Agenda - House of ZK Ethproofs Summit

Speaking Program

10:30 a.m.

Opening Keynote by Will Corcoran

Research Coordinator at Ethereum Foundation

10:50 a.m.

Panel: Real-Time Proving and the Limits of Parallelization

Speakers:

Jordi Baylina • Co-founder of Polygon

Jeremy Bruestle • Co-founder of RISC Zero

Mamy Ratsimbazafy • Cryptography Engineer at Lita

Kshitji Kulkani • Researcher at Succinct

Alexander Hicks • Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

11:30 a.m.

Keynote by Norbert Vadas

Head of Product at ZkCloud

11:50 a.m.

Panel: zkVM Design and Proof System Tradeoffs

Speakers:

Stephen Duan • CTO of ZKM

Alexandre Belling • Principal Cryptography Research at Linea

Maya Dotan • Product Manager at StarkWare

Porter Adams • Core Contributor of Matter Labs & ZKsync

George Kadianakis • Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

12:30 p.m.

Keynote by Alexandre Belling

Principal Cryptography Research at Linea

12:50 p.m.

Panel: Benchmarking Methodologies and Verification Standards

Speakers:

Norbert Vadas • Head of Product at ZkCloud

Alec James • Business Operations & Strategy Manager at Nexus

Maya Dotan • Product Manager at StarkWare

Dmitry Khovratovich • Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

Alice Liu • Host at House of ZK

1:45 p.m.

Keynote by Luca Donno

Researcher at L2BEAT

2:00 p.m.

Keynote by Stephen Duan

CTO at ZKM

2:20 p.m.

Panel: Governance, Upgradeability, and Consensus Implications

Speakers:

Declan Fox • Head of Linea

Michal Zajac • Head of Research at Nethermind

Alexander Hicks • Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

Alice Liu • Host at House of ZK

3:00 p.m.

Keynote by Porter Adams

Core Contributor of Matter Labs & ZKsync

3:20 p.m.

Panel: zkVMs in Practice - Progress, Pitfalls, and Next Targets

Speakers:

Porter Adams • Core Contributor of Matter Labs & ZKsync

Yi Sun • Co-founder of Axiom

Leo Alt • Co-founder of Powdr Labs

Radi Cojbasic • Co-founder of Irreducible

Reka Medvecz • Director of Marketing at RISC Zero

4:00 p.m.

Interview with Justin Drake

Researcher at Ethereum Foundation

4:30 p.m.

Panel: The Future of zkVM Interoperability and Proof Liquidity

Speakers:

Stephen Duan • CTO of ZKM

Norbert Vadas • Head of Product at ZkCloud

Carlo Modica • Cryptography Engineer at Lita

Dominik Schmidt • Co-founder of Miden

Alice Liu • Host at House of ZK

5:10 p.m.

Keynote by Dominik Schmidt

Co-founder of Miden

5:30 p.m.

Closing keynote by Jeremy Bruestle

Co-founder of RISC Zero