Please find below our detailed programme. In addition you can download it here.
Tuesday, 28 October 2014 – Pre-Conference Programme
The pre-conference programme consists of three activities in parallel. Scytl workshop in the afternoon is open to everybody, while the daylong CoE review meeting is upon invitation only, and the PhD colloquium, which is all day long as well, requires a separate registration.
08.30
Registration opens for CoE review meeting and PhD colloquium
09.30 – 17.30
5th Review Meeting on the Council of Europe Council of Ministers’ Recommendation Rec(2004)11 on legal, operation and technical standards for e-voting by invitation only
09.30 – 17.30
EVOTE2014 PhD Colloquium separate registration required
10.45 – 11.00
Coffee Break for CoE review meeting and PhD colloquium
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch
15.45 – 16.00
Coffee Break for CoE review meeting and PhD colloquium
15.45
Registration opens for Scytl Workshop
16.30 – 18.30
Scytl Invited Workshop on ‘The 10 pillars of end-to-end online voting verifiability’ open for all participants
17.00
Registration opens for the conference
18.00 – 21.00
Welcome Cocktail Buffet and drinks
Wednesday, 29 October 2014 – Conference Programme
08.00
Registration opens
09.00 – 10.20
Session 1: Opening
Session Chair: Robert Krimmer
09.00
Welcome Notes
Robert Krimmer (Tallinn University of Technology)
Melanie Volkamer (TU Darmstadt)
Jordi Puiggali (Scytl)
09.20
Keynote: Electoral Technology: Observations across Latin America
Yulimar Quintero Trumbo
10.20 – 10.40
Coffee Break
10.40 – 12.30
Session 2: Experiences with Internet Voting
Session Chair: Gregor Wenda
10.40
The Patchwork of Internet Voting in Canada
Nicole Goodman and Jon Pammett
11.20
iVote.lt – Practical Attempt to Overcome Internet Voting – Related Fears
Jonas Udris
11.50
Verifiable Internet Voting in Estonia
Sven Heiberg and Jan Willemson
12.30 – 14.00
Lunch
14.00 – 15.50
Session 3: Experiences with Voting Machines
Session Chair: Jurlind Budurushi
14.00
From Piloting to Roll-out: Voting Experience and Trust in the First Full e-election in Argentina
Julia Pomares, Ines Levin, R. Michael Alvarez, Guillermo Lopez Mirau and Teresa Ovejero
14.40
E-voting in the Netherlands; Past, Current, Future?
Leontine Loeber
15.10
Implementation Project Electronic Voting Azuay – Ecuador 2014
Juan Pozo
15.50 – 16.10
Coffee Break
16.10 – 17.40
Session 4: Practicality of Technical Solutions
Session Chair: David Bismark
16.10
Practical Provably Correct Voter Privacy Protecting End to End Voting Employing Multiparty Computations and Split Value Representations of Votes
Michael Rabin and Ronald Rivest – delivered by Douglas Wikström
16.50
Pretty Understandable Democracy 2.0
Stephan Neumann, Christian Feier, Perihan Sahin and Sebastian Fach
17.20
Discussion – The Role of Open Source Technology in Elections
Peter Wolf
17.40
Closing of the Day
17.45
Programme Committee Meeting by invitation only
19.15
Reception in Bregenz
Thursday, 30 October 2014 – Conference Programme
09.00 – 10.40
Session 5: Trust in Electronic Voting
Session Chair: Melanie Volkamer
09.00
Invited Talk: Trust and Verifiability in Australian E-voting
Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne)
10.00
Trust in Internet Election: Observing the Norwegian Decryption and Counting Ceremony
Randi Markussen, Lorena Ronquillo and Carsten Schürmann
10.40 – 11.00
Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.20
Session 6: Auditing and Verifiability
Session Chair: Carsten Schürmann
11.00
Proving the Monotonicity Criterion for a Plurality Vote-counting Program as a Step Towards Verified Vote-counting
Rajeev Gore and Thomas Meumann
11.40
Efficiently Auditing Multi-Level Elections
Joshua A. Kroll, J. Alex Haldermann, and Edward W. Felten
12.20
Discussion – The Role of Certification in Electronic Voting
Kai Reinhard
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.00
Session 7: International Standards
Session Chair: Nadja Braun Binder
14.00
Ten Years of Rec(2004)11 – The Council of Europe and E-voting
Robert Stein and Gregor Wenda
14.30
Ten Years Council of Europe Rec(2004)11: Lessons Learned and Outlook
Ardita Driza Maurer
15.00 – 15.30
Coffee Break
15.30 – 17.30
Session 8: Panel Discussion & Best Paper Award Ceremony
Moderation: Nadja Braun Binder
15.30 Panel Discussion: International Standards on Electronic Voting: Are (Partially) Outdated Standards Better than Nothing? A Review of Experiences and Challenges with the Council of Europe Recommendation for Electronic Voting Rec(2004)11
17.00
Best Paper Award Ceremony & Closing of the Day
followed by reception
18.00
Conference Dinner Cheese Road
Friday, 31 October 2014 – Conference Programme
9.00 – 10.00
Session 9: Internet Voting in Switzerland
Session Chairs: Robert Krimmer and Melanie Volkamer
09.00
Invited Talk: Internet Voting in Switzerland – Where We Stand Today
Geo Taglioni and Oliver Spycher
10.00 – 10.10
Coffee Break
10.10 – 11.20
Session 10: Electronic Voting in Polling Stations
Session Chair: Steve Schneider
10.10
Implementation and Evaluation of the EasyVote Tallying Component and Ballot
Jurlind Budurushi, Karen Renaud, Melanie Volkamer and Marcel Woide
10.50
Pressing the Button for European Elections: Verifiable E-voting and
Public Attitudes Toward Internet Voting in Greece
Alex Delis, Konstantina Gavatha, Aggelos Kiayias, Charalampos Koutalakis, Elias Nikolakopoulos, Mema Roussopoulou, Georgios Sotirellis, Panos Stathopoulos, Lampros Paschos, Pavlos Vasilopoulos, Thomas Zacharias and Bingsheng Zhang
11.20 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00
Session 11: Mobile Voting & Closing
Session Chair: Aggelos Kiayias
11.30
Electronic Voting with Fully Distributed Trust and Maximized Flexibility Regarding Ballot Design
Oksana Kulyk, Stephan Neumann, Melanie Volkamer, Christian Feier and Thorben Köster
12.10
Scroll, Match & Vote: An E2E Coercion Resistant Mobile Voting System
Carlos Ribeiro, Rui Joaquim and Gonçalo Pereira
12.50
Closing
Robert Krimmer and Melanie Volkamer
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
