Join us for “Public is Private – Confidential Computing in the Cloud,” featuring Mike Bursell from the Confidential Computing Consortium and Manu Fontaine, founder of Hushmesh. This event will delve into the transformative potential of confidential computing for cloud environments. Aimed at CIOs, CTOs, enterprise architects, solution architects, and technical product managers, the discussion will cover how confidential computing enhances data security and privacy, even during processing. Learn about real-world applications, challenges, and future trends in this critical technology. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain insights from industry leaders and explore how to leverage confidential computing for your organization’s success.
Research Code TBW2071

Moderator: Dr. Doreen Galli, TBW Advisors
Chief of ResearchTBW Advisors LLC
Dr. Doreen Galli is the Chief of Research at TBW Advisors LLC. She’s led significant and measurable changes as an executive at IBM, DPWN, Dell, ATT, and most recently Microsoft. Dr Galli was Chief Technology and Chief Privacy Officer in Azure’s MCIGET. Gartner recognized Dr. Galli as an expert in data ingestion, quality, governance, integration, management, and all forms and analytics including sensor data.
Executive DirectorConfidential Computing Consortium
Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, having been involved since its foundation in 2019, and Co- chair of the OpenSSF’s Global Cyber Policy working group. He is one of the co-founders of the open source Enarx project and was CEO and co- founder of the start-up Profian. He has previously served on the Governing Boards of the CCC and the Bytecode Alliance and currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups. Previous companies include Red Hat, Intel and Citrix, with roles in security, virtualisation and networking. He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC and has a YouTube channel dedicated to cybersecurity education. Professional interests include: Confidential Computing, Cyber Policy, the EU Cybersecurity Resilience Act (CRA), Linux, trust, open source software and community, security, decentralised and distributed systems, Web3, blockchain. Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University, and is author of “Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud”, published by Wiley. He holds over 100 patents and previously served on the Red Hat patent review committee.
Speaker Profile
CEOHushmesh Inc
Manu Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, a dual-use Public Benefit cybersecurity startup in the Washington DC area. The company believes that people need safe code and authentic data, just like they need clean water and stable electricity. To deliver this, Hushmesh leverages Confidential Computing to develop and operate “the Mesh”: a global information space, like the Web, but with universal zero trust and global information security built in. Secured by the Universal Name System (UNS) and the Universal Certificate Authority (UCA), the Mesh provides global assurance of provenance, integrity, authenticity, reputation, confidentiality, and privacy for all information within it, at internet scale. Hushmesh is a NATO DIANA Innovator startup.
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