Pre-Conference Tutorial: 25 March 2026
Main Conference Date: 26 – 27 March 2026
Location: Department of Computer Science and Technology – William Gates Building, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Thank you to all who attended!
Join us at the CHERI Blossoms Conference 2026, the must-attend event for forward-thinking decision-makers and innovators! This exclusive gathering is tailored for industry leaders, business strategists, product managers, researchers and technologists, who are poised to influence the future of digital security by design.
At this premier event, you’ll have the unique opportunity to engage with top experts and gain firsthand insights into the latest developments using CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) technology. Discover how these cutting-edge advancements are revolutionizing the creation of resilient, secure systems and learn how integrating these innovations can provide a competitive edge for your organization.
The CHERI Research Centre at the Computer Laboratory, Codasip, and lowRISC are hosting a hands-on tutorial the day before CHERI Blossoms 2026. Designed for students, researchers, and developers, the session covers CHERI and CHERIoT, memory safety, compartmentalisation, and related hardware-software stacks, with presentations, code examples, and guided exercises. Register here.
Don’t miss this chance to network with key players, forge strategic collaborations, and drive technological progress that will redefine cybersecurity. Be part of the conversation that matters and position your organization at the forefront of this transformative industry shift!
UPDATE 16/03/2026: 🌸 Livestream Registrations Now Open! 🌸
Can’t join us in person? You can still be part of CHERI Blossoms 2026 by attending online via Zoom. Register for livestream access here.
Get a taste of what awaits you – watch the previous CHERI Blossoms conference overview:
The CHERI Research Centre at the Computer Laboratory, Codasip, and lowRISC have co-organised a comprehensive tutorial on CHERI alongside the conference. Please note that this tutorial requires participants to pre-register separately from the main conference.
The agenda for the tutorial can be found on the tutorial webpage.
The main conference runs over two consecutive days (Thursday and Friday), with the exhibition space open throughout.
We are also running a “Hands-on Introduction to CHERI and CHERIoT” on the Wednesday, which participants must register for separately.
Each day of the conference has a distinct focus:
Pre-Conference Tutorial (Wednesday 25th March 2026)
Main Conference – Day 1 (Thursday 26th March 2026)
Main Conference – Day 2 (Friday 27th March 2026)
Please see the Hands-on Introduction to CHERI and CHERIoT page for the full tutorial agenda.
| Time (GMT) | Section / Talk Title | Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Registration / Lunch / exhibition | ||
| 11:45 | CHERI crash course - high-level introduction | Robert Watson | University of Cambridge |
| 12:00 | Keynotes | ||
| Keynote – CHERI: quantifying the value of a strategic imperative | Ollie Whitehouse | National Cyber Security Centre | |
| Featured Message | Kathleen Fisher | ARIA | |
| Keynote – Memory Safety at Scale: An Industry Perspective | Alex Rebert | ||
| Keynote – Getting ready for the CRA: from compliance to confidence | Maika Föhrenbach | European Commission (DG CONNECT) | |
| 13:40 | Break / exhibition | ||
| 14:05 | Ecosystem, trends and future directions | ||
| DSIT message | Bradley Finn | DSIT | |
| UKRI message | John Goodacre | UKRI | |
| Progress of the Alliance | Mike Eftimakis | CHERI Alliance | |
| CHERI Research Centre | Robert Watson | CHERI Research Centre | |
| The Capable Hub: Our Recent Work and Next Steps | Andrew Murray | The Capable Hub | |
| CHERI Adoption study | Adam Finney | CHERI Alliance | |
| Accelerating commercial adoption of CHERI | Manu Ravishankar | PA Consulting | |
| 15:40 | Break / exhibition | ||
| 16:15 | Shaping Tomorrow | ||
| A new analysis of CVE vulnerabilities : trends, changes and CHERI | Carl Shaw | Codasip | |
| Update on COSMIC project | Javier Orensanz Martinez | lowRISC | |
| BT business keynote | Dave Harcourt | BT | |
| ETSI Standardisation status | Paul Waller | NCSC | |
| RISC-V International | Andy Moore | RISC-V International | |
