Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London,
8th-9th October 2025.
This workshop brings together leading UK and US industry, government and academic experts in semiconductor security to explore the challenges and opportunities in this sector. Alongside talks on emerging research and industry challenges, we will also be hosting round table discussions to deep dive further into the following themes and discuss how we can move forward with recommendations. The themes are:
Theme 1: Secure-by-Design Hardware Foundations
Theme 2: AI-Enabled Security Design & Verification
Theme 3: Supply Chain Integrity and Hardware Vulnerability Intelligence
Theme 4: Open-Source Security IP and Ecosystem Cohesion
Workshop Chairs
  Prof. Máire O’Neill, FREng Regius Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Director, Research Institute in Secure Hardware & Embedded Systems (RISE), Queens University Belfast, UK |   Prof. Mark M. Tehranipoor Intel Charles E. Young Pre-eminences Endowed Chair Professor in Cybersecurity, Chair, Department of ECE, University of Florida, US |
Speakers
University of Cambridge
| Day 1 Agenda – 8th October 2025 | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Registration – Tea / Coffee / Refreshments |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Opening Remarks / Welcome Maire O’Neill & Mark Tehranipoor |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | DSIT: Update on Implementation of UK Semiconductor Strategy |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | US Government Talk – TBC |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Sid Allman (Marvell Technologies) |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Peter Davies (Thales e-Security) |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Break & Networking |
| 11:45 – 13:00 | Emerging Research Session 10 min talks + 3 min changeovers: • Farimah Farahmandi – University of Florida • David Oswald – University of Birmingham • Ujjwal Guin – Auburn University • Ahmad Atamli – University of Southampton • Waleed Khalil – Ohio State University • John Goodenough – University of Sheffield |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch & Networking |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Chirag Shroff (CISCO) |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Carl Shaw (Codasip) |
| 14:40 – 15:00 | Patrick Ekdahl (Ericsson) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Break & Networking |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Breakout Discussion: Theme 1: Secure-by-Design Hardware Foundations Theme 2: AI-Enabled Security Design & Verification |
| 16:30 – 16:55 | Breakout Discussion Feedback – Report back on high-level ideas from discussions |
| 16:55 – 17:00 | Closing Remarks |
| 19:00 | Dinner: The Royal Horseguards Hotel, 2 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EJ |
| Day 2 Agenda – 9th October 2025 | |
|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration – Tea / Coffee / Refreshments |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Day 2 Welcome – Maire O’Neill & Mark Tehranipoor |
| 09:40 – 10:00 | NCSC Speaker |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Alieeldin Mady (Qualcomm) |
| 10:20 – 10:35 | Prof John Goodacre, Director Security and Resilience, UKRI |
| 10:35 – 11:20 | Panel Discussion – Skills and Training Industry, academia and government perspectives on building a semiconductor security workforce |
| 11:20 – 11:50 | Break & Networking |
| 11:50 – 13:10 | Emerging Research Session 10 min talks + 3 min changeovers: • Ihsen Alouani- Queen’s University Belfast • Aydin Aysu – North Carolina State University • Amro Awad – University of Oxford • Ankur Srivastava – University of Maryland • Simon Moore – University of Cambridge |
| 13:10 – 14:10 | Lunch & Networking |
| 14:10 – 15:10 | Breakout Discussion: Theme 1: Supply Chain Integrity and Hardware Vulnerability Intelligence Theme 2: Open-Source Security IP and Ecosystem Cohesion |
| 15:10 – 15:25 | Breakout Discussion Feedback — Report back on high-level ideas from discussions |
| 15:25 – 15:30 | Closing Remarks |
This symposium is supported by the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).