Felix Schuster

CEO at Edgeless Systems

Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing. He co-founded Edgeless Systems in 2020. The company’s mission is to make scalable confidential computing accessible to everyone. Felix has given talks at top-tier cybersecurity conferences, including Usenix Security Symposium and RSA Conference.

Kosei Akama

Keio University

Kosei Akama is a second-year master's student at Keio University's Graduate School of Media and Governance. He earned his bachelor's degree from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University in 2023. His research focuses on applied cryptography and trusted computing. Notably, his paper, "Scrappy: SeCure Rate Assuring Protocol with PrivacY," was accepted to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2024, a prestigious international cybersecurity conference. He is also active online under the handle "akakou."

Moritz Eckert

VP Product & Technology

Moritz Eckert is VP Product & Technology at Edgeless Systems. He conducted research at EURECOM and UC Santa Barbara working on the next generation of Cyber Reasoning Systems. He joined Edgeless Systems in 2020 with the mission of making confidential computing scalable and accessible for everyone. He has presented at conferences such as Microsoft Build, Usenix Security, and RSA Conference.

Paul Meyer

Security Software Engineer

Paul is a Security Software Engineer at Edgeless Systems and works on Confidential Computing, secure Kubernetes, and reproducible builds. He enjoys contributing to NixOS and other open source projects.

Jörg Rödel

Linux Kernel Engineer

Jörg is leading the Confidential Computing efforts at SUSE and is working with AMD on enabling SEV and related technologies. In this role he implemented major parts of the AMD SEV-ES guest support in the Linux kernel and brought it upstream into kernel 5.10. He is also active in the Linux kernel community as the maintainer for the IOMMU subsystem and a contributor to other areas like KVM or the X86 architecture.

Rachel Wan

Lead Product Manager

Rachel Wan is a Lead Product Manager at IBM, specializing in data privacy and security, with a focus on Confidential Computing and AI technologies. She leads product development in Confidential Computing/Confidential AI strategy and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, helping companies ensure data compliance and security. Additionally, Rachel sits as chair of the Outreach Committee at the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC).

Ram Pai

Confidential Computing Architect

Ram is a Confidential Computing Architect for IBM Cloud VPC based in Portland Oregon. He has Masters in Computer Science from OHSU Portland. He was instrumental is enabling the Intel based Confidential Computing Services on IBM Cloud. Prior to that he lead the architecture and development of the technology on IBM's OpenPOWER and coauthored a IEEE paper on Confidential Computing on POWER. He has also contributed to the open-source community; Virtual File-systems, the memory management, device drivers, volume managers and many more.

Chris Oo

Senior Software Engineer

Chris is a developer on the Core OS Virtualization team at Microsoft, focused on confidential computing. His background includes work across different operating systems and architectures such as Windows, Linux, x86-64 and AArch64. He received a B.S.E. from the University of Michigan. One of his main areas of focus is OpenHCL, a paravisor for Confidential VMs, part of the broader open-source OpenVMM project.

Otto Bittner

Security Software Engineer

Otto is a Security Software Engineer with Edgeless Systems and works on making Confidential Computing more user friendly. Part of that work is implementing remote attestation flows, benchmarking Kubernetes cluster performance and debugging the Nvidia software stack.

Wenhui Zhang

Researcher

Wenhui Zhang is a Researcher/Software Engineer at Bytedance, where she has been there since 2021. She holds PhD from Penn State. Wenhui’s research interests include operating systems and runtimes, security, architecture, compiler optimization, and concurrency. Her recent work has been on system support for trusted execution environments, CXL memory, serverless computing, and safety guardrails for large language models. She has been serving on PC for WWW'[24, 25], NeurIPS’24, IPDPS’25, AAAI'25 DATASAFE, Shadow PC for Eurosys'25, AEC PC for SOSP'23, OSDI'24, ATC'24 and SIGCOMM’24 and PC for Demo/Poster Track of CCS'24. Her publishing recognition includes Best Paper runner-ups at Eurosys'24. She is also serving as security co-chair for Akraino Edge Stack, co-lead for cc-api project and involved in many other open source projects.

