Thursday, August 22nd and Friday, August 23rd
OpenDP is joining forces with TPDP (Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy) the week of August 19th, 2024 where both events will be held at the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC).
An evening reception after the conclusion of TPDP and welcome to the OpenDP Community Meeting will be held on Wednesday, August 21st. Scroll down to look at the agenda – we plan to have more details, announcements, and social events information in the coming weeks.
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The OpenDP Community Meeting is an annual event where a wide variety of experts from industry, academia, non-profit, and government entities come together to discuss, brainstorm, and work on key topics in differential privacy. Understanding and addressing varying perspectives and challenges when it comes to opening up sensitive data for research, analysis, and decision making is instrumental for this collaborative open-source project.
Attending the meeting in-person or virtually is free and open for anyone interested in learning or contributing to the conversation.
Agenda
All OpenDP Community Meeting sessions and events will be in the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)
Add the below sessions (with zoom links) to your calendar!
Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
| Time (ET) | Event | Location |
| 3:00PM – 6:00PM | Evening Reception after the conclusion of TPDP and welcome to the OpenDP Community Meeting thanks to Diamond level sponsors Capital One, Microsoft, and Oblivious! | SEC Engineering Yard (weather permitting) |
Thursday, August 22nd, 2024
| Time (ET) | Session | Speaker(s) | Recording/Files | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30AM – 9:00AM | Registration Pick Up + Breakfast | First 100 in-person registered attendees will receive a free copy of the recently released Hands-On Differential Privacy book courtesy of Microsoft! | N/A | West Atrium |
| 9:00AM – 9:20AM | Welcome | Salil Vadhan (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 9:20AM – 10:00AM | Day 1 Keynote: Theory and Practice of DP-SGD | Ilya Mironov (Meta) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 10:00AM – 10:10AM | OpenDP Community Strategy | Sharon Ayalde (Harvard University/OpenDP), Vikrant Singhal (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 10:10AM – 10:20AM | OpenDP Project: General Update | Annie Wu (Harvard University/OpenDP) + OpenDP team | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 10:20AM – 10:35AM | Break | Thanks to Silver level sponsors dpella and Tumult Labs! | N/A | West Atrium |
| 10:35AM – 11:20AM | Actionable Underpinning Problems in DP | Gary Howarth (National Institute of Standards and Technology – NIST), Christine Task (Knexus Research) | Video Presentation Deck | Winokur Hall |
| 11:20AM – 12:05PM | OpenDP Technical Updates | Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 12:05PM – 12:30PM | Community Pitch Anything 1 | Rishi Balakrishnan (Oasis Labs), Liudas Panavas (Northeastern University), Sharat Chandra (Ford Motor Company), Lipika Ramaswamy (Gretel Labs), and Salil Vadhan (Harvard University/OpenDP) and Marco Gaboardi (Boston University) – hosted by Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video Pitch Slides | Winokur Hall |
| 12:30PM – 1:30PM | Lunch | Thanks to Platinum level sponsors Apple and Google! | N/A | West Atrium |
| 1:30PM – 2:30PM | Industry Panel: Deploying DP in Practice | Yaw Etse (Capital One), Seyi Feyisetan (Amazon), James Honaker (Mozilla Anonym), Christina Ilvento (Apple), and Rob Pisarczyk (Oblivious) | N/A | Winokur Hall |
| 2:30PM – 3:00PM | Community Pitch Anything 2 | Huanyu Zhang (Meta), Nicolás Berrios (Oblivious & OpenDP), Gerome Miklau (Tumult Labs), Yanis Vandecasteele (Harvard University & OpenDP), and Mohammed Arshad Sheikh (Ford Motor Company) – hosted by Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video Pitch Slides | Winokur Hall |
| 3:00PM – 3:15PM | Break transition to Parallel Breakouts 1 | Thanks to Silver level sponsors dpella and Tumult Labs! | N/A | Lower Level 2 (LL2) |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Parallel Breakouts: Learning by Doing: Teaching Applied DP | 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) | Video | LL2.223 |
| 3:15PM – 4:15PM | Parallel Breakouts: Privacy Attacks & Auditing | Jonathan Ullman (Northeastern University), Yves-Alexandre de Montoye (Imperial College), James Honaker (Mozilla Anonym), Zachary Ratliff (Harvard University), Sharon Ayalde (Harvard University/OpenDP) (Privacy Attacks Repository Sheet) | Video | LL2.229 |
| 4:15PM – 4:20PM | Transition back to Winokur Hall | N/A | Winokur Hall | |
| 4:20PM – 4:35PM | Parallel Breakout Report Backs | Breakout Leads | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 4:35PM – 4:45PM | Day 1 Closing Remarks | Chuck McCallum (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
Friday, August 23rd, 2024
| Time (ET) | Session | Speaker(s) | Recording/Files | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30AM – 9:00AM | Registration Pick Up + Breakfast | N/A | West Atrium | |
| 9:00AM – 9:10AM | Day 2 Welcome Back | James Honaker (Mozilla Anonym) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 9:10AM – 9:50AM | Enhancing Open Data for Social Good: Leveraging capabilities of OpenDP to increase publication of socially relevant data | Mayana Pereira (Microsoft) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 9:50AM – 10:10AM | Community Pitch Anything 3 | Raphaël de Fondeville (Swiss Federal Statistics Office), Sina Shaham (USC/Meta), Wanrong Zhang and Bo Jiang (TikTok) – hosted by Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video Pitch Slides | Winokur Hall |
| 10:10AM – 10:40AM | Day 2 Keynote: Government Activities to Advance Privacy Enhancing Technologies | Jeremy Epstein, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 10:40AM – 10:50AM | Break transition to Parallel Breakouts 2 | Thanks to Silver level sponsors dpella and Tumult Labs! | N/A | Lower Level 2 (LL2) |
| 10:50AM – 11:50AM | Parallel Breakouts: DP Beyond Algorithms (part 1) | Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), Gabriel Kaptchuk (University of Maryland, College Park), Elissa Redmiles (Georgetown University), Priyanka Nanayakkara (Northwestern University), Jayshree Sarathy (Columbia University) | Video | LL2.223 |
| 10:50AM – 11:50AM | Parallel Breakouts: OpenDP Research Challenges and Development Directions | Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP), Vikrant Singhal (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | LL2.229 |
| 11:50AM – 12:00PM | Transition back to Winokur Hall | N/A | Winokur Hall | |
| 12:00PM – 12:10PM | Parallel Breakout Report Backs | Breakout Leads | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 12:10PM – 12:15PM | Day 2 Closing Remarks | Salil Vadhan (Harvard University/OpenDP) | Video | Winokur Hall |
| 12:15PM – 1:00PM | Closing Reception Lunch | Thanks to Diamond level sponsors Capital One, Microsoft, and Oblivious! | N/A | West Atrium |
| 1:00PM – 4:00PM | Workshop: DP Beyond Algorithms (part 2) | Rachel Cummings (Columbia University), Gabriel Kaptchuk (University of Maryland, College Park), Elissa Redmiles (Georgetown University), Priyanka Nanayakkara (Northwestern University), Jayshree Sarathy (Columbia University) | Video | LL2.223 |
| 1:00PM – 5:00PM | OpenDP Hackathon | Michael Shoemate (Harvard University/OpenDP), Yanis Vandecasteele (Harvard University) Thanks to Gold level sponsors Meta and TikTok! | Video | LL2.229 |
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