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8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT
2. US Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font &  Donald Hunter, Red Hat
3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert
4. Confidential AI in Practice and at Scale: From Multi-GPU Execution to Browser-Based Attestation - Felix Schuster, Edgeless Systems
5. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala
6. Like It or Not, AI Is Deciding: Securing Infrastructure for Autonomous Intent - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com
7. Audit, Enforce, Repeat! Seamless Confidentiality with CoCo and Kyverno - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Chris Butler, Red Hat
8. Beyond Identity: Attestation as the New TLS Trust Model - Jens Albers, Fr0ntierX
Speakers
avatar for Jens Albers

Jens Albers

CTO, Fr0ntierX
Jens Albers is CTO and Co-Founder of Fr0ntierX, where he leads development of the Polaris confidential computing platform. He serves on the Governing Board of the Confidential Computing Consortium and is a member of MITRE's working group on continuous remote attestation. His work... Read More →
avatar for Jim Bugwadia

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Chief Architect, Red Ht
Dr. Chris Butler is a Chief Architect in the APAC Field CTO Office at Red Hat. Chris’ focus is working with regulated clients who are building infrastructure, application and AI platforms. Chris facilitates co-innovation engagements with our clients and partners with our product... Read More →
avatar for Ivan Font

Ivan Font

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ivan Font is a Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat's CTO Office, specializing in Emerging Technologies, with a main focus on AI security. He leads the development of Private Model as a Service (PMaaS) for generative AI and contributes to the CNCF ecosystem, driving technical integration... Read More →
avatar for Lakshmi Hanspal

Lakshmi Hanspal

Chief Trust Officer, DigiCert
Lakshmi Hanspal is DigiCert’s Chief Trust Officer, leading efforts to embed trust across technology, operations, and customer experience as digital and AI ecosystems evolve. She brings 30+ years of security experience, including leadership roles at Amazon, Box, SAP Ariba, Bank of... Read More →
avatar for Ryota Hashimoto

Ryota Hashimoto

Senior Manager, NTT
Ryota Hashimoto is a Senior Manager at NTT Software Innovation Center, where he leads the research and development of a multi-party confidential computing software product. His work focuses on multi-party trust, provable safety controls, and data sovereignty for confidential AI and... Read More →
avatar for Donald Hunter

Donald Hunter

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Donald is a software engineer in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat where he focuses on Linux and Openshift networking. Donald is a veteran in the network industry with over 20 years at Cisco before joining Red Hat. Donald’s recent focus has been on Zero Trust for Openshift, Netlink... Read More →
avatar for Felix Schuster

Felix Schuster

CEO, Edgeless Systems
Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing. _x000D_
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He founded Edgeless Systems in 2019. The company’s mission is to make confidential computing accessible to everyone, at scale and across clouds and infrastructures... Read More →
avatar for Shweta Vohra

Shweta Vohra

Lead Architect, booking.com
Shweta Vohra is an Architect, Author, and Inventor with over 20 years of experience designing platforms across industries. She specialises in enterprise architecture, cloud, and AI systems, and has led global teams. She focuses on bringing clarity to complex technology. She is the... Read More →
avatar for Hang Yin

Hang Yin

Cofounder & CTO, Phala Cloud
Hang Yin is CTO & Co-founder of Phala Cloud, with 7 years of experience in confidential computing. An ex-Googler in machine learning, he is also the creator of dstack, an open source project under the Linux Foundation. He focuses on building practical confidential computing infrastructure... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
1. HaitiAidShield: Scaling Humanitarian Transparency with Confidential Computing - Vladimir Vilne, Trusted Haitian Cyber
2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute
3. Privacy-Preserving Spatial AI: From Theory to Production - Abtin Aghagolian, Pikd
4. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google
5. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical
6. Stop Trusting Your Kernel: Split It - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies
7. Minimize, Harden, Extend: Rethinking OS Design for Confidential Agents - Kailun Qin, Intel Corporation; Mona Vij, Intel Labs; and Don Porter, UNC Chapel Hill & AWS
8. Building the Trusted Agent Ecosystem - Ivan Petrov & Patrick McGrath, Google DeepMind
9. Privacy-preserving Medical AI Evaluation - Alexandros Karargyris, MLCommons
10. Standardization of Attested TLS Protocols for Confidential Computing - Muhammad Usama Sardar, TU Dresden and GA4GH
11. Trusted Execution, Broken Assumptions: Real-World Failures in TEE Attestation Systems - Rahul Saxena, Bluethroat Labs
Speakers
avatar for Abtin Aghagolian

