Speaking
For speaking invitations, please write to hello@aisconnolly.com.
Topics I Speak On
- Privacy infrastructure for existing blockchains
- Anonymous credentials and proof-of-human verification at scale
- Collaborative SNARKs (coSNARKs) and Private Shared State
- The intersection of institutional finance and onchain rails
- Designing private computation infrastructure (MPC, ZK, FHE)
Talks
2026
2025
- How to Avoid a Dystopian Digital ID System (panel with Ying Tong and Amal Ibraymi of Aztec, moderated by Lucy Harley-McKeown) · DC Privacy Summit, Washington DC · 16 October 2025, 2:20 to 3:00 PM · Video
- Architecting Private Shared State · d/acc Berlin (hosted by Vitalik Buterin and Octant) · 11 June 2025, 16:30 to 16:40 · Event page
- Collaborative SNARKs and Private Shared State · Ethereum Zurich, University of Zurich · 30 to 31 January 2025 · Video
- Private Shared State · ZK Hack Meetup, Denver · 24 February 2025 · Video
2024
- Building Consumer Apps with ZK, MPC and FHE (panel with Aayush Gupta, Richard, Andrew Lu, Ying Tong) · Devcon 7 SEA, Bangkok, Stage 6 · 14 November 2024 · Recording
- From Auctions to ZK: An Educational Tour of MPC Tools · Devcon 7 SEA, Bangkok, Stage 6 · 13 November 2024 · Speaker page
- Bitcoin L2 Powered by Chain Fusion on ICP (keynote) · Bitcoin Devcon, Hong Kong · 8 May 2024 · Coverage
- vetKeys: How Blockchains Can Keep Many Secrets · Ethereum Zurich, University of Zurich · 5 to 7 April 2024 · Video
2023
2020
- Surveillance Capitalism vs ZKP (panel, with Ayo Akinyele; moderated by Marc Beunardeau) · Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Master Stage · 10 December 2020
- The Right to Encrypt (departmental seminar) · University of York · May 2020
Selected Earlier Talks
- The Future of Digital Identity (closing keynote) · Identity Management Europe, Frankfurt · March 2019
- Closing keynote on the future of identity technologies · IDM London · June 2019
- Game of Things (keynote) · CSAW, Grenoble · 2017