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Tuesday, June 23
 

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT2. Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font, Red Hat3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert4. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala5. Audit, Enforce, Repeat!...
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Speakers
AS

Anubhav Sharma

VP Customer Success, Nirmata

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 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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
1. HaitiAidShield: Scaling Humanitarian Transparency with Confidential Computing - Vladimir Vilne, Trusted Haitian Cyber2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute3. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google4. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical5. Privacy-preserving Medical AI...
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Speakers
avatar for Mic Bowman

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 →
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 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 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 →
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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Research

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Tuesday June 23, 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
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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

8:00am PDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm PDT
Salon 3

Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm PDT
Salon 3
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

8:00am PDT

Zen Zone
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm PDT
Vault 6
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.


Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 6:30pm PDT
Vault 6
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

8:00am PDT

Continental Breakfast
Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom

Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome - Nelly Porter, Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Nelly Porter

Nelly Porter

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

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:00am - 9:05am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:05am PDT

Keynote: Welcome - Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:05am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:10am PDT

Keynote: Welcome Address - Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, OPAQUE
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:10am - 9:20am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:10am - 9:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:20am PDT

Keynote: Attested, Transparent, Sovereign: The Evolution of Confidential Computing - Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:20am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard
Over the past decade, Microsoft has helped move confidential computing from research into real-world cloud infrastructure, platforms, and services. In this keynote, Mark will trace that evolution through the expanding promises of confidential computing, from protecting individual workloads to enabling verifiable trust across entire systems. He will share examples from Microsoft’s adoption...
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Speakers
avatar for Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon... Read More →
Mark Russinovich Confidential Computing Summit 2026 v2 pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:20am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

9:40am PDT

Keynote: Future-Proofing Confidential AI - Nelly Porter, Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google & Anand Pashupathy, VP /& GM, Intel Product Assurance & Security, Intel
Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
As confidential computing becomes the baseline for secure AI, the focus shifts to defending against emerging threats and accelerating complex, hardware-intensive workloads. This session details Google Cloud’s latest architectural advancements in Confidential AI. We will explore the technical integration of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) key management and the expansion of trusted execution...
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Speakers
avatar for Anand Pashupathy

Anand Pashupathy

Vice President and General Manager Intel Product Assurance and Security, Intel
Anand Pashupathy is an Intel Vice President and Intel Product Assurance and Security General Manager responsible for the Intel’s Product Security and Confidential Compute roadmaps, implementation and operationalization of proactive security and risk-prioritized measures, security... Read More →
avatar for Nelly Porter

Nelly Porter

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

Tuesday June 23, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:00am PDT

Keynote: Protecting Data in The Agentic AI Era - Hugo Romero, Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
As AI shifts from answering chat questions to acting across sensitive data, tools, APIs, and workflows, we are entering the Agentic AI era, where confidential computing becomes essential to establishing trust at runtime. This keynote explores how AMD is advancing hardware-rooted protection for agentic AI through AMD SEV, enabling protected and attestable execution in production cloud...
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Speakers
avatar for Hugo Romero

Hugo Romero

Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
Hugo Romero is Corporate Vice President of the Product Security Office at AMD, where he leads AMD’s end-to-end product security strategy across hardware and software. In this role, he drives security across SoC Security Architecture, Confidential Computing, Root of Trust, Security... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:20am PDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am PDT
Column Ballroom

Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

10:35am PDT

Keynote: Agentic AI Is Running Your Infrastructure. Who's Accountable When It Goes Wrong? - Mike Bursell, Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard
Agentic AI is already inside every enterprise. It's making decisions, accessing tools, and touching sensitive infrastructure autonomously, and most organizations have no idea whether their security posture was built to handle it.This keynote cuts through the noise to give enterprise leaders a clear picture of what's actually at risk when AI agents operate at scale: the threat surfaces that emerge,...
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Speakers
avatar for Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium
ike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev), and was CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up based on Enarx. He has previously served on the Governing Boards of the CCC and... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

10:55am PDT

Keynote: Trustworthy AI with Confidential Computing - Dr. Najwa Aaraj, CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Dr. Najwa Aaraj is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), the overarching advanced technology body in Abu Dhabi responsible for driving research and development... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel: The Sovereign Stack: Nations, Enterprises & the Demand for Verifiable AI - Hugo Romero, AMD; Najwa Aaraj, TII; Mark Russinovich, Microsoft; Nelly Porter, Google; Mike Bursell, CCC
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
The race to deploy AI agents has exposed a fundamental gap in what “sovereign AI” actually means. Localized hosting and domestic ownership are no longer enough for true sovereignty. As nations and enterprises deploy AI at scale across sensitive infrastructure and distributed systems, the question is no longer whether they want sovereign AI, but whether they can prove it. True sovereignty...
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Moderators
avatar for Frederic Lardinois

Frederic Lardinois

Sr. Editor, AI, The New Stack

Speakers
avatar for Nelly Porter

Nelly Porter

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

avatar for Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium
ike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.dev), and was CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up based on Enarx. He has previously served on the Governing Boards of the CCC and... Read More →
avatar for Mark Russinovich