Abtin Aghagolian

Co-Founder & CTO, Pikd
Abtin Aghagolian is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pikd, a London-based geospatial AR platform with 10,000+ users and partnerships with Red Bull, Burger King, and the London Design Biennale. He holds a UK patent-pending invention for privacy-preserving AR using zero-knowledge proofs and... Read More →
avatar for Hina Dixit

Hina Dixit

CEO & Founder, Decompute
Hina Dixit is the Founder & CEO of Decompute, a company pioneering AI for decentralized, high-performance infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience at the forefront of venture capital, software engineering and AI innovation, Hina is a recognized leader driving the future of... Read More →
avatar for Hugo Huang

Hugo Huang

Public Cloud Alliance Director, Canonical
Hugo is an expert in Cloud Computing and Business Models, leading joint innovation between Canonical and Google. He has 20 years’ experience in Digital Transformation, including deep engagement in Open Source, Cloud Computing, 5G, AI, Cyber Security and Remote Working. He is also... Read More →
avatar for Alexandros Karargyris

Alexandros Karargyris

Chair for Medical working group at MLCommons, MLCommons
Alexandros Karargyris is the co-chair for the Medical working group at MLCommons, a group aiming to develop best practices for benchmarking medical AI on real-world data to improve clinical translation of AI. Previously, he worked as a researcher at IBM and NIH. His research interests... Read More →
avatar for Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath

Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
Patrick McGrath is a Software Engineer working on security and privacy at Google DeepMind. During his 5 year career at Google, he has worked on leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to enhance privacy narratives for Google Maps and Google DeepMind. He holds a bachelor's degree... Read More →
avatar for Ivan Petrov

Ivan Petrov

Senior Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
Ivan Petrov is a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind who is working on security and privacy for the agentic ecosystem. He also holds a PhD from Moscow State University, where he focused on intrusion detection systems and software-defined networking.
avatar for Don Porter

Don Porter

Professor, UNC Chapel Hill and AWS
Don Porter is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Amazon Scholar. Porter's research interests broadly involve developing more efficient and secure computer systems. He is a maintainer of the Gramine Library OS, which was recognized... Read More →
avatar for Kailun Qin

Kailun Qin

Staff Cloud Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Kailun Qin is a maintainer of Gramine LibOS (https://github.com/gramineproject), leading the development and innovation for its SGX and TDX backends at Intel Product Assurance and Security Group._x000D_
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Kailun has published research in ACM (CCS, Middleware) and IEEE (SRDS, CLOUD, TDSC) and given 10+ talks at conferences including KubeCon, Cloud Native SecurityCon, IstioCon and OpenInfra Summit. He has also contributed to RISC-V CoVE and OCI specifications to help shape the future... Read More →
avatar for Muhammad Usama Sandar

Muhammad Usama Sandar

Muhammad Usama Sardar, TU Dresden and GA4GH
Usama has been working at TU Dresden since October 2017. Since March 2025, he also serves as the co-chair of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Open Suite in The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). He leads several projects in the Confidential Computing Consortium... Read More →
avatar for Rahul Saxena

Rahul Saxena

Founder & Security Researcher, Bluethroat Labs
Rahul Saxena is a security researcher and founder of Bluethroat Labs, specializing in Trusted Execution Environment security and confidential computing. He previously worked on security at Matter Labs (zkSync), focusing on TEE-based execution systems. He is the author of the TEE Security... Read More →
avatar for Mona Vij

