Nelly Porter is a Confidential Computing Lead at Google with more than 10 years of experience in platform security, viruses, PKI, crypto, authentication, and authorization field. She is working on multiple areas in Google, from root of trust, Titan, to the Shielded and Confidential Computing. She holds 25 patents and defensive publications. Prior to working at Google, Nelly spent some time working at Microsoft in the virtualization and security space, at HP Labs advancing clustering story, and at Scientix (Israel) as a firmware and kernel driver engineer. She has two sons, both of whom are in the computer science field, and one of them is working for Google.

Sam Lugani is the product head for Confidential Computing at Google. Sam started his professional career working as a software engineer at Cisco before venturing into product centric roles at FireEye, Synack and later at Google. He completed his MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, and his MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. He is an avid hiker and dabbles in photography & film making.