Dr. Yiannis Pavlosoglou is Vice Governor of the National Cybersecurity Authority of Greece and a cybersecurity executive with more than 20 years of experience in cyber resilience, critical infrastructure protection, and security governance. His interest in quantum-safe security began during his doctoral research, where he explored the BB84 quantum key distribution protocol and the implications… Read more »

Jeroen is currently the deputy CISO of the ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management. He has 25+ years of technical background in IT, with a focus on cybersecurity in both IT and OT for the last 12 years. Building upon an operational knowledge in applying cryptography, including the policy role in the implementation of a… Read more »

He is a cybersecurity engineer, with 25 years experience at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Between 2019-2025, he joined the European Security and Defense College (ESDC), which is part of the European External Action Service (EEAS), organizing cybersecurity and Intelligence activities/workshops for EU Member States or geographical areas with political interest in EU (like… Read more »

Pieter Schneider works as Program Manager Quantum Secure Cryptography NL (QvC-NL) at the CISO Government Office of the Ministry of the Interior & Kingdom Relations. Pieter has a broad background in the security domain and cybersecurity. In his current role, he manages the QvC-NL program, which aims to help The Netherlands manage the risks of… Read more »

Elif Yesilbek studied Mathematics and Software Engineering, then completed her Computer Science master in information security, with focus on Cryptography. Currently she is working as a cryptographer and pursues her PhD in Cryptography. Her PhD thesis is about achieving crypto-agility as PQC becomes PKC, for fintech.

Dr