Event archive

CHERI Blossoms 2025

“Cultivating a safer digital future—from tech to business” brought CHERI research, open systems, public policy and adoption into one programme.

Date
2 April 2025
Location
St John’s College, Cambridge
Format
Conference with talks, slides and video

Conference at a glance

The point where CHERITech and Blossoms came together.

The 2025 event combined the technical CHERITech tradition with a wider audience of business strategists, product leaders and policymakers. That mixed programme makes the archive useful for seeing how technical work was translated into adoption language at the end of the Digital Security by Design programme.

Selected sessions

Programme themes

Use the official page for the complete presentation table, speakers, slides and recordings.

Keynote

CHERI and the future of secure computing

Alastair Beresford · University of Cambridge

Formal verification

Industrial-strength formal verification of RISC-V processors

Ashish Darbari · Axiomise

Policy

Building resilience through secure-by-design systems

Bradley Finn · DSIT

Operating systems

Porting Linux to CHERI

Carl Shaw · Codasip

Embedded

CHERIoT 2025

David Chisnall · SCI Semiconductor

Runtime

Porting V8 to CHERI

Domagoj Stolfa · Capabilities Limited / University of Cambridge

Open SoC

Project Sunburst and its path to market

Gavin Ferris and Haydn Povey · lowRISC / SCI Semiconductor

Virtual machines

CHERI MicroPython: challenges and opportunities

Jeremy Singer · University of Glasgow

Programme evidence

Findings from Digital Security by Design

John Goodacre · UKRI

Continue

Read the programme in its 2025 context.

Several projects and platform claims have evolved since the event. Use current pages for status and the archive for the evidence and expectations presented at the time.

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