Speaking

For speaking invitations, please write to hello@aisconnolly.com.

Topics I Speak On

Who Are You Onchain (panel) · Ethereum Zurich, University of Zurich · 10 to 12 April 2026 · Schedule
Trust Me, It's Private (panel with Maxwell of NEAR, Koh Harada of Aleo, Zac Williamson of Aztec) · EthCC [9], Hepburn Stage, Cannes · 30 March 2026, 14:40 to 15:05 · Agenda (not recorded)

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

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

vetKeys: Enabling Privacy-Preserving Applications on the Internet Computer · Devconnect Istanbul, Internet Computer Threshold Crypto Day · November 2023 · Video
vetKeys: How to Keep Many Secrets on a Blockchain · ETHMilan · 5 to 6 October 2023 · Video

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

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

Exponential (Nexus Podcast): Episode 18, Public Privacy · 11 December 2025 · Listen
Zero Knowledge Podcast: Episode 341, coSNARKs with Ais and Lukas from TACEO · 25 September 2024 · Listen
Irish Tech News: The DFINITY Foundation Proof of Green Initiative, Dr. Aisling Connolly · 2 May 2023 · Read
Silicon Republic: "I should not be dismissed as some cutesy thing that likes to play with numbers" · 20 February 2019 · Read
France 24: Debate on social media, search engines, Trump and free speech · 29 August 2018 · Watch
France 24, Tech 24: Data Mining Facebook · 13 April 2018 · Watch
France 24: Breaking news commentary on Strava metadata · 29 January 2018 · Watch