In Today’s Issue
- From the Executive Director
- Outreach
- Upcoming Events
- From the TAC
- Recent News
Hello Community Member,
This month’s update highlights important progress across the Consortium, including insights from the TAC, Outreach, and Executive Director, as well as recent member news. From preparing strategic priorities for 2026 to hands-on technical advances and upcoming events like the AI Infrastructure Summit and our October workshop, the CCC continues to bring members together to shape the future of Confidential Computing. Read on for the latest updates!
From the Executive Director
While the Consortium isn’t very busy with activities like conferences over August, that doesn’t mean that important work stands still. I’ve been working with members of the leadership team to prepare us for 2026. Budgets need to be approved towards the end of the year, of course, but we can’t start on that without a good understanding of what our strategic priorities should be for the next 12 months. So we’ve been looking at what our options might be and are looking forward to the Governing Board meeting at the end of this month, where we hope to have a robust debate about what we might do.
One of the interesting things about the Consortium is the high number of start-ups who are (mostly) General Members, and balancing their interests with those of our larger members, some of whom are Premier Members. We work hard to ensure that the views, goals and concerns of smaller members are considered and represented at the strategic level, and the make-up of the Governing Board includes three representatives of the General Members, elected once a year to the Board. We value their input and they each have a vote, equal with those of the Premier Members.
Outreach
Outreach took the month off to lay by the pool and drink mojitas (we wish!). Actually, it’s been a sprint to prepare for upcoming events including the AI Infrastructure Summit in Santa Clara, California and plan our customer workshop in San Francisco. CCC presence at AI Infrastructure Summit (September 9-11) is packed with member participation on panels, pre-show workshops, at-show sessions, podcasts, and a booth. Thanks to members Anjuna, Hushmesh, Invary, and Mainsail for their leadership at the event. Outreach is also planning a customer workshop for ~30 attendees on October 20 in San Francisco with a strong line-up of speakers on topics ranging from confidential AI, regulatory compliance, and even a build-your-own-use case exercise. Tip of the hat to members Nvidia and TikTok for taking point on workshop planning. And finally, the international survey results from our market research project with IDC are in, and we are looking forward to seeing the initial report at the Outreach meeting on September 3. IDC is targeting delivery of their full report in early October, which will be available to all members. Maybe we’ll get to lay by the pool in November? We can hope.
Upcoming Events
- AI Infra Summit – September 9-11, 2025
- CCC Hosted Workshop: Designing AI Data Safeguards with Confidential Computing – October 20, 2025, San Francisco
- Join this one-day workshop to explore how Confidential Computing can protect sensitive AI initiatives, enable compliance, and unlock new capabilities. Hear real-world examples from industry leaders and collaborate with experts to develop solutions tailored for your business.
From the TAC
Despite August vacations a lot transpired this month in the Technical Advisory Council. ManaTEE delivered its first annual report from Mingshen Sun. Since joining a year ago the project has made its first community release, refactored a lot of the initial research code, and added a new TEE backend (Intel TDX). They also added documentation which is great for first time users and contributors and have a slick webpage.
We also got an update on the RISC-V confidential computing architecture, CoVE from Ravi Sahita. Ravi walked us through the CoVE Application Binary Interface and Reference Architecture. Much of the collaboration for this work takes place in a sister organization in the Linux Foundation. Learn more.
We also heard from Red Hat’s Dr. Chris Butler. Chris talked about his experiences in the field applying Confidential Computing to real customer problems. It was a great ground truth on customer perceptions of the technology. One of my main takeaways was the importance of compliance in customer decisions. This has been a big topic across the Consortium and one that we need even more focus on. You can watch all of this in our TAC playlist on youtube – check out the August 7th meeting.
Recent News
- We’re excited to welcome QLAD to the CCC as a new Start-up Member! QLAD is a Kubernetes-native confidential computing platform delivering pod-level TEEs, encrypted Armored Containers™, and post-quantum resilience—making confidentiality scalable and production-ready. With contributions already in the Confidential Containers project and a vision to simplify secure computing, QLAD is helping define the next era of Confidential Computing. Read the announcement.
Best regards,
The Confidential Computing Consortium