Darshan Patel

Lead Software Engineer

Darshan Patel is a Lead Software Engineer at FUJITSU-MONAKA Software R&D Unit, HPC AI Lab, Fujitsu Research of India Private Limited, Bengaluru. He specializes in the research and development of AI software optimized for Arm high-performance computing. Currently, his primary focus is on designing and developing the ARM CCA (Confidential Compute Architecture) software stack for FUJITSU-MONAKA, a next-generation 2nm Arm-based CPU set to launch in 2027. His work plays a key role in enhancing security and performance in high-performance computing environments.

Rob Nertney

Senior Software Architect

Rob Nertney is a senior software architect for confidential computing & attestation. He has spent nearly 15 years architecting the features and deployment of accelerator hardware into hyperscale environments for both internal and external use by developers. He has several patents in processor design relating to secure solutions that are in production today. In his spare time, he loves golfing when the weather is nice, and gaming (on RTX hardware of course!) when the weather isn’t.

Paul Howard

Principal System Solutions Architect

Paul Howard is a Principal System Solutions Architect in the Architecture and Technology Group at Arm. Paul focuses on secure solutions that combine hardware and software across cloud, edge and IoT. His work includes prototypes, proofs-of-concept, and open-source collaborations. He is a founding maintainer of the Parsec security project in the CNCF Sandbox.

Johan Bryssinck

Technical Lead

Johan Bryssinck is the technical lead of Swift’s Federated AI and Data Collaboration program. He has more than 20 years’ experience in leadership in corporate strategy, business transformation and innovation, technology, architecture and capacity management. At Swift, Johan is driving the adoption of artificial intelligence to enhance its products and services and innovate with customers. He oversees banking, vendor, FinTech, and research partnerships to solve common industry challenges with artificial intelligence. ‘Responsible AI’ is central to how Swift employs the technology as a key enabler for instant and frictionless cross-border payment and security transactions. His career spans critical market infrastructures at SWIFT, CLS and Euroclear. He holds a doctorate in Nuclear Physics from the University of Ghent, Belgium.

Dionna Glaze

Senior Software Engineer

Dionna has been at Google for 8 years working on Confidential Computing, with over a year on the IETF RATS working group. She is primarily focused on improving the standards story around trustworthiness for measured boot, but has also been involved in new SLSA standards for attested builds. She is a maintainer on the gce-tcb-verifier, go-sev-guest, go-configfs-tsm, and Veraison OSS projects.

Joshua Krstic

Senior Software Engineer

Joshua is a Senior Software Engineer at Google.

Ivan Petrov

Senior Software Engineer

Ivan Petrov is a Software Engineer working on Project Oak at Google DeepMind. He holds a PhD from Moscow State University, where he focused on intrusion detection systems and software-defined networking.

Katsiaryna Naliuka

Software Engineer

Katsiaryna Naliuka is a Software Engineer working on Project Oak at Google DeepMind. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, where her doctoral research specialized in mobile phone security.

Arie Aharon

TDX Connect Chief Architect

Arie Aharon is the Chief Architect of Intel TDX Connect and Intel Confidential Compute IO Technology (TEE-IO), leading the secure virtualization and IO architecture for confidential computing. He drives interoperability across cloud providers (Azure, GCP, AWS), AI/GPU vendors, and industry standards bodies, including PCIe and CXL, shaping the future of confidential compute workloads and devices. With 16 years of experience in security technologies—including TEE architectures (Intel SGX, TDX), security fuzzing, static analysis, and AI-driven malware research—he has contributed to industry standards and security innovations. Arie holds an M.B.A. in Entrepreneurship and has advised security startups and VCs. In his spare time, he shares insights on confidential computing and emerging security advancements.