Mark Russinovich

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
Mark Russinovich is CTO, Deputy CISO, and Technical Fellow for Microsoft Azure, Microsoft’s global enterprise-grade cloud platform. A widely recognized expert in distributed systems, operating systems and cybersecurity, Mark earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon... Read More →
avatar for Hugo Romero

Hugo Romero

Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
Hugo Romero is Corporate Vice President of the Product Security Office at AMD, where he leads AMD’s end-to-end product security strategy across hardware and software. In this role, he drives security across SoC Security Architecture, Confidential Computing, Root of Trust, Security... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Dr. Najwa Aaraj is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), the overarching advanced technology body in Abu Dhabi responsible for driving research and development... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:45am PDT

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

Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT2. Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font, Red Hat3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert4. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala5. Audit, Enforce, Repeat!...
See More →
Speakers
AS

Anubhav Sharma

VP Customer Success, Nirmata

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 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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
1. HaitiAidShield: Scaling Humanitarian Transparency with Confidential Computing - Vladimir Vilne, Trusted Haitian Cyber2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute3. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google4. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical5. Privacy-preserving Medical AI...
See More →
Speakers
avatar for Mic Bowman

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 →
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 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 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 →
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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Research

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm 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
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 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 →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

12:45pm PDT

From Perimeter to Silicon: Why Agentic AI Demands a New Security Model - Dan Middleton, NVIDIA & Raghu Yeluri, Intel
Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
As AI agents move from assistants to autonomous actors executing workflows, calling tools, and making decisions across sensitive infrastructure, every industry faces the same foundational question: how do we establish verifiable trust at every layer of the stack?This session examines the full trust architecture agentic AI requires:Cryptographic attestation that verifies data and model integrity...
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Speakers
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 →
RY

Raghu Yeluri

Sr. Principal Engineer, Intel

Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

12:45pm PDT

Securing the Future with Azure Confidential Computing - Run Cai & Ashutosh Chickerur, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
Confidential computing is becoming a critical foundation for cloud security in an era defined by AI acceleration, data sovereignty requirements, and rising expectations for end-to-end protection of sensitive workloads. Azure is advancing this space with new infrastructure, stronger platform protections, and innovations designed to make confidential workloads more resilient, scalable, and...
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Speakers
avatar for Run Cai

Run Cai

Principal PM Manager, Microsoft
Run Cai is a Principal TPM Manager at Microsoft, leading large-scale Azure infrastructure and focusing on confidential computing programs. She is shaping future generations of Azure confidential computing platforms, driving product scale-out and elasticity while championing new initiatives... Read More →
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Ashutosh Chickerur

Principal Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Ashutosh Chickerur is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft, leading Azure confidential computing and cloud infrastructure efforts, with deep expertise in multi-cloud platforms, security, and large-scale distributed systems.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm PDT

AMD SEV & Azure Local: When Confidential VMs Go Local - David Harmon, AMD & Deepak Manohar, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
AMD SEV has provided foundational technology for Confidential VMs at cloud scale, including deployments in Microsoft Azure Cloud. As workloads span cloud, hybrid, edge, and customer-owned environments, the architectural requirement is clear: preserve the Confidential VM trust pattern wherever those workloads run. This joint AMD-Microsoft session shows how AMD SEV and Azure Local come together for...
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Speakers
avatar for David Harmon

David Harmon

Director, Data Center Ecosystem, AMD
David Harmon is a Director of Software Development at AMD. David's work focuses on datacenter solutions that include AMD EPYC server product line and Microsoft software solutions for cloud and on prem including Azure Local.
avatar for Deepak Manohar

Deepak Manohar

Sr. Director PM, Microsoft
Deepak Manohar is a Sr. Director PM at Microsoft. He leads the security product management team for Azure Local and Digital Operations. One of his areas of focus is to bring Confidential computing to Azure's on-premises offering namely Azure Local. More broadly, he is responsible... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm PDT

Strictly Confidential: Use Cases & Demos of AI Workflows in TEEs - Sam Lugani & Ranjit Narjala, Google
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
This session dives deeper into practical implementation and use cases for confidential computing. As complex AI models demand robust cryptographic roots of trust, we will demonstrate precisely how to architect and execute these environments in the real world. Through a series of live, hands-on demonstrations, we will showcase the latest confidential platforms in action, seamlessly extending...
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Speakers
avatar for Sam Lugani

Sam Lugani

Product Lead, Confidential Computing, Google Cloud
Sam Lugani is the product lead for Confidential Computing and Confidential AI at Google. Sam started his professional career working as a software engineer at Cisco before venturing into product centric roles at FireEye, Synack and later at Google. He completed his MS in Computer... Read More →
avatar for Ranjit Narjala

Ranjit Narjala

Google Cloud, Engineering Lead, Confidential Computing,

Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:45pm PDT

Confidential Tenancy: Towards Digital Sovereignty on Public Clouds - Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
Digital Sovereignty is commonly interpreted as a legal concept - but can it be turned into a technical guarantee? We introduce a new sovereignty boundary within existing public cloud infrastructure built on (and generalizing) the concept of confidential computing, where a given workload is totally isolated from its surrounding shared infrastructure within a trusted execution environment (TEE),...
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Speakers
avatar for Antoine Delignat-Lavaud

