Executive Track Agenda
To be updated soon...
Opening
Time
09:00 - 09:40
Opening Ceremony
HE Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Head & President
UAE Cyber Security Council
Dr. Najwa Aaraj
CEO
Technology Innovation Institute
Mr. Khaled Salah
Director Regional Office
GCC Countries and Yemen
UNESCO
Session Theme
DIGITAL UAE AND CYBER THREATS
Time
09:40 – 10:50
Talk:
- Digital Snapshot of the UAE: e-Government & e-Commerce Risk Exposure
Talk:
- Real World Cyber Threats in the UAE
Panel:
- Sovereign Large Language Models and their role in national security
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Head & President
UAE Cyber Security Council
Dr. Hakim Hacid
Chief Researcher - Artificial Intelligence & Digital Science Research Center
Technology Innovation Institute
Dr. Abed Benaichouche
Cofounder & CEO
Open Innovation AI
Time
10:50 - 11:20
COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAK
Session Theme
STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS
Time
11:20 - 12:50
Talk:
- Law Enforcement in the Quantum Era: Threats and Opportunities
Dr. Toshinobu Yasuhira
Director of INTERPOL Innovation Centre
INTERPOL
Talk:
- The UAE's New Cryptographic Regulations: What You Need to Know
H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti
Head & President
UAE Cyber Security Council
Talk:
- Post-Quantum Cryptography Today: Hybrid and Pure Deployments
Panel:
- Standardizing for Security: Global Trends
Dr. Armando Faz Hernandez
Research Engineer
Cloudflare
Dr. Gregoire Ribordy
CEO and co-founder
ID Quantique
Time
12:50 - 13:50
LUNCH BREAK
Session Theme
MIGRATION PILOTS
(PQC TECHNOLOGIES)
Time
13:50 - 14:55
Talk:
- PQC Pilots in the UAE – What We’ve Learned
Talk:
- PQC Pilots in the World – What We’ve Learned
Dr. Armando Faz Hernandez
Research Engineer
Cloudflare
Talk:
- PQC Deployment Challenges: Hardware, Software, and System-Level Assurance for Post-Quantum Cryptography
Prof. Reza Azarderakhsh
Professor at FAU and Founder of PQSecure
FAU / PQSecure
Time
14:55 - 15:25
COFFEE & NETWORKING BREAK
Session Theme
MIGRATION PILOTS
(QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES)
Time
15:25 - 17:25
Talk:
- Symmetric Key Infrastructure
Mr. Christian Schmitz
Managing Director
EvolutionQ
Talk:
- The Path to QKD Standardization
Dr. Gregoire Ribordy
CEO and co-founder
ID Quantique
Panel:
- Quantum security for Finance
Dr. James Grieve
Senior Director - Quantum Research Center
Technology Innovation Institute
Mr. Amritpal Singh Sidhu
Senior Manager - Technology Governance, Financial Services Regulatory Authority
ADGM Academy
Panel:
- Planning the Transition – Internal Resistance, Cost, Legal Hurdles, Milestones, Metrics
Dr. Rafael Misoczki
Cryptographer
Meta
Mr. Mohammed Aboul-Magd
VP of Product
SandboxAQ
Mr. Janne Hirvimies
CTO
QuantumGate
Mr. Christian Schmitz
Managing Director
EvolutionQ
Closing
Time
17:25 - 17:30
TODAY AT A GLANCE
Opening
Time
09:20 - 09:30
HIGHLIGHTS FROM DAY 1
Session Theme
QUANTUM THREAT
Time
09:30 - 10:45
Talk:
- State of the art of quantum computers
Prof. John Martinis
CTO and co-founder
Qolab
Talk:
- Understanding the Quantum Threat Timeline
Dr. Brian A. LaMacchia
Director
FARCASTER Consulting Group
Time
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee & Networking Break
Session Theme
CRYPTOGRAPHIC INVENTORIES AND AGILITY
Time
11:15 - 12:15
Talk:
- Cryptographic Inventories – Where is Your Crypto?
Mr. Janne Hirvimies
CTO
QuantumGate
Talk:
- Standardization activities towards Post-Quantum readiness
Dr. Hirotaka Yoshida
SC 27 WG 2 Convenor ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27/WG 2
Time
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
Session Theme
CRYPTOGRAPHIC INVENTORIES AND AGILITY
Time
13:15 - 14:45
Talk:
- Crypto-Agile Quantum-Safety for AWS and Our Customers: How our verifiably correct, high performance libraries form the backbone of our PQC strategy
Dr. Roderick Chapman
Senior Principal Applied Scientist AWS Cryptography
Talk:
- Keys, Protocols, and Infrastructure: Common Roadblocks in Crypto Transitions
Mr. Michael Osborne
CTO IBM Quantum Safe IBM Research - Zurich
Panel:
- Cryptographic Agility in Action: What Worked and What Didn't
Dr. Brian A. LaMacchia
Director
FARCASTER Consulting Group
Dr. Axel Y. Poschmann
VP of Product
PQShield
Mr. Michael Osborne
CTO IBM Quantum Safe IBM Research - Zurich
Time
14:45 - 15:15
Coffee & Networking Break
Session Theme
AI, QUANTUM AND CYBERSECURITY
Time
15:15 - 16:45
Talk:
- Navigating the Quantum Era:
Securing Your Cloud Infrastructure for the Long Term
Mr. Rajeev Nair
Chief Delivery Officer
Core42
Talk:
- AI and Cybersecurity in the next decade
Dr. Abed Benaichouche
Cofounder & CEO
Open Innovation AI
Panel:
- Trends in Space-based Quantum Networking
Ms. Sana Amairi-Pyka
Lead Scientist - Quantum Communications
Technology Innovation Institute
Dr. Robert Bedington
CTO
SpeQtral
Mr. Stefan Lespezeanu
General Manager and Vice-Chair UKSpace STC Honeywell
Prof. Ji-Gang Ren
Professor - Division of Quantum Physics and Quantum Information University of Science and Technology of China
Closing
Time
