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Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Paul van Brouwershaven · Albert de Ruiter
Welcome to the 2026 PQC Conference. The chairs open the conference, set the agenda for the three days ahead, and invite some attending sponsors for a one-minute pitch (the only commercial message allowed at this conferen
The State of Quantum Computing in 2026
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Sebastian Feld
Quantum computing has made substantial progress over the past few years, but it has also become increasingly difficult to tell which developments really matter. More qubits, better fidelities, demonstrations of error cor
From Inventory to Action: A Risk-Based Scoring Model for Prioritizing PQC Migration at Enterprise Scale
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Elizabeth Wood
Many enterprises have now begun cryptographic discovery and built Cryptographic Bills of Materials (CBOMs), only to find themselves facing a new problem: a list of tens of thousands, sometimes millions, of cryptographic
Roundtable: Securing Transportation for the Quantum Era
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Nina Kattwinkel · Peer Eichler
Aircraft, rolling stock, vehicles, and vessels stay in service for decades, so the cryptography designed into them today must hold well into the quantum era. Transportation systems also depend on long and complex supply
Post-Quantum Migration at Anduril
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Daniel Apon
Anduril's post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration is well underway. Our particular focus is on the most constrained, most possibly complicated signals environments in which to establish secure, modern communications in
Towards Coordinated Quantum Security in the Financial Sector: Risks, Priorities, and a Framework for Market Action
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Jaime Gómez García
The transition to quantum security in the financial sector is not only a technological undertaking, but also a coordination challenge for a highly interconnected global ecosystem. Misaligned transition efforts may create
Post-Quantum Security of IPsec / IKEv2
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Thom Wiggers
IKEv2 is the key exchange protocol that drives IPsec, the enterprise workhorse VPN. In this talk, I will recap the standardization of extensions that allow us to use IPsec with post-quantum key exchange, and explain what
Where the PQC Migration Actually Stands: A Cross-Ecosystem Census of 2.8 Million Packages
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Abdel Fane
The NIST 2030 deprecation deadline for quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms is 1,386 days away as of March 2026. Every PKI operator, certificate authority, and security team needs to know how the software supply chai
Business implications of the PQC transition
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Sarah McCarthy · Murugiah Souppaya · Michele Mosca · Colin Soutar
This panel session will discuss the next phase of migration to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC). As organizations move from discovery and strategy into their respective (but interconnected!) transition journeys, it is imp
From Fear to Hybrid: Making PQC Less Scary
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Jan Klaußner
European agencies such as ANSSI and BSI recommend the hybrid use of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms alongside traditional schemes, driven by concerns regarding the maturity and long-term security assurance of purel
You Can't Patch the Silicon: Post-Quantum Migration Realities in Automotive HSM and AUTOSAR Crypto Stacks
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Swathi C L
Post-quantum migration guidance is largely written for systems that can be patched in place: swap a TLS library, rotate a certificate authority, roll out a firmware update to a fleet of servers. Automotive embedded syste
From ECDSA to Post-Quantum Signatures: Practical Lessons from Migrating Wallet-Based Transaction PKI
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Ricardo Agustin Toledo Mañani
Many post-quantum migration discussions focus on TLS, certificates, and enterprise PKI. A different but increasingly important case is wallet-based transaction infrastructure, where long-lived accounts, public-key exposu
Workshop: Post-Quantum Trails Board Game
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Jelizaveta Vakarjuk · Nikita Snetkov
This interactive, hands-on workshop is centred around Post-Quantum Trails, an educational board game designed to demystify the complexities of migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), a joint project brought to life
What Breaks Between Assessment and Implementation: Lessons from PQC Migration Programs Across Organizations
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Parnashree Saha
Most PQC migration advice stops at the roadmap. This session picks up where the roadmap meets production, drawing on assessment and migration work across many organizations in different sectors and at different levels of
The Other End of the Handshake: Cryptographic Dependency Mapping for PQC Migration
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Revathi Chandrasekaran · Rohan Ramesh
Two years into the post-quantum readiness era, aligning on the algorithms is the easy part - NIST has standardized them. The hard part, that quietly derails migration programs, is the wiring: knowing what cryptography yo
