Dan Middleton is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years at intel. He has been privileged to develop and release products in emerging areas including SaaS, Computational Imaging, Blockchain, and Confidential Computing. As an open source leader, he has represented Intel in projects including the Confidential Computing Consortium, The Open Source Security Foundation, CNCF CoCo, and Hyperledger. Dan currently leads Confidential Computing pathfinding in Intel's Security Software and Services division.