Name: Poster Presentations: Research
Start: 2026-06-23T11:45:00-0700
End: 2026-06-23T12:45:00-0700

Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

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

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Courtyard

Poster Sessions, Research

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Confidential Computing Summit 2026