About the 2026 Post-Quantum Cryptography Forum
Under Chatham House Rule, the in-person-only forum will convene leaders from industry, government, and academia to address the pressing challenges and opportunities of PQC migration.
When: Monday, September 14th, 2026
Where: MITRE McLean Building 1, 7525 Colshire Dr, McLean, VA 22102
Submit a Presentation for the 2026 Forum
The 2026 PQC Forum Call for Presentations has ended.
Confirmation emails will be sent the first week of August.
Thank you to all who submitted their ideas for this Forum!
Registration Details
To register for the 2026 PQC Forum, please fill out the official registration form linked below.
The first round of registration closes Monday, 8/31/2026. After that, only participants with U.S. Citizenship or U.S. Permanent Resident status will be able to register until Monday, 9/7/2026.
Forum Agenda*
| Time | Topic | Presenter(s) |
| 8:15- 8:55 | Check-In and Networking Coffee | |
| 9:00- 9:15 | Opening Remarks & Workshop Objectives | Matt Mickelson, Senior Cyber Principal for S&T, MITRE |
| Block 1: State of PQC | ||
| 9:15- 9:35 | Updates on the NIST PQC Standards | Dustin Moody, Mathematician, Cryptographic Technology Group, NIST |
| 9:35- 9:55 | State of Quantum Computing | Dr. Yaakov S Weinstein, Chief Scientist for Quantum Technologies, MITRE |
| 9:55-10:15 | State of the Migration | Moses Liskov, Senior Principal Scientist for Cryptography and Applied Cryptography Research, MITRE |
| 10:15-10:35 | Updates on PQC EOs, Memos, and NCCoE PQC efforts | Bill Newhouse, Cybersecurity Engineer & Project Lead, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence |
| 10:35-10:45 | Morning Break | |
| Block 2: PQC Strategy and Planning | ||
| 10:45-11:05 | Beyond Cryptographic Discovery: Executing the PQC Migration | Evgeny Gervis, CEO, SafeLogic |
| 11:05-11:25 | How to Achieve PQC Governance | Darío Mendez, CEO, E-QUANTICA |
| 11:25-11:45 | How Do You Know You’re Ready? Measuring Organizational Readiness for Post-Quantum Cryptography | Daniel Justice, Quantum & Artificial Intelligence Researcher, SEI Carnegie Mellon University |
| 11:45-12:05 | Dr. Britta Hale | |
| 12:05-12:45 | Lunch | |
| Block 3: Real World PQC Applications |
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| 12:45-13:05 | Why Your Cloud Provider’s PQC Is Not Enough | Garfield (Gary) Jones D. Eng, QuSecure (Former DHS/CISA) SVP Global Strategy and Research |
| 13:05-13:25 | Quantum-Safe Journey | Suvi Lampila, SSH Fellow, SSH Communications Security Corp |
| 13:25-13:45 | Post-Quantum Cryptographic Implementations in Embedded Devices: Agility and Side channel Protection Challenges | Reza Azarderakhsh, CEO, PQSecure |
| 13:45-14:05 | Laying the Groundwork: TLS 1.3 Readiness Is the Hidden Blocker in PQC Migration | Elizabeth Wood, Lead Security Solutions Advisor, TerraQuantum |
| 14:05-14:15 | Afternoon Break | |
| 14:20-15:00 | Activity: Hidden PQC Dependencies and Blockers |
Leads: MITRE PQCC Team Participants will collaborate in working sessions centering on identifying common dependencies and blockers encountered throughout their PQC migration, and identifying potential pathways forward |
| 15:05-15:40 | Panel: International PQC Interoperability | Dr. Alexander Löw (CEO, Data-Warehouse), Kazuo Noguchi (Sr. Manager R&D, Hitachi America), Roberta Faux (Head of Cryptography and Field CTO, Arqit) |
| 15:40-16:00 | From Q-Day Anxiety to a Working Plan: A Post-Quantum Migration Case Study | Saqib Ahmad, Senior Product Line Manager, Security, Gigamon |
| 16:00-16:20 | PQC Networking Tech and CNSA 2.0 | Cris Salas, EVP of Sales, American Binary |
| 16:20-16:40 | Can Your Systems Handle the Shift: Measuring Post-Quantum Readiness Across Network Links and Host Compute | Joseph Peruzzi, CTO & Co-Founder, Tychon |
| 16:40-17:00 | Dr. Morgan Stern | |
| 17:00-17:15 | Closing Remarks | |
*Agenda is still being refined and subject to change.
The 2025 PQC Forum Agenda, along with past presentation titles and presenter resources (where authorized to share) are available for reference at https://pqcc.org/2025-pqc-forum/.
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