Overview
CHERI Blossoms is the CHERI community’s annual gathering, connecting researchers, engineers, product teams, policymakers, educators and adopters to share progress, exchange ideas and help shape the future of secure computing.
Organised by the CHERI Alliance in the birthplace of CHERI, the conference spans research, implementation, standards, policy and real-world adoption, with talks, tutorials, demonstrations and discussions across the ecosystem.
CHERI Blossoms is free to attend, helping keep the conference open to organisations and individuals from across industry, academia and government, whether they are already working with CHERI or discovering it for the first time.
And it is designed to be participative. Talks create opportunities for questions and discussion, while dedicated networking sessions give participants time to exchange ideas, make new connections and explore potential collaborations and business opportunities that can help accelerate CHERI adoption.
What to expect
Understand the bigger picture
Discover why memory safety has become a major security priority, how CHERI can help address memory-safety vulnerabilities, and how adoption is progressing across industry, government and academia.
Go deeper into the technology
Hear directly from researchers and engineers working across hardware, software, verification, compartmentalisation, performance and real-world implementations, with opportunities to ask questions and engage directly with speakers.
Get hands-on
Explore CHERI-enabled systems through tutorials and live demonstrations, and use the slides, recordings and practical resources to continue learning after the event.
Join the conversation
CHERI Blossoms isn't just about listening to presentations. Questions, discussions and exchange between participants are an important part of the conference, helping people share experience, challenge ideas and learn from others across the ecosystem.
Make connections
Dedicated networking sessions bring together the people building, deploying, researching, standardising and adopting CHERI. They provide time to build relationships, identify opportunities for collaboration, and create business connections that can help move CHERI towards wider adoption.
Whether you're evaluating CHERI, contributing to the technology or looking for opportunities within the emerging ecosystem, Blossoms is designed to help you meet the people you need to know.
Dates, venue information, registration updates, and programme details are kept on each event page.
Explore previous CHERI Blossoms conferences and tutorials, including programmes, speakers, presentations and recordings, and see how the CHERI ecosystem has developed over the years.