Confidential Computing Summit 2026

Confidential Computing Summit 2026

8:00am PDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Salon 3 Continental Breakfast Column Ballroom

9:00am PDT

Keynote: Welcome - Nelly Porter, Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google Courtyard

9:05am PDT

Keynote: Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, The Linux Foundation Courtyard

9:10am PDT

Keynote: Welcome Address - Aaron Fulkerson, Chief Executive Officer, OPAQUE Courtyard

9:20am PDT

Keynote: Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Courtyard

9:40am PDT

Keynote to be Announced Courtyard

10:00am PDT

Keynote: Hugo Romero, Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD Courtyard

10:20am PDT

Coffee Break Column Ballroom

10:35am PDT

Keynote: Confidential Computing Consortium (Speaker to be Announced) Courtyard

10:55am PDT

Keynote: Dr. Najwa Aaraj, CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII) Courtyard

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Hugo Romero, AMD; Najwa Aaraj, TII; Mark Russinovich, Microsoft & Additional Speakers to be Announced Courtyard

11:45am PDT

Lunch Column Ballroom Poster Presentations: Innovation Courtyard Poster Presentations: Research Courtyard Poster Presentations: Use Cases Courtyard

12:45pm PDT

AMD Session (Speaker to be Announced) Gold Ballroom Microsoft Session (Speaker to be Announced) Courtyard TII Session (Speaker to be Announced) Mint Ballroom

1:15pm PDT

Confidential Computing Consortium Session (Speaker to be Announced) Gold Ballroom Session to be Announced Courtyard

1:45pm PDT

OPAQUE Session (Speaker to be Announced) Courtyard Session to be Announced Gold Ballroom

2:15pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Speakers to be Announced from Microsoft, AMD, CCC, TII, OPAQUE & Additional Companies Courtyard

2:45pm PDT

Coffee Break Column Ballroom

3:00pm PDT

From Pixels To Agents: Optimizing On-Device Performance of Confidential Computing in AI Evolution - Savas Ozkan, Samsung Research UK, Samsung Electronics Mint Ballroom NVIDIA Confidential Computing Attestation for Next-Generation AI Hardware - Rob Nertney & Spencer Gilson, NVIDIA Courtyard Trust Is the Next Bottleneck: Why the Agentic Economy Needs Confidential Computing - Pawan Khandavilli, Microsoft Gold Ballroom

3:30pm PDT

"If It's Shared, It's Vulnerable": Is Kubernetes the Right Platform for Confidential Compute? - Zvonko Kaiser, NVIDIA Mint Ballroom GKE Hypercluster: Kubernetes TEEs for AI at Scale - Komei Nakamoto & Keith Moyer, Google Courtyard Resilient Real-Time Payments With Confidential Computing Architectures - Abhinav Reddy Jutur, J P Morgan Chase and Co. Gold Ballroom

4:00pm PDT

Agentic Zero Trust: at Rest, in Transit, and at Runtime - Nina Polshakova, Solo.io & Josh Halley, Cisco Gold Ballroom Governing AI Agents at the Hardware Boundary - Imran Siddique, Microsoft Courtyard Running AI Agents Inside TEEs Without Losing Your Mind - Sonali Mishra, Nutanix Mint Ballroom

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Closing & Wrap-Up Courtyard

5:30pm PDT

Evening Event The Mint

8:00am PDT

Registration & Badge Pick-Up Salon 3 Continental Breakfast Column Ballroom

9:00am PDT

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

9:10am PDT

Keynote Sessions to be Announced Courtyard

10:20am PDT

Coffee Break Column Ballroom

10:35am PDT

Keynote Session to be Announced Courtyard

10:55am PDT

Keynote: Ion Stoica, Professor, UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Databricks and Anyscale, Co-Founder and Board Member, OPAQUE Courtyard

11:15am PDT

Keynote Panel Discussion: Ion Stoica, Professor, UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Databricks and Anyscale, Co-Founder and Board Member, OPAQUE & Additional Speakers to be Announced Courtyard

11:45am PDT

Lunch Column Ballroom Poster Presentations: Innovation Courtyard Poster Presentations: Research Courtyard Poster Presentations: Use Cases Courtyard

12:45pm PDT

Characterizing NVIDIA Confidential Computing Overheads Across Model Inference & Training - Tanya Verma, Tinfoil Gold Ballroom Session to be Announced Courtyard

1:15pm PDT

Session to be Announced Gold Ballroom Session to be Announced Courtyard

1:45pm PDT

Session to be Announced Gold Ballroom Session to be Announced Courtyard

2:15pm PDT

Panel Discussion: Speakers to be Announced Courtyard

2:45pm PDT

Coffee Break Column Ballroom

3:00pm PDT

From Trust Assumptions To Trust Evidence: Why PKI and Confidential Computing Are Converging - Brian Trzupek, DigiCert Mint Ballroom Global Agentic Identity and Programmable Trust: Lessons Learned From the NATO DIANA Pilot - Manu Fontaine, Hushmesh Inc. Gold Ballroom Q-Day Survival Guide: What the Post-quantum Cryptography Transition Means for Confidential Computing - Arthur Savage, Red Hat Courtyard

3:30pm PDT

Privacy-Preserving Fraud Intelligence for India's Open Finance Ecosystem Using TEEs - Kiran Gopinath, Sahamati Foundation & Rene Kolga, Google Cloud Gold Ballroom Realizing Confidential VMs Ensuring Privacy of AI Features at LY Corporation in a Real-World Cloud - LY Corporation (Speakers to be Announced) Mint Ballroom WhatsApp Private Processing - Kevin Hui, Yunqi Li, Sidharth Verma, Henry Wang & Varun Patil, Meta Courtyard

4:00pm PDT

A Large-Scale Data Clean Room Case Study in Japan: Confidential Computing and Privacy Regulations - ACompany (Speakers to be Announced) Gold Ballroom Overview of the AWS Nitro System: Building Trust Through Secure Cloud Infrastructure - Matthew Wilson, Amazon Courtyard Private Model as a Service: Zero-Trust Blueprint for Protecting AI Weights - Marcos Entenza, Red Hat Mint Ballroom

4:30pm PDT

Keynote: Closing & Wrap-Up Courtyard