zkSummit13

May 12th 2025 - Toronto

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Join us for the 13th edition of the Zero Knowledge Summit – ZK13.

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 topic oriented talks & workshops.

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

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Speakers

  • Michael Zhu

    a16z crypto

  • Howard Wu

    Founder of Aleo & CEO of Provable

  • Yi Sun

    Axiom

  • Jeremy Bruestle

    RISC Zero

  • Binyi Chen

    Stanford University

  • Wei Dai

    1kx

  • Mikerah Quintyne-Collins

    Stoffel Labs, HashCloak

  • Liam Eagen

    Alpen Labs

  • Andrew Milson

    StarkWare

  • Daniel Kang

    UIUC and VAIL project

  • Ying Tong

    Ethereum Foundation

  • Jessica Chen

    New York University

  • Muthu Venkitasubramaniam

    Ligero Inc.

  • William Wang

    New York University

  • Matej Penciak

    Reilabs

  • Hadas Zeilberger

    Yale University

  • Julian Arnesino

    ERYX

  • Brandon Moore

    Pi Squared, Inc.

  • Adrian Hamelink

    Miden

  • Georgios Fotiadis

    =nil; Foundation

  • Markus Schofnegger

    Fabric Cryptography

  • Chhavi Yadav

    UC San Diego

  • Tobias Bergkvist

    Irreducible

  • Mohammed Mahmoud

    Attested Frontiers

  • Conner Swann

     Prooflab

  • Alberto Garoffolo

    Gigachain Labs

  • Andrija Novakovic

    Bain Capital Crypto

  • Syed Hosseini

    Web3 Foundation/Polkadot

  • Alessandro Coglio

    Provable

  • Michel Dellepere

    Ava Labs

Schedule

  • 10:00 Welcome to zkSummit & Sponsor Intro - Anna Rose

    10:30 The Onchain Privacy Trilemma - Wei Dai (1kx)

    11:00 LatticeFold+: Faster, Simpler, Shorter Lattice-Based Folding for Succinct Proof Systems - Binyi Chen (Stanford University)

    11:30 BREAK

    12:00 Blaze: Fast SNARKs from Interleaved RAA Codes - Hadas Zeilberger (Yale University)

    12:30 Mercury: A Novel Constant Sized MLPCS - Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs / Aztec)

    13:00 LUNCH

    14:00 ISAs for MPC - Mikerah Quintyne-Collins (Stoffel Labs / HashCloak)

    14:30 ZKTorch: Efficiently Compiling ML Models to Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocols - Daniel Kang (UIUC / VAIL project)

    15:00 BREAK

    15:30 R0VM v3, a multi proof system zkVM - Jeremy Bruestle (RISC Zero)

    15:45 Bringing modularity to zkVMs with OpenVM - Yi Sun (Axiom)

    16:00 Twist and Shout: The Next Era of Jolt - Michael Zhu (a16z crypto)

    16:15 Formally Verifying a zkVM - Howard Wu (Aleo / Provable) & Alessandro Coglio (Provable)

    16:30 BREAK

    17:00 Vibe coding ZK Apps with Ligetron ZK Platform - Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (Ligero Inc)

    17:30 ZK Email in Production: Lessons, New Applications, and Surprises - Aayush Gupta (ZK Email)

  • 10:30 Linear-Time Accumulation Schemes - William Wang (New York University)

    11:00 The Future of ZK in a World of AI Agents - Pranav Mehrotra (Google Cloud Web3)

    11:30 BREAK

    12:00 Lookup Tables in CoSNARKs - Florin Fabsits (TACEO)

    12:30 Laurent STARKs - Ulrich Haböck (StarkWare Industries) & Yuval Domb (Ingonyama)

    13:00 LUNCH

    14:00 Rebuilding the Blockchain Using Succinct Proofs, Zoda & Accidental Computer - Andrija Novakovic (Bain Capital Crypto)

    14:30 Garuda and Pari: Faster and Smaller SNARKs via Equifficient Polynomial Commitments - Michel Dellepere (Ava Labs)

    15:00 BREAK

    15:30 Arithmetization-Friendly Primes and Efficient Constraint Evaluation: STARKs on Custom Hardware - Markus Schofnegger & Philip Hodges (Fabric Cryptography)

    16:00 Provable Watermark Extraction Using zkDL++ - Ashutosh Marwah (Cryptography Researcher at Ingonyama)

    16:30 BREAK

    17:00 Balancing Performance and Security in zkVM Benchmarking - Conner Swann (Prooflab)

    17:30 tbd

  • 10:30 openbanking.nr - Proving Banking Transactions Onchain - Mohammed Mahmoud & Jack Gilcrest (Attested Frontiers)

    11:00 Vectorized Implementations with AVX-512 for Speeding-Up zkEVM - Georgios Fotiadis (=nil; Foundation)

    11:30 BREAK

    12:00 Circle STARK GPU Acceleration: An Analysis of Performance and Implementation - Julian Arnesino & Carlo Giambiagi Ferrari (ERYX)

    12:30 Lifted FRI: A Uniform Multi-Domain Polynomial Commitment Scheme - Adrian Hamelink (Miden) & Andrew Milson (StarkWare)

    13:00 LUNCH

    14:00 Almost Linear Time Permutation Check - Jessica Chen (New York University)

    14:30 GIGA Protocol: Unlocking Trustless Parallel Computation in Blockchains through SNARKs - Alberto Garoffolo (Gigachain Labs)

    15:00 - BREAK

    15:30 Programming Binius with M3 Arithmetization - Tobias Bergkvist (Irreducible)

  • 10:30 EC Plonkish: Plonk-like Proofs over the Elliptic Curve Coordinate Ring - Syed Hosseini (Web3 Foundation / Polkadot)

    11:30 BREAK

    12:00 Shedding Light on Noir with Lampe - Matej Penciak (Reilabs)

    13:00 LUNCH

    14:00 Redesigning Proof Rules for Efficient ZK Proofs of Mathematical Proofs - Brandon Moore (Pi Squared)

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