The Linux Foundation and OPAQUE have announced the schedule for Confidential Computing Summit 2026, which will be held in San Francisco, California, on June 23-24, 2026. This event is the premier gathering for confidential computing, providing practical insight into how Confidential AI is enabling secure, governed, and transparent workloads across cloud and distributed environments.
Overview
Attendees will gain insights from experts at industry-leading organizations like Amazon, AMD, DigiCert, Google, LY Corporation, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, OPAQUE, Samsung Electronics, TII, UC Berkeley, and more. The summit was created to address a critical bottleneck in the market: enterprise AI adoption is often constrained by the inability to securely process sensitive data into models, regulators are tightening rules, and security risks remain high.
What it does
A recent study conducted by IDC found that 75% of organizations are now adopting Confidential Computing. This rapid adoption is fueled primarily by a critical need for technical assurance, as 88% of respondents cited improved data integrity as their leading implementation driver. Across the summit, keynotes and workshops will highlight agent security, intellectual property protection, verifiable environments, securing the next generation of AI workloads, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and sensitive data collaborations.
Keynotes include:
- Hugo Romero, Corporate Vice President, Product Security, AMD
- Ion Stoica, Professor, UC Berkeley, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Databricks and Anyscale, Co-Founder and Board Member, OPAQUE
- Nelly Porter, Director of Product Management, GCP Confidential Computing and Encryption, Google
- Mark Russinovich, CTO, Deputy CISO and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft
- Dr. Najwa Aaraj, CEO, Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
- Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, OPAQUE
Tradeoffs
The summit will cover various topics, including the