"Future of Trust in Computing" is a conference that aims at bringing together researchers, regulators, technology developers, consumer organizations, and users of new technologies to discuss issues associated with preserving and enforcing users' trust in digital economy. Trust is a complex notion combining technical and policy issues, and this conference offers a venue to talk about trust in a holistic way.

Target Audience:

Technical Experts (Developers, Architects)
Researchers and Academics
Heads of IT Department
Technology Implementers
Systems Administrators and Security Managers
Marketing Managers
Representatives of consumer organization
Privacy and data protection professionals
Regulators and Policy Makers
Product Managers
Legal/Compliance/Regulatory Professionals
Business Analysts
Business or Risk Managers
CEOs/CIOs/CSOs/CTOs

Tracks of the Conference:

The first tracks will focus on Trusted Computing adoption and implementations of (technical) trust. In addition to talks on applications, implementation issues, and infrastructure requirements, the track will include a workshop bringing together the early users of the technology from financial, healthcare, telecom, and other industries, with the goal to define requirements for realistic and viable applications that can be used by these market segments. The outcome of the workshop will be published as a report or in another suitable form.

The second tracks will address the issues of user privacy and other policy challenges associated with the use of Trusted Computing applications. Assurance and certification are additional topics in this track.

The third tracks will address the future of Trust in Computing, with talks on the likely paths to be followed in this area of research and computing in the next 10-15 years.

The participants will include academics, industry (both technology users and technology developers), consumer advocacy organization, and regulators from Asia, Europe, and North America.

 
"Adoption and Deployment of Trusted Computing Technologies"

Although millions of computers are equipped with TPMs, TPMs frequently are under-used; and frequently many Trusted Platform Modules are never switched on. The promise of Trusted Computing has been recognized by the technology community, but adoption of Trusted Computing technologies is slow. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together users of this technology and technology developers, in order to discuss barriers to adoption, promising applications, and deployment issues.

The part will consist of two panel discussions and a series of short (10 minute) issue and technology introduction talks. The panels will address user requirements, barriers to adoption, current uses of the technology, and future path than can lead to adoption. The short talks will describe examples of current applications and uses, including examples from mobile and wireline telephony, finance, large organizations and government.

 
"Building Trust in Digital Economy: Privacy Issues"
The part will address multiple aspects of privacy issues associated with the creation of trusted environments that make computing safer while implementing privacy-friendly technologies. The topics addressed will include laws and regulations, privacy-friendly design processes, deployment and user acceptance issues, user choice, and related problems.

Itt will consist of panel discussions supplemented by short "issue-based" presentations. Unique identifiers in hardware and software, changing concept of anonymity, practices of privacy-friendly design, distinctions between security and privacy technologies, usability, data protection issues, and applications of privacy principles to innovative technologies are among the topics we will address.