October Recap: Highlights include KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA, new CCC project tech talks, and top community blog posts.
In this month’s issue:
- Executive Director October Recap
- KubeCon & CloudNativeCon NA
- Tech Talks + New CCC Project
- Community Blog Highlights
Executive Director Update
October/November is voting time at the Confidential Computing Consortium, and so if you are a member of the consortium, we welcome your application to stand as chair or vice chair of any of our three committees: Governing Board, Technical Advisory Committee, and Outreach Committee. It is with sadness that we say goodbye to Ron Perez, who has served as Chair of the Governing Board with great wisdom and patience, providing his experience to all and sundry. We wish him well and thank him for his work with the Consortium: I personally have benefited immensely from his counsel and advice during his tenure.
The CCC also appeared at OSS Japan again this year. Mark Medum Bundgaard of Partisia and I hosted a Birds of a Feather session on Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and presented a session on Confidential Computing for AI, Multi-Party Collaboration and Web3: as always, I’m very happy to share my slides and discuss with anybody with an interest. Next month a number of members will be in Salt Lake City for Kubecon North America – if you can make it, we’d love to see you there.
Come Join Us For Some Fun!!
Stop by the CCC Booth (Q25) for various activities throughout the event.
We have prepared;
- Privacy Jeopardy during KubeCrawl
- CC Scavenger Hunt
- Mini Sessions
- Demos
- Fun Swags
You can use our 20% discount code to register: KCNA24TYKAN20
Can’t wait to see you there!!
Tech Talks
Our Tech Talk series continued strong with a presentation from Caroline Perez-Vargas on Microsoft’s new OpenHCL project. Since Caroline’s talk the project has been made available on GitHub with an open source license. There’s a natural next step for this project but I just can’t put my finger on it. 😉 Oh well, we’ll just have to see what they have in mind to expand the contributor base with Confidential Computing subject matter experts.
We also heard from Chanda Nelogal on Extending Confidentiality to Data Storage. Chandra introduced us to intersections with Confidential Computing and Self Encrypting Drives. As we see Confidential Computing capable devices enter the market, some of us have focused on accelerators, but storage devices are an interesting and important category. We look forward to Chandra returning to take the conversation further.
CCC Welcomes New Open Source Project
We are excited to announce the addition of a new project to the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) portfolio: ManaTEE. This innovative platform creates secure data clean rooms, enabling privacy-compliant collaboration for industries like healthcare and finance. ManaTEE supports tools such as Jupyter Notebooks, providing a flexible environment for secure multi-party research and analysis.
