Trust at Machine Speed: Building the Future with Verifiable Infrastructure

As a global-scale agentic web emerges—powered by AI agents with human-like reasoning but operating at machine speed—the stakes have never been higher. Our legacy trust frameworks—contracts, checklists, retroactive audits—can’t keep up. In this keynote, Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of OPAQUE, calls on the ecosystem to stop treating infrastructure as a product and start treating it as a shared responsibility. Drawing on real-world momentum from Meta, Microsoft, ServiceNow, Google, and more, he explains why the systems underpinning this new world must be built on verifiable proof—not assumptions.

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This isn’t talk goes beyond Confidential Computing, it’s about designing systems that can hold up under global pressure. The call to action? Build the trust layer the world needs. Together.