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. Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font, Red Hat
3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert
4. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala
5. Audit, Enforce, Repeat! Seamless Confidentiality with CoCo and Kyverno - Anubhav Sharma, Nirmata & Chris Butler, Red Hat
6. Beyond Identity: Attestation as the New TLS Trust Model - Jens Albers, Fr0ntierX

Speakers

Anubhav Sharma

VP Customer Success, Nirmata

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 →

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 →

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
Column Ballroom

Poster Sessions, Innovation

Audience Any

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research

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

Column Ballroom

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. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google
4. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical
5. Privacy-preserving Medical AI Evaluation - Mic Bowman, Intel Labs
6. Standardization of Attested TLS Protocols for Confidential Computing - Muhammad Usama Sardar, TU Dresden and GA4GH

Speakers

Mic Bowman

Sr Principal Engineer, Intel Labs (Retired)

Mic Bowman is currently retired and enjoying many opportunities to contribute to fun and interesting research projects. Previously, he was senior principal engineer in Intel Labs where he led the decentralized computing research group (and dabbled in other areas like Internet architecture... 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 →

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 →

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 →

Yawang Wang

Software Engineer, Google

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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
Column Ballroom

Poster Sessions, Research

Audience Any

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases

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

Column Ballroom

1. How to Test a Confidential Agent Before Production - Sachin Gupta, eBay
2. Privacy for Proprietary Code in Confidential Compute Systems - Abdulla Alwabel, 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, NVIDIA

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 →