2025 PQC Forum

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- 10:00

Talk: Post-Quantum Cryptography at Internet Scale

Presenter: Sharon Goldberg, Product Director at Cloudflare

10:05- 10:20

Talk: Real-World Lessons for PQC Migration in Modern Organizations

Presenter: Ryan Hurst, Advisor at SandboxAQ, CEO of Peculiar Ventures

10:20- 10:35

Break

10:40- 10:55

Talk: Beyond PKI: Rethinking Trust

Presenter: Roberta Faux, Head of Cryptography at Arqit

11:00- 11:15

Talk: Challenges in Post-Quantum Cryptography for Constrained Devices: Formal Verification and Side-Channel Protections

Presenter: Reza Azarderakhsh, CEO of PQSecure

11:15- 11:55

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.

12:00- 12:45

Lunch

12:45- 1:45

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

1:50- 2:05

Talk: The Hidden Gap: How IoT and the Military Can Achieve Post-Quantum Security

Presenter: Connor Spangler, Quantum Security Solutions Architect at Arqit

2:05- 2:55

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.

2:55- 3:10

Break

Block 3: Global PQC Practices and Interoperability

3:15- 3:35

Talk: Taiwan’s PQC Migration Framework: Securing the Global Semiconductor Supply Chain

Presenter: Ming Chih, CEO & Founder of Chelpis Quantum

3:40- 3:55

Talk: NCCoE Migration to PQC Project Findings

Presenter: Kaitlyn Laohoo, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE

3:55- 4:45

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.

4:45- 5:00

Closing Remarks

*Agenda is still being refined and subject to change.

 

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