Join us for a panel of experts that discuss how Confidential Computing is transforming the industry today and what it means for you. Moving beyond theoretical discussions, this session intends to offer a deep dive into the tangible impacts and real-world applications of Confidential Computing today.
Mike Bursell
Bertrand Foing
Bertrand Foing is the founder and CEO of Secretarium. He started his career in 2008 at Société Générale on the structured credit derivatives trading desk. He delivered both super-scalable, real-time solutions using tens of thousands of machines, and a series of high-performance tools for trading. Bertrand joined Société Générale’s Crypto and Blockchain Lab in 2014 and gained a deep understanding of trustless systems and privacy-enhancing technologies. He created Secretarium in 2016 to focus on privacy-preserving/confidential computing. With the help of the co-founder Cédric Wahl, they have achieved great success with major international institutions, and delivered an easy-to-adopt confidential computing platform, Klave, in 2023.
Ayush Batra
Ujjwal Kumar
Ujjwal Kumar is Lead Architect for Azure, emerging tech (Quantum Computing, Gen AI, Metaverse, Blockchain), security & sustainability at Microsoft Technology Center APAC, Singapore. He has 20+ years of diverse technology experience in various industry domains. This spans his time in Microsoft with global partner enterprise architect, commercial software engineering, developer evangelist teams and more across Azure, AI, blockchain, security, mixed reality, IoT, through to quantum computing.
In his current role, he works with several top strategic customers, partners and enable them in accelerating their digital transformation journey through ideation, architecture & rapid prototype development. He has led several key projects from Microsoft in Singapore which includes SIA Kris+ blockchain based application, Surbana Jurong smart city, CCN Cargo network, CapitaLand bot. Ujjwal is also co-lead of Microsoft's internal worldwide Quantum Computing community and Azure Quantum Ambassador.
On academic front he has a master’s degree in information & technology leadership from National University of Singapore and professional certifications in Quantum Computing, leadership from Delft University, INSEAD & MIT, USA.
