Greg Lavender

Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President and GM of the Software & Advanced Technology Group, Intel

Search every verified Greg Lavender interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Greg Lavender, Intel's chief technology officer and general manager of the Software and Advanced Technology Group, has focused on the company's efforts to advance agentic AI and confidential computing. At the Intel Technology Tour in December 2025, Lavender described agentic AI as "LLMs prompting each other and LLMs creating calls to services using standardized interfaces" and stated that Intel's upcoming Panther Lake processor, with up to 180 TOPS of AI performance across three engines, is "built for agentic AI." He highlighted improvements to Intel's OpenVINO inference stack, saying it is "about twice as fast to first token, six times better on memory consumption, and about twice as fast on tokens per second." Lavender also discussed the company's collaboration with Microsoft on Windows ML, calling it "vendor neutral" and important for enabling locally accelerated AI agents on Copilot+ PCs. Lavender has continued to advocate for confidential computing, describing it as a technology that should be "just built in, always there, always on" across containers, virtual machines, and edge devices. He cited a federated learning project with the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine involving 71 sites worldwide, where participants trained models locally without sharing patient data, resulting in a 33% improvement in true positive image recognition for brain tumors. Lavender noted that confidential computing is "here today" and predicted its adoption will follow a trajectory similar to the transition from HTTP to HTTPS, moving from niche to mainstream as tooling and ubiquity improve. He also reiterated Intel's commitment to open ecosystems, stating that "open always wins over the long term" and that the company is contributing to open-source projects such as PyTorch, where Intel is one of the top three contributors.