Antoine Delignat-Lavaud

Principal Researcher, Microsoft
CC Summit 2026 Towards Digital Sovereignty on Public Cloud pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:45pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Proof in Production: Customer Lessons from Confidential AI - Reshma Shetty, ServiceNow; Shyam Menon, Mitek Systems; Nikhil Gulati, Johnson & Johnson; & James Edwards, Midland Credit Management
Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
Enterprises in regulated sectors face a stark reality: AI agents offer transformative potential, but the risk of sensitive data bleeding beyond governed boundaries remains unacceptable for many compliance and security teams. Organizations can no longer rely on black-box AI systems or accept the risk of uncontrolled data exposure, unverifiable execution, or AI workflows that outpace governance. As...
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Moderators
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
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Shyam Menon

Senior Director of Product- Machine Learning & Fraud, Mitek Systems


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Nikhil Gulati

Global Head, Engineering & AI, Polyphonic, Johnson & Johnson

avatar for James Edwards

James Edwards

Senior Director, IT, Midland Credit Management

avatar for Reshma Shetty

Reshma Shetty

Senior Director of Engineering, ServiceNow

Tuesday June 23, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

2:15pm PDT

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
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...
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Moderators
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
avatar for Nelly Porter

Nelly Porter

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

avatar for Jonathan Dotan

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
  Breakout Sessions

2:45pm PDT

Coffee Break
Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom

Tuesday June 23, 2026 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

3:00pm PDT

From Pixels To Agents: Optimizing On-Device Performance of Confidential Computing in AI Evolution - Savas Ozkan, Samsung Research UK, Samsung Electronics
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
Unlike server-side confidential AI, on-device confidential AI must balance strong protection of sensitive personal data with efficient operation under limited computational resources. In this talk, we explore the impacts of CC on on-device AI performance for various AI models and tools by identifying some root-causes. First, we recognise that CC overheads vary across AI models during critical...
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Speakers
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Savas Ozkan

Engineering Manager, Samsung Research UK
Savas Ozkan received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, he is leading Efficient Machine Learning Group at Samsung Research UK, focusing on on-device AI solutions for vision, language... Read More →
SRUK CCSubmit Final pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:00pm PDT

NVIDIA Confidential Computing Attestation for Next-Generation AI Hardware - Rob Nertney & Spencer Gilson, NVIDIA
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
NVIDIA's attestation infrastructure was born from Confidential Computing - securing Hopper GPUs with hardware-rooted, in-band attestation. As AI hardware evolves to rack-scale systems like Vera Rubin NVL72, attestation must evolve with it: new devices, new modes, and new challenges. This talk covers three dimensions of that evolution. First, we discuss how CC attestation scales to rack-level...
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Speakers
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Rob Nertney

Principal software architect, NVIDIA, NVIDIA
Rob Nertney is a principal software architect for confidential computing. He has spent nearly 15 years architecting the features and deployment of accelerator hardware into hyperscale environments for both internal and external use by developers. He has several patents in processor... Read More →
avatar for Spencer Gilson

Spencer Gilson

Senior Systems Software Engineer, NVIDIA
Spencer is a senior system software engineer working on attestation at NVIDIA. He specializes in designing, developing, and maintaining critical services with an emphasis on security and reliability.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

3:00pm PDT

Trust Is the Next Bottleneck: Why the Agentic Economy Needs Confidential Computing - Pawan Khandavilli, Microsoft
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
Agents can authenticate, but they still cannot prove what actually ran. When an agent transfers value, calls a sensitive tool, or acts on delegated authority across a boundary, the relying party has no cryptographic way to verify what code executed, what policy governed it, or whether sensitive data stayed inside a trustworthy boundary. OAuth handles authorization, not runtime integrity. IAM...
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Speakers
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Pawan Khandavilli

Senior Product Manager, Microsoft
Pawan Khandavilli is a senior product manager in Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) with a focus on serverless and confidential computing. Pawan has previously worked at Fortanix and the Royal Bank of Canada in a variety of roles with a focus on applying innovative security technologies... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

3:00pm PDT

Virtual Session: DriftlessAF: An Open Source Agentic Reconciler Framework Proven at Scale - Manfred Moser, Chainguard
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - Wednesday June 24, 2026 5:30pm PDT
Virtual Session

Speakers
avatar for Manfred Moser

Manfred Moser

Senior Principal DevRel Engineer, Chainguard
Manfred Moser is a Senior Principal DevRel Engineer at Chainguard, bringing a profound focus on software supply chain security to the open source world and our Chainguard Libraries product. A dedicated community leader and published author, his technical expertise spans decades as... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:00pm - Wednesday June 24, 2026 5:30pm PDT
Virtual Session
  Breakout Sessions

3:30pm PDT

"If It's Shared, It's Vulnerable": Is Kubernetes the Right Platform for Confidential Compute? - Zvonko Kaiser, NVIDIA
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
Kubernetes shares host kernels, network stacks, storage paths, and control planes across tenants. These shared primitives become attack surfaces when tenants cannot trust each other or the infrastructure operator. We enumerate the threat surfaces in confidential Kubernetes deployments, from eBPF snooping and conntrack hijacking to hardware-assisted virtualization rootkits. We then present a...
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Speakers
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Zvonko Kaiser

