OC3 | Program Committee

Program committee Chair

Felix Schuster

CEO at Edgeless Systems

Felix Schuster is an academic turned startup founder. After his PhD in computer security, he joined Microsoft Research to work four years on the foundations of Azure Confidential Computing, before co-founding Edgeless Systems. The startup’s vision is to build an open-source stack for cloud-native Confidential Computing. Throughout his career, Felix has frequently given technical talks at top-tier conferences, including Usenix Security Symposium, IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy, and ACM CCS. His 2015 paper on the “VC3” system is believed by some to have coined the term Confidential Computing.

Program committee Members

Moritz Eckert

VP Product & Technology at Edgeless Systems

Moritz Eckert is a cloud security enthusiast. With a past in software security research he now leads product development at Edgeless Systems. Moritz is a passionate engineer and has presented at top-tier conferences including Usenix Security Symposium, EuropeClouds Summit, and OC3 in the past. Alongside his professional work, Moritz is part of Shellphish, one of the highest-ranked competitive hacking groups in the world.

Pawan Khandavilli

Senior Product Manager at Microsoft

Pawan Khandavilli is a senior product manager in Azure Confidential Computing (ACC) with a focus on serverless and confidential computing. Pawan has previously worked at Fortanix and the Royal Bank of Canada in a variety of roles with a focus on applying innovative security technologies to business problems. Pawan is passionate about data security and privacy and is a certified information privacy technologist.

Marc Meunier

Director of Ecosystem at Arm

An engineer at heart with a passion for innovation, Marc is never far from a soldering iron or a pile of design books. After years of leading engineering teams in live-video production, mobile devices, and Fintech, Marc gravitated towards inter-company leadership roles that focus on innovative architectures to accelerate high tech innovation. As the Director of Ecosystem Development, Marc leads projects in security and networking as part of the Infrastructure line of business at Arm. To nurture a global framework for these projects, Marc sits on the governing board for the Confidential Compute Consortium, the DataPlane Development Kit project and the Open Programmable Infrastructure project.

Katsiaryna Naliuka

Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind

Katsiaryna Naliuka is a Software Engineer working on Project Oak at Google DeepMind. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Trento, where her doctoral research specialized in mobile phone security.

Jörg Rödel

Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD

Jörg is Principal Member of Technical Staff at AMD. Prior to this, he lead the Confidential Computing efforts at SUSE, working with AMD on enabling SEV and related technologies. In this role he implemented major parts of the AMD SEV-ES guest support in the Linux kernel and brought it upstream into kernel 5.10. He is also active in the Linux kernel community as the maintainer for the IOMMU subsystem and a contributor to other areas like KVM or the X86 architecture.

Emily Sakata

Senior Product Manager at NVIDIA

Emily Sakata is a senior product manager for data center GPUs at NVIDIA. Her work focuses on bringing security features on accelerated computing to deliver trustworthy solutions to market. She has held cybersecurity and security product management roles in software and industrial product companies.

Raghu Yeluri

Fellow & Chief Architect at Intel

Raghu Yeluri is a Sr. Principal Engineer and lead Security Architect in the Office of the CTO/Security Architecture and Technology group at Intel Corporation with focus on confidential computing, hardware roots of trust, container and cloud security architectures and technology initiatives. He is the chief architect for Intel Trust Authority, Intel's first security and trust SaaS released in 2023. He is a frequent presenter at technical conferences like Kubecon,OC3, Intel Innovation, IBM Think, VMWorld, etc on Security. Raghu has multiple patents in security, attestation, confidentiality/integrity protection for containers and VMs, and has co-authored two books on cloud computing and cloud security.