Beyond the Handshake: Enhancing PKI with Out-of-Band Key Agreement
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Michele Mosca
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) migration is accelerating, but it also exposes a deeper reality: cryptography can no longer be treated as a one-time design choice embedded in protocols. As standards evolve, organizations
PQC Transition in Production, Season 1: Network Encryption
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Yvan Vanhullebus
As a provider of cybersecurity solutions, Stormshield has been working on the post-quantum transition for years, for its products but also for its own IT transition. 2026 is the year when the transition starts to reach p
Governing the PQC Transition in the US and the EU: A Comparative Analysis
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Laima Jančiūtė
Although the US has been regarded as a frontrunner in the global pursuit of quantum-readiness, distinguished by its top-down approach to the PQC transition, hosting the main institutional venue undertaking PQC standardis
Retaining Cryptographic Control When Agentic AI Accelerates PQC Migration
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Guillaume Forget
As organisations use AI to accelerate PQC migration, they risk creating a new form of crypto sprawl: AI-generated code that embeds algorithms, key references, provider choices, and local policy assumptions. This session
C509 PKI: A Lightweight PKI for Modern and Post-Quantum Applications
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Lijun Liao
C509 is a lightweight approach to Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) that brings the established X.509 PKI model to constrained devices and modern applications. Rather than focusing primarily on reducing certificate / CRL /
Implementing the PKI Consortium PQC Maturity Model at Siemens Trust Centre
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Wilko Wenzel
As the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) accelerates, organizations face a challenge that extends far beyond algorithm replacement. Success depends on understanding cryptographic dependencies, coordinating mu
Hash based Signatures - A decision support
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Volker Krummel
When it comes to the selection of a PQC signing algorithm the family of hash based signatures pose a valid and highly interesting choice. All of its family members like SLH-DSA, LMS, XMSS provide a very conservative and
PQC Budgeting: How to Address the Costs of PQC Readiness
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Blair Canavan · Jaime Gómez García
As governments and regulatory bodies around the world accelerate guidance and migration timelines for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), mid-to-large enterprises face an increasingly urgent question: how much should we bud
Roundtable: Healthcare considerations for PQC
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Scott Rea · Konstantinos Dimitriou
Securing Healthcare for the Quantum Era: A PQC Readiness Roundtable Medical devices approved and deployed today will remain in clinical use for a decade or more, and patient records carry confidentiality obligations mea
Adventures with LMS: Lessons from Implementing Stateful Hash-Based Signatures for Post-Quantum Trust
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Dave Butcher
LMS is a proven post-quantum signature scheme, but its stateful nature creates deployment challenges that are easy to underestimate. This session shares practical lessons from implementing LMS in real-world post-quantum
Insights into a Post-Quantum Safety Transformation Journey
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Cristof Kaufmann · Thomas Maes
The quantum threat is no longer theoretical. Yet moving a large organization from awareness to structured action, systematically and without paralysis, remains genuinely difficult. This talk shares practical insights fro
Gaming the Speed-vs-Memory Tradeoff for ML-DSA and ML-KEM
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Mike Ounsworth
FIPS is only a suggestion, sortof. Specifically, FIPS only requires "mathematical equivalence" to the listed algorithms, and that gives a surprisingly wide latitude for implementations to play algorithmic games in search
The Board Factor: What Makes PQC Programs Succeed or Stall
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Louise Davey
Cryptographic resilience requires multi-year enterprise transformation, not a technical remediation exercise. Yet many organizations still treat it as one. That is a mistake. Digital trust depends on a cryptographic es
Closing (Day 1)
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Albert de Ruiter
Brief closing remarks for the blue hall audience and a preview of Day 2.
Closing (Day 1)
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-01
Paul van Brouwershaven
Brief closing remarks for the red hall audience and a preview of Day 2.
Welcome back — Day 2
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Sven Rajala
Parallel welcome and agenda highlights for the blue hall audience.
Welcome back — Day 2
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Albert de Ruiter
Welcome and agenda highlights for the red hall audience: a quick look at what is on today and how to get the most out of it.
