Agenda:
6:00 - 6:15pm: Introduction
6:15 - 7:15pm: Jonathan Mortensen - The Unofficial Guide to Apple’s Private Cloud Compute
7:15 - 8:00pm: Networking
Summary of the talk:
In October 2024, Apple released a new private AI technology onto millions of devices called “Private Cloud Compute”. Since then, Meta publicized that they’re building a similar system for WhatsApp called “Private Processing”. These systems extend the privacy and security of a local device onto an “untrusted" remote server. This talk discusses how Private Cloud Compute represents a paradigm shift in data privacy and explores the core advancements that made it possible to become mainstream. We’ll explore its novel architecture that allows developers to run sensitive, multi-tenant workloads with cryptographically-provably privacy guarantees at scale and at reasonable cost. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to leverage this technology for data and AI applications where privacy and security is paramount.
Speaker bio:
Jonathan Mortensen is CEO & Founder of Confident Security, a startup providing a version of Apple’s PCC for everyone else. Jonathan previously founded bit.io, a multi-cloud serverless PostgreSQL platform acquired by Databricks. As bit.io's CTO, he built innovative database technology that handled hundreds of thousands of databases securely across multiple cloud providers. Prior to founding bit.io, Jonathan led data science and engineering teams at BlueVoyant, providing threat intelligence and assessing third party risk. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University and combines technical depth with leadership experience across engineering, revenue, and operations.
