Software Architect
Dave Thaler
Dave Thaler is a Software Architect at Microsoft, where he works on IoT security. Dave has over 25 years of standards body experience and currently chairs the IETF group on Software Update for IoT, as well as the Confidential Computing Consortium’s Technical Advisory Council. He previously served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for 11 years. He chaired IETF groups on Trusted Execution Environment provisioning, NAT behavior, the Port Control Protocol, and multicast address allocation, and has authored over 55 IETF and IAB publications (RFCs). Dave has 20 years of development experience in Windows networking, and has also been a contributor to a number of open source cross-platform projects. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Michigan.