Overview
Quantum technologies are moving rapidly from research breakthroughs to real-world impact, reshaping industries from cybersecurity to logistics and national security. This series brings together thought leaders and practitioners to demystify the field, connect foundational science with practical applications, and highlight what organizations need to do today to prepare for a quantum-enabled future.
Webinar Schedule
1. Quantum 101: QKD, Entanglement, Sensors, and the Need for Standards
This session introduces foundational quantum concepts, including superposition, entanglement, quantum key distribution, and quantum sensing. It also explores why interoperability, security, and performance standards are critical as quantum technologies mature.
2. How Quantum Computing Will Break Today’s Encryption & What is PQC?
This session explains how quantum computers threaten widely used encryption systems, including RSA and elliptic curve cryptography. It introduces post-quantum cryptography and hybrid approaches that help organizations begin transitioning today.
3. Transitioning to Quantum-Safe cryptography
This talk will give an overview of post-quantum encryption and digital signature primitives recently standardized by NIST to which a lot of governments and organizations are currently transitioning. I will also give a brief description of additional algorithms that are currently in the pipeline at NIST and talk about what kind of challenges one faces when trying to migrate more complex protocols to quantum-safe. This talk is given by Dr. Vadim Lyubashevsky, a Principal Research Scientist and manager of the Foundational Cryptography group at IBM Research in Zurich. He co-led the CRYSTALS team which produced the CRYSTALS-Kyber (ML-KEM) and the CRYSTALS-Dilithium (ML-DSA) NIST standards for post-quantum encryption and digital signatures.
5. PQC and OpenSSL: Practical Integration and Deployment
This session explores how PQC is being incorporated into OpenSSL and related libraries, including provider-based architectures, liboqs integration, hybrid TLS handshakes, performance testing, interoperability, and deployment challenges.
6. NIST: Migration to PQC
This session presents NIST’s approach to PQC migration, including cryptographic visibility, risk management, cryptographic inventories, interoperability testing, benchmarking, and practical guidance for organizations preparing for quantum-safe security.
7. Using Quantum Computers Today: Practical Applications & Combinatorial Problems
This session highlights near-term quantum computing applications, including optimization, logistics, scheduling, portfolio management, biotech, manufacturing, traffic optimization, and hybrid quantum-classical approaches available today.
5. PQC and OpenSSL: Practical Integration and Deployment
This session explores how PQC is being incorporated into OpenSSL and related libraries, including provider-based architectures, liboqs integration, hybrid TLS handshakes, performance testing, interoperability, and deployment challenges.
Who Should Attend?
This series is designed for technology leaders, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, standards participants, policymakers, researchers, vendors, and organizations preparing for the quantum era.