Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference

Chris Hickman is the chief security officer at Keyfactor. As a member of the senior management team, Chris is responsible for establishing & maintaining Keyfactor’s leadership position as a world-class, technical organization with deep security industry expertise. He leads client success initiatives and helps integrate the voice of the customer directly into Keyfactor’s platform and capability set. Prior to joining Keyfactor, Chris was Director of Technical Services at Alacris, an Ottawa based smartcard and certificate management company, which was sold to Microsoft and is now part of the Microsoft Identity Manager product suite. Chris has worked on PKI projects for organizations and firms including NATO, both the U.S. and Canadian Departments of Defense, Fortune 100 banks and financial institutions, manufacturers, insurance companies, telecommunication providers and retailers. He continues to be a trusted resource for enterprises looking to leverage digital certificates within existing portfolios and new product development.

Greg Wetmore leads the global team responsible for building the products that makeup Entrust Strong Identities, Secure Payments, and Trusted Infrastructure solutions. Greg joined Entrust in 2000 and has held a number of leadership positions on the engineering team over that period. Greg is a key industry advisor and speaks regularly on topics like digital identity, IoT, and post-quantum security. Greg holds an Engineering degree from Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

Jonathan Hammell is the Senior Technical Advisor for Cryptographic Security and the Lead for Cryptographic Standards at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, part of the Communications Security Establishment. Jonathan participates in various international standards organizations, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Working Group 2 of Subcommittee 27 for the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1, and the Accredited Standards Committee X9. As Senior Technical Advisor, Jonathan is a subject matter expert in cryptography and provides advice and guidance within the Government of Canada and industry partners. Jonathan started at CSE in 2004 in cryptographic research. He has a BMath from the University of Waterloo, a joint degree from the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization and the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science. Jonathan received an MSc from the University of Calgary, where he was a member of the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography.

Matthew Campagna is a Sr. Principal Engineer & Cryptographer for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s. He oversees the design and analysis of cryptographic solutions across AWS. He is a member of the ETSI Security Algorithms Group Experts (SAGE), and Chairman of ETSI TC CYBER’s Quantum Safe Cryptography group. Previously he managed Certicom/BlackBerry’s Cryptography Research Group focused on the development of intellectual property and standardization for elliptic curve cryptography. He holds a doctorate in Mathematics from Wesleyan University.

Melanie Anderson is the Director of Cryptographic Security and Systems Development, part of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security at the Communications Security Establishment. Melanie and her team are responsible for evaluating the security of cryptographic products, providing cryptographic advice and guidance, and modernizing the Government of Canada's classified infrastructure. Melanie is Co-Chair of the Women in Cyber and Intelligence (WICI) group at CSE and is passionate about promoting the well-being and interests of women, mentoring and encouraging girls and young women to pursue careers in STEM. Since joining CSE in 2003, Melanie has served in several positions across the organization. She has held roles as a software developer, a technical trainer, and a Project Manager for IT systems used by Government of Canada clients. She spent four years based in the United States as a technical Liaison for CSE at the National Security Agency and has held leadership roles in Cyber Defence. Prior to assuming her current role, Melanie was the Manager of Cryptographic Systems Development. Melanie holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick and completed the Senior Executive Fellows Program through the Harvard Kennedy School in 2020.

Mike Ounsworth is a Software Security Architect at Entrust. His day-job is primarily application security architecture and penetration testing, with research projects in cryptography and post-quantum cryptography. He is leading discussion at IETF around post-quantum transition strategies for Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), including primary and secondary authorship on several Internet Drafts. He holds an M.Sc in Computer Science in robotics and artificial intelligence from McGill University, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science with concentrations in mathematics and physics from Queen's University. Fun fact: he has a decade of experience coaching the high school level FIRST Robotics Competition.

Paul van Brouwershaven is Director of Technology Compliance for Entrust’s certification authority, Chair of the PKI Consortium and Vice Chair of the CA/Browser Forum.

René Peralta received a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College in 1978. In 1980 he received a M.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Binghamton. In 1985 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. For the next 20 years he held various positions in academia, mostly as a professor of cryptology, algorithmics and computational number theory. In 2005 he moved to NIST. He is currently a scientist with the Computer Security Division. Among the projects he is currently involved in are The NIST Randomness Beacon, Circuit Complexity, Privacy Enhancing Cryptography, and Post-Quantum Cryptography.

Sebastian Paul works as a research engineer in Industrial IoT Security at Bosch Research and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Darmstadt in the Security in Information Technology (SIT) research group. Sebastian Paul specializes in the integration of Post-Quantum Cryptography into industrial applications and protocols. As Bosch project lead of the publicly funded project FLOQI, he strives to raise awareness of the quantum threat and to ensure Bosch is ready when powerful quantum computers arrive.