Towards Responsible and Confidential AI. This September, the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health, which brings together over 500 organisations, held its 12th Plenary aimed at advancing open standards for secure, privacy-focused, interoperable cloud environments. Pavel Nikonorov, Ravi Kiran M, and Alexander Kanitz co-chaired a GA4GH Connect session “Towards GA4GH-powered Trusted Research Environments”. As GENXT, we presented the #AttestedTLS protocol which enables users to verify whether remote services enforce their privacy policy. This was demonstrated through a live demo of the GENXT LLM #privateinference service, implemented with our #confidentialcomputing middleware, called #confido. Ravi from the European Bioinformatics Institute | EMBL-EBI and the University of Bristol presented the “Universal Toolbox for Trust-Enhancing Technologies” – a framework to categorise and operationalise the verification of identity, integrity, and policy enforcement in cloud environments. Joris Vankerschaver from Pacific Analytics PTY LTD discussed integrating #Crypt4GH with GA4GH Data Repository Service (#DRS), showcasing how DRS and Crypt4GH standards work together to secure data at rest and during transmission. Athitheya Gobinathan and Aarav Mehta, both Google Summer of Code contributors, presented their projects: Athitheya showcased #Crypt4GH-middleware integrated with the Kubernetes-based GA4GH Task Execution Service (#TES), while Aarav demonstrated the architecture and implementation of #GA4GH-SDK, highlighting its interaction with TES. We are excited to test the cross-integration of ga4gh-sdk, confido, and crypt4gh-middleware at the ELIXIR #BioHackathon2024 in Barcelona. Stay tuned for our updates or reach out to info@genxt.ai if you are eager to contribute!
The hackathon is on November 4th, right?
The session agenda document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RgFCWumOtk-Ik8UftEqKUR53kuKCm5Y1/