300+ attendees · 32 talks · 12 exhibitors
Researchers, technology companies, developers, policymakers and the wider CHERI community came together in Cambridge for three days of talks, demonstrations, technical discussion, hands-on learning and networking.
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Three days of CHERI in Cambridge
CHERI Blossoms 2026 brought together the growing CHERI ecosystem to share progress, exchange ideas and explore how CHERI is moving from research towards real-world adoption.
The programme spanned the strategic case for CHERI, industry adoption, regulation and standardisation, through to hardware, software, operating systems, verification, performance and the latest research. Speakers came from organisations including NCSC, ARIA, Google, the European Commission, DSIT, UKRI, BT, RISC-V International, Codasip, lowRISC and the University of Cambridge.
Alongside the talks, attendees could meet across the exhibition and networking spaces, explore CHERI work from across the ecosystem, and celebrate 15 years of the CHERI project. For those unable to attend in person, the event was livestreamed on Zoom.
Watch the highlights
Watch the CHERI Blossoms 2026 Event Showcase
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From strategy to silicon
CHERI Blossoms brought the different parts of the CHERI ecosystem together, from organisations exploring why and how to adopt CHERI to the researchers and engineers building the technology.
Day 1: CHERI adoption and the emerging ecosystem
The first conference day looked at the bigger picture: the strategic value of CHERI, memory safety at scale, the Cyber Resilience Act, government initiatives, commercial adoption, and progress towards ETSI and RISC-V standardisation.
Speakers included representatives from NCSC, ARIA, Google, the European Commission, DSIT, UKRI, BT, PA Consulting, RISC-V International and the CHERI Alliance, alongside organisations developing and researching CHERI technology.
The day concluded with networking, a light dinner and a celebration of CHERI's 15th birthday.
Day 2: Building with CHERI
The second day went deeper into the technology, with sessions covering CHERI-enabled hardware, temporal safety, formal verification, performance, operating systems, Rust, compartmentalisation and ongoing CHERI research.
Talks demonstrated the breadth of work now taking place across CHERI, from processor and SoC design through to system software and applications.
Hands-on with CHERI and CHERIoT
The conference was preceded by a full-day practical tutorial organised by the CHERI Research Centre, Codasip, and lowRISC.
Designed for students, researchers and developers, the tutorial introduced CHERI and CHERIoT, memory safety and compartmentalisation, before giving participants practical exposure to CheriBSD/Morello, CHERI-RISC-V and CHERI Linux, and CHERIoT RTOS through presentations, examples and guided exercises.
Recordings & Slides
CHERI Blossoms 2026 Conference - Event Showcase
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Venue
CHERI Blossoms 2026 was held in Cambridge UK, at the Department of Computer Science and Technology in the William Gates Building, on the University of Cambridge’s West Cambridge site, located off Madingley Road.
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William Gates Building
15 JJ Thomson Ave
Cambridge CB3 0FD
