Cultivating a Safer Digital Future - from Tech to Business
CHERI Blossoms 2025 brought together researchers, technologists, industry leaders and decision-makers to explore CHERI from technology to real-world adoption.
For the first time, CHERI Blossoms incorporated the CHERI Tech Conference, bringing technical developments and the broader adoption conversation together in a single event.
Watch CHERI Blossoms 2025 highlights
From technology to adoption
The programme explored CHERI across the technology stack, while also looking at the wider challenge of bringing secure-by-design technologies into mainstream use.
CHERI Blossoms was designed not only for presentations, but also to help the emerging ecosystem meet and collaborate. The programme included an exhibition throughout the day and concluded with a networking reception.
The conference also gave CHERI Alliance working groups an opportunity to share their activities, with updates covering QEMU, CHERI in SoC, repository management, promotion and ambassadors, seL4 and marketing.
This combination of research, implementation, adoption and community would become an important part of the CHERI Blossoms format.
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Demonstrations
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| Demo | Organisation | Video |
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| Memory Safe Pure Capability Kernel CheriBSD Demonstration | University of Cambridge | ▶️ |
| Capability Layer CheriBSD Demonstration | University of Cambridge | ▶️ |
| LowRISC Sonata Board Demonstration | lowRISC | ▶️ |
| CHERI Adaptation of the seL4 Kernel Demonstration | Capabilities Limited | ▶️ |
Venue
Fisher Building, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK
Address:
St. John’s College, St. Johns Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TP
Programme
CHERI Blossoms 2025
Keynote
Programme organisation credit: University of Cambridge
Findings from DSbD program
Programme organisation credit: UKRI
Building Resilience: Enhancing productivity through Secure by Design systems
Programme organisation credit: DSIT
About CHERI
Programme organisation credit: University of Cambridge
Progress of the Alliance
Progress of the Alliance, CHERI Alliance - Promotion & Ambassador Working Group
Programme organisation credit: CHERI Alliance
Project Sunburst: An Open-Source CHERIoT SoC Top-Level and its Path to Market with Iceni
Programme organisation credit: lowRISCCapabilities Limited
CHERI RISC-V Standardisation
Programme organisation credit: Codasip
CHERI support for CVA6
Programme organisation credit: Capabilities Limited
CHERIoT 2025
Programme organisation credit: SCI Semiconductor
Efficient system-level support for CHERI Capabilities
Programme organisation credit: Codasip
Industrial-Strength Formal Verification of RISC-V Processors
Programme organisation credit: Axiomise
Implementation of CHERI Capabilities in a Safety-Critical Real-Time Operating System for Intelligent Edge Systems
Programme organisation credit: Wind River
Porting Linux to CHERI
Programme organisation credit: ArmCodasip
Hybrid CHERI in seL4 user space
Programme organisation credit: Mission Critical Applications Limited
Porting V8 to CHERI: An Overview
Programme organisation credit: Capabilities Limited, University of Cambridge
Latest news about CHERI
Programme organisation credit: CHERI Alliance
Securing Secure Networking tools for Morello Linux
Programme organisation credit: University of Manchester
Rust for Morello: Always-On Memory Safety, Even in Unsafe Code
Programme organisation credit: Kent University
Implementing safe and resilient configuration management with CHERIoT
Programme organisation credit: Configured Things
CHERI MicroPython: Challenges and Opportunities
Programme organisation credit: University of Glasgow
QEMU Working Group presentation
CHERI Alliance - QEMU Working Group
Programme organisation credit: Capabilities Limited
SoC Working Group presentation
Repository Working Group presentation
CHERI Alliance - Repository Working Group
Programme organisation credit: lowRISC
Promotion & Ambassador Working Group
CHERI Alliance - Promotion & Ambassador Working Group
Programme organisation credit: CHERI Alliance
Marketing Working Group presentation
CHERI Alliance - Marketing Working Group
Programme organisation credit: Codasip
