Countdown to the 2024 OpenDP Community Meeting!
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Dear colleagues,
We are two weeks away from the 2024 OpenDP Community Meeting at Harvard University’s SEC building! Check out the most updated agenda and more information about the talks on the website and don’t forget to register. Recent additions to the agenda include:
OpenDP General and Technical Updates plus an overview of our Community Strategy
TWO special keynotes to be announced!
Two sets of Parallel Breakout Sessions:
Learning by Doing: Teaching Applied Differential Privacy organized by Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Moshe Shenfeld (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Joe Near (University of Vermont), Salil Vadhan (OpenDP/Harvard University), Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), Wanrong Zhang (TikTok)
Privacy Attacks & Auditing led by Jonathan Ullman (Northeastern University), Yves-Alexandre de Montoye (Imperial College), James Honaker (Mozilla/OpenDP), Zachary Ratliff (Harvard University), Sharon Ayalde (OpenDP/Harvard University)
DP Beyond Algorithms (part 1): What does it take to successfully deploy DP from a sociotechnical perspective? Led by Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), Gabriel Kaptchukis (University of Maryland, College Park), Elissa Redmiles (Georgetown University), Priyanka Nanayakkara (Northwestern University), Jayshree Sarathy (Columbia University)
OpenDP Research Challenges and Development Directions led by Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP), Vikrant Singhal (Harvard University/OpenDP)
Industry Panel: Deploying DP in Practice (details coming soon!)
Two guest talks from esteemed members of the community!
Actionable Underpinning Problems in DP presented by Gary Howarth (NIST) and Christine Task (Knexus Research)
Enhancing Open Data for Social Good: Leveraging capabilities of OpenDP to increase publication of socially relevant data presented by Mayana Pereira (Microsoft)
Three Community Pitch Anything sessions! Hear from your community members like Oasis Labs, Meta, Oblivious, Tumult Labs, Northeastern University, Ford Motor Company, Swiss Federal Statistics Office, Gretel Labs, Harvard University, and a special pitch from the winner of the Heart Disease Prediction Hackathon!
Workshop and Hackathon! Able to stay longer on Friday? We have two opportunities to keep the conversation going:
DP Beyond Algorithms (part 2): Building a Community around Sociotechnical Aspects of DP Deployment led by Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), Gabriel Kaptchukis (University of Maryland, College Park), Elissa Redmiles (Georgetown University), Priyanka Nanayakkara (Northwestern University), Jayshree Sarathy (Columbia University)
OpenDP Hackathon led by Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP) and Yanis Vandecasteele (Harvard University)
For those of you able to join us in person, be sure to also come to the welcome event on the evening of Wednesday, August 21st at the Harvard SEC building from 3pm-6pm! If you’re also attending TPDP, the event will be in the same building so you can chat with colleagues over some food and drinks.
Don’t forget: the first 100 in-person registered attendees will receive a free copy of the newly released Hands on Differential Privacy book authored by Ethan Cowan, Michael Shoemate, and Mayana Pereira courtesy of Microsoft!
Thank you to our 2024 OpenDP Community Meeting sponsors - their support has allowed us to host a free, inclusive, impactful, and well-fed(!) event for all our community members. Capital One, Microsoft, and Oblivious with their super sponsorship at the diamond level; Apple and Google at Platinum; Meta and TikTok at Gold; and DPella and Tumult Labs at Silver. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Stay “in the know” by visiting the OpenDP website, Community Meeting website, or our Slack channels. Mandatory registration is free and due by August 16th. Please share with your network!
Regards,
The OpenDP Team
