Confidential Computing Summit 2026: Full Schedule

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 journey and discuss the next frontier: confidential sovereignty, where organizations can verify code, enforce policy, and retain control across compute, networking, and software supply chains.

Speakers

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
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Keynote Sessions

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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

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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 environments (TEEs) across both CPUs and GPUs. Join us to understand the underlying infrastructure that enables the processing of highly sensitive data and the training of proprietary models with cryptographic assurance, protecting high-value AI assets against both current and horizon attack vectors.

Speakers

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 →

Nelly Porter

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

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

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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 infrastructure. The session will examine how runtime evidence, policy enforcement, and ecosystem deployment patterns can help make agentic AI practical for sensitive enterprise and cloud environments. It will also look ahead to how confidential AI continues to evolve across platforms, accelerators, and open standards.

Speakers

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
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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

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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, the gaps in traditional defenses that vulnerabilities in the latest tools have already exposed, and the architectural shift required to stay ahead.
You'll leave with a concrete understanding of where your current security stack is likely falling short, why Confidential Computing's hardware-rooted trust model is becoming the standard for agentic AI deployment, and what your organization needs to prioritize before speed of adoption becomes a liability.
Hosted by the Confidential Computing Consortium, this session is designed for executives who are done waiting for security to catch up and ready to build AI infrastructure that's secure by design, from silicon to cloud.

Speakers

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
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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

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Speakers

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
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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

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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 requires verifiable answers to four questions: what code ran, where it ran, who operated it, and what rules were enforced. This keynote panel convenes leaders across the full sovereign stack, including silicon, cloud, and frontier model labs, to examine why hardware-enforced verifiability has become the cornerstone of production-grade sovereign AI deployments. The conversation will explore how hyperscalers, frontier model labs, and sovereign platforms are shaping trusted AI infrastructure, and why Confidential AI is now the foundational layer for compliance, IP protection, governance, and verifiable sovereignty. Because without proof of sovereignty, you have nothing.

Moderators

Frederic Lardinois

Sr. Editor, AI, The New Stack

Speakers

Nelly Porter

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

Mike Bursell

Executive Director, Confidential Computing Consortium

Mark Russinovich

CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft

Hugo Romero

Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Tuesday June 23, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am PDT
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Keynote Sessions

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

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Moderators

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)

Sripriya Srinivasan

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

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

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Moderators

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Speakers

Erica Brescia

Managing Director, Redpoint

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 →

Marvin Tong

Co-founder, Phala Network

Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:00pm - 5:20pm PDT
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5:20pm PDT

Wrap-Up Session: Closing Remarks

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

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Speakers

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

Tuesday June 23, 2026 5:20pm - 5:30pm PDT
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9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome Back - Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, OPAQUE

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

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Speakers

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

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

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Speakers

Ivan Krstić

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

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

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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 computing is the control that protects the control.

Speakers

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
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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

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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 workloads inside sealed, verifiable enclaves, and makes the case that the agentic AI era demands a new foundation, not a patch on the old one.

Speakers

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
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10:35am PDT

Keynote: Monique Dumais, Senior Vice President & CIO, Encore Capital Group

Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:35am - 10:55am PDT

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Speakers

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
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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

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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 →

Ion Stoica CCS 2026 pdf

Wednesday June 24, 2026 10:55am - 11:15am PDT
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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

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Three forces are accelerating demand for verifiable AI trust and turning Confidential AI from a should into a must. First, Mythos-class models and their successors make it probable that a malicious actor can place itself inside your environment. The agent is the attack surface. Second, current agent architectures are data-leaky. An employee touching the data is one problem. A malicious agent is another. In regulated industries, neither is acceptable. Third, new regulations require runtime proof — what ran, where, under what rules — automated, hardware-signed, third-party-verifiable. The EU AI Act Article 12 enforcement hits August 2, 2026; sovereign-AI rules across the Gulf, EU, India, and Singapore stack behind it. This panel explores what it actually takes to govern agentic AI in high-stakes environments: the architectural requirements, the compliance obligations, and the organizational shifts that make Confidential AI not just defensible, but mandatory.

Speakers

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 →

Keynote Sessions

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Closing & Wrap-Up

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

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Speakers

Brittany Kaiser

CEO, Alpha Compute Corp

Aaron Fulkerson

OPAQUE, CEO

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