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Privacy for Financial Services Workshop

July 1-2 - London

Hosted by Howden Insurance Group

 

Join us for the LF Decentralized Trust Privacy for Financial Services Workshop - London

The Workshop will take place July 1-2 2026, at Howden Insurance Group HQ. This invite-only event will convene leaders from banking and financial institutions, including Citi, JP Morgan, Bank of England, Banco Central do Brasil, Visa, Mastercard, Swift, Vanguard, TD Securities, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Fnality International, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, and more, alongside developers and researchers 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 both LFDT projects and others advancing privacy in decentralized systems.

 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

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Sessions

SESSION

Welcome

Hart Montgomery , CTO LFDT and ED, PQCA

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Privacy for Tokenized Finance: Options, Tradeoffs, and Standards for Financial Institutions

Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZeppelin

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Privacy and Compliance on Public Blockchains: A Path to Institutional Adoption

Stefano De Angelis, Lead Researcher, Nethermind

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Privacy in RWA: A Real Case, Not a Theory

Alberto Molina, Team Lead, Blockchain Protocol Architect, IoBuilders

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Proof-Based Private Interoperability: Extending Besu Networks to Public Ethereum

Omar Azhar, VP, Business Development, Matter Labs

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Building a One-Way Mirror: Achieving Vendor-Neutral Privacy for Regulated Finance

Igor Mandrigin, Co-Founder & CTPO, gateway.fm 

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Verifiable Privacy: Proving Without Revealing for Financial Market Infrastructure

Declan Fox, VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

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Verifiable AI Agents: Privacy-Preserving Oversight and the Future of Institutional Trading

Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO, Shielded Technologies

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Private finance through the lens of MPC and CoSNARKs

Aisling Connolly, CSO, TACEO

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AP3: Confidential Collective Intelligence: How Agents Think Together Without Data Exposure

Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories

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Mapping Institutional Privacy: What FIs Need from Ethereum Infrastructure

Mo Jalil, Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

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Achieving Privacy and Sovereignty via Cross-Ledger Protocols

Kash Balhotra, Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

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Confidential and Accountable: Privacy Requirements and Open Questions from Europe's First Qualified DLT

Miguel Angel Calero Fernández, Executive Director ISBE, Alastria

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Announcing the next generation of Paladin

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder, Head of Engineering, Kaleido

Matthew Whitehead, Principal Engineer, Kaleido

Panel

Open Forum: Bank Requirements for Privacy

Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank

Prashant Malik, Head of Digital Assets and Currencies Technology, HSBC

Moderator: Shyam Nagarajan, Chief Partnership Officer, Hashgraph

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Open Forum: Privacy for Financial Institutions

Burim Bivolaku, Business Information Security Officer, ICE Trading & Clearing

Simone Cortese, Chief Product Officer, Fnality International

Moderator: Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, LFDT

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Open Forum: Cryptography for Privacy Technologies

Stefano De Angelis, Lead Researcher, Nethermind

Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZeppelin

Aisling Connolly, CSO, TACEO

Elli Androulaki, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Ben Fisch, Co-founder, CEO, CTO, Espresso Systems

Abhi Shelat, Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern, and Engineer, Google

Moderator: Hart Montgomery, CTO, LFDT

 

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Open Forum: Privacy Tools

Kash Balhotra, Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO, Shielded Technologies

Declan Fox, VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

Mo Jalil, Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

Moderator: Nitin Gaur, Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions, Nethermind

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Open Forum: Privacy Technologies

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More Sessions will be announced soon!

Speakers

Mo Jalil

Mo Jalil

Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

 

 

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Stefano De Angelis

Stefano De Angelis

Lead Researcher, Nethermind

 

 

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Hart Montgomery

CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

 

 

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Declan Fox

Declan Fox

VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

 

 

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Ben Fisch

Ben Fisch

Co-founder, CEO, CTO, Espresso Systems

 

 

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Jay Prakash

Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories

 

 

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Igor

Igor Mandrigin

Co-Founder & CTPO, gateway.fm 

 

 

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Shyam Nagarajan

Chief Partnership Officer, Hashgraph

 

 

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Hendrik

Hendrik Ebbers

Director of Open Source, Hashgraph

 

 

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Jonathan Alexander

Jonathan Alexander

CTO, OpenZeppelin

 

 

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Matt Whitehead

Matthew Whitehead

Principal Engineer, Kaleido

 

 

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Peter B Kaleido

Peter Broadhurst

Co-Founder, Head of Engineering, Kaleido

 

 

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Elli

Elli Androulaki

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

 

 

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Bob

Bob Blessing-Hartley

CTO, Shielded Technologies

 

 

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Henrique

Henrique De Carvalho Videira

Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

 

 

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Miguel Calero

Miguel Angel Calero Fernández

Executive Director ISBE, Alastria

 

 

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Daniela

Daniela Barbosa

Executive Director, LF Decentralized Trust

 

 

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Ais

Aisling Connolly

CSO, TACEO

 

 

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Alberto Molina

Alberto Molina

Team Lead, Blockchain Protocol Architect, IoBuilders

 

 

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Alex G

Alex Gluchowski

Co-Founder & CEO, Matter Labs

 

 

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Kash

Kshitish 'Kash' Balhotra

Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

 

 

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Prashant-Malik

Prashant Malik

Head of Digital Assets and Currencies Technology, HSBC

 

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Sabih

Sabih Behzad

Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank

 

 

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Abhi

Abhi Shelat

Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern, and Engineer, Google

 

 

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Burim

Burim Bivolaku

Business Information Security Officer, ICE Trading & Clearing

 

 

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Simone Cortese

Chief Product Officer, Fnality International

 

 

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Nitin

Nitin Gaur

Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions, Nethermind

 

 

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Omar

Omar Azhar

VP, Business Development, Matter Labs

 

 

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More Speakers will be announced soon!

 

 

 

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Thank you to our Event Sponsors!

 

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Interested in presenting on a topic?

please reach out to us at

ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

(Please note: LF Decentralized Trust members are pre-approved to attend. Attendance is by invitation only.)

 

DAY 1 - Wednesday July 1

 

DAY 2 - Thursday July 2

 

 

 

Why attend? 

 

  • Collaborative Development: This workshop aims to bring industry experts together to debate, discuss, and share the latest developments in privacy-preserving technologies. This is a golden opportunity to collaboratively define the requirements of privacy in enterprise.

  • Open Development & Governance: As part of the Linux Foundation, LF Decentralized Trust brings proven open development and governance practices to the workshop, supporting transparent, vendor-neutral collaboration and a clear path for ideas to move into actionable community work.

  • Anti-trust & Chatham House Rules: To ensure a conducive and non-competitive environment for genuine discussions, the workshop will strictly adhere to the Linux Foundation anti-trust policy guidelines and code of conduct. Some sessions will 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

 

Code of Conduct

By attending or participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. Part of this event is held under Chatham House Rule. No media.

Please contact Angela Brown, SVP & GM of Events, at angela@linuxfoundation.org if you believe you’ve observed or experienced a violation of the Code of Conduct.