Shalini Sharma

Principal Engineer and System Security Architect

Shalini Sharma is a Principal Engineer and System Security Architect at Intel Corporation, specializing in system security and architecture, and confidential computing. Shalini is a key architect for TDX Connect, focusing on enabling secure I/O virtualization in Trusted Execution Environments (TEE). Her work addresses challenges related to secure data transfer, secure device assignment, and isolation. She also contributed to enabling TDX Connect for Linux. Previously, Shalini served as the lead hardware architect for Intel's Security Engine, advancing silicon security features and working on security solutions for Intel’s next-generation products. She is also involved in PCIe technologies like TDISP and IDE.

Ijlal Loutfi

Product Lead

Ijlal Loutfi is the Product Lead for platform Security at Canonical. She is also a part-time lecturer at the University of Oslo. She started working on confidential computing back during her PhD studies at the University of Oslo, where she researched trusted execution environments for commodity endpoint devices. She also spent time as a visiting researcher at various labs, including HP Security Labs in Bristol. After completing her PhD, Ijlal joined the Norwegian Computing Center to focus on privacy-enhancing technologies. Earlier in her career, she worked as a field Consultant with Microsoft, deploying identity management and access control solutions to enterprises.

Tatsuya Kitamura

Lead Software Engineer

Tatsuya Kitamura is a Lead Software Engineer at Fujitsu. He is in the software development team for Fujitsu's next generation Arm-based processor, FUJITSU-MONAKA, and currently working on Arm CCA (Confidential Compute Architecture) software stack and use case development for FUJITSU-MONAKA.

Nelly Porter

Director of Product Management

Nelly Porter is an accomplished technology leader currently serving as the Director of Product Management for GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption at Google, where responsibilities include leading end-to-end encryption efforts, managing secure software supply chains, and defining the vision and strategy for platform and virtualization security. Prior experience at Microsoft includes roles such as Lead Program Manager, Principal Group Program Manager, and Senior Program Manager, where Nelly focused on product management and development in areas including authentication, remote desktop technologies, and augmented reality. Earlier in the career at Hewlett-Packard Labs, Nelly was involved in establishing technical partnerships with Microsoft, contributing to high availability solutions, and developing tools for clustered systems. Nelly's career began at Scitex Vision, where low-level device drivers and firmware for various operating systems were developed.

Anand Pashupathy

Vice President, General Manager & SW Executive

Anand Pashupathy is Vice President and General Manager of Security Software and Services (S3) Division in the Office of the Corporate Technology Officer organization where he leads a team of senior leaders whose purpose is to deliver security software technologies, services, and practices that empower our customers to achieve their security objectives. His organization’s product portfolio includes Confidential Compute, Ecosystem Enabling, Security Corporate Technology Initiative, Open Source Security Supply Chain, etc. Anand is also responsible for Intel’s Confidential Compute vision, strategy, and execution. Previously Anand has held many engineering, program wide and GM leadership roles at Intel. Additionally, Anand has been granted six patents and currently serves a governing board member of the Confidential Computing Consortium. Anand is a strong advocate for women and underrepresented people in technology, he serves as the Executive Sponsor for an internal employee resource group. For his advocacy and leadership contributions to diversity and inclusion, Anand received the 2023 Global Diversity and Inclusion Achievement Award for Executive Advocate for D&I. Outside of work, Anand and his family love to travel and experience cultures from around the world. He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science and has been with Intel since the nineties.

Vikas Bhatia

Head of Product Azure Confidential Computing

Vikas Bhatia is the Head of Product for Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) and is responsible for designing products and services that organizations around the world leverage to ensure that their workloads are running confidentially on Azure by protecting data when in use. He leads a team responsible for products and services including confidential virtual machines, containers, and applications on confidential hardware across CPUs and GPUs. He is also responsible for services in Azure that leverage the confidential platform to themselves become confidential. Prior to this role, Vikas led the Product team for Project Rome in the Windows Developer Platform team. He has also done stints on Cloud Game Streaming, Xbox One and the C++ Compiler in DevDiv. Vikas has an MBA from the University of Washington, Foster School of Business and a MS in Computer Science from the University of Alabama.