Principal Systems Engineer, NVIDIA
Zvonko is a Principal Systems Engineer at NVIDIA, working on the Cloud Native Technologies team. Focusing right now on all things related to confidential computing, zero-trust, especially in the context of accelerators.
CCS 2026 (2) pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm PDT

GKE Hypercluster: Kubernetes TEEs for AI at Scale - Komei Nakamoto & Keith Moyer, Google
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
GKE Hypercluster brings large-scale operation of Trusted Execution Environments to Kubernetes, and was co-designed with Anthropic to meet their security and scale. In this talk we explain the linked runner architecture that drastically reduces the Trusted Compute Base (TCB) by completely separating high-value workload execution from the standard container orchestration control plane. In this...
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Speakers
avatar for Keith Moyer

Keith Moyer

Technical Lead, Confidential Computing, Google
Keith Moyer is the Technical Lead for Confidential Computing at Google Cloud. He has spent the last 10 years dedicated to making verifiable trust accessible and useful, with over 20 years of experience spanning cloud security and embedded systems. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering... Read More →
avatar for Komei Nakamoto

Komei Nakamoto

GKE AI Security Tech Lead, Google
Komei is a software engineer at Google, and the Tech Lead for the GKE AI Security team focused on making GKE a secure platform for running AI workloads.
GKE Hypercluster Kubernetes TEEs for AI at Scale pptx
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm PDT

Who is Calling? Identity for Agents with AAuth - Dick Hardt, Hellō
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
The weaknesses of shared secrets — API keys and bearer tokens — are being exploited in the agentic era. They get copied to every workload that uses them, they leak, and they prove nothing about who is actually calling.Software has changed. Agents now assemble themselves at runtime and call services they've never seen, across organizations and trust domains. Inside the enterprise we have mTLS;...
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Speakers
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Dick Hardt

Founder/CEO, Hellō
Agentic Identity and AAuth. 
Tuesday June 23, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm PDT

Agentic Zero Trust: at Rest, in Transit, and at Runtime - Nina Polshakova, Solo.io & Josh Halley, Cisco
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
AI workloads handle some of the most sensitive data in modern enterprises, from proprietary training datasets to user prompts and high-dimensional embeddings. Yet many AI pipelines are built without the rigorous security practices applied to traditional systems, leaving critical gaps. Josh and Nina from the CNCF AI Working Group show how to apply Zero Trust principles to secure AI data at every...
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Speakers
avatar for Nina Polshakova

Nina Polshakova

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Solo.io
Nina is a software engineer at Solo.io, working on AI Gateway projects. She contributes to open source projects, including Kubernetes, Istio, kagent, agentgateway, and kgateway. A CNCF Ambassador and former Kubernetes v1.33 Release Lead, she’s also a member of the Cloud Native AI... Read More →
avatar for Josh Halley

Josh Halley

Principal Architect, Cisco
Josh Halley, is a Principal Architect and published technical author, in the office of the CTO at Cisco,
focused on next generation technologies and technical transformation for some
of Cisco’s largest global customers. His main focus today is in the domains of AI Operations, leading and supporting multiple teams in their generation of Agentic AI systems to support todays and tomorrows future technologies use cases... Read More →
FINAL CC June 23 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:00pm PDT

Governing AI Agents at the Hardware Boundary - Imran Siddique, OPAQUE Systems
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
AI agents are making real decisions: filing tickets, moving money, deploying code, operating infrastructure. The question is no longer what the agent should do. The question is: can you prove governance was actually enforced? Right now, all agent governance is software. Policy engines, identity checks, audit logs, credentials: everything lives in the same trust boundary as the agent...
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Speakers
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Imran Siddique

Chief Platform Officer, Opaque Systems
Imran Siddique is Chief Platform Officer at Opaque Systems and the creator of the Agent Governance Toolkit.Imran holds 20+ patents in AI systems, data platforms, and sustainability infrastructure, and has published research papers on agentic architecture and distributed systems... Read More →
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm PDT

Running AI Agents Inside TEEs Without Losing Your Mind - Sonali Mishra, Nutanix
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
AI agents are making decisions, calling tools, and talking to other agents, often with access to sensitive data they shouldn't be able to see in plaintext. The usual answer is to just trust the infrastructure, but that falls apart in multi tenant clouds and cross org workflows. This talk covers what it actually takes to run agentic AI workloads inside Trusted Execution Environments. I'll walk...
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Speakers
avatar for Sonali Mishra

Sonali Mishra

Principal Product Manager - AI & Cloud Native, Nutanix
As a Principal Cloud Native at Nutanix, I am passionate about driving innovation and empowering organizations to build secure and resilient solutions in their cloud-native journey. With our significant presence in US government, I aim to ensure organizations can adopt Kubernetes securely... Read More →
Confidential Computing Summit 2026 pdf
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:30pm PDT

Wrap-Up Session Panel Discussion: Sovereign AI - Sripriya Srinivasan, IBM; Dr. Najwa Aaraj, TII
Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Courtyard

Moderators
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
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Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Dr. Najwa Aaraj is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Technology Innovation Institute (TII), the applied research pillar of the Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), the overarching advanced technology body in Abu Dhabi responsible for driving research and development... Read More →
avatar for Sripriya Srinivasan

