Privacy for Financial Services Workshop
June 23-24, 2025 - New York City
Hosted by Mastercard at Mastercard Tech Hub
150 5th Ave, New York, NY 10011
Join us for the inaugural LF Decentralized Trust Privacy for Financial Services Workshop!
The Workshop will take place June 23rd–24th, 2025, at Mastercard’s Tech Hub in New York City. This invite-only event will convene leaders from banking and financial services alongside developers of cutting-edge decentralized privacy technologies. Together, we’ll explore real-world use cases, share institutional requirements, and surface opportunities for collaboration to strengthen privacy across digital currency and broader financial implementations.
Topics you can expect to be covered:
The agenda will include technical deep dives and roadmap updates from projects such as Hyperledger Fabric, Paladin, an LF Decentralized Trust Lab, and others advancing privacy in decentralized systems.
Held under the Chatham House Rule, the workshop will foster open and candid dialogue in support of building secure, privacy-respecting financial infrastructure through open collaboration and decentralized trust.
Contact ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org if you’re interested in attending or speaking.
Sessions
Privacy session title 1
Presenter 1, Title, Company
Privacy panel title 1
Panelist 1, Title, Company
Panelist 2, Title, Company
Speakers
Speaker 1
Title at Organization
Sessions
Next Generation Enterprise Blockchain Privacy Using TEE / Confidential Computing
Adi Ben-Ari , Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain
Private Transactions in a Public World: A New Architecture for Trust
Dr. Jacob Mendel, co-CTO at Parfin
Cryptographic VM for Financial Collaboration and Maintaining Trade Arbitrage
Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories
Selective Disclosure on Public Blockchains: Nightfall as the Bridge Between Privacy and Interoperability
Pradeep Singh, Co-founder & CEO at gateway.fm
Cryptographically Verifiable Lotteries
Joseph Bonneau, Associate Professor at New York University
Chainlink's Privacy-Enhancing Technologies: Use Cases and Adoption
Roger Brogan, Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs
Addressing Privacy in the Drex CBDC: Insights and Challenges
Henrique De Carvalho Videira, Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil
Building ZK Applications with SP1
Uma Roy, Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct
Zeto: ZKP powered post-quantum secure privacy enhancing tokens
Jim Zhang, Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido
Canton Network: Solving Privacy in Capital Markets, Crypto, and Payments.
Simon Letort, Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset
Stronger Privacy for Existing Credentials
Guru Vamsi Policharla, PhD student at University of California, Berkeley
Real world applications of Paladin to DvP and Stablecoin use cases
Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido
Privacy in Wholesale CBDC: Current state and Exploration
Frédéric Faure, Head of blockchain at Banque de France
Enterprise grade Privacy with HashSphere
Andrew Stakiwicz, Head of Solutions at Hashgraph
Privacy Considerations in Financial Blockchain Environments
Shingo Fujimoto, Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu
The 4th Generation of Crypto where TradFi meets DeFi
Eran Barak, CEO and Bob Blessing-Hartley, Head of Architecture at Shielded
StarkWare's Modular Approach to Compliant Privacy
Andrew Milson, Software Engineer at StarkWare
Privacy in Enterprise Blockchains
Angela Pratt, Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Open Forum: Bank Requirements for Privacy
Panelists will be announced soon
MORE TALKS COMING SOON!
Stay tuned
Speakers
Adi Ben-Ari
Founder & CEO at Applied Blockchain
Dr. Jacob Mendel
co-CTO at Parfin
Jim Zhang
Co-Founder & Head of Protocol at Kaleido
Andrew Stakiwicz
Head of Solutions at Hashgraph
Guru Vamsi Policharla
PhD student at University of California, Berkeley
Benedikt Bünz
Chief Scientist at Espresso Systems & Professor Computer Science NYU
Jay Prakash
Co-Founder & CEO at Silence Laboratories
Joseph Bonneau
Associate Professor at New York University
Pradeep Singh
Co-Founder & CEO at gateway.fm
Peter Broadhurst
Co-Founder & Head of Engineering at Kaleido
Benjamin E. Diamond
Staff Cryptographer at Irreducible
Uma Roy
Co-Founder and CEO at Succinct
Roger Brogan
Director of Solutions Architecture at Chainlink Labs
Henrique De Carvalho Videira
Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil
Simon Letort
Head of Strategic Initiatives at Digital Asset
Frédéric Faure
Head of blockchain at Banque de France
Shingo Fujimoto
Principal Research Director at Data & Security Research Laboratory at Fujitsu
Bob Blessing-Hartley
Head of Architecture at Shielded Technologies
Eran Barak
Chief Executive Officer at Shielded Technologies
Andrew Milson
Software Engineer at StarkWare
Izzy Iliev - Wollitzer
Senior Vice President at Mastercard
Angela Pratt
Software Engineer at Kinexys by J.P. Morgan
Interested in presenting on a topic?
please reach out to us at
ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org
(Please note: LF Decentralized Trust members are pre-approved. Attendance is by invitation only.)
DAY 1 - Monday, June 23rd
8:00-9:00am - Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:00am-5:30pm - Main Sessions
5:30-7:30pm - Happy Hour, TBD
DAY 2 - Tuesday, June 24th
8:00-9:00am - Registration & Networking Breakfast
9:00am-1:00pm - Main Sessions
Why attend?
- Collaborative Development: This workshop aims to bring industry experts together to debate, discuss, share, and contribute to the open-source codebases of LF Decentralized Trust. This is a golden opportunity to collaboratively define the requirements of privacy in enterprise.
- Open Development & Governance: We will follow the open development and governance process provided by the LF Decentralized Trust, a part of the Linux Foundation, ensuring transparency and efficiency in our endeavors.
- Anti-trust & Chatham House Rules: To ensure a conducive and non-competitive environment for genuine discussions, the workshop will strictly adhere to the LF Decentralized anti-trust policy guidelines and operate under Chatham house rules.
Invite-only Event
Tickets are first come, first served.
If you have not received an invitation to attend please contact us for approval.
Email ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org for assistance