Security, Privacy & Cryptography research area
December 2, 2019 - December 4, 2019

Private AI Bootcamp

Location: Redmond, Washington, USA

Monday, December 2

Time (PDT) Session Speaker Location
8:00 AM–9:00 AM Breakfast 41/Townsend
9:00 AM–9:30 AM Welcome Keynote Kristin Lauter, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
9:30 AM–10:00 AM Keynote Sreekanth Kannepalli, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
10:00 AM–10:30 AM Group assignments & Intro Slides Wei Dai, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
10:30 AM-11:15 AM Privacy Preserving Machine Learning in Security: A Real-world Example and Challenges Arun Gururajan 41/Townsend
11:15 AM–12:00 PM Intro to Homomorphic Encryption Wei Dai, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Lunch 41/Townsend
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Microsoft SEAL Kim Laine, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
2:00 PM–2:15 PM Break 41/Townsend
2:15 PM–3:15 PM Introduction to CKKS Yongsoo Song, Microsoft Research 41/Townsend
3:15 PM–3:30 PM Break 41/Townsend
3:30 PM–4:30 PM Techniques in PPML Hao Chen 41/Townsend
4:30 PM–5:00 PM Competition Rules Q&A 41/Townsend
6:00 PM–8:00 PM Dinner at Purple Café in Bellevue, WA 41/Townsend

Tuesday, December 3

Time (PDT) Session Speaker Location
8:00 AM–9:00 AM Breakfast 41/Townsend
9:00 AM–10:00 AM Lifting The Lid on ML Steve Rowe, Eric Olson 41/Townsend
10:00 AM–10:45 AM Building Applications with Microsoft SEAL Wei Dai 41/Townsend
10:45 AM–11:00 AM Break 41/Townsend
11:00 AM–11:30 AM Brainstorming Session 41/Townsend
11:30 AM–12:00 PM Q&A 41/Townsend
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Lunch 41/Townsend
1:00 PM–2:00 PM Brainstorm on Problem, Solution, and Advatage; Q&A 41/Townsend
2:00 PM–2:30 PM Address Common Issues 41/Townsend
2:30 PM–2:45 PM Break 41/Townsend
2:45 PM–3:45 PM Brainstorm on Feasibility & Realization of Your Idea 41/Townsend
3:45 PM–4:30 PM Describe Ideas in Two Pages 41/Townsend
4:30 PM–5:00 PM Check Ideas with Mentors 41/Townsend

Wednesday, December 4

Time (PDT) Session Location
8:00 AM–9:00 AM Breakfast and social 41/Townsend
9:00 AM–9:15 AM Review competition rules 41/Townsend
9:15 AM–10:00 AM Brainstorm on Road Blockers; Q&A 41/Townsend
10:00 AM–10:45 AM Imagine Competitors andS Strategies; Q&A 41/Townsend
10:45 AM–11:00 AM Break 41/Townsend
11:00 AM–12:00 PM Prepare for presentation or demo 41/Townsend
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Lunch 41/Townsend
1:00 PM–2:15 PM Competition: Teams 1-4 41/Townsend
2:15 PM–2:30 PM Break 41/Townsend
2:30 PM–3:45 PM Competition: Teams 5-8 41/Townsend
3:45 PM–4:00 PM Break 41/Townsend
4:00 PM–5:00 PM Winner announcement and wrap-up 41/Townsend