Sripriya Srinivasan

General Manager, IBM Software Products (Core & ALM), Software Support & SRE, IBM

Tuesday June 23, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

5:00pm PDT

Wrap-Up Session Panel Discussion: Quick Takes - Anand Kashyap, Fortanix; Marvin Tong, Phala Network; and Erica Brescia, Redpoint
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:00pm - 5:20pm PDT
Courtyard

Moderators
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
avatar for Erica Brescia

Erica Brescia

Managing Director, Redpoint

avatar for Anand Kashyap

Anand Kashyap

Co-Founder and CEO of Fortanix, Fortanix
Anand Kashyap is a co-founder and CEO of Fortanix, where he pioneered the application of confidential computing in data security and AI._x000D_ _x000D_ Before Fortanix, he worked at Arkin (acquired by VMware) and Symantec Research Labs, where he filed over 25 patents in networking... Read More →
avatar for Marvin Tong

Marvin Tong

Co-founder, Phala Network
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:00pm - 5:20pm PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

5:20pm PDT

Wrap-Up Session: Closing Remarks
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:20pm - 5:30pm PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:20pm - 5:30pm PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

5:30pm PDT

Evening Reception
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
The Mint
Shift from "Confidential" to "Social" as we close out Day 1. Wander through rooms alive with acoustic melodies and you'll be delighted with unique food and beverage offerings - and don't forget to collect a custom keepsake along the way. Grab a drink, fill your plate, and relax into an evening of connection that’s as rewarding as the sessions themselves.
Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:30pm - 7:00pm PDT
The Mint
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events
 
Wednesday, June 24
 

8:00am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Column Ballroom
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT2. Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font, Red Hat3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert4. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala5. Audit, Enforce, Repeat!...
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Speakers
AS

Anubhav Sharma

VP Customer Success, Nirmata

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 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
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

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 Cyber2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute3. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google4. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical5. Privacy-preserving Medical AI...
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Speakers
avatar for Mic Bowman

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 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
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Research

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
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 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
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

8:00am PDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Salon 3

Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Salon 3
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

8:00am PDT

Zen Zone
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Vault 6
All attendees may feel free to use the Zen Zone as needed. This is a quiet space for sensory relaxation, meditation, and worship. It is not to be used for conversations or as a workspace.


Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 5:00pm PDT
Vault 6
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

8:00am PDT

Continental Breakfast
Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom

Wednesday June 24, 2026 8:00am - 9:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

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

Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:00am - 9:10am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

9:10am PDT

Keynote: The Evolution of Apple Private Cloud Compute - Ivan Krstić, Vice President, Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR)
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:10am - 9:40am PDT
Courtyard

Speakers
avatar for Ivan Krstić

Ivan Krstić

Vice President, Apple Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR), Apple

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

9:40am PDT

Keynote: The Defender Advantage Has a Single Point of Failure - Jason Clinton, Deputy CISO, Anthropic
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
We are 2–5 years from a world where software stops shipping security bugs, because every CI/CD pipeline runs a Mythos-class model. That is the permanent defender advantage. The whole thesis rests on a single artifact: the weights of that model. If those weights leak, the advantage inverts overnight. If access to them can't be relied upon, the world routes around us to open weights. Confidential...
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Speakers
avatar for Jason Clinton

Jason Clinton

Deputy CISO, Anthropic
CCS 2026 The Permanent Defender Advantage has a Single Point of Failure pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 9:40am - 10:00am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

10:00am PDT

Keynote: Privacy at the Hardware Level: Why the Stack Has to Change Before the Rules Can - Brittany Kaiser, CEO, Alpha Compute
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
Regulation follows architecture. Until now, data privacy has been a policy question. Confidential computing makes it a hardware guarantee. Brittany Kaiser, CEO of Alpha Compute, explores how sovereign AI infrastructure, enforced at the silicon level, changes the accountability equation for enterprises and nation-states alike. She draws on Alpha Compute’s work with institutions running sensitive...
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Speakers
avatar for Brittany Kaiser

Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp
Brittany Kaiser is Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP), where she leads strategy in confidential computing, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure. A globally recognized authority on data rights, digital assets, and AI governance, she became a leading voice... Read More →
Brittany Kaiser LF Confidential Computing Summit 2026 KEYNOTE SLIDES pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:00am - 10:20am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

10:20am PDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am PDT
Column Ballroom

Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:20am - 10:35am PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

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 →
Monique Dumais CCS Presentation pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

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 →
Ion Stoica CCS 2026 pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Three Forces Making Confidential AI A Mandate - Monique Dumais, Encore Capital Group; Jason Clinton, Anthropic; Brittany Kaiser, Alpha Compute; Ion Stoica, Professor, Sky Computing Lab, OPAQUE; & Jason Hiner,
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...
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Speakers
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Jason Hiner

Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-Chief, The Deep View
Jason Hiner is the Chief Content Officer and Editor-in-Chief of The Deep View. He's an award-winning journalist who has spent his career analyzing how tech has reshaped the world. He covered AI for over a decade at ZDNET and CNET and watched it evolve from research labs to enterprise... Read More →
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Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp
Brittany Kaiser is Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP), where she leads strategy in confidential computing, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure. A globally recognized authority on data rights, digital assets, and AI governance, she became a leading voice... Read More →
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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 →
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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 Jason Clinton

