Confidential Computing Summit 2026

The Confidential Computing Summit 2026 takes place at The San Francisco Mint on 23-24 June 2026, organised by the Confidential Computing Consortium under the Linux Foundation. While confidential computing - the practice of protecting data while it is in use, inside hardware-isolated trusted execution environments - is a broad infrastructure topic, the 2026 edition is explicitly framed around AI: its announced theme is the next era of AI sovereignty.

That framing puts AI at the centre of the programme. Keynotes and workshops are slated to cover agent security, intellectual-property protection for models, verifiable execution environments, securing the next generation of AI workloads, cloud-to-edge infrastructure, and sensitive-data collaboration - all questions that have become urgent as organisations run proprietary models and confidential data through shared and external compute. Diamond-level sponsors include AMD, Google, Microsoft and the Technology Innovation Institute.

It is included here as an AI-relevant infrastructure event rather than a general security conference, on the strength of the 2026 edition's stated AI-sovereignty focus and its concentration on securing AI workloads and agents. It is verifiable, with a named organiser (the Linux Foundation's Confidential Computing Consortium) and a confirmed San Francisco venue. Its editorial grade is modest given the specialised, infrastructure-leaning scope, but the AI security and sovereignty angle keeps it on theme. Attendees should confirm the final agenda and registration via the Linux Foundation event listing.