Lisbon Blockchain Winter School 25

February 10th - 14th 2025

About the school

The Lisbon Blockchain Winter School (LxBWS) is a new initiative launched and funded by the BIG Era Chair Project. The school provides a set of lectures and practical sessions for their participants on the topic of Blockchain. The goal of this Winter School is to provide a comprehensive program with theoretical lectures, practical hands-on laboratory sessions, and poster sessions for PhD students that showcases the latest developments and applications of blockchain technology. We also intend to host collaboration and networking events between all the participants of the school

Important dates

Application deadline: November 9th, 2024
Notification of Admission: November 15th, 2024
Early registration: November 19th - December 2nd, 2024
Late registration: December 3rd-18th, 2024
Winter school: February 10th-14th, 2025

Where ?

The winter school will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal

When ?

The winter school will take place between February 10th and the 14th, 2025

For whom ?

Researchers, PhD students, IT professionals and Blockchain enthusiasts

What topics ?

The winter school will cover basic and intermediate topics of Blockchain and state-of-the-art keynotes from specialists

Instructors and speakers

Seth Goldstein

Carnegie Mellon University


Main research areas:
Computer Architecture, Distributed Systems, and Programming Languages

Maryam Mehrnezhad

Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL)

Emerging technologies, Usable security and privacy, Security standardisation

Alysson Bessani

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Distributed Systems, Dependability, Fault Tolerance, and Security

Teresa Almeida

Umeå universitet

Digital Health and Wellbeing, Feminist Data Practices, Design Research and Critical Computing

Miguel Correia

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Blockchain and Byzantine Consensus, Cloud Security and Dependability, Software Security

Thomas Hardjono

MIT

Main research areas:
Identity, security and privacy in emerging technologies such as IoT, smart contracts and blockchain systems

Rafael Belchior

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Blockchain Interoperability, Privacy, and Security

Lucianna Kiffer

IMDEA Networks


Main research areas:
Peer-to-peer networks, security and privacy of blockchain systems, network measurements, game theory

Massimo Bartoletti

University of Cagliari


Main research areas:
Specification, analysis and Verification of Software

Christian Cachin

University of Bern


Main research areas:
Security in distributed systems, Cryptographic protocols, Consistency, Consensus, Blockchains, and Cloud-computing 

Paulo Cardoso do Amaral

Católica Lisbon - Business & Economics

Main research areas:
Blockchain, Information Systems, Operations and Data Science

Miguel Pardal

IST, University of Lisbon

Main research areas:
Blockchain, Cyber-security, Distributed systems

Christof Torres

IST, University of Lisbon

Main research areas:
Program analysis, software testing, blockchain security, web privacy

Tiago Dias

Unlockit

Founder & CEO of Unlockit, Co-Founder & Co-Owner of Realfever

Veljko Vasic

HolyWally

Co-founder and CCO of HolyWally

Nuno Barbosa

Anchorage Digital

Engineering Lead, Wealth and Asset Management Solutions

João Mota

Void Software

Business Development at VOID Software, Leader of the Blockchain.PT Consortium

Supporters

Organizers

Luís Caires

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Programming Systems, Trustworthy Computing, Software Security

Alysson Bessani

Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Distributed Systems, Dependability, Fault Tolerance, and Security

Miguel Correia

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Blockchain and Byzantine Consensus, Cloud Security and Dependability, Software Security

David R. Matos

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Distributed systems, security, intrusion recovery

Rodrigo Rodrigues

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing, Consensus and Blockchains

Nuno Nunes

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Sustainable HCI

André Vasconcelos

IST, University of Lisbon


Main research areas:
Enterprise Architecture, Information Systems Architecture, Information System Evaluation, Information Systems

João Fumega

INESC-ID


Senior Project Manager