Jason Clinton

Deputy CISO, Anthropic
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
Courtyard
  Keynote Sessions

11:45am PDT

Lunch
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom

Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Innovation
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
1. Multi-Party Confidential RAG: Provable Safety Controls - Ryota Hashimoto, NTT2. Mutual Trust in the Cloud: Protecting Model IP and Customer Data with Confidential Containers - Ivan Font, Red Hat3. Proof beats Promise: Delivering Trust in the Age of AI - Lakshmi Hanspal, DigiCert4. From Firmware to AI Agents: Achieve Full-Chain Trust with dstack - Hang Yin, Phala5. Audit, Enforce, Repeat!...
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Speakers
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Anubhav Sharma

VP Customer Success, Nirmata

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 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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Innovation

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Research
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
1. HaitiAidShield: Scaling Humanitarian Transparency with Confidential Computing - Vladimir Vilne, Trusted Haitian Cyber2. Structural Privacy for Cross-Boundary AI Training for Compliant LLMs - Hina Dixit, Decompute3. Achieving Hardware Root of Trust in the Real World - Yawang Wang, Google4. Proof, Not Promises: Securing AI Inference - Hugo Huang, Canonical5. Privacy-preserving Medical AI...
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Speakers
avatar for Mic Bowman

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Research

11:45am PDT

Poster Presentations: Use Cases
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm 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
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.
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 →
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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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Poster Sessions, Use Cases

12:45pm PDT

Characterizing NVIDIA Confidential Computing Overheads Across Model Inference & Training - Tanya Verma, Tinfoil
Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
We'll walk through where NVIDIA CC overheads appear in the model inference and training pipeline across GPU architectures and try to understand why
Speakers
avatar for Tanya Verma

Tanya Verma

Cofounder, Tinfoil
Tanya is the cofounder of Tinfoil, which provides verifiably private AI. Before Tinfoil, she was a cryptography engineer at Cloudflare where she designed and deployed privacy and security protocols used by billions of users on the internet.* Speaker Email: [email protected]* Speaker Headshot: attached... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

12:45pm PDT

PetalGuard, A Privacy-preserving Federated Learning Framework - Victor Sucasas, TII
Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard


Speakers
avatar for Victor Sucasas

Victor Sucasas

Senior Director, TII
Dr. Victor Sucasas is a cryptography engineer and researcher specializing in privacy-preserving technologies, confidential computing, and secure AI systems. He is Senior Director Cryptography at Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, where he leads the Privacy Enhancing Technologies... Read More →
June 2026 Presentation on PetalGuard for CCSummit (pptx with animations) pptx
Wednesday June 24, 2026 12:45pm - 1:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:15pm PDT

Building Trusted AI Factories with NVIDIA Accelerated Confidential Computing - Erik Bohnhorst, NVIDIA
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
As AI transitions from experimentation to production, securing sensitive data, proprietary models, prompts, and agentic workflows is critical. To build trusted AI systems that scale effectively, confidential computing has emerged as a fundamental pillar, ensuring that governance, control, and privacy remain intact.The session will cover hardware-rooted trust, workload isolation, attestation,...
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Erik Bohnhorst

NVIDIA, Director of Product Management
Erik Bohnhorst is a Director of Product Management at NVIDIA, specialized in building infrastructure software that powers modern AI. Erik has been at NVIDIA since 2014, and focuses on making AI workloads run effortlessly, efficiently, and securely on Kubernetes and virtualized p... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

1:15pm PDT

Open Source, Confidential by Design: The Linux Stack for Agentic AI - Brittany Kaiser, Alpha Compute; Allen Roush, Thoughtworks; & Shaw Walters, Eliza Labs; & Tina Zhen, Flashbots
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
Agentic AI is rapidly becoming part of critical infrastructure, but today's deployments still rely on trust assumptions that were never designed for autonomous systems handling sensitive data.This session brings together Brittany Kaiser, Allen Roush, and Shaw Walters to discuss how Linux, confidential computing, and open-source agent frameworks can form the foundation for a new generation of...
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Speakers
avatar for Tina Zhen

Tina Zhen

Co-Founder & Steward, Flashbots


avatar for Brittany Kaiser

Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp
Brittany Kaiser is Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP), where she leads strategy in confidential computing, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure. A globally recognized authority on data rights, digital assets, and AI governance, she became a leading voice... Read More →
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Allen Roush

Lead AI Researcher, Thoughtworks
Allen Roush is Lead AI Researcher at Thoughtworks USA, where he focuses on improving the creativity, coherence, and practical reliability of AI systems. He joined Thoughtworks in 2025 after senior technical and AI leadership roles at organizations including Oracle and Intel. His research... Read More →
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Shaw Walters

Founder, Eliza Labs
Shaw Walters is the founder of Eliza Labs, the creators of the ElizaOS agentic open-source framework. With a robust background in artificial intelligence and machine learning, Shaw has championed an open-source and transparent approach that has positioned Eliza Labs at the forefront... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:15pm - 1:40pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

