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
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
João Mota
Void Software
Business Development at VOID Software, Leader of the Blockchain.PT Consortium
Miguel Matos
IST, University of Lisbon
Distributed Systems, Blockchains, Dependability, Persistent Memory
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