Mona Vij

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Labs
Mona Vij is a security technologist and independent advisor specializing in confidential computing and AI security. She spent nearly three decades at Intel Labs, where she was one of the architects of Intel SGX and TDX — Trusted Execution Environment technologies now deployed at... Read More →
avatar for Vladimir Vilne

Vladimir Vilne

Lead Architect / Cybersecurity Researcher, Trusted Haitian Cyber
Vladimir Vilne is a cybersecurity researcher and Lead Architect specializing in AI-augmented governance and decentralized systems. As a Handshake AI Fellow and founder of Trusted Haitian Cyber, he develops secure infrastructure for humanitarian resilience. His recent research on decentralized... Read More →
avatar for Cong Wang

Cong Wang

Founder and CEO, Multikernel Technologies
Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on Linux networking and eBPF, he is also a Linux kernel maintainer for the networking traffic control subsystem. He has contributed over 1000 patches to the Linux kernel project.
avatar for Yawang Wang

Yawang Wang

Software Engineer, Google
Yawang Wang is a Software Engineer at Google focusing in Confidential Computing._x000D_
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His work centers on enhancing Google's Confidential Space product, where he is responsible for integrating confidential computing technologies to achieve hardware root-of-trust attestation. He is an active contributor to the open-source Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) commun... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Research

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
1. How to Test a Confidential Agent Before Production - Sachin Gupta, eBay
2. Privacy for Proprietary Code in Confidential Compute Systems - Abdulla Alwabel & Shabsi Walfish, Google
3. Phala Cloud: TEE-Native Cloud & Private Inference Platform - Hang Yin, Phala
4. From Enclaves to Intents: Making Confidential Computing Usable - Cameron Dennis
5. 3 Degrees of CC - Dan Middleton
Speakers
avatar for Abdulla Alwabel

Abdulla Alwabel

Software Engineer, Google
Senior software engineer working at Google in confidential compute, privacy and transparency.
avatar for Cameron Dennis

Cameron Dennis

Director of AI, NEAR
Cameron Dennis is Director of AI at the NEAR Foundation, where he leads strategic partnerships, technical integrations, and go-to-market initiatives for NEAR's user-owned AI infrastructure. He has been part of the NEAR ecosystem since 2020, holding roles across business development... Read More →
avatar for Sachin Gupta

Sachin Gupta

Member Of Technical Staff - 2, eBay
I am a senior backend and platform engineer at eBay with over 15 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems. I work on large scale billing and financial platforms that demand high reliability, strong security, and precise data correctness. I spend most of my time... Read More →
avatar for Dan Middleton

Dan Middleton

Principal Software Architect, NVIDIA
Dan Middleton is a Principal Software Architect at NVIDIA, with deep experience driving innovation at the intersection of open source and emerging technologies. He has led the development and release of products spanning Computational Imaging, Blockchain, Confidential Computing, and... Read More →
avatar for Shabsi Walfish

Shabsi Walfish

Software Engineer, Google


avatar for Hang Yin

Hang Yin

Cofounder & CTO, Phala Cloud
Hang Yin is CTO & Co-founder of Phala Cloud, with 7 years of experience in confidential computing. An ex-Googler in machine learning, he is also the creator of dstack, an open source project under the Linux Foundation. He focuses on building practical confidential computing infrastructure... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome - Nelly Porter, Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Nelly Porter

Nelly Porter

Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:05am PDT

Keynote: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:10am PDT

Keynote: Welcome Address - Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, OPAQUE
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:10am - 9:20am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO
Aaron Fulkerson has built and scaled category-defining enterprise platforms around a simple principle: trust unlocks growth. As founder of MindTouch and later at ServiceNow—where he led the creation and growth of ServiceNow Impact and was part of the leadership team scaling Customer... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:10am - 9:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:20am PDT

Keynote: Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:20am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:20am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:40am PDT

Keynote: Google (Speaker to be Announced)
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am PDT

