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

 

 

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Registration closes Friday, 10/10/2025.

 

 

 

Topic	Details
Introduction & Workshop Objectives	Presenter: Matt Mickelson, PQCC Lead at MITRE
Keynote: The State of the Migration	Presenter: Moses Liskov, Principal Cybersecurity Researcher / Cryptographer at MITRE
Block 1: Pathways Towards PQC Governance
Talk: Building Crypto-Agility: What, Why, How	Presenter: Jai Arun, Head of Product Management & Strategy, Quantum Safe and Crypto-Agility Products at IBM
Talk: Beyond PKI: Rethinking Trust	Presenter: Roberta Faux, Head of Cryptography at Arqit
Talk: Post-Quantum Cryptography at Internet Scale	Presenter: Sharon Goldberg, Product Director at Cloudflare
Talk: Challenges in Post-Quantum Cryptography for Constrained Devices: Formal Verification and Side-Channel Protections	Presenter: Reza Azarderakhsh, CEO of PQSecure
Panel: Pathways Towards PQC Governance	Panelists and audience members will participate in an interactive panel focused on key implementation challenges with PQC migrations.
Activity: PQC Coalition Workstreams	Leads: Christina Luke, Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE, and Aishu Vinod, Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE 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
Talk: The Hidden Gap: How IoT and the Military Can Achieve Post-Quantum Security	Presenter: Connor Spangler, Quantum Security Solutions Architect at Arqit
Activity: Sector Working Groups	Leads: Christina Luke, Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE, and Aishu Vinod, Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE Participants will split into groups based on industry to identify PQC migration key challenges and best practices.
Block 3: Global PQC Practices and Interoperability
Talk: Taiwan’s PQC Migration Framework: Securing the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain	Presenter: Ming Chih, CEO & Founder of Chelpis Quantum
Talk: NCCoE Migration to PQC Project Findings	Presenter: Kaitlyn Laohoo, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE
Panel: Aligning International Practices	Panelists and audience members will participate in an interactive panel focused on international PQC standards and interoperability challenges.
Keynote: NIST PQC Updates and Perspectives	Presenter: Dustin Moody, Mathematician / PQC Project Lead at NIST

*Agenda is still being refined and subject to change.