14th Privacy Enhancing Techniques Convention: PET-CON 2025.2
September 04-05, 2025, University of Salzburg (Salzburg, Austria)
We invite you to attend PET-CON 2025.2 – the 14th convention on Privacy-Enhancing Techniques, taking place in Austria for the first time. PET-CON brings together students (B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD), junior researchers, privacy activists, and other interested people to discuss work in progress. PET-CON is organized by the PET special interest group of the German Informatics Society (GI). Previous PET-CONs took place at University of Hamburg, University of Regensburg, TU Darmstadt, RWTH Aachen, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Göttingen, TU Berlin, and TU Dresden.
PET-CON is an explicitly informal gathering that welcomes various forms of contributions. The main workshop features short contributed talks (10-15 minutes) followed by extensive feedback and discussions (up to 45 minutes). For instance, students can present planned, ongoing, and recently finished theses and projects to receive feedback. We also accept presentations of papers that have already been published elsewhere. Alternatively, you can also attend the convention without giving a talk at all and simply participate in the discussions.
In the past, there have been presentations on abuse detection and protection of PETs, anonymous routing, application layer privacy, big data and data protection, economics of PETs, end-user education and training for PETs, HCI issues and usability of PETs, intrusion detection while respecting privacy, location privacy, metrics for quality of protection by the PETs, performance measurement/benchmarking and optimization, privacy engineering, privacy for mobile networks and smartphone applications, privacy in IoT environments, related legal issues (data protection), transparency-enhancing technologies, etc.
Workshop: September 04-05, 2025
The workshop begins on Thursday, September 04 at 1:30 pm and concludes on Friday, September 05 at 2:00 pm. Lunch is scheduled on both days at 12:00 pm, and there will be a group dinner on Thursday evening. Please note that all meals are self-paid.
Lunch will be arranged locally (e.g., at a canteen) and will offer vegan, vegetarian, and non-vegetarian options. Further details, including the restaurant for dinner, will be shared closer to the event.
You can find the registration in the upper right corner of the page. Registration is open.
Participation is granted on a first come first served basis. There is no participation fee. Further information regarding the program and logistics will also be provided soon.
University of Salzburg
Unipark Nonntal
Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1
AT-5020 Salzburg
The event is organized by the Privacy Engineering and Policy-Aligned Systems (PEPSys) group at the University of Salzbug, in particular:
Salzburg can be reached by train, Flixbus, or flight. As for trains, Salzburg main station is a "border station", meaning that it is included in the German Deutschlandticket as well as the BahnCard 100 – no further tickets required.
Participants are responsible for selecting and booking ho(s)tels depending on their needs and priorities. However, we provide some suggestions below:
The workshop begins on Thursday, September 04 at 1:30 pm and concludes on Friday, September 05 at 2:00 pm. Lunch is scheduled on both days at 12:00 pm, and there will be a group dinner on Thursday evening. Please note that all meals are self-paid.
Lunch will be arranged locally (e.g., at a canteen) and will offer vegan, vegetarian, and non-vegetarian options. Further details, including the restaurant for dinner will be shared closer to the event.
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