New England Hardware Security (NEHWS) Day brings together many students, researchers, practitioners, and industry partners in the field of hardware security to share their work and foster new ideas.

Register here. For questions, please contact contact@nehws.org.

Join us for an enlightening journey into the world of hardware security, featuring industry-leading speakers, and unparalleled networking opportunities. Whether you’re a seasoned professional, a curious student, or somewhere in between, NEHWS is the key event to explore the latest in hardware security technologies, trends, and research.

Reception

Join us at the closing reception of NEHWS’26 for drinks, light foods, and short project updates from OPTIMIST and WHAAAM. These two community-driven efforts are highly relevant to NEHWS: OPTIMIST focuses on open tools, interfaces, and metrics for implementation security testing, with emphasis on interoperability, trace formats, common APIs, AI for implementation security testing, and post-quantum cryptography. WHAAAM complements this by advancing artifact-driven, reproducible work on hardware attack artifacts, analysis, and metrics, with a strong focus on practical attacker capabilities, countermeasures, and real-world relevance. Together, they reflect NEHWS’s mission of bringing the hardware security community together to share ideas, artifacts, and new directions.

Call for Contributions

The submission period has closed. You can view the program here.

Call for Sponsors

Sponsors of NEHWS will gain visibility for their companies and associate themselves with an active regional community that contributes to training the next-generation workforce in hardware security.

• Questions? Contact the NEHWS organizers at contact@nehws.org

NEHWS is driven by the hardware security research community at these universities