Plenary Sessions Auditorium Havane
Chairman
Michael Baczyk, Director of Investment Advisory, Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC
Educating the audience on the Quantum threat and various aspects of digital security that could be impacted.
- Understanding the threat to asymmetric cryptography and its impact to security, the need to act now and the need for crypto agility going forward.
- Discussing the fundamental threat to asymmetric cryptography and various aspects of security that could be impacted like – image (firmware, OS, etc.) signing, digital identities, cryptographic hardware identities, need for stronger hashing mechanisms, impact to TPMs, secure boot, the key derivation problem for transport protocols like MACsec/IPsec, etc.
- For each of the impacted areas, the path forward and what needs to be done to be quantum safe is presented.
Rakesh Kandula, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Rakesh Kandula is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco’s Mass Scale Infrastructure Group (MIG), where he handles security for products primarily deployed in service provider networks. Rakesh received his Master’s Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has been with Cisco for 15+ years in various roles. His current focus areas are Trustworthy Systems, Platform Security Chips, Secure Boot, DDoS Solutions and other security features relevant to routing platforms. Outside his work, Rakesh is an avid runner who loves running marathons and trail ultras.
Martin Charbonneau, Head Quantum Enablement Network Infrastructure Business Group, Nokia
Moderator
Michael Baczyk, Director of Investment Advisory, Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC
Exploring significant developments across key regions, including China's extensive QKD network, Europe's EuroQCI project, and the rapidly expanding U.S. quantum networking clusters.
Michael Baczyk, Director of Investment Advisory, Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC
Sharing with the Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) the status of its technical achievements in the field of quantum internet, use cases as well as showing the advancement being made towards the innovation and commercialization of this technology. Presenting its technology forum, the QIATF.
Vlora Rexhepi – van der Pol, Innovation Manager, Quantum Internet Alliance, TU Delft
Presenting a pragmatic perspective on the development of quantum-secured large-scale optical networks. The most critical challenge towards developing such networks is establishment of long-distance quantum channels.
Farzam Toudeh-Fallah, Director Quantum Communications R&D, Ciena
Focusing on building a quantum-safe portfolio, pricing strategies, and how to position these services in a competitive market. By investing in quantum-safe networks today, network operators can not only future-proof their infrastructure but also differentiate themselves as leaders in the next era of secure connectivity.
Melchior Aelmans, Quantum Bridge
Discussing the transition path towards Quantum security for network operators. Based on the industry recommendations, certification requirements, etc. presenting the quantum transition path across Cisco’s portfolio with a specific focus on service provider routing platforms.
Rakesh Kandula, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
Rakesh Kandula is a Technical Marketing Engineer in Cisco’s Mass Scale Infrastructure Group (MIG), where he handles security for products primarily deployed in service provider networks. Rakesh received his Master’s Degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (IIT Delhi). He has been with Cisco for 15+ years in various roles. His current focus areas are Trustworthy Systems, Platform Security Chips, Secure Boot, DDoS Solutions and other security features relevant to routing platforms. Outside his work, Rakesh is an avid runner who loves running marathons and trail ultras.
What is needed to evolve current state of the art quantum networks (QKD) to the next level and potentially more use cases? What is the role for telecom providers?
Teun van der Veen, Senior Consultant, TNO
Providing enterprises and communication service providers with the knowledge and tools needed to embark on a quantum-safe journey. By modernizing their networks now, organizations can stay ahead of quantum threats and ensure long-term data security.
Speaker from Kyndryl
Focusing on the essential technical points of establishing QKD-based networks. Delving into the corresponding performance metric and the foreseeable effect that can be achieved by the evolving and potential technologies.
Mekko Gao, Huawei
Discussing the transition from QKD systems to QCI and QI, and the technological status for each of them. Describing the current research efforts for QI.
Ludovic Noirie, Senior Researcher, Nokia Bell Labs
Discussing how quantum-safe encryption ensures data is validated against the most updated algorithms, addressing the retrospective vulnerabilities of harvested data. Exploring the role of PLS in creating a physical layer defense and how QKD’s unique properties can mitigate traditional cryptographic methods.
Dr. Eyal Felstaine, Chief Business Officer, Cyber Ridge
Prior to CyberRidge, Eyal was CTO of Amdocs technology – [NASDAQ: DOX] andestablished Amdocs’ NFV group, which turned into the multi-million “Open Networks” business group. An innovator and entrepreneur by nature, Eyal co-founded and held CXO positions in several successful startups in the communications and evolved-packet core space. These include Traffix Systems, acquired by F5 Networks, Allot Communications [NASDAQ: ALLT], and SANRAD, acquired by Toshiba Japan. Eyal also served as VP of Radware and head of its Cyber Security division [NASDAQ: RDWR]. Eyal holds over 50 patents to his name, has authored numerous refereed papers, and has won several prestigious awards for research excellence in network security. Eyal holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science, a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology and an MBA from Columbia University, NY.
Describing an EU-funded initiative aimed at accelerating the adoption of photonics technologies by European industries (mostly SMEs but not only).
Dr. Pierre-Yves Fonjallaz, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Pierre-Yves has been active for 35 years in the field of photonics in Switzerland and in Sweden as researcher, manager, coordinator, founder and director of PhotonicSweden and delegate for Swissphotonics. He is presently actively supporting EPFL labs with their EU applications and projects. He is active in several photonics-related EU projects himself. He is leading PhotonHub’s work group on digital infrastructure.
State-of-the art PQC (Post Quantum Cryptography) algorithms are a necessity now and not a question for the future. With the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standardization timelines, the migration era beginning, various government guidelines on Quantum Safe Cryptography, it has become a topic of utmost importance for standardization bodies like IETF/3GPP/O-RAN to adopt PQC standards.
Aritra Banerjee, Senior Research Scientist, Nokia
Describing the Concept of Operations and technology underpinning a satellite, or constellation of satellites, accounting for key-rate expectations and weather considerations, to show how terrestrial QKD systems, enhanced by satellite QKD systems, would establish interconnected secure quantum networks that can operate over global distances.
Ian D’Souza, Honeywell Fellow
Stefan Lespezeanu, Sr. Manager Business Development, Honeywell
Exploring hybrid key exchange as a solution, combining the strengths of both QKD and PQC to provide end-to-end encryption and defense-in-depth against the vulnerabilities. Presenting a network architecture that employs hybrid QKD links alongside non-QKD hybrid links, enabling secure, long-distance communication through a fully meshed network.
Tony Rosati, Vice President of Product Strategy and Business Development, evolutionQ
Presenting the current collaboration between Stony Brook University (SBU), Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), the Calpine Power Company (CPC) and the Long Island Solar Farm (LISF), all located on Long Island, New York. The goal of the project is to demonstrate and validate a deployed hybrid quantum/classical cybersecurity optical network securing a network of power distribution nodes.
Authors: Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook University and Dimitrios Katramatos, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Eden Figueroa, Stony Brook University