The OpenDP Community Meeting is on Friday, September 19th 2025!
OpenDP is joining forces with the Eyes-Off Data Summit the week of September 15th, 2025 where both events will be held at the Dublin Royal Convention Center in Dublin, Ireland!
Scroll down to look at the agenda – we plan to have more details, announcements, and social events information in the coming weeks.
REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
The OpenDP Community Meeting is an annual event where a wide variety of experts from industry, academia, non-profit, and government entities come together to discuss, brainstorm, and work on key topics in differential privacy. Understanding and addressing varying perspectives and challenges when it comes to opening up sensitive data for research, analysis, and decision making is instrumental for this collaborative open-source project.
Agenda
All OpenDP Community Meeting sessions and events will be in the Dublin Royal Convention Center in the Higgins Suite on the Upper Ground Floor.
Friday, September 19th, 2025
| Time (GMT+1 / EST + 5) | Session | Speaker(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:30AM-10:00AM | Registration Pick Up + Breakfast | ||
| 10:00AM-10:15AM | Welcome + OpenDP Overview/Vision | Salil Vadhan (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 10:15AM-10:45AM | OpenDP in Action: Differential Privacy for UNHCR | Federico Sanson (UNHCR) Nitin Kohli (University of California, Berkeley) | Video |
| 10:45AM-11:15AM | Community Pitch Anything 1 | Mateus Guzzo (TikTok) Tudor Cebere (INRIA) Damien Desfontaines (Hiding Nemo) Claire McKay Bowen (Urban Institute) Hosted by Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video Slides |
| 11:15AM-11:25AM | Break | ||
| 11:25AM-12:00PM | OpenDP Technical Updates | Michael Shoemate (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 12:00PM-12:15PM | OpenDP Community Strategy | Sharon Ayalde (Harvard University / OpenDP) Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 12:15PM-12:30PM | Building Better Privacy Together: a Community Registry for DP Deployments | James Honaker (Mozilla / OpenDP) Gary Howarth (NIST) | Video |
| 12:30PM-1:45PM | Lunch | ||
| 1:45PM-2:45PM | Parallel Session 1: Practical Use Cases with Setting Epsilon | Rachel Cummings (Columbia University) James Honaker (Mozilla / OpenDP) | Video |
| 1:45PM-2:45PM | Parallel Session 2: Intro to DP via OpenDP | Michael Shoemate (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 2:45PM-3:00PM | Break | ||
| 3:00PM-3:15PM | Parallel Session Report Backs | Rachel Cummings (Columbia University) / James Honaker (Mozilla / OpenDP) Michael Shoemate (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 3:15PM-4:15PM | Synthetic Data Panel: Challenges and Future Directions | Paul Tiwald (MostlyAI) Ryan McKenna (Google) Shlomi Hod (German Federal Institute for Employment Research) Moderated by: Christine Task (Knexus Research) | Video |
| 4:15PM-4:45PM | Community Pitch Anything 2 | Alejandro Russo (Chalmers University / DPella) Georgi Ganev (SAS) Tina Tsou (TIkTok) Sai Aparna Aketi (Meta) Hosted by Nina Wattenberg (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video Slides |
| 4:45PM-5:00PM | Closing Remarks | Salil Vadhan (Harvard University / OpenDP) | Video |
| 5:00PM-7:00PM | Cocktail Closing Reception |
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