next
  Funders’ Learning Lunch, Online; 10 April 2024.

• Panel: Current and Future Legislative and Regulatory Environment
  with Vilas Dhar (Patrick J. McGovern Foundation), Kemba Eneas Walden (Paladin Institute), Howard Waltzman (Mayer Brown) and Amy Nordhum (MIT Tech Review)
  Digital Trust Summit 2024, The Watson Institute at Brown University, Providence, USA; 28 March 2024.

• The EU AI Act: Persistent frailties
  NAO Institute, Auckland, New Zealand; 14 March 2024.

• The EU AI Act: Persistent frailties
  Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 12 March 2024. [Youtube]

• Lyria Bennett Moses in Conversation with Dr Kris Shrishak
  AI Regulation in the EU and Australia, Sydney, Australia; 11 March 2024.

• PETs: Promise, expectation, hope, and reality
  Data61 at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Sydney, Australia; 8 March 2024.

• The EU AI Act: Persistent frailties
  University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia; 7 March 2024.

• Testimony at the Oireachtas (Irish Parliament) Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration & Youth meets for engagement with stakeholders regarding “Protection of Children in the use of Artificial Intelligence”, Dublin, Ireland; 13 February 2024.

• PETS: not yet friendly
  Undone Computer Science Conference, Nantes, France; 5 February 2024.

• Panel: Privacy is Big business: How Big Tech instrumentalizes PETs to expand its infrastructural power
  with Seda Gürses, Thijmen van Gend, Donald Bertulfo (TU Delft) and Carmela Troncoso (EPFL)
  Privacy Camp 24, Brussels, Belgium; 24 January 2024. [Youtube]

• AI: Balance what?
  Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: Finding the Right Balance between Innovation and Responsibility, Skopje, North Macedonia; 19 December 2023.

• AI Act, where things stand
  Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) Ireland, Online; 11 December 2023.

• Panel: Social and ethical effects of Generative AI
  with Yordanka Ivanova (European Commission), Marko Grobelnik (Jožef Stefan Institute) and Ana Garcia Robles (Big Data Value Association)
  Generative AI: opportunities, risks and challenges, Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA), European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium; 7 November 2023.

• Some PETS are sad. What can we do?
  NII Shonan Meeting 182: Biggest Failures in Privacy, Shonan Village Center, Japan; 30 October 2023.

• Holding Companies Accountable Under AI Act
  DISCO Slovenia: Digital Sovereignty Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia; 25 October 2023.

• Where Do Threat Models Come From? Challenging Implicit Assumptions
  with Lucy Qin and Leah Namisa Rosenbloom (Brown University)
  HotPETS at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland; 14 July 2023. [Youtube]

• Are PETS and algorithmic accountability at loggerheads?
  with Anders Dalskov (Partisia)
  HotPETS at Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2023, Lausanne, Switzerland; 14 July 2023. [Youtube]

• Panel: Is AI moving fast and breaking things?
  with Justin-Kasimir Braun (Lighthouse Reports), Nancy Yu, Nasir Muftić (University of Sarajevo), Eeva Moore (Mozilla) and Antonella Napolitano
  POINT Conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; 16 June 2023.

• Panel: Regulating accountability in complex AI value chains: research, collaboration, text and data mining, and other possible traps
  with Natali Helberger (Univ. of Amsterdam), Peter Cihon (GitHub), Christoph Schuhmann and Lorelien Hoet (Microsoft)
  Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP), Brussels, Belgium; 25 May 2023.

• Public debate: Regulating artificial intelligence and Big Tech: Could EU’s digital trade agenda derail it?
  with Sylvia Baule (European Commission), Kristina Irion (Univ. of Amsterdam), Deborah James (Center for Economic and Policy Research) and Dave Keating (France 24)
  European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium; 3 May 2023.

• AI Risks: beyond the already known ones
  Towards the Artificial Intelligence Act, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium; 7 March 2023.

• Panel: When innovation meets data – A regulatory straightjacket in the making?
  with Andrew Wyckoff (OECD), Kai Zenner (European Parliament), Andreas Hartl (German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy), Merle Uhl (BitKom) and Jason Chumtong (Konrad Adenauer Stiftung)
  European Data Summit 2022, Berlin, Germany; 1 December 2022. [Youtube]

• Round-table: The impact of advanced computing on AI
  Science|Business Data Rules workshop, Online; 19 September 2022.

• Is it true that large datasets are necessary for AI?
  RightsCon 2022, Online; 7 June 2022.

• Panel: Approaches to Sociotechnical Assessment and Regulation of Algorithmic Systems with Jenny Brennan (Ada Lovelace Institute) and Bogdana Rakova (Mozilla)
  Sociotechnical Approaches to Governing AI Workshop, TU Munich, Munich, Germany; 27 May 2022.

• Make AI Act enforceable
  European Greens/EFA, Online; 10 March 2022.

• Negotiating PQC for DNSSEC
  DSN, Online; 23 June 2021.

• Privacy Preserving and Resilient RPKI
  INFOCOM, Online; 11 May 2021.

• Practical Secure Computation for Internet Infrastructure
  Ph.D. Defense, Online; 22 April 2021.

• Phased Deployment of Distributed RPKI
  32.Kryptotag, Online; 15 January 2021.

• Securing DNSSEC Keys via Threshold ECDSA From Generic MPC
  NIST Workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes 2020, Online; 6 November 2020. [Slides] [Video]

• Internet Society’s Collaborative Leadership Exchange
  IGF 2020, Online; 3 November 2020. [Youtube]

• NextGen Presentations
  ICANN69, Online; 6 October 2020.

• Limiting the Power of RPKI Authorities
  ANRW’20 (Co-located with IETF-108), Online; 30 July 2020. [Slides] [Youtube]

• Optimal Transport Layer for Secure Computation
  SECRYPT, Online; 9 July 2020.

• MPC for Securing Internet Infrastructure
  DSN, Online; 1 July 2020. [Video]

• Presenting Youth Messages
  EuroDIG 2020, Online; 12 May 2020. [Youtube]

• Securing DNSSEC Keys via Threshold ECDSA From Generic MPC
  31.Kryptotag, Berlin, Germany; 17 October 2019.

• Securing DNSSEC Keys via Threshold ECDSA From Generic MPC
  HIIG, Berlin, Germany; 17 October 2019.

• Transputation: Transport Framework for Secure Computation
  TPMPC 2019, Bar-Ilan University, Israel; 21 June 2019. [Slides]

• Transputation: Transport Framework for Secure Computation
  30.Kryptotag, Berlin, Germany; 29 March 2019.

• Removing the Bottleneck for Practical 2PC
  Cybersecurity Seminar, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands; 10 October 2018.