The Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) recently participated in the Open Source Summit Europe (OSS EU), hosting a dedicated Confidential Computing Mini Summit.
The event gathered some of the brightest minds in the industry to discuss the evolving landscape of Confidential Computing, its capabilities, and its impact across various industries.
Check it out—All sessions from the summit are now available on the CCC YouTube channel for anyone who missed the event or wants to revisit the discussions.
Mini Summit Recap
The Mini Summit featured an impressive lineup of speakers and thought leaders, offering insights into the latest trends and innovations in Confidential Computing. Here’s a recap of the key sessions:
Opening Keynote- Confidential Computing: Enabling New Workloads and Use Cases
Mike Bursell, Executive Director of the CCC, opened the summit with a deep dive into Confidential Computing, showcasing how hardware-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) now support new workloads. He highlighted its role in securing data with hardware-backed security and attestation, while exploring emerging applications in Generative AI, Web3, and multi-party computation.
Mike emphasized the transformative power of Confidential Computing, enabling secure workloads through the fusion of hardware security and cryptographic assurances. As Confidential Computing grows, remote attestation is becoming crucial, ensuring confidentiality and integrity in sensitive workloads across diverse environments.
Presentation here
Mini Summit Sessions
Cocos AI – Confidential Computing
- Drasko Draskovic (CEO, Abstract Machines) and Dusan Borovcanin (Ultraviolet) shared, with a demo, how Cocos AI, using Confidential Computing, is leveraging computing to create more secure AI environments.
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TikTok’s Privacy Innovation- A Secure and Private Platform for Transparent Research Access with Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
- Mingshen Sun (Research Scientist, TikTok) presented TikTok’s approach to privacy-enhancing technologies, showcasing a secure and private platform designed for transparent research access. The TikTok project is currently going through the process of being accepted as an open source project under the CCC.
Panel Session: Attestation and Its Role in Confidential Computing
- This panel, moderated by Mike Bursell, included expert perspectives from Paul Howard (Principal System Solutions Architect, Arm), Yuxuan Song (Ph.D. student, Inria Paris, and Sorbonne University), Ian Oliver(Cybersecurity Consultant), and Hannes Tschofenig (Professor, University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg). They explored how remote attestation serves as a key enabler for confidentiality and integrity, driving business value by assuring the trustworthiness of computing environments. A wide-ranging – and at times quite lively! – discussion covered topics from IoT use cases to issues of transparency, from attestation models to approaches to integration.
Supporting Confidential Computing Across Europe’s Cloud-Edge Continuum
- Francisco Picolini (Open Source Community Manager, OpenNebula Systems) highlighted the efforts to extend Confidential Computing capabilities within a new European project, looking across in the cloud and edge computing spaces.
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Hiding Attestation with Linux Keyring in Confidential Virtual Machines
- Mikko Ylinen (Cloud Software Architect, Intel) presented an innovative approach to using Linux Keyring to enhance security in confidential virtual machines, offering new techniques for securing workloads.
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Looking Ahead
The Confidential Computing Mini Summit at OSS EU provided attendees with a comprehensive view of Confidential Computing’s present and future potential. Discussions around Gen AI, Web3, and multi-party computation showed how Confidential Computing is set to play a pivotal role in shaping the future of technology by enabling more secure, trusted, and scalable computing environments.
Join the conversation with the CCC and its ecosystem of members for more on how Confidential Computing is transforming industries and unlocking new capabilities. The future of secure computation is just beginning, and there’s much more to discover.
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