ConfAd 2026: The 1st Workshop on Advances in Confidential Computing
Main Program (Friday May 8th, 2026)
Location: 10 Merton St, University College Oxford
ConfAd 2026: The 1st Workshop on Advances in Confidential Computing
Main Program (Friday May 8th, 2026)
Location: 10 Merton St, University College Oxford
Registration & Coffee 8. a.m.–9.30 a.m.
9.30 a.m.–10.00 a.m.
Amro Awad (Oxford) and Ahmad Atamli (Southampton)
10.00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Nigel Edwards (HPE Labs), Challenges in confidential computing
Naga Gurumoorthy (Microsoft), Confidential Computing in Azure – Learnings and Road Ahead
Jeremy O'Donoghue (Qualcomm), Attestation in Confidential Computing: towards an interoperable future
Coffee Break 11 a.m.–11.15 a.m.
11.15 a.m.–12.35 p.m.
Lunch Break 1245 p.m.–01.30 p.m.
01.40 p.m.–02.40 p.m.
Ihsen Alouani (QUB), The Trust Abyss: Cross Layer Vulnerability Landscape of the Cognitive Infrastructure
Robert Trager (Oxford), Enabling AI Governance through Confidential Computing
Franck Courbon (Ethicronics), The Hardware Beneath the Enclave: A Blind Spot in Confidential Computing
02.45 p.m.–03.45 p.m.
Amir Al Sadi (Imperial), Attestable Communication Policies for Confidential Computing Pipelines
Aristide Tanyi-Jong Akem (Southampton), Does Mutable Accelerator Logic Create an Attestation Gap in Confidential Computing?
Sunho Lee (Oxford), Exploiting Access Patterns for Efficient Memory Protection in Accelerators
Nicholas Johnson (UCLA), Fiducia: A Modular Secure Peripheral Interface for Trusted Execution Environments
Coffee Break 03.45 p.m.–04.00 p.m.
04.00 p.m.–4.45 p.m.
Peiyao Sun (Southampton), IOTEE: Trust Beyond the CPU
Henry Wang (Oxford), Exploring Access Control Design for Confidential Computing under Memory Virtualization
Henry Chu (Louisiana), An Immutable Attestation Registry for Mitigating Temporal Integrity Vulnerabilities in Confidential AI Enclaves
04.45 p.m.–05.00 p.m.
Amro Awad (Oxford) and Ahmad Atamli (Southampton)