Mobile user authentication: post quantum trade-offs
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Roel Peeters
At itsme, an eIDAS Level High recognised identity scheme, we explored several post-quantum migration strategies for user authentication. Itsme consists of a mobile application installed on the user's phone and a secure b
Your Suppliers Aren't Ready: PQC Supply Chain Readiness
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Paul van Brouwershaven · Fred Roos · Lory Thorpe · Manfred Rieck
You have mapped your internal cryptographic assets, you have a migration plan, and you know which algorithms you are moving to. Then you open a ticket with your HSM vendor, your cloud key management provider, your identi
PQC-ready is not PQC-verified: ML-DSA downgrade and interoperability failures across two independent software verifiers
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Anton Sokolov
Standardization is not the end of assurance. An algorithm can be standardized, shipped, and still have to be replaced or re-verified on short notice, and a hybrid signature can pass its own unit tests and still fail the
Discovery Tells the Truth: What Real Crypto Inventories Reveal About PQC Readiness
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Itan Barmes
The post-quantum transition is widely called "complex," but that word hides what the complexity actually is. PQC migration is both a technical challenge and an organizational one, and it is only when organizations begin
PQC Starts at the Root of Trust: The Role of TPMs in Protecting Next-Generation Device Identities
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Antonio Javier Cabrera Gutierrez
As organizations prepare for the transition to post-quantum cryptography, much of the conversation focuses on algorithms, certificates, and PKI infrastructure. Yet the success of any migration ultimately depends on where
Roundtable: Government PQC Guidance and Regulation — Where We Are and Where We're Going
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Zygmunt Lozinski
More than 30 national governments have now published guidance on post-quantum cryptography, ranging from two-page memos to migration handbooks running to hundreds of pages. Sector regulators then translate that guidance
Operationalizing PQC: Proposing a Common Crypto API for Agile PKI and Machine Identity
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Ganesh Mallaya · Tomas Gustavsson · Vladimir Soukharev · Murugiah Souppaya · Jaime Gómez García · Bruno Couillard
NIST has finalized its first working set of post-quantum cryptography standards. The NIST CSWP-39 paper has shifted the enterprise conversation from algorithm selection to cryptographic agility. For application developme
Tackling PQC and 47-Day Certificates in Parallel
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Tim Callan
In the next few years every enterprise will have to deal with two seismic shifts in digital trust that will redefine all security strategies: the phased reduction of SSL/TLS certificate lifespans to just 47 days by 2029,
Leveraging PKI in the Quantum Sovereign Stack
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Tom Patterson
The convergence of post-quantum cryptography, sovereign technology strategies, advanced AI, and accelerating computing power is forcing companies and countries to rethink how trust infrastructure is built and governed, w
How to Actually Start Your PQC Transition
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Joachim Vererfven
In discussions around the PQC transition, the technical migration challenge often receives the most attention. In practice, however, organizations face significant barriers before any cryptographic transition can begin:
Stop Hiring PQC Experts !!!
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Kiruthiga Chandrasekaran
It is time organisations stopped making the mistake of assuming they need to hire a PQC expert. The real challenge has nothing to do with solving cryptography or researching new algorithms. PQC is not a cryptographic res
Lessons Learned from Deploying LMS at Scale
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Thalia Laing
Stateful hash-based signatures such as LMS are standardised and well understood, but translating them into deployable products involves challenges that are often absent from standards and academic literature. This talk
Comparing Cryptographic Inventory Requirements Across Industries
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Itan Barmes · Sarah McCarthy · Lory Thorpe · Rouven Floeter · Sjors Kasbergen
This panel explores the differences in the requirements on cryptographic inventory, and how they impact remediation efforts and migration priorities across industry verticals. Chaired by an expert in cryptographic postur
Cryptography Without the Headache: From Assessment Framework to Agile API
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Navaneeth Rameshan
Every organization knows cryptography will need to change. New standards arrive, old algorithms age out, compliance requirements shift, and vulnerabilities force urgent decisions. Most systems still make those changes pa
The PQC Ready German ID Card
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Jan Klaußner · Malte Kruse
Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) adoption is mandated for critical EU infrastructure by 2030, yet integration into existing identity document ecosystems presents significant cryptographic and performance constraints. Nati
HAPKIDO Handbook: Navigating the Transition to Quantum-Safe PKI
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Dayana Spagnuelo · Manon de Vries
PKIs operate on the assumption that trusted credentials remain unforgeable over their lifetime. Advances in quantum computing challenge this premise: credentials trusted today may become forgeable in the future, introduc
The Agentic Control Plane: Measuring Post-Quantum Readiness in MCP and A2A
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Bhushan Lokhande
AI Agents are now more widely used in production deployments, and they are no longer merely prototypes. Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) are emerging as the default protocols for how agents communica
Scaling of Memory and Bandwidth Requirements of Post-Quantum Signatures with Message Size
