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8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Wednesday June 24, 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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

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
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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Research

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
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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome Back - Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, OPAQUE
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am 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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:10am PDT

Keynote: Ivan Krstić, Head of Security Engineering + Architecture (SEAR)
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:10am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Ivan Krstić

Ivan Krstić

Head of Security Engineering+Architecture (SEAR), Apple


Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:10am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:40am PDT

Keynote: Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Jason Clinton

Jason Clinton

Deputy CISO, Anthropic
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:55am PDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:55am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:55am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:35am PDT

Keynote: Monique Dumais, Senior Vice President & CIO, Encore Capital Group
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Monique Dumais

Monique Dumais

CIO, Encore Capital Group
Monique Dumais joined Encore Capital Group® in 2019 and serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Encore Capital Group and Midland Credit Management. In this role, Ms. Dumais is responsible for enabling the business to achieve its goals by delivering strategic... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:55am PDT

Keynote: Ion Stoica, Professor, UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Databricks and Anyscale, Co-Founder and Board Member, OPAQUE
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica

Professor, UC Berkeley
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department and holds the Xu Bao Chancellor Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, the Director of Sky Computing Lab, and the Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. He is currently doing research on AI systems and cloud computing... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Three Forces Making Confidential AI A Mandate - Monique Dumais, Encore Capital Group; Jason Clinton, Anthropic; Ion Stoica, Professor, UC Berkeley, Databricks, Anyscale' and Additional Speakers to be Announced
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
Three forces are accelerating demand for verifiable AI trust and turning Confidential AI from a should into a must. First, Mythos-class models and their successors make it probable that a malicious actor can place itself inside your environment. The agent is the attack surface. Second, current agent architectures are data-leaky. An employee touching the data is one problem. A malicious agent is another. In regulated industries, neither is acceptable. Third, new regulations require runtime proof — what ran, where, under what rules — automated, hardware-signed, third-party-verifiable. The EU AI Act Article 12 enforcement hits August 2, 2026; sovereign-AI rules across the Gulf, EU, India, and Singapore stack behind it. This panel explores what it actually takes to govern agentic AI in high-stakes environments: the architectural requirements, the compliance obligations, and the organizational shifts that make Confidential AI not just defensible, but mandatory.

Speakers
avatar for Jason Clinton

Jason Clinton

Deputy CISO, Anthropic
avatar for Monique Dumais

Monique Dumais

CIO, Encore Capital Group
Monique Dumais joined Encore Capital Group® in 2019 and serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer for Encore Capital Group and Midland Credit Management. In this role, Ms. Dumais is responsible for enabling the business to achieve its goals by delivering strategic... Read More →
avatar for Ion Stoica

Ion Stoica

Professor, UC Berkeley
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department and holds the Xu Bao Chancellor Chair at the University of California at Berkeley, the Director of Sky Computing Lab, and the Executive Chairman of Databricks and Anyscale. He is currently doing research on AI systems and cloud computing... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Wednesday June 24, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 →
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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Wednesday June 24, 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 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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Research

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Wednesday June 24, 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 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 Abdulla Alwabel

Abdulla Alwabel

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


Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

12:45pm PDT

Session to be Announced
Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm PDT

Session to be Announced
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:45pm PDT

ACompany Session (Speaker to be Announced)
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

2:15pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Speakers to be Announced
Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

3:00pm PDT

Q-Day Survival Guide: What the Post-quantum Cryptography Transition Means for Confidential Computing - Arthur Savage, Red Hat
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
Cryptographic algorithms will one day be broken by large quantum computers, necessitating the replacement of classical cryptography (like RSA) with post-quantum cryptography (PQC). This event, called Q-day, is a rolling deadline with previous estimates falling around 2035. However, in early 2026, many groundbreaking developments rapidly shortened Q-day estimates to 2030 or sooner, leaving little time to execute this unprecedented global cryptographic overhaul.

