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World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 9, 2026 • Session details

An alternative approach to digital sovereignty: Confidential Computing

Mike Bursell

Who can access your data while it processes in RAM? Discover how confidential computing leverages hardware-based isolation to physically block hypervisor-level extraction and secure your digital sovereignty.

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#1 about 2 min

Understanding national, organizational, and personal digital sovereignty

Defining digital sovereignty across national, corporate, and individual levels highlights the complexities of modern data protection.

#2 about 2 min

Moving from legal contracts to technical hardware guarantees

Replacing paper agreements with hardware-backed cryptography prevents external entities from accessing highly controlled environments.

#3 about 1 min

Proving regulatory compliance to auditors and chief officers

Demonstrating technical protections against fast-moving cyber threats meets the strict requirements of regulatory bodies.

#4 about 2 min

Protecting data in use to prevent administrative exposure

Encrypting data directly in system RAM mitigates risks posed by privileged users traversing virtualized cloud environments.

#5 about 2 min

Creating trusted execution environments using specialized computing hardware

Utilizing widely available CPUs and GPUs to build trusted execution environments isolates memory pages from hypervisor oversight.

#6 about 2 min

Isolating agentic artificial intelligence workloads from unauthorized access

Securing sensitive model data and prompts guards against internal administrators and unexpected external breaches.

#7 about 4 min

Providing confidentiality, integrity, and remote attestation validation

Cryptographic signatures verify software integrity before execution to ensure remote environments contain exactly the correct application.

#8 about 2 min

Transitioning trust from software policies to central processors

Moving the root of trust away from cloud providers and host operating systems establishes stronger isolation controls.

#9 about 2 min

Utilizing third-party services for unbiased attestation verification

Employing independent attestation checks eliminates the conflict of interest of relying on internal cloud service reports.

#10 about 2 min

Meeting national sovereignty requirements using remote execution environments

Using isolated instances in foreign jurisdictions enables the safe processing of region-locked sovereign data.

#11 about 2 min

Facilitating safe data collaboration via confidential clean rooms

Clean environments permit cross-institutional data analysis without exposing unencrypted raw datasets to competing parties.

#12 about 2 min

Securing digital supply chains using isolated build environments

Generating provenance proofs natively inside secure hardware guarantees the integrity of continuous software bills of materials.

#13 about 2 min

Enabling decentralized computing operations with hardware-level trust

Cryptographically assured deployments empower organizations to distribute computing workloads without exposing private administration keys.

#14 about 2 min

Fostering open-source collaboration for secure computational frameworks

Promoting open-source integration standardizes the implementation of secure computational frameworks across multiple diverse industries.

#15 about 6 min

Addressing availability, latency overheads, and hardware trust concerns

Exploring infrastructure uptime risks, single-digit processing trade-offs, and strategies to secure native encryption keys.

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Hardware-based trusted execution environments for confidential computing

Rob Nertney Rob Nertney · WWC Europe 2026

2:44 min

Advancing confidential computing with open source multi-way collaboration

Mingshen Sun Mingshen Sun · WWC 2024

4:08 min

Securing data in use with confidential cloud computing

Isha Salania Isha Salania · WWC Europe 2026

2:48 min

Utilizing trusted execution environments for data protection

Mingshen Sun Mingshen Sun · WWC Europe 2026

2:59 min

Defining trusted execution environments and confidential computing

Liz Moy · LIVE

1:37 min

Defining digital sovereignty and a four-part solution framework

Isha Salania Isha Salania · WWC Europe 2026

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