Confidential Computing

What is confidential computing? Learn about protecting data in use with confidential computing powered by open source software with two people working at the forefront of this technology through open collaboration within the Confidential Computing Consortium.

Dan Middleton, a principal engineer at Intel, and Dave Thaler, a software architect at Microsoft, share their work with Confidential Computing and their efforts to further this technology via the Confidential Computing Consortium. Learn about confidential computing, the problems it solves, and how you can get involved.

Guests:

Dan Middleton is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years at intel. He has been privileged to develop and release products in emerging areas including SaaS, Computational Imaging, Blockchain, and Confidential Computing. As an open source leader, he has represented Intel in projects including the Confidential Computing Consortium, The Open Source Security Foundation, CNCF CoCo, and Hyperledger. Dan currently leads Confidential Computing pathfinding in IPAS/S3 (Security Software and Services). Dan is currently the Chair of the CCC’s Technical Advisory Council.

Dave Thaler is a Software Architect at Microsoft, where he works on open source and standards, including Confidential Computing.  Dave has over 25 years of standards body experience and currently chairs the IETF group on Software Update for IoT, and is a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium's Technical Advisory Council which he previously chaired for 3 years.  He also previously served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) for 11 years.