Aeva Black is a radically queer geek and Linux user since the mid ’90s who has been an advocate for Open Source since 2003. They pioneered the creation of Ironic, OpenStack’s Bare Metal Cloud project while at HPE, and have contributed to projects such as MySQL, Ansible, and Kubernetes. Today, they are the Open Source Program Manager for the Azure Confidential Compute team, Azure’s representative to the Confidential Computing Consortium’s Outreach Committee, and a member of the Kubernetes Code of Conduct Committee.

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.

Mike Bursell joined Red Hat in August 2016 in the Office of the CTO, following roles working on security, virtualisation and networking. After training in software engineering, he specialised in distributed systems and security, and has worked in architecture and technical strategy for the past few years. His responsibilities at Red Hat include security strategy, external and internal visibility, and thought leadership. He is one of the co-founders of the Enarx project (https://enarx.io). He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC.

Professional interests include: Linux, confidential computing, open source software, security, distributed systems, blockchain, NFV, SDN, virtualisation.

Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University.

Nelly Porter is a lead Product Manager for Confidential Computing in Google Cloud with over 10 years experience in platform security, virtsec, PKI, crypto, authentication and authorization field. She is working on multiple areas in Google, from Titan: Titan in depth:security in plaintext,  7 ways we harden our KVM in Google Cloud: security in plaintext, to Confidential Computing: Advancing confidential computing with Asylo and the Confidential Computing Challenge, Introducing Google Confidential Computing and more, has 25 patents and publications. Prior to working at Google, Nelly spent some time working at Microsoft in the virtualization and security space, HP Labs, advancing clustering story, and Scientix (Israel) as a firmware and kernel driver eng.

Seth is the Vice President of Marking at Fortanix. Fortanix solves cloud security and privacy challenges, allowing customers to securely operate even the most sensitive applications without having to trust their infrastructure. Fortanix encrypts applications and data everywhere – at rest, in motion, and in use with its Runtime Encryption® technology built upon Intel® SGX. Fortune 500 customers worldwide trust Fortanix to protect their business-critical data and operations. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and a Series B company funded by Intel Capital, Foundation Capital and NeoTribe.

Stephen is a principal program manager working in the Azure team at Microsoft and leads the Governing Board for the Confidential Computing Consortium. Prior to that he was a Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Stephen has been a technical executive, a founder, a writer, a systems developer, a software construction geek, and a standards diplomat. He has worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor, working with open source for 25 years. He blogs about open source and software business at “Once More unto the Breach”, opensource.com, and on Medium.