At the heart of quantum technology are principles that challenge classical intuition, including superposition and entanglement. Quantum key distribution (QKD) leverages these properties to enable theoretically secure communication, where any attempt at eavesdropping can be detected. Entanglement—the phenomenon in which particles remain correlated across distance—underpins not only QKD but also future quantum networks and distributed computing architectures.
Beyond communication, quantum sensing is emerging as one of the most mature and transformative applications. Quantum sensors have the potential to redefine navigation by reducing or even eliminating reliance on GPS, enabling precise positioning in environments where satellite signals are unavailable or unreliable. Looking further ahead, quantum technologies could support entirely new infrastructure paradigms, including the possibility of data centers in space, where quantum communication links and ultra-secure networks operate beyond terrestrial constraints.
As these capabilities evolve, the need for interoperability, security, and performance standards becomes critical, requiring coordination across industries and international bodies to ensure scalable and trusted quantum ecosystems.
Dr. Bruno Avritzer is the quantum theory lead at Leidos and the vice-chair of the QED-C Standards and Performance Metrics technical advisory committee, and specializes in the theory of quantum communications and networked quantum devices, ranging from secure quantum communications to distributed quantum computing.
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Jason Livingood serves as Vice President of Technology Policy, Product & Standards at Comcast. He leads Comcast’s efforts in developing & deploying new open standards, supporting applied R&D via collaboration with the research community, engaging with governments, regulators, and other external key stakeholders on Technology Policy issues, and providing leadership on end user product technology roadmaps.
Jason joined Comcast in 1996 to help a small team transition from field trials to launching the high-speed Internet service business. He and a small team of colleagues later co-founded Comcast’s business class Internet services and he’s also been instrumental in the creation of Xfinity Voice, Xfinity Home and Xfinity WiFi. He has held a wide range of roles at the company, including in architecture, engineering, operations, software development, DevOps, and product management.
He also serves as on the Internet Architecture Board and serves or has served in a wide range of other industry technical groups.
Oprational Security Considerations for IPv6 Networks (RFC 9099)
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This session provides operational security insights for running IPv6 networks, addressing new challenges that differ from IPv4 and offering recommended mitigation techniques for managed environments.
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This session covers: security in enterprise, service provider, and managed residential networks, helping operators make secure deployment choices.
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This session covers topics such as IPv6 addressing plans, handling of extension headers, link-layer protections, control plane hardening, and best practices for routing security.
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This session also includes dual-stack and IPv4/IPv6 coexistence mechanisms, highlighting the associated security considerations and strategies for mitigating risks.
Many of the public-key cryptographic standards we use today will be vulnerable to attacks from a large-scale quantum computer. To address this threat, NIST initiated a rigorous process in 2016 to select quantum-resistant cryptographic algorithms to standardize. This talk will review this NIST PQC standardization effort, which culminated in the publication of the first set of PQC standards in August 2024, with ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA. The talk will also detail the ongoing standardization of additional signature scheme(s), called “the on-ramp”, and the selection of HQC for an additional KEM standard.
Crucially, the talk will outline the necessary transition to those new standards. Migration timelines are given in NIST IR 8547, which proposes that currently approved quantum-vulnerable public-key algorithms will be disallowed after 2035. The talk will showcase the efforts of the National Cybersecurity Centre of Excellence’s Migration to PQC project, which is helping the community by tackling adoption issues, testing how different systems work together, and providing advice to speed up the global shift to secure cryptography against quantum threats.
Quynh Dang is a member of the Cryptographic Technology Group (CTG) at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has worked in the field of applied cryptography for 20+ years. His interests include symmetric key, asymmetric key and post-quantum cryptography, and protocol security.
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Igor Lubashev,
Director of Engineering, Akamai Technologies.
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Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) have evolved from simple caching systems into critical infrastructure powering today’s Internet. This talk highlights how CDNs improve performance, scalability, and security through caching, overlay routing, and transport optimizations, while also enabling media management, site acceleration, and global content protection. We will also discuss CDN architectures and the different design decisions that distinguish them.
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Igor Lubashev is a Director of Engineering at Akamai Technologies, where he leads teams focused on Linux kernel and operating systems, load balancing, and Edge Virtualization systems. He has played a key role in launching Akamai’s anycast CDN and Distributed Linode cloud products.
Active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Igor has contributed to the development of the QUIC protocol, innovative loss measurement techniques in QUIC, and advancements in source address validation. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including IETF and Networking at Scale, where he shares insights on networking, performance, and systems architecture.
Prior to Akamai, Igor worked at Oracle, contributing to the low-level architecture of the Oracle RDBMS. He also played a pivotal role at a startup developing a mobile operating system. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Igor has a deep technical background in networking and distributed systems.