About the 2025 Post-Quantum Cryptography Forum
Under Chatham House Rule, the in-person-only forum will bring together leaders from industry and government to tackle the critical challenges of the PQC migration. Sessions will explore a range of topics including the quantum computing threat timeline, successful practices from early movers, migration technical challenges (e.g. hybrid, interoperability), inventory insights, and methods for evaluating PQC performance.
When: Monday, 10/27/2025
Where: MITRE McLean Building 1, 7525 Colshire Dr, McLean, VA 22102
Registration Details
To register for the 2025 PQC Forum, please fill out the form below.
The first round of registration closes Friday, 10/10/2025. After that, only participants with U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Resident status will be able to register until Friday, 10/17/2025.
Forum Agenda*
| Time | Topic | Details |
| 8:15- 8:55 | Check-In and Networking Coffee | |
| 9:00- 9:10 | Opening Remarks | Presenter: Charles Clancy, Chief Technology Officer at MITRE |
| 9:10- 9:25 | Introduction & Workshop Objectives | Presenter: Matt Mickelson, PQCC Lead at MITRE |
| 9:25- 9:40 | The State of the Migration | Presenter: Moses Liskov, Principal Cybersecurity Researcher / Cryptographer at MITRE |
| Block 1: Pathways Towards PQC Governance | ||
| 9:45- 10:05 | Keynote: CISA’s Perspectives on PQC | Presenter: Gary Jones, Associate Chief of Strategic Technology at CISA |
| 10:10- 10:25 | Talk: Post-Quantum Cryptography at Internet Scale | Presenter: Sharon Goldberg, Product Director at Cloudflare |
| 10:30- 10:45 | Talk: Real-World Lessons for PQC Migration in Modern Organizations | Presenter: Ryan Hurst, Advisor at SandboxAQ, CEO of Peculiar Ventures |
| 10:45- 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:05- 11:20 | Talk: Beyond PKI: Rethinking Trust | Presenter: Roberta Faux, Head of Cryptography at Arqit |
| 11:25- 11:40 | Talk: Challenges in Post-Quantum Cryptography for Constrained Devices: Formal Verification and Side-Channel Protections | Presenter: Reza Azarderakhsh, CEO of PQSecure |
| 11:45- 12:15 | Panel: Pathways Towards PQC Governance |
Panelists: Gary Jones, Ryan Hurst, Roberta Faux, Reza Azarderakhsh, Sharon Goldberg Panelists and audience members will participate in an interactive panel focused on key implementation challenges with PQC migrations. |
| 12:15- 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:05- 1:55 | Activity: PQC Coalition Workstreams |
Leads: MITRE PQCC Team Participants will collaborate in working sessions centering on topics such as inventorying, vendor engagement, product categories, migration roadmapping, and standards tracking. |
| Block 2: Industry-Based Challenges | ||
| 2:00- 2:15 | Talk: The Hidden Gap: How IoT and the Military Can Achieve Post-Quantum Security | Presenter: Connor Spangler, Quantum Security Solutions Architect at Arqit |
| 2:15- 3:00 | Activity: Sector Working Groups |
Leads: MITRE PQCC Team Participants will split into groups based on industry to identify PQC migration key challenges and best practices. |
| 3:00- 3:15 | Break | |
| Block 3: Global PQC Practices and Interoperability | ||
| 3:20- 3:40 | Talk: Taiwan’s PQC Migration Framework: Securing the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain | Presenter: Ming Chih, CEO & Founder of Chelpis Quantum |
| 3:45- 4:00 | Talk: NCCoE Migration to PQC Project Findings | Presenter: Kaitlyn Laohoo, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE |
| 4:05- 4:20 | Panel: Aligning International Practices |
Panelists: Evelyne Tzoukermann, Mary Bischoping, Ming Chih, Kaitlyn Laohoo
Panelists and audience members will participate in an interactive panel focused on international PQC standards and interoperability challenges. |
| 4:25- 4:45 | Keynote: NIST PQC Updates and Perspectives | Presenter: Dustin Moody, Mathematician / PQC Project Lead at NIST |
| 4:45- 5:00 | Closing Remarks | |
*Agenda is still being refined and subject to change.
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