The AI Confidential Podcast is a groundbreaking new series featuring industry pioneers from Azure, NVIDIA, Google Cloud, and more. Together with host and Opaque CEO Aaron Fulkerson, guests will unpack the transformative business impact of confidential computing and AI, and examine what enterprises need to know about deploying AI securely.
Hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle examine the perceived stagnation of Large Language Models like ChatGPT, exploring reasons behind failing AI projects and methods for secure enterprise AI adoption in this episode.
9 Sept 2025
Days to Seconds: Harnessing Confidential AI Agents with Kellie Romack
Host Aaron Fulkerson interviews ServiceNow CDIO Kellie Romack about implementing confidential AI agents to accelerate enterprise response times from days to seconds.
12 Aug 2025
Agents Are the New API Client with Marco Palladino
Co-founder and CTO Marco Palladino discusses LLM gateways and AI's impact on API development with hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle, exploring the challenges of AI governance and preparing for the agentic web.
29 Jul 2025
Confidential Computing Summit 2025: Day 2 Recap & Interviews
Jason Clinton discusses agentic web futures, Daniel Rohrer shares NVIDIA's AI security approach, and Daniel J. Beutel explains federated learning for secure AI in this interview episode with Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle.
15 Jul 2025
Confidential Computing Summit 2025: Day 1 Recap & Interviews
Mark Russinovich, James Kaplan, and Vinay Pillai discuss confidential AI, genAI applications in enterprises, and confidential agents improving response times, in interviews conducted by Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle at the Confidential Computing Summit.
1 Jul 2025
Understanding the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey
Vijoy Pandey discusses the necessity of an open, interoperable framework for agent communication to foster collaboration in an internet populated by AI agents in an interview with Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle.
17 Jun 2025
Understanding Data Complexity in Enterprise AI Systems with John Willis
John Willis, Founder, Systems Architect, and Deeptech Strategist, discusses the history of AI, the risks of data exhaust, and how legacy systems impact AI adoption in an interview about enterprise AI systems.
3 Jun 2025
Navigating AI Evaluation and Observability with Atin Sanyal
Atin Sanyal, Co-founder and CTO of Galileo, discusses AI reliability and evaluation with hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle, focusing on innovative techniques like ChainPoll for hallucination detection in this interview.
20 May 2025
On the Cutting Edge of Agentic AI with João Moura
João Moura (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joaomdmoura/) built the agentic AI open source framework, CrewAI (https://www.crewai.com/), with a central vision: to make agent creation feel borderline magical.
Inspired by the Ruby on Rails philosophy of “convention over configuration,” CrewAI is designed for speed, clarity, and ease of use. What we love about João’s approach to agentic AI is that he’s not just disrupting the market. He’s shifting the way enterprise leaders think about long-term workflows and processes, too.
In this episode, hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle talk to João about:
Why interoperability across your stack is essential for scaling AI
The importance of building secure AI systems
How managers are uniquely equipped to build effective agents
The dangers of “agent washing" and how to see through the hype
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6 May 2025
How AI is reshaping enterprise technology with James Kaplan
James Kaplan has been consulting enterprise clients on how to adopt and extract value from cutting-edge technologies for over 25 years. His dual role as Partner at McKinsey and CTO at McKinsey Technology gives him a unique vantage point into how CIOs and CTOs can harness AI to drive automation, increase productivity, and enhance data security.
In this episode, host Aaron Fulkerson talks to James about:
How AI is changing the enterprise technology landscape
What enterprises should be thinking about as they’re adopting and building AI systems
How to avoid the “IT doom loop"
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22 Apr 2025
Building transparent, open-source AI with Sriram Raghavan
Hosts Aaron Fulkerson and Mark Hinkle sit down with Sriram Raghavan, Vice President of IBM Research AI, at the AllThingsOpen.ai (https://allthingsopen.ai/) conference. As an experienced industry expert, Sriram leads a global team of over 750 research scientists and engineers focused on advancing AI.
Sriram and IBM believe that the future of AI is open source. That’s why IBM recently contributed three AI projects — Docling, Data Prep Kit, and BeeAI — to the Linux Foundation. And while there is a lot of hype around LLMs right now, IBM is leaning into smaller “fit-for-purpose” models that give developers choice.
In the episode, Sriram also digs into:
IBM’s approach to open-source models
What innovations he sees coming for enterprise AI
How his team is approaching responsible, secure AI
9 Apr 2025
Unleashing the Power of Agents with the "Forrest Gump of Tech"
From cloud computing to infrastructure-as-a-service, Reuven Cohen (AKA rUv (https://github.com/ruvnet)) has been on the cutting edge of every major technology supercycle — and he’s now one of the most influential people in the agentic AI space.
With the help of agents, rUv produced 10 million lines of usable code last year. That’s 33,000 years of output from one human. rUv’s approach proves one of two things: he’s either an outlier or a leading indicator of what’s to come.
In this episode, we talk to rUv about:
His approach to training autonomous agents
The rapid advancements in agentic code development
Why LLMs are vulnerable to data poisoning
Why Python is bad for agentic development
18 Dec 2024
Protecting Our Future from AI With Jason Clinton (Anthropic)
What does it take to ensure AI is safe, ethical, and resilient? In this season finale, Anthropic’s CISO joins Aaron to discuss the critical intersection of innovation, data privacy, and sovereignty, offering an optimistic perspective on what lies ahead for the future of confidential AI.
11 Dec 2024
Making AI Work in the Real World with Will Grannis (Google Cloud)
AI is full of potential, but what does it really take to make it work in complex environments? Will Grannis, CTO and VP at Google Cloud, shares his perspective on bridging AI innovation with practical application, including insights into the real challenges and rewards of implementing AI in today’s top enterprises.
5 Dec 2024
Privacy Meets Innovation with Daniel Rohrer (NVIDIA) and Raluca Ada Popa (Opaque)
Can AI be both innovative and private? NVIDIA VP of Software Security Daniel Rohrer and Opaque Co-Founder and President Raluca Ada Popa discuss the advancements in privacy-preserving technology that enable organizations to push AI forward without compromising data sovereignty.
26 Nov 2024
Safe and Secure Generative AI with Teresa Tung (Accenture)
Generative AI is transforming industries—but how do we ensure it’s safe? Teresa Tung, Senior Managing Director & Global Data Capability Lead at Accenture, dives into what companies need to make generative AI both impactful and secure, exploring the frameworks that bring safety to scale.
20 Nov 2024
Building Trust in AI With Mark Papermaster (AMD) and Mark Russinovich (Microsoft Azure)
How do you build AI applications that are not only powerful but also trustworthy and easy to adopt? Join Mark Papermaster, CTO & EVP at AMD, and Mark Russinovich, CTO & Deputy CISO at Microsoft Azure, as they discuss the essential role of confidential computing in making AI seamless, secure, and accessible to businesses everywhere.
13 Nov 2024
Trailer
Welcome to AI Confidential, the podcast that explores the future of AI and data sovereignty.
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, AI is at the heart of transformation across industries. From finance to high tech, leaders are racing to harness its power while navigating complex challenges like data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and privacy. But what if there was a way to solve these problems without sacrificing innovation?
On AI Confidential, join host Aaron Fulkerson as he dives deep with visionaries from AMD, Accenture, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, NVIDIA, Opaque Systems, and more to uncover how confidential computing is reshaping what’s possible for AI. Together, they explore pressing questions, share groundbreaking use cases, and take bold steps in predicting AI's future.
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