Confidential Computing Summit 2026

NATO DIANA, NATO’s innovation accelerator, is building a heterogeneous, cross-Allied ecosystem spanning innovators, mentors, test centers, ministries of defense, and other agencies across 32 Allied nations. This is the trust problem the Internet of Agents will face at global scale: how people, organizations, and their respective agents prove identity, authority, and credentials across trust boundaries without leaking private, confidential, or national-security knowledge.
To address this challenge, DIANA sought a “chip-level zero-trust” identity infrastructure. Confidential Computing sits at the root: identity, authentication, authorization, credentialing, and key management are all unified and verified from the chips up. Each entity acts through its agent with its own cryptographic identity, trust boundary, knowledge isolation, and globally verified execution.

In this session, we will share lessons from the DIANA pilot and show why Agentic Identity is the foundational layer of Programmable Trust for the Internet of Agents: a model for sovereign ecosystems where agents interact, coordinate, and transact under hardware-backed guarantees of verifiability, confidentiality, and privacy.