The Advent of Confidential AI

Raghu Yeluri, Fellow and lead architect, Confidential AI, speaks at [un]prompted 2026 on: The Advent of Confidential AI. Confidential AI is a hardware-based security approach that protects sensitive data and AI models during active processing by kee...

Raghu Yeluri, Fellow and lead architect, Confidential AI, speaks at [un]prompted 2026 on: The Advent of Confidential AI.

Confidential AI is a hardware-based security approach that protects sensitive data and AI models during active processing by keeping information encrypted even while being computed on, extending beyond traditional encryption that only secures data at rest or in transit.
The technology relies on Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) - secure hardware enclaves within processors (CPUs, GPUs, Accelerators) that decrypt data only within isolated spaces invisible to operating systems, cloud providers, or administrators. Along with remote attestation, this approach protects inferencing data, prompts and context info, thus enabling the deployment of enterprise critical applications in public cloud and hybrid cloud environments.
This talk will give you the technology components available for Confidential AI, and real-world deployments with two example use-cases that would be of interest to other practitioners.