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Panel Discussion: State of the Union: Confidential AI From the Field - Moderated by Aaron Fulkerson, OPAQUE
Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard
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Confidential AI is moving rapidly from experimentation to production. Across industries, enterprises are demanding secure, verifiable AI infrastructure for sensitive workloads, regulated data, and autonomous agents. Leaders from across the ecosystem share a State of the Union from the field: where Confidential AI is gaining traction, what's driving demand, emerging use cases, deployment challenges, and the infrastructure requirements shaping the next wave — plus what it actually takes to move from pilot to production over the next 12 months.
Moderators
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Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
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Nelly Porter

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

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Jonathan Dotan

Founder & CEO, EQTY Lab
EQTY Lab builds tools to reinvent trust in AI. As a serial founder, Jonathan has spent over 25 years navigating the intersection of technology and governance as a C-suite leader, investor, and researcher. He is also the founding director of The Starling Lab at Stanford University... Read More →
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Antoine Delignat-Lavaud

Principal Researcher, Microsoft
avatar for Harold Gilkey

Harold Gilkey

Director, Product Security Office, AMD
Harold Gilkey is a Director in AMD's Product Security Office, with a particular focus on confidential computing. He works across architecture, product, and engineering teams to extend hardware-rooted trust from silicon through the software stack, building on AMD's confidential computing... Read More →
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Dr. Chaouki Kasmi

Technology Innovation Institute, Chief Innovation Officer
Dr. Chaouki Kasmi is the Chief Innovation Officer at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), is a cutting-edge UAE-based scientific research center. In his role, Dr. Kasmi spearheads the development and implementation of productization and industrialization strategies while overseeing... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard
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