Keynote: Hugo Romero, Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Hugo Romero

Hugo Romero

Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
I am a technology executive with an entrepreneurial leadership style and a track record of building teams, scaling organizations, and bringing complex technologies to market. I have led global commercialization efforts, delivered high-quality products on demanding schedules, and helped... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:35am PDT

Keynote: Confidential Computing Consortium (Speaker to be Announced)
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:55am PDT

Keynote: Dr. Najwa Aaraj, CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Dr. Najwa Aaraj is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), the overarching advanced technology body in Abu Dhabi responsible for driving research and development... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Hugo Romero, AMD; Najwa Aaraj, TII; Mark Russinovich, Microsoft & Additional Speakers to be Announced
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon... Read More →
avatar for Hugo Romero

Hugo Romero

Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
I am a technology executive with an entrepreneurial leadership style and a track record of building teams, scaling organizations, and bringing complex technologies to market. I have led global commercialization efforts, delivered high-quality products on demanding schedules, and helped... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Dr. Najwa Aaraj is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), the overarching advanced technology body in Abu Dhabi responsible for driving research and development... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT
2. US Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font &  Donald Hunter, Red Hat
3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert
4. Confidential AI in Practice and at Scale: From Multi-GPU Execution to Browser-Based Attestation - Felix Schuster, Edgeless Systems
5. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala
6. Like It or Not, AI Is Deciding: Securing Infrastructure for Autonomous Intent - Shweta Vohra, Booking.com
7. Audit, Enforce, Repeat! Seamless Confidentiality with CoCo and Kyverno - Jim Bugwadia, Nirmata & Chris Butler, Red Hat
8. Beyond Identity: Attestation as the New TLS Trust Model - Jens Albers, Fr0ntierX
Speakers
avatar for Jens Albers

Jens Albers

CTO, Fr0ntierX
Jens Albers is CTO and Co-Founder of Fr0ntierX, where he leads development of the Polaris confidential computing platform. He serves on the Governing Board of the Confidential Computing Consortium and is a member of MITRE's working group on continuous remote attestation. His work... Read More →
avatar for Jim Bugwadia

Jim Bugwadia

Co-founder and CEO, Nirmata
Jim Bugwadia is a co-founder and the CEO of Nirmata, the Kubernetes policy and governance company. Jim is an active contributor in the cloud native community and currently serves as co-chair of the Kubernetes Policy and Multi-Tenancy Working Groups. Jim is also a co-creator and maintainer... Read More →
avatar for Chris Butler

Chris Butler

Chief Architect, Red Ht
Dr. Chris Butler is a Chief Architect in the APAC Field CTO Office at Red Hat. Chris’ focus is working with regulated clients who are building infrastructure, application and AI platforms. Chris facilitates co-innovation engagements with our clients and partners with our product... Read More →
avatar for Ivan Font

Ivan Font

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Ivan Font is a Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat's CTO Office, specializing in Emerging Technologies, with a main focus on AI security. He leads the development of Private Model as a Service (PMaaS) for generative AI and contributes to the CNCF ecosystem, driving technical integration... Read More →
avatar for Lakshmi Hanspal

Lakshmi Hanspal

Chief Trust Officer, DigiCert
Lakshmi Hanspal is DigiCert’s Chief Trust Officer, leading efforts to embed trust across technology, operations, and customer experience as digital and AI ecosystems evolve. She brings 30+ years of security experience, including leadership roles at Amazon, Box, SAP Ariba, Bank of... Read More →
avatar for Ryota Hashimoto

Ryota Hashimoto

Senior Manager, NTT
Ryota Hashimoto is a Senior Manager at NTT Software Innovation Center, where he leads the research and development of a multi-party confidential computing software product. His work focuses on multi-party trust, provable safety controls, and data sovereignty for confidential AI and... Read More →
avatar for Donald Hunter

Donald Hunter

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Donald is a software engineer in the Office of the CTO at Red Hat where he focuses on Linux and Openshift networking. Donald is a veteran in the network industry with over 20 years at Cisco before joining Red Hat. Donald’s recent focus has been on Zero Trust for Openshift, Netlink... Read More →
avatar for Felix Schuster