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Falko Strenzke
In this work we analyse the qualitative memory and bandwidth efficiency properties of the currently standardised post-quantum signatures as such, and of their protocol integrations mainly in the X.509 context. The term q
Trust Now, Forge Later: A Live Exposure Demonstration
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Tim D Williams
Current post-quantum planning is dominated by one clock, harvest-now-decrypt-later (HNDL), but for signature infrastructure the binding exposure is trust-now-forge-later (TNFL). Once a cryptographically relevant quantum
Quantum-Safe Audit Log Relying on Attestation Procedures
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Olivier Couillard
Last year, we examined how hardware security modules can provide cryptographic attestation, i.e., a signed snapshot of the state of an HSM and/or of its keys. Trust in cryptographic infrastructure, however, often require
Measuring PQC Readiness for PKI: Introducing the PKI Maturity Model Extension Framework and Its First Extension
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Roman Cinkais · Kennedy Nwup
Most organisations approaching post-quantum migration share the same blind spot: they have a roadmap, but no honest way to measure where their PKI actually stands. This session introduces two published outputs of the PKI
An Evaluation of PQC Algorithms in DNSSEC Using Real-World Data
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Elmer Lastdrager
Over the last years, we have conducted a series of experiments to establish which PQC algorithms would be best suitable for replacing RSA and ECDSA in DNSSEC, the security extension of DNS. As a core internet protocol, i
Bootstrapping PQC on Existing Hardware: A Three-Stage Migration Framework
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Xin Qiu
The transition to post-quantum cryptography requires more than replacing algorithms. Public-key cryptography is deeply embedded in device identity, secure boot, code signing, certificate issuance, software delivery, and
Estonian PQC Migration Roadmap
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Jelizaveta Vakarjuk
This presentation outlines Estonia's roadmap for transitioning the public sector to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), officially released in April 2026. Given the significant heterogeneity in cryptographic architectures,
Email Reborn: Post-Quantum encryption over the mailbox you already have
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Dimitri van Esch
End-to-end encrypted email has existed for thirty years and is barely used. PGP puts key management on the user; S/MIME puts a CA and an enrolment process on the organisation and still stops at its border; the modern alt
Bridging the Gap: A Hybrid TPM Strategy for Post-Quantum Virtual Smart Cards
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Zsolt Makádi
Though NIST finalized ML-KEM and ML-DSA some time ago, the industry is still facing a dilemma: how to secure hardware against future threats without waiting for silicon updates. While the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) re
Leveraging Agentic AI for Automated CBOM Inventory and Crypto-Agility
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Iván Fernández Mora
Extracting Cryptographic Bill of Materials (CBOMs) from source code is a foundational pillar of the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) transition. However, traditional security scanning methods fall short. The limitations
A Pragmatic Strategy Behind PQC: 7 Decisions Every Enterprise Must Make Before Migration
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Mark Cooper
Organizations are rushing to inventory certificates, evaluate tooling, and launch discovery projects in preparation for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). But these activities often begin before the organization has answer
Making PQC Migration Verifiable: CBOM Profiles for the EU Roadmap and Beyond
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Michael Osborne
The post-quantum transition has two problems: a deadline and a lack of proof. The EU Coordinated Implementation Roadmap sets clear milestones for moving to quantum-safe cryptography. Meeting them depends on something mos
CLM 2.0: What's Deployed, What's Broken, What's Next
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Chris Bailey · Chris Hickman · Ganesh Mallaya · George Parsons · Roman Cinkais
A year ago at the PQC Conference in Kuala Lumpur, this panel mapped the roadblocks on the path to post-quantum resilience. Twelve months on, the questions have shifted. Certificate lifetimes are collapsing toward 47 days
Roundtable: Securing the Financial Sector for the Quantum Era
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Jaime Gómez García · Sarah McCarthy
The financial sector has moved further than most towards a coordinated post-quantum migration. The Quantum Safe Financial Forum, together with FS-ISAC and CFDIR, has published a framework for prioritizing use cases and s
Adding PQ Capabilities to SSH Protocol: The Fedora Approach
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Dmitry Belyavskiy
OpenSSH and libssh are 2 mostly widespread implementations of SSH protocol. Real-world requirements for PQ crypto causes writing significant patches to OpenSSH because of difference of the upstream and downstream require
Role of CBOM in a Telco's PQC Journey
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Luke Ibbetson · Lory Thorpe
This presentation on behalf of the GSMA PQTN task force will examine the role of a "Cryptographic Bill of Materials" in the telecommunication sector. The session will explore CBOM and its relationship to the Software Bil
120,000 Tasks: The Cryptography Was the Easy Part
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Marin Ivezic
The integrated master schedule for one large enterprise's post-quantum migration grew past 120,000 discrete tasks. It was not a count of devices, certificates, or applications to upgrade. If it were, 120,000 would be sma
Closing (Day 2)
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Sven Rajala
Brief closing remarks for the red hall audience and a preview of Day 3.