1:45pm PDT

Confidential Computing for Sovereign AI: The Emerging Opportunity in Japan - Takeharu Kondo & Shuzo Ueki, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
As generative AI and AI agents rapidly evolve, interest in Sovereign AI is growing worldwide. In Japan, demand is increasing for trusted AI infrastructure across sectors such as defense, healthcare, manufacturing, telecommunications, and critical infrastructure. This session introduces the latest trends in Sovereign AI and Confidential Computing (CC) in Japan.Japan is advancing Confidential...
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Speakers
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Shuzo Ueki

CFO, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Shuzo Ueki is CFO of Acompany Co., Ltd., where he oversees finance, business development, and strategic partnerships. He has experience in strategy consulting, venture capital, corporate carve-outs, and startup financing, and has advised companies across multiple industries on business... Read More →
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Takeharu Kondo

Co-founder / Chief Research and Development Officer, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Takeharu Kondo is Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Acompany, a Japanese startup building Confidential AI — AI you can trust with your most sensitive data. Since co-founding the company in 2018, he has led applied R&D that turns Confidential Computing and privacy-enhancing technologies... Read More →
260624 CC Summit Sovereign AI submitted v2 nologo pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

1:45pm PDT

How OPAQUE Enables Hardware-enforced AI Governance- Rishabh Poddar, OPAQUE Systems
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
Your AI stack is bleeding data and you can't prove otherwise. This talk covers the OPAQUE Confidential AI Platform and how it enforces AI governance.

Speakers
avatar for Rishabh Poddar

Rishabh Poddar

Co-Founder & CTO, OPAQUE Systems
Co-Founder & CTO of OPAQUE Systems. PhD, UC Berkeley.
opaque rishabh ccsummit pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 1:45pm - 2:10pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

2:15pm PDT

Regulatory Panel Discussion: Brittany Kaiser, Alpha Compute; Mark Bower, Anjuna; & Moderated by Aaron Fulkerson, OPAQUE Systems
Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard


Moderators
avatar for Aaron Fulkerson

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers
avatar for Brittany Kaiser

Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp
Brittany Kaiser is Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP), where she leads strategy in confidential computing, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure. A globally recognized authority on data rights, digital assets, and AI governance, she became a leading voice... Read More →
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Mark Bower

Chief Strategy Officer, Anjuna Security.
Mark Bower is a data security expert with 20+ years shaping how the world protects information. He's led breakthroughs in data protection, privacy, and risk reduction across the U.S., Australia, U.K., and EU. At Anjuna, he drives confidential computing strategy for the future of AI... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:15pm - 2:45pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

2:45pm PDT

Coffee Break
Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom

Wednesday June 24, 2026 2:45pm - 3:00pm PDT
Column Ballroom
  Breaks / Exhibits / Special Events

3:00pm PDT

From Trust Assumptions To Trust Evidence: Why PKI and Confidential Computing Are Converging - Brian Trzupek, DigiCert
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
Every regulated industry runs on the same uncomfortable bargain:multi parties with conflicting interests agree to trust each other procedurally, because no tech mechanism exists to verify the claims they're making. An MRI running an AI diagnostic model involves at least 5 stakeholders:the AI vendor protecting IP, the hospital safeguarding patient data, the device mfg ensuring FW integrity, the...
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Brian Trzupek

Sr. Vice President Product, DigiCert
Brian Trzupek is SVP of Product at DigiCert. A crypto and security tech by day and night, Trzupek brings nearly two decades of expertise on many security subjects to the team. He is often brainstorming use cases for enterprise PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) facilitated by the industry-leading... Read More →
DigiCert CCC Trust Evidence (1) pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:00pm PDT

Global Agentic Identity and Programmable Trust: Lessons Learned From the NATO DIANA Pilot - Manu Fontaine, Hushmesh Inc.
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
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 faces at global scale: how people, organizations, and their respective agents prove identity, authority, and credentials across trust...
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Manu Fontaine

Founder and CEO, Hushmesh Inc.
Manu Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, a dual-use, early-stage, Delaware Public Benefit Corporation in the Washington DC area. Hushmesh leverages Confidential Computing technology to develop, deploy, and operate "the Mesh": the Programmable Trust infrastructure for the... Read More →
Global Agentic Identity and Direct Programmable Trust CCSummit 2026 Slides 06 24 2026 pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

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...
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avatar for Arthur Savage

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.
CoCo Summit 2026 1 pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:00pm - 3:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm PDT

Privacy-Preserving Fraud Intelligence for India's Open Finance Ecosystem Using TEEs - Kiran Gopinath, Sahamati Foundation & Rene Kolga, Google Cloud
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
Loan fraud in India is a $4 billion annual problem. Simultaneously, it is very hard to detect and prevent this when each lender sees only their slice of a borrower's activity. India's Open Finance framework, called Account Aggregator, establishes the foundation for coordinated fraud prevention at scale. However, lenders cannot pool raw borrower data to combat it. Aikya, built on a Trusted...
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Speakers
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Kiran Gopinath

Chief Innovation Officer and Head Sahamati Labs, Sahamati Foundation
As Chief Innovation Officer at Sahamati, Kiran leads initiatives shaping India’s Account Aggregator ecosystem, one of the world’s fastest-growing Open Finance networks and is the founder of Sahamati Labs, where he drives innovation at the intersection of AI, Open Finance. His... Read More →
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Rene Kolga