Felix Schuster

CEO, Edgeless Systems
Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing. _x000D_
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He founded Edgeless Systems in 2019. The company’s mission is to make confidential computing accessible to everyone, at scale and across clouds and infrastructures... Read More →
avatar for Shweta Vohra

Shweta Vohra

Lead Architect, booking.com
Shweta Vohra is an Architect, Author, and Inventor with over 20 years of experience designing platforms across industries. She specialises in enterprise architecture, cloud, and AI systems, and has led global teams. She focuses on bringing clarity to complex technology. She is the... Read More →
avatar for Hang Yin

Hang Yin

Cofounder & CTO, Phala Cloud
Hang Yin is CTO & Co-founder of Phala Cloud, with 7 years of experience in confidential computing. An ex-Googler in machine learning, he is also the creator of dstack, an open source project under the Linux Foundation. He focuses on building practical confidential computing infrastructure... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
1. HaitiAidShield: Scaling Humanitarian Transparency with Confidential Computing - Vladimir Vilne, Trusted Haitian Cyber
2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute
3. Privacy-Preserving Spatial AI: From Theory to Production - Abtin Aghagolian, Pikd
4. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google
5. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical
6. Stop Trusting Your Kernel: Split It - Cong Wang, Multikernel Technologies
7. Minimize, Harden, Extend: Rethinking OS Design for Confidential Agents - Kailun Qin, Intel Corporation; Mona Vij, Intel Labs; and Don Porter, UNC Chapel Hill & AWS
8. Building the Trusted Agent Ecosystem - Ivan Petrov & Patrick McGrath, Google DeepMind
9. Privacy-preserving Medical AI Evaluation - Alexandros Karargyris, MLCommons
10. Standardization of Attested TLS Protocols for Confidential Computing - Muhammad Usama Sardar, TU Dresden and GA4GH
11. Trusted Execution, Broken Assumptions: Real-World Failures in TEE Attestation Systems - Rahul Saxena, Bluethroat Labs
Speakers
avatar for Cong Wang

Cong Wang

Founder and CEO, Multikernel Technologies
Cong Wang is a professional Linux kernel developer mainly focuses on Linux networking and eBPF, he is also a Linux kernel maintainer for the networking traffic control subsystem. He has contributed over 1000 patches to the Linux kernel project.
avatar for Don Porter

Don Porter

Professor, UNC Chapel Hill and AWS
Don Porter is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Amazon Scholar. Porter's research interests broadly involve developing more efficient and secure computer systems. He is a maintainer of the Gramine Library OS, which was recognized... Read More →
avatar for Kailun Qin

Kailun Qin

Staff Cloud Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Kailun Qin is a maintainer of Gramine LibOS (https://github.com/gramineproject), leading the development and innovation for its SGX and TDX backends at Intel Product Assurance and Security Group._x000D_
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Kailun has published research in ACM (CCS, Middleware) and IEEE (SRDS, CLOUD, TDSC) and given 10+ talks at conferences including KubeCon, Cloud Native SecurityCon, IstioCon and OpenInfra Summit. He has also contributed to RISC-V CoVE and OCI specifications to help shape the future... Read More →
avatar for Vladimir Vilne

Vladimir Vilne

Lead Architect / Cybersecurity Researcher, Trusted Haitian Cyber
Vladimir Vilne is a cybersecurity researcher and Lead Architect specializing in AI-augmented governance and decentralized systems. As a Handshake AI Fellow and founder of Trusted Haitian Cyber, he develops secure infrastructure for humanitarian resilience. His recent research on decentralized... Read More →
avatar for Hina Dixit

Hina Dixit

CEO & Founder, Decompute
Hina Dixit is the Founder & CEO of Decompute, a company pioneering AI for decentralized, high-performance infrastructure. With over 15 years of experience at the forefront of venture capital, software engineering and AI innovation, Hina is a recognized leader driving the future of... Read More →
avatar for Abtin Aghagolian

Abtin Aghagolian

Co-Founder & CTO, Pikd
Abtin Aghagolian is the Co-Founder and CTO of Pikd, a London-based geospatial AR platform with 10,000+ users and partnerships with Red Bull, Burger King, and the London Design Biennale. He holds a UK patent-pending invention for privacy-preserving AR using zero-knowledge proofs and... Read More →
avatar for Yawang Wang

Yawang Wang

Software Engineer, Google
Yawang Wang is a Software Engineer at Google focusing in Confidential Computing._x000D_
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His work centers on enhancing Google's Confidential Space product, where he is responsible for integrating confidential computing technologies to achieve hardware root-of-trust attestation. He is an active contributor to the open-source Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) commun... Read More →
avatar for Hugo Huang

Hugo Huang

Public Cloud Alliance Director, Canonical
Hugo is an expert in Cloud Computing and Business Models, leading joint innovation between Canonical and Google. He has 20 years’ experience in Digital Transformation, including deep engagement in Open Source, Cloud Computing, 5G, AI, Cyber Security and Remote Working. He is also... Read More →
avatar for Ivan Petrov

Ivan Petrov

Senior Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
Ivan Petrov is a Software Engineer at Google DeepMind who is working on security and privacy for the agentic ecosystem. He also holds a PhD from Moscow State University, where he focused on intrusion detection systems and software-defined networking.
avatar for Alexandros Karargyris

Alexandros Karargyris

Chair for Medical working group at MLCommons, MLCommons
Alexandros Karargyris is the co-chair for the Medical working group at MLCommons, a group aiming to develop best practices for benchmarking medical AI on real-world data to improve clinical translation of AI. Previously, he worked as a researcher at IBM and NIH. His research interests... Read More →
avatar for Muhammad Usama Sandar

Muhammad Usama Sandar

Muhammad Usama Sardar, TU Dresden and GA4GH
Usama has been working at TU Dresden since October 2017. Since March 2025, he also serves as the co-chair of the Trusted Research Environment (TRE) Open Suite in The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). He leads several projects in the Confidential Computing Consortium... Read More →
avatar for Rahul Saxena

Rahul Saxena

Founder & Security Researcher, Bluethroat Labs
Rahul Saxena is a security researcher and founder of Bluethroat Labs, specializing in Trusted Execution Environment security and confidential computing. He previously worked on security at Matter Labs (zkSync), focusing on TEE-based execution systems. He is the author of the TEE Security... Read More →
avatar for Mona Vij

Mona Vij

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel Labs
Mona Vij is a security technologist and independent advisor specializing in confidential computing and AI security. She spent nearly three decades at Intel Labs, where she was one of the architects of Intel SGX and TDX — Trusted Execution Environment technologies now deployed at... Read More →
avatar for Patrick McGrath

Patrick McGrath

Software Engineer, Google DeepMind
Patrick McGrath is a Software Engineer working on security and privacy at Google DeepMind. During his 5 year career at Google, he has worked on leveraging Trusted Execution Environments to enhance privacy narratives for Google Maps and Google DeepMind. He holds a bachelor's degree... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Research

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
1. How to Test a Confidential Agent Before Production - Sachin Gupta, eBay
2. Privacy for Proprietary Code in Confidential Compute Systems - Abdulla Alwabel & Shabsi Walfish, Google
3. Phala Cloud: TEE-Native Cloud & Private Inference Platform - Hang Yin, Phala
4. From Enclaves to Intents: Making Confidential Computing Usable - Cameron Dennis
5. 3 Degrees of CC - Dan Middleton
Speakers
avatar for Abdulla Alwabel

Abdulla Alwabel

Software Engineer, Google
Senior software engineer working at Google in confidential compute, privacy and transparency.
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Cameron Dennis

Director of AI, NEAR
Cameron Dennis is Director of AI at the NEAR Foundation, where he leads strategic partnerships, technical integrations, and go-to-market initiatives for NEAR's user-owned AI infrastructure. He has been part of the NEAR ecosystem since 2020, holding roles across business development... Read More →
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Sachin Gupta

Member Of Technical Staff - 2, eBay
I am a senior backend and platform engineer at eBay with over 15 years of experience building and modernizing enterprise systems. I work on large scale billing and financial platforms that demand high reliability, strong security, and precise data correctness. I spend most of my time... Read More →
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Dan Middleton

Principal Software Architect, NVIDIA
Dan Middleton is a Principal Software Architect at NVIDIA, with deep experience driving innovation at the intersection of open source and emerging technologies. He has led the development and release of products spanning Computational Imaging, Blockchain, Confidential Computing, and... Read More →
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Shabsi Walfish

Software Engineer, Google


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Hang Yin

Cofounder & CTO, Phala Cloud
Hang Yin is CTO & Co-founder of Phala Cloud, with 7 years of experience in confidential computing. An ex-Googler in machine learning, he is also the creator of dstack, an open source project under the Linux Foundation. He focuses on building practical confidential computing infrastructure... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

12:45pm PDT

Securing the Future with Azure Confidential Computing - Run Cai & Ashutosh Chickerur, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
Confidential computing is becoming a critical foundation for cloud security in an era defined by AI acceleration, data sovereignty requirements, and rising expectations for end-to-end protection of sensitive workloads. Azure is advancing this space with new infrastructure, stronger platform protections, and innovations designed to make confidential workloads more resilient, scalable, and production ready. This session will highlight the latest Azure Confidential Computing developments, including v6 confidential VMs on AMD and Intel, expanded Azure regional availability, and continued progress in production readiness. We will also look ahead to live migration for confidential VMs, including a live demo, and discuss how this capability improves workload continuity during planned security updates and unexpected hardware events. In addition, we will explore future investments acrossenclaves, platform attestation, and confidential AI. Topics include nested virtualization to enable confidential enclaves, stronger platform attestation with recovery capabilities, protection of Azure trusted computing base services, and the growing need for confidential GPUs to secure prompts, model weights, and distributed inference workloads for modern AI applications at scale.
Speakers
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Run Cai

Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
Run Cai is a Principal TPM Manager at Microsoft, leading large-scale Azure infrastructure and focusing on confidential computing programs. She is shaping future generations of Azure confidential computing platforms, driving product scale-out and elasticity while championing new initiatives... Read More →
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Ashutosh Chickerur

Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Ashutosh Chickerur is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading Azure confidential computing and cloud infrastructure efforts, with deep expertise in multi-cloud platforms, security, and large-scale distributed systems.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm PDT

Google Session (Speaker to be Announced)
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:45pm PDT

OPAQUE Panel Discussion: David Forman, Midland Credit Management, an Encore Capital Group Company; Shyam Menon, Mitek Systems; Nikhil Gulati, Johnson & Johnson; and Additional Speakers to be Announced
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
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David Forman

Senior Manager IT, EDE, Midland Credit Management, an Encore Capital Group Company

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Shyam Menon

Senior Director of Product- Machine Learning & Fraud, Mitek Systems


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Nikhil Gulati

Global Head, Engineering & AI, MedTech Digital, Johnson & Johnson


Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

2:15pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Speakers to be Announced from Microsoft, AMD, CCC, TII, OPAQUE & Additional Companies
Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

3:00pm PDT

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Attestation for Next-Generation AI Hardware - Rob Nertney & Spencer Gilson, NVIDIA
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
NVIDIA's attestation infrastructure was born from Confidential Computing - securing Hopper GPUs with hardware-rooted, in-band attestation. As AI hardware evolves to rack-scale systems like Vera Rubin NVL72, attestation must evolve with it: new devices, new modes, and new challenges.

This talk covers three dimensions of that evolution. First, we discuss how CC attestation scales to rack-level with Vera Rubin, including NVIDIA's multi-node solution for CC and the challenge of attesting dozens of GPUs, CPUs, and NVSwitches as a unified trusted system. Second, we show how attestation patterns proven in CC are extending to new modes and device types - including fleet intelligence and out-of-band attestation. Third, we share the standards and interoperability challenges we have encountered along the way: inconsistent implementations across the ecosystem, gaps in attestation policy standards, and binding discrete components into trusted subsystems to prevent relay and substitution attacks.

Attendees will leave understanding where NVIDIA attestation is heading and what we have learned about the open problems the ecosystem must solve together.
Speakers
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Rob Nertney

Principal software architect, NVIDIA, NVIDIA
Rob Nertney is a principal software architect for confidential computing. He has spent nearly 15 years architecting the features and deployment of accelerator hardware into hyperscale environments for both internal and external use by developers. He has several patents in processor... Read More →
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Spencer Gilson

Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Spencer is a senior system software engineer working on attestation at NVIDIA. He specializes in designing, developing, and maintaining critical services with an emphasis on security and reliability.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

3:30pm PDT

GKE Hypercluster: Kubernetes TEEs for AI at Scale - Komei Nakamoto & Keith Moyer, Google
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
GKE Hypercluster brings large-scale operation of Trusted Execution Environments to Kubernetes, and was co-designed with Anthropic to meet their security and scale. In this talk we explain the linked runner architecture that drastically reduces the Trusted Compute Base (TCB) by completely separating high-value workload execution from the standard container orchestration control plane. In this model, sensitive AI workloads are offloaded to a dedicated, “sealed” virtual machine. The Kubernetes scheduling and orchestration remains on a non-sealed "parent" node, preserving Kubernetes primitives (ie. Pods, Network Policy) and operational familiarity while achieving workload isolation. The execution environment is built on a hardened and attested OS, removing non-essential services and preventing administrative shell access. Integrity is guaranteed through attestation and container signature verification.

This design establishes a strict chain of trust, offers isolation from the Kubernetes operator and Cloud Service Provider, supports high-performance AI accelerators within the sealed boundary, and enhances scalability by managing isolated environments with a reduced system footprint.
Speakers
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Keith Moyer

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google
Keith Moyer is the Technical Lead for Confidential Computing at Google Cloud. He has spent the last 10 years dedicated to making verifiable trust accessible and useful, with over 20 years of experience spanning cloud security and embedded systems. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering... Read More →
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Komei Nakamoto

GKE AI Security Tech Lead, Google
Komei is a software engineer at Google, and the Tech Lead for the GKE AI Security team focused on making GKE a secure platform for running AI workloads.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm PDT

Governing AI Agents at the Hardware Boundary - Imran Siddique, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
AI agents are making real decisions: filing tickets, moving money, deploying code, operating infrastructure. The question is no longer what the agent should do. The question is: can you prove governance was actually enforced?

Right now, all agent governance is software. Policy engines, identity checks, audit logs, credentials: everything lives in the same trust boundary as the agent itself. If someone compromises the runtime, every control disappears. Policies get bypassed. Credentials get exfiltrated. Audit logs get forged.
Software governance makes promises. Hardware governance provides proofs.

I will walk through what my team has built (the Agent Governance Toolkit), where the software limits are, and how TEE-backed enforcement closes those gaps. Concrete architecture, real code, honest gap analysis.
Speakers
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Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:30pm PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Anand Kashyap, Fortanix; Marvin Tong, Phala Network; and Additional Speakers to be Announced
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
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Anand Kashyap

Co-Founder and CEO of Fortanix, Fortanix
Anand Kashyap is a co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, where he pioneered the application of confidential computing in data security and AI._x000D_
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Before Fortanix, he worked at Arkin (acquired by VMware) and Symantec Research Labs, where he filed over 25 patents in networking and cloud security. Anand holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and a B.Tech from IIT Kanpur... Read More →
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Marvin Tong

Co-founder, Phala Network
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

5:00pm PDT

Keynote: Closing & Wrap-Up
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm PDT
Courtyard
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