This talk will put Q-day in context for the audience: timelines, the recent scientific breakthroughs and how they alter threat models in open source, and which gaps and blockers are most pressing. Then, we view these blockers through the lens of confidential computing, from hardware to software. We will discuss current risks and best practices, then open the audience to discussion of the needs of diverse applications across the confidential computing ecosystem. This talk is both informative and information-gathering, fostering mutual understanding and collaboration to integrate PQC before time runs out. This talk will be technical, but no prior knowledge about PQC is necessary and we welcome participation from all.
Speakers
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Arthur Savage

Software Engineer, Red Hat
Arthur Savage is a software engineer at Red Hat with a passion for cybersecurity. He has a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering with specialties in data analytics, image forensics, and post quantum cryptography.
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

3:30pm PDT

WhatsApp Private Processing - Kevin Hui, Yunqi Li, Sidharth Verma, Henry Wang & Varun Patil, Meta
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
WhatsApp (Meta) launched its flagship Confidential Computing use-case last year (https://engineering.fb.com/2025/04/29/security/whatsapp-private-processing-ai-tools/), introducing one of the first large-scale applications of confidential computing. In this presentation, we will go over an overview of how Private Processing works, the operational lessons we learned while deploying confidential virtual machines at the scale of WhatsApp, and where we think the evolution of our Private Processing stack will take us for years to come.

Topics:
- CVM hardening
- Binary transparency
- OHTTP
- Remote Attestation TLS (RA-TLS)
- Debugging CVMs in production
- Virtual Research Environment
- And others
Speakers
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Kevin Hui

Software Engineer, Meta
Kevin works on the Private Compute Platform team at Meta. This team is responsible for the infrastructure surrounding Private Processing and other privacy-preserving products at Meta leveraging Trusted Execution Environments.

Kevin focuses on the build tooling and virtualization aspects of Confidential Virtual Machines, enabling developers at Meta to write privacy-first products without having to worry about the low-level details surrounding confidential computing... Read More →
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Yunqi Li

Research Scientist, Meta
Yunqi works on the WhatsApp Server Privacy team, where they contribute to core messaging systems and privacy-focused technologies including Trusted Execution Environments (TEE), Binary Transparency, and Audit Transparency.

At the intersection of systems engineering and applied... Read More →
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Sidharth Verma

Software Engineer, Meta
Sidharth is a Software Engineer on Meta Superintelligence Lab's Inference Service Management team. His specific focus area is TEE inference infrastructure, helping to enable the next generation of SOTA models for private inference at large scale.
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Varun Patil

Research Scientist, Meta Platforms Inc
Varun is a researcher at Meta building Private Processing, WhatsApp's secure and private AI inference platform powered by trusted execution.
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Henry Wang

SWE, Meta
N/A.
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm PDT

Overview of the AWS Nitro System: Building Trust Through Secure Cloud Infrastructure - Matthew Wilson, Amazon
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
The AWS Nitro System is the foundation for modern Amazon EC2 instances that enables AWS to innovate faster, reduce cost for customers, and deliver added benefits like increased security and new instance types. We've applied formal methods to the Nitro System since day one. AWS has reimagined our virtualization infrastructure. Traditionally, hypervisors protect physical hardware and BIOS, virtualize CPU, storage, and networking, and provide management capabilities. The Nitro System breaks apart those functions, offloads them to dedicated hardware and software, and reduces costs by delivering nearly all server resources to instances.

This session explores the architecture and security model of the Nitro System, demonstrating how offloading virtualization functions minimizes the hypervisor attack surface and enables features like secure boot and Nitro Enclaves. We'll introduce the Nitro Isolation Engine, where we've applied formal methods. Starting from proving correctness properties of early boot firmware and the API endpoint component of the Nitro Controller, the Nitro Isolation Engine is a minimal trusted computing base and is a default capability of AWS Graviton5 processors
Speakers
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Matthew Wilson

Vice President/Distinguished Engineer at Amazon, Amazon
Matt Wilson is a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services. He leads the technical architecture of the Amazon Software Development Experience (ASBX) division, which owns secure software development lifecycle tools and processes. Matt was a lead designer of the... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Closing & Wrap-Up
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
Courtyard

Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:30pm - 5:30pm PDT
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