Closing (Day 2)
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-02
Paul van Brouwershaven
Brief closing remarks for the blue hall audience and a preview of Day 3.
Welcome back — Day 3
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Paul van Brouwershaven
Final day framing for the red hall audience: what is ahead, and how to make the most of the last day before heading back into the real world.
Welcome back — Day 3
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Albert de Ruiter
Parallel welcome and agenda highlights for the blue hall audience.
Merkle Tree Certificates for Private PKI: Size, Scale, and Transparency in the Post-Quantum Era
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Ganesh Mallaya · John Gray
Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) introduce a new approach to PKI that can help address several challenges associated with post-quantum cryptography migration. This presentation reviews three key deployment properties curr
How Close Is the Threat, and What Does a Board Owe Its Shareholders Now?
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Jean-François Bobier
Post-quantum migration deadlines are now fixed by regulation — the EU Coordinated Implementation Roadmap, EO 14412 — but the pace of quantum hardware remains the variable every budget rests on. This keynote gives an inde
How AI Is Compressing the Cryptographic Threat Timeline
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Michael Osborne
**Abstract** This talk looks at three recent results that together change the outlook for cryptographic risk. It starts with classical factoring. Two RSA Challenge records fell within sixteen days in September 2026: fi
Scaling Quantum Safe: How HSBC Transitions from Early Momentum to Enterprise Execution
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Antti Ropponen · Alejandro Montblanch
Quantum Safe transformation is emerging as a critical strategic priority for financial institutions, though most organisations are still in relatively early stages of structured execution. This session shares HSBC's expe
Merkle Tree Certificates: Ready for Browsers and Beyond?
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Alexander Truskovsky · Shane Kelly · Kim Nguyen · John Gray
The transition to post-quantum cryptography creates a practical challenge for certificate-based systems: post-quantum signatures are substantially larger than the signatures used today, potentially increasing certificate
Roundtable: Securing Telecommunications for the Quantum Era
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Lory Thorpe · Luke Ibbetson
Telecommunications networks carry the traffic that every other sector's post-quantum migration depends on, and they are among the hardest systems to change. Network equipment, SIM and eSIM platforms, and roaming and inte
Beyond Discovery: Making Cryptographic Inventory Actionable
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Chris Hickman · Alexander Loew · Itan Barmes · Paul van Brouwershaven
PQC roadmaps and guidance, including the EU’s coordinated implementation roadmap and guidance from CISA, NSA, NIST, and the UK NCSC, emphasize discovery and inventory as foundations for migration. With several years of g
PQC PKI: The Good, the Broken, and the Hybrid
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Tomas Gustavsson · Sven Rajala
2025 was a year full of preparations for deploying PQC in practice. Standards, software libraries, HSMs, a lot of everything was updated to support PQC algorithms. PQC 2026 started with a lot of PQC capable components a
Prioritising Financial Sector Use-Cases for Migration
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Sarah McCarthy · Sudha Iyer
The intricate web of interbank communications, transaction protocols, and shared infrastructure means no single financial institution can effectively navigate a successful Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) migration alone.
Collaborative Efforts to support migration to PQC
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Murugiah Souppaya · Evgeny Gervis · Bruno Couillard · Ted Shorter
A panel discussion that shares examples of how over 55 different organizations have worked collaborated within the NCCoE Migration to PQC project to demonstrate in either the use cryptographic visibility to support risk
Quantum-Ready for BFSI in the ASEAN Region
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Vivian Ma
This session shares real experience working with MODA and FSC in Taiwan, and DICT and BSP in the Philippines, to understand their guidelines and roadmaps for supporting the Taiwanese and Philippine BFSI sectors in migrat
Trust Me, I'm Random: Zero Trust Entropy for PQC
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Menyhért Pálinkó
Every key your cloud HSM or KMS generates relies on one assumption nobody in your SOC can verify: that the RNG feeding it is actually random. That assumption has failed before, in certified hardware, silently, for years.