Sr Product Manager, Google Cloud
Rene Kolga, CISSP, has over 15 years of cybersecurity experience in the areas of endpoint protection, insider threat, encryption and vulnerability management. Currently, he is a Product Manager at Google on the Confidential Computing team. Prior to Google, Rene worked for Symantec... Read More →
Confidential Computing Summit June 2026 Slides pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm PDT

Realizing Confidential VMs Ensuring Privacy of AI Features at LY Corporation in a Real-World Cloud - LY Corporation - Hiroki Narukawa & Akihiro Misawa, LY Corporation
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
This presentation shows a real-world example of our private cloud introducing Confidential VMs based on SEV-SNP where application in container is included in trust boundary. At LY Corporation, as part of our privacy enhancement for LINE (messaging app with 194 million active users), we provide Confidential VMs powered by AMD SEV-SNP in our private cloud. This ensures that even employees cannot...
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avatar for Akihiro Misawa

Akihiro Misawa

Infrastructure Engineer, LY Corporation
An infrastructure engineer at LY Corporation, working on system infrastructure. Involved in OS image management, automation, and internal tooling to support service operations at scale.
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Hiroki Narukawa

Software Engineer, LY Corporation
Software Engineer in LY Corporation, working on IaaS. Mainly developing software running inside hypervisors. Narukawa often scopes on low layer problems. Working on developing software and managing version of OpenStack, qemu, libvirt
Confidential Computing Summit 2026 LY Corporation pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

3:30pm PDT

WhatsApp Private Processing - Kevin Hui, Yunqi Li, Elizabeth Li, 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...
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avatar for Elizabeth Li

Elizabeth Li

Tech Program Manager, Meta
Elizabeth manages the Private Compute Program at Meta. She is responsible for leading the Private Compute Platform Team to build the platform foundation, including Confidential Virtual Machine(CVM) & Communication, CVM & Host Transparency, Developer experiences improvement,  and... Read More →
avatar for Henry Wang

Henry Wang

SWE, Meta
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avatar for Kevin Hui

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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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.
avatar for Yunqi Li

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 →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 3:30pm - 3:55pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions

4:00pm PDT

A Large-Scale Data Clean Room Case Study in Japan: Confidential Computing and Privacy Regulations - Takao Takenouchi & Takeharu Kondo, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
AI model advancement demands cross-enterprise data collaboration, but strict privacy regulations create barriers. This session explores a commercialized Data Clean Room in Japan by Acompany and KDDI, a Fortune Global 500 telecom company. We will share the architecture enabling secure data matching and privacy-preserving AI development. We detail how this satisfies the strict third-party data...
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avatar for Takao Takenouchi

Takao Takenouchi

VP of Public Affairs & Strategic Alliance, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Takao Takenouchi, Ph.D., is VP of Public Affairs & Strategic Alliance at Acompany Co., Ltd. He has nearly 20 years of experience in security and privacy technologies across major technology companies and startups in Japan. His work spans privacy-enhancing technologies, including Confidential... Read More →
avatar for Takeharu Kondo

Takeharu Kondo

Co-founder / Chief Research and Development Officer, Acompany Co., Ltd.
Takeharu Kondo is Co-founder and Chief R&D Officer of Acompany, a Japanese startup building Confidential AI — AI you can trust with your most sensitive data. Since co-founding the company in 2018, he has led applied R&D that turns Confidential Computing and privacy-enhancing technologies... Read More →
260624 CCSummit DCR submitted v2 pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Gold Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

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,...
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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 →
Confidential Compute Summit Presentation msw version ab pdf
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Courtyard
  Breakout Sessions
  • Slides Attached Yes

4:00pm PDT

Private Model as a Service: Zero-Trust Blueprint for Protecting AI Weights - Marcos Entenza & Jens Freimann, Red Hat
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
In the agentic era, deploying proprietary AI on-premises raises a critical question: how do you protect model IP when infrastructure admins have full hardware access? This session introduces Private Model as a Service (PMaaS), a production-ready reference architecture that secures AI model weights across their entire lifecycle using hardware-rooted Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). We dive...
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Speakers
avatar for Jens Freimann

Jens Freimann

Engineering Manager, Red Hat
Jens Freimann is an Engineering Manager at Red Hat working on open-source virtualization and cloud infrastructure. With a background contributing to projects like QEMU and KVM, his current work centers around hardware-backed security and Confidential Computing. Lately, he has been... Read More →
avatar for Marcos Entenza

Marcos Entenza

Sr. Principal Product Manager, Red Hat
Marcos Entenza, a.k.a Mak, works on the core Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments to enable customers to run Red Hat OpenShift anywhere. Mak is an experienced Product Manager passionate about building scalable infrastructures, and he oversees... Read More →
Wednesday June 24, 2026 4:00pm - 4:25pm PDT
Mint Ballroom
  Breakout Sessions

4:30pm PDT

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

Speakers
avatar for Brittany Kaiser

Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp
Brittany Kaiser is Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Compute Corp. (Nasdaq: ALP), where she leads strategy in confidential computing, data sovereignty, and AI infrastructure. A globally recognized authority on data rights, digital assets, and AI governance, she became a leading voice... Read More →
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Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

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