CONFERENCE TALKS

Speaking Engagements & Panels

Talks on TEEs, AI agents, privacy-preserving compute, and blockchain infrastructure at conferences worldwide.

To Own or to Rent? The AI Ownership Question

Nov 18, 2025 Buenos Aires, Argentina Agents Unleashed (Devconnect)
Panelist

Panel exploring the AI ownership question—trade-offs between owning vs renting AI infrastructure and models. Moderated by Einar Braathen (CoinFund) with panelists from Valory, ElizaOS, Oasis, Sentient, and Eigen Labs.

AI Ownership Agent Economics Infrastructure Decentralization Build vs Buy

Building in Public: Open Source Growth Strategies

Nov 16, 2025 Buenos Aires, Argentina Open AGI Summit (Devconnect)
Panelist

DevRel and marketing panel on how open source teams grow, ship, and build communities in real time. Featured speakers from Ethereum Foundation, Chainlink, Consensys, and EigenLayer sharing practical insights from teams working at scale.

Open Source DevRel Community Building Growth Strategies Marketing

Agents Day Buenos Aires: The DeAI Stack Panel

Nov 2025 Buenos Aires, Argentina Devconnect
Speaker

Panel on "The DeAI Stack: Building Trust & Foundational Layers for Agents". Discussed architecting data, compute, and payment layers for autonomous agents alongside speakers from EigenCloud, Eliza OS, FilOz, 0G, and Akash Network. Covered verifiable inference (TEEs, ZK), key management, and safe enterprise adoption.

DeAI Stack Agent Infra Verifiable Inference Onchain AI Decentralized Compute

ETHDam 2025 – Keynote: Trustless Agents

May 2025 Amsterdam, Netherlands ETHDam
Keynote Speaker

Keynote on "trustless agents": a blueprint for verifiable, accountable AI that signs, settles, and proves actions on public chains without exposing secrets.

Trustless Agents Accountability Attestation On-chain Secrets Management

AI Agents Day – Dubai: End-to-End Agent Pipeline

May 2025 Dubai, UAE AI Agents Day
Speaker

Talked through an end-to-end agent pipeline that executes on-chain, using TEEs for policy-guardrails, key custody, and verifiable actions tied to on-chain state.

AI Agents On-chain Actions Key Management Policy Guardrails TEEs Verification

Afternoon TEE Party – Dubai Panel

May 2025 Dubai, UAE Afternoon TEE Party
Panelist

Joined a technical panel on how TEEs enable verifiable AI agents, covering data confidentiality, attestation, and the path from prototypes to production on EVM. (Video starts at my segment: 40:30)

TEEs Attestation AI Agents On-chain Privacy EVM Production

Afternoon TEE Party – Bangkok (Moderator)

Nov 2024 Bangkok, Thailand Afternoon TEE Party
Moderator

Moderated a discussion on the TEE stack for web3, steering debate on threat models, developer ergonomics, and where TEEs beat ZK—plus real deployment hurdles. (Video starts at 28:10)

TEEs Threat Models DevEx ZK vs TEE Security Deployments

Oasis Rendez-Vous – Brussels

2024 Brussels, Belgium Oasis Rendez-Vous
Moderator

Led a session on privacy-preserving compute with Oasis, focusing on confidential smart contracts, user consent, and practical patterns for combining TEEs and EVM. (Video starts at 12:08)

Oasis Confidential Compute Smart Contracts Consent Privacy Patterns

Nebular 2024 – Agent Infrastructure Panel

2024 Brussels, Belgium Nebular
Panelist

Panel on agent infrastructure: data ingress, tool security, and how to audit autonomous flows when outputs trigger transactions or governance.

Agent Infra Tooling Security Auditability Governance Transactions