Conference Date: 12-13 November 2026
Location: Munich, DE @ SEMICON Europa
A two-day CHERI technical programme at SEMICON Europa in Munich, connecting implementation work with the wider electronics industry.
CHERITech’26 will take place in Munich alongside Electronica / SEMICON Europa, one of the world’s largest electronics industry events!
Hosted at the heart of the exhibition floor and open to all attendees, CHERITech’26 will put CHERI in front of around 80,000 visitors from across industry, academia, government, and investment communities. It’s an unprecedented opportunity for attendees to be part of showcasing the momentum behind CHERI and secure-by-design computing.
More details to follow.
CHERITech’26 is located at the SEMICON Europa Exhibition, which runs from 10-13 November 2026.
Speakers and exhibitors will receive discount codes for free entry to SEMICON Europa 2026.
Please note: CHERITech’26 is free to attend for all SEMICON Europa 2026 visitors. However, a valid SEMICON Europa 2026 ticket is required for each day you wish to attend CHERITech’26.
| Time | Section | Talk Title | Presenter(s) | Organisation(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 | Intro | Intro day 1 | – | |
| 13:05 to 14:20 | Keynotes | Keynote | Yona Raekow | BSI |
| Keynote - With CHERI, can we afford to ignore hardware security? | Joerg Bormann | Siemens | ||
| CHERI Introduction | TBC | TBC | ||
| Progress of the Alliance | Mike Eftimakis | CHERI Alliance | ||
| 14:20 | Break + exhibition | BREAK 1 | ||
| 14:30 to 15:25 | Case studies | Opportunities for CHERI in the Energy Industry | Joshua Cooper | Hildebrand |
| Core to edge IoT security with CHERI | Peter Cox | UM Labs | ||
| Building a Network Security Product on CHERI: Early Insights | Martin Atkins / Divya Atkins | Mission Critical Applications | ||
| Beyond the tech and what it takes to create a market for CHERI | Manu Ravishankar | PA Consulting | ||
| 15:25 | Round table | Panel – What is missing for CHERI to be widely adopted? | Christopher Bennison | IoT Security Foundation |
| 15:45 | Posters | High performance CHERI tag controller | Alexandre Joannou | University of Cambridge |
| CheriBSD on RISC-V VP++: A fast virtual prototype for latest RVY 0.9.9 | Andreas Hinterdorfer | Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Institute for Complex Systems (ICS) |
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| 15:50 | Break + exhibition | BREAK 2 | ||
| 16:00 to 16:45 | Standards | Mapping the ETSI Memory-Safety Technical Standard to CHERI | Graeme Jenkinson | Capabilities Limited |
| CHERI Specification and Standardisation Update for RV64Y, RV32Y and CHERIoT | Tariq Kurd | Codasip | ||
| A Standard for CHERI Capability Transport over AXI and CHI | Ben Fletcher | CHERI Alliance / Codasip | ||
| 16:45 to 17:30 | Hardware | CVA6-CHERI - Ratified Specification Implemented and Vector Support Planned | Jonathan Woodruff | Capabilities Limited |
| CHERI in OpenTitan: application of memory safety best practice in an open hardware root of trust | Javier Orensanz Martinez | lowRISC | ||
| Building Memory Safety into a DMA Engine with CHERI | Ben Fletcher | CHERI Alliance / Codasip | ||
| 17:30 | Reception + exhibition | RECEPTION DRINKS | ||
| 18:30 | Day End | DAY END |
| Time | Section | Talk Title | Presenter | Organisation(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Intro | Intro day 2 | – | |
| 10:05 to 11:15 | Compartmentalisation | CHERI-Zephyr and Compartmentalisation of Userspace Threads | Jennifer Jackson | University of Birmingham |
| Compartmentalizing a CANopen stack with CHERIoT | Hugo Melder | Technical University of Munich | ||
| Efficient Linkage-Based Compartmentalization on CHERI | Dapeng Gao | University of Cambridge | ||
| LittleCHERI: Ultra-Fine-Grain Compartmentalization using Secure Stack-Sharing on CHERI Capability Machines | Elias Storme | DistriNet, KU Leuven | ||
| 11:15 | Break + exhibition | BREAK 3 | ||
| 11:30 to 13:25 | Software & research | SignetOS: Designing a Secure and Fast Single-Address-Space Microkernel to Support Modern Workloads | John Kressel | |
| ftrace on CHERI Linux - porting a fairly complex kernel subsystem | Martin Kaiser | Codasip | ||
| Title withheld (paper under submission) | Nils Jordan | Ericsson | ||
| Using existing CHERI semantics for CHERI-native temporal safety | Yuecheng Wang | University of Cambridge | ||
| Valid, In-Bounds, and Wrong: Analysis of Fault Injection Attacks Against CHERI Capabilities | Jan Philipp Thoma | Codasip | ||
| Intra-allocation bounds enforcement in CheriBSD | Alfredo Mazzinghi | University of Cambridge | ||
| Writing applications for CHERIoT in Rust | Edoardo Marangoni | SCI Semiconductor | ||
| 13:25 | Conclusion | Conclusion day 2 | – | |
| 13:30 | Talks end + exhibition | TALKS END |
NextSEMI Arena | Hall B0
Messe München
81823 München
Germany
Details on getting to the venue and hotel reservation assistance can be found on the SEMICON Europa website.
Watch the event overview from CHERITech’25: