Confidential Computing Summit 2026: Full Schedule

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8:00am PDT

Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard

Poster Sessions, Innovation

Audience Any

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research

Wednesday June 24, 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

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard

Poster Sessions, Research

Audience Any

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases

Wednesday June 24, 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

Abdulla Alwabel

Software Engineer, Google

Senior software engineer working at Google in confidential compute, privacy and transparency.

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 →

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 →

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 →