In today’s issue, learn about:
- From the Executive Director
- Outreach
- Upcoming Events
- From the TAC
- Recent News
Welcome to our latest newsletter! The June 2025 CCC newsletter spotlights recent events the CCC community has participated in, as well as technical updates on Coconut SVSM and Glossary. Read all the details below!
From the Executive Director (ED)
The second half of June has been a very busy time for Confidential Computing, with three events nearly back-to-back. The first was the Confidential Computing Summit in San Francisco, organized by CCC member Opaque, sponsored by the CCC and attended by many members. I gave a keynote on Aligning Confidential Computing with Use Cases, and there were keynotes and sessions from many very illustrious members of our community. Nelly Porter (Chair of the Governing Board), Dan Middleton (Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee) and I also ran a panel on the CCC, what we’re for and the benefits of engagement. Videos of sessions at the event should be available shortly, and are certainly worth watching to catch up.
The week after, in Denver, the Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America also contained a number of sessions around Confidential Computing, and was followed the day after by a mini-Summit on Confidential Computing, run by the CCC.
These events can only take place with the involvement of our members, and I’d like to thank the individuals and organizations who devote time and resources to making them work. We have more events coming up: for more information, join one of the Outreach Committee’s meetings (or watch them on YouTube!).
Outreach
Confidential Computing Summit Retro
The 2025 Confidential Computing Summit featured an impressive lineup of 93 sessions across two days, bringing together senior leaders from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Meta, Intel, IBM, Google, and renowned academics from Stanford and Berkeley. The agenda included a mix of technical deep dives, thought leadership panels, and hands-on workshops led by teams from LangChain, CrewAI, and Galileo, offering valuable opportunities to explore topics such as agentic AI and secure deployment frameworks.
The Confidential Computing Consortium booth served as a central hub for member companies to showcase their latest projects and engage with attendees on the evolving mission of confidential computing.
A key highlight was the Confidential Computing Consortium session, where leaders such as Mike Bursell, Dan Middleton, and Nelly Porter from the Linux Foundation, Outreach Committee, Technical Advisory Council, and Governing Board came together for a panel discussion. The session offered attendees a unique look into the consortium’s collaborative efforts, major milestones, and cross-industry priorities. It provided a clear roadmap for how the consortium is driving innovation through community engagement, ecosystem alignment, and open development, and how individuals and organizations can get involved.
Confidential Computing Mini Summit Retro
The Confidential Computing Mini Summit at OSS NA 2025 took place on Thursday, June 26, from 1:30 to 5:00 PM in Colorado. The half-day summit brought together experts and practitioners to explore the latest advancements in confidential computing across infrastructure, AI, and distributed systems.
The summit featured a series of in-depth technical talks. Laura Martinez opened the program with “Scaling Trust for Autonomous Intelligence with NVIDIA”, highlighting how NVIDIA is enabling secure, scalable AI through confidential computing. Donghang Lu followed with “Trustless Attestation Verification in Distributed Confidential Computing”, where he introduced innovative methods for establishing trust in decentralized environments without relying on traditional trust anchors. Finally, Julian Stephen presented “Confidential Computing for Scaling Inference Workloads”, outlining techniques to secure and optimize AI inference using confidential computing technologies. The event concluded with a wrap up session led by Mike Bursell, who summarized key takeaways and encouraged continued collaboration across the ecosystem.
Session recordings will be available soon. Please stay tuned on our Confidential Computing Consortium channel at YouTube.
Upcoming Events
- AI Infra Summit September 9-11, 2025
From the TAC
This month we had a great update from Coconut SVSM. The project has matured tremendously and has added a governance structure that will help ensure an architecture in balance with the different TEE providers in the community.
We also revisited the Glossary project that was initiated last year. After some initial work the Glossary was left untended. For now we’ve decided that we should invest more in it rather than shut it down. The project is useful to other organizations outside of the CCC to have plain language, informal explanations of our terminology. This is a great place to contribute if you are looking to get involved.
Recent News
- Reporting on the Endorsement API Workshop at Linaro Connect 2025: Last month saw the annual gathering of engineers and experts from across the Arm ecosystem for the Linaro Connect 2025 conference, which this year took place in Lisbon. As promised, confidential computing was an important theme at this year’s conference. Read more in our recap blog.
Best regards,
The Confidential Computing Consortium
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