zkSummit14

May 7th 2026 - Rome

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Join us for the 14th edition of the Zero Knowledge Summit – ZK14.

This edition bring together the best thinkers and builders to discuss the latest in zero knowledge research, zk use-cases, cryptographic primitives, privacy and maths.

This one-day event will consist of a mixture of research- and application-oriented talks.

Attendees will primarily be researchers, cryptographers, practitioners, founders and developers working on zero knowledge topics.

Schedule

  • 09:50 Welcome to zkSummit14 - Anna Rose 

    10:00 ZOOK: Zero-Knowledge IOPPs for Constrained Interleaved Codes - Giacomo Fenzi (EPFL)

    10:30 VEIL: Lightweight Zero-Knowledge for Hash-Based Multilinear Proof Systems - Ron Rothblum (Succinct) 

    11:00 Seven years in Poseidon: A survey of (algebraic) attacks on Poseidon and Poseidon2 - Antonio Sanso (Ethereum Foundation)

    11:30 BREAK 

    12:00 Scaling Zcash with Project Tachyon - Tal Derei (Tachyon)

    12:30 qedb: Expressive and Modular Verifiable Databases (without SNARKs) - Emanuele Ragnoli (provably.ai)

    13:00 LUNCH 

    14:00 zkID: Advancing Privacy-Preserving Identity with Research and Engineering - Vivian Plasencia (Ethereum Foundation)

    14:30 Securing a $500B Computer: The EF zkEVM Security Sprint - George Kadianakis (Ethereum Foundation) 

    15:00 BREAK

    15:30 lambda-vm:minimalistic and performant zkvm - Diego Kingston (Aligned)

    15:45 Merces: Private Token Transfers via MPC and CoSNARKs - Roman Walch (TACEO)

    16:00 Nondeterministic Autoprecompiles - Georg Wiese (Powdr Labs)

    16:15 Proof of Seed: ZK-Based Quantum Migration Without Address Changes - Mahdi Sedaghat (Soundness Labs / KU Leuven)

    16:30 BREAK

    17:00 Origin Tags: Dynamic Detection of Fiat-Shamir bugs in complex systems - Innokentii Sennovskii (Aztec Labs)

    17:30 Panel: Quantum

  • 10:30 Making verifiable FHE practical - Daniele Cozzo (IMDEA Software Institute)

    11:00 Towards Practical Witness Encryption from Arithmetic Affine Determinant Programs - Lev Soukhanov ([[alloc] init])

    11:30 BREAK 

    12:00 eDAS: Extending Data Availability Sampling with Privacy and Compliance - Isobel Watkins (UCL)

    12:30 Client-side Validation in Private Payment Protocols - Ying Tong ({ ideal })

    13:00 LUNCH 

    14:00 Jolt Atlas: Verifiable Inference via Lookup Arguments in Zero Knowledge - Antoine Douchet (ICME)

    14:30 Time-Space Trade-Offs for Sumcheck - Anubhav Baweja (University of Pennsylvania)

    15:00 BREAK

    15:30 A Security Guide to ZK Engineering - Michael Belegris (Nethermind)

    15:45 ZK-AntiCheat: a novel approach for video game anti-cheat software - Khaled Suliman (Technical University of Kosice)

    16:00 Confidential and Verifiable Telemetry using Zero-Knowledge Proofs - Janwillem Swalens (Nokia Bell Labs)

    16:15 Miden's Arithmetic Circuit Evaluation (ACE) chiplet - Adrian Hamelink (Miden)

    16:30 BREAK

    17:00 Efficient Non-Native Arithmetic from SNARKs for Integers - Lucas Xia (NYU)

    17:30 Resource-Sharing Permutations for Computational Integrity - Fabian Schmid (TU Graz)

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