| CHERI RISC-V Standardisation Status | Tariq Kurd | Codasip | |
| 17:30 | Buffet dinner / 15th CHERI birthday celebration | ||
| 19:30 | Further Networking |
| Time (GMT) | Section / Talk Title | Speaker | Organisation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08:30 | Registration / Breakfast | ||
| 09:00 | Technical Keynote | ||
| BT's Engagement with CHERI Technology | Sam Cater | BT | |
| 09:30 | CHERI Hardware | ||
| Inside the CHERI in SoC Working Group | Ben Fletcher | CHERI Alliance | |
| MMU-based revocation for temporal safety on CHERI application cores | Tariq Kurd / Alfredo Mazzinghi | Codasip / Capabilities Limited | |
| COSMIC verification: comprehensive, end-to-end formal proofs of CVA6-CHERI | Louis-Emile Ploix / Marno van der Maas | lowRISC CIC | |
| CHERI is being standardised, so why do we still need to do research? | Simon Moore | University of Cambridge | |
| Lightning talks | David Chisnall Paul Metzger David Musliner Jennifer Jackson Murat Cakmak | SCI Semiconductor University of Cambridge SIFT University of Birmingham Microservice Store |
|
| 11:00 | Break / exhibition | ||
| 11:30 | CHERI at the system level | ||
| Performance Progress of CVA6-CHERI | Jonathan Woodruff | Capabilities Limited | |
| CHERI performance improvement update | Carl Shaw | Codasip | |
| Securing Real-Time Communication: Porting and running Edge Computing for mission critical services on Morello CHERI | Peter Cox / Alexander Voevoda | UM Labs | |
| Rust on CHERIoT | Edoardo Marangoni | SCI Semiconductor | |
| CHERI Linking through the Ages | John Baldwin / Jessica Clarke | Ararat River Consulting, LLC / University of Cambridge | |
| 13:25 | Lunch / exhibition | ||
| 14:15 | Hardware (research) | ||
| Verifying Secure Memory Compartmentalization in CHERI Processors at the RTL | Johannes Müller | RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau | |
| CHERI-enabled RISC-V VP: Capabilities and Applications | Luca Müller | German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) | |
| -- | Merve Gülmez / Thomas Nyman | Ericsson | |
| Towards Heterogeneous CHERI Compartmentalization | Jianyi Cheng | University of Edinburgh | |
| All-Caps — Extending Capabilities Across the Whole SoC | Samuel Stark | University of Cambridge | |
| 16:05 | Conference end |
Can’t join us in person?
Watch keynotes and sessions live from anywhere in the world and take part in live Q&A with speakers.
Please note that you do not need to register for the main, in-person conference if you only want access to the livestream.
ARIA
European Commission (DG CONNECT)
CHERI Alliance
RISC-V International
DSIT
Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT)
University of Edinburgh
Ararat River Consulting, LLC
UKRI
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
PA Consulting
Ericsson
CHERI Alliance
Microservice Store
CHERI Alliance, University of Cambridge
Ericsson
Registrations for the main conference are now closed, but you can still register to view the livestream.
We expect all attendees, presenters and facilitators to abide by our code of conduct.
CHERI Blossoms 2026 will be held in Cambridge UK, at the Department of Computer Science and Technology in the William Gates Building, on the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge site, located off Madingley Road.
William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Ave
Cambridge CB3 0FD
Free parking is available at the Madingley Road Park and Ride site. This is approximately a 10 minutes’ walk from the venue.
There are two regular bus services from the city centre to the William Gates Building, and a third to the nearby Park and Ride, 10 minutes’ walk away:
Cambridge train station is located one mile south-east of the City Centre, with regular services to London King’s Cross, London Liverpool Street, Peterborough, and Birmingham. The Universal Bus operates a direct link from the train station to the West Cambridge Site.
The nearest airports to Cambridge are Stansted (30 miles) and Luton (40 miles).
There’s a direct train link to Cambridge from Stansted and Gatwick airports, and Heathrow airport is also easily accessible by train (via London King’s Cross/London St Pancras). In addition, buses regularly run from Stansted, Luton, Heathrow and Gatwick airports to the city centre.