Project Hail Merkle: Rethinking Qualified Trust Services with Merkle Tree Certificates
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Kim Nguyen
Digital trust is entering a new phase. For decades, certificates have been the invisible backbone of secure digital interactions: reliable, proven, and essential. But the environment around them is changing fast. Trust e
PQC Regulation and Guidance Globally
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Zygmunt Lozinski
PQC guidance varies by country and by industry. Some countries publish short policy papers, others provide detailed cryptographic recommendations, and even PQC migration handbooks. We are also seeing the development of s
PQC Migration for European Public Institutions
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Mathias Schumacher · Adrian Neal
Cryptanalytically Relevant Quantum Computing (CRQC) is approaching increasingly fast, as the latest developments in hardware, software, and the application of decrypting algorithms show. But where would adversaries with
Post-Quantum HSMs: Shipped, Validated, or Roadmap?
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Marcel Dasen · Zsolt Rózsahegyi · Bruno Couillard · John Buselli · Giuseppe Damiano
Post-quantum cryptography has moved from standardization to procurement and deployment, with HSM providers central to what customers can implement. This panel brings providers together to distinguish what is available an
Securing the Internet of Things for the Quantum Era
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Shahid Raza
The rapid growth of the IoT has transformed critical sectors such as healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, energy, and smart cities. However, IoT security is deeply dependent on public key infrastructures (PKI) for
The Layer Nobody Monitors: Entropy Failures in PKI, from Factorable Keys to Silent Hardware Faults
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Douglass Hill
The randomness PKI assumes is there fails silently — certificates look valid, keys look fine, and nothing alerts until someone goes looking. This session walks four real entropy failures and the thread connecting them. T
Practical Implementation of Hardware-Separated Composite Signatures for Large-Scale PKI During the PQC Migration Period
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Akane Suzuki · Hiroki Uchiyama
The transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) presents a significant challenge for organizations operating large-scale Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs). While PQC standards are becoming available, replacing vast num
ETSI/EU PQC update
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Iñigo Barreira
While the EU set up its roadmap for a PQC transition and now is ready for another standardization project regarding PQC involving industry uptakes (development, interoperability, digital services, …), ETSI is preparing f
Crypto-Agility in Practice: What Breaks When Introducing Post-Quantum Algorithms
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Udara Pathum
Post-quantum cryptography is often discussed in terms of algorithm design and standardization, but integrating new cryptographic primitives into existing software systems exposes a different class of engineering challeng
Making ML-DSA Work for Machine-to-Machine mTLS: Field Notes from an End-to-End Post-Quantum PKI
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Rumen Doynov · Alexander Shestakov
Most post-quantum migration programs have done the easy part - hybrid key exchange - and then hit a wall at authentication. Getting ML-DSA certificates working for real machine-to-machine identity, with a PKI that can is
Where the World Stands: A Government Leaders’ Panel on the PQC Transition
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Paul van Brouwershaven · Pieter Schneider · Stephan Ehlen · Fabiana Da Pieve · Megat Zuhairy Megat Tajuddin
A digital economy runs on trust, and that trust runs on cryptography. The signatures, certificates, and encrypted channels that underpin banking, identity, commerce, and communication are invisible until they fail — and
The European Roadmap on Post-Quantum Cryptography: Looking Back and Moving Forward
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Stephan Ehlen · Anita Wehmann
In April 2024, the European Commission issued a Recommendation on Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), calling on Member States to adopt a coordinated and harmonized approach to the transition towards quantum-resistant crypt
Beware of Downgrade Attacks during the Migration to Quantum Resistance
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Thalia Laing
During the quantum-resistant migration’s transitionary phase there is a need for backwards compatibility and manageability. This means that old and new cryptography may be in use at the same time, creating a real risk of
Conference closing
Post-Quantum Cryptography Conference · 2026-12-03
Paul van Brouwershaven · Albert de Ruiter · Sven Rajala
The chairs bring the conference to a close with key takeaways, a call to action, and what comes next for the PKI Consortium's PQC work.
