[Cryptography] Fwd: [fc-announce] Final Call for Participation (starts Monday, invited speakers announced)

[R. Hirschfeld]

> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: FC General Chairs <fc21general at ifca.ai>
> To: fc-announce at ifca.ai
> Date: 26-02-2021 11:28
> Subject: [fc-announce] Final Call for Participation (starts Monday, invited speakers announced)
> 
>  
> FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
> 
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> Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2021 (FC21)
> March 1-5, 2021
> Virtual
> https://fc21.ifca.ai/
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> INVITED SPEAKERS
> 
> The program includes a fireside chat with SEC Commissioner Hester
> Peirce (moderated by Zaki Manian), and a keynote by Whitfield Diffie.
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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).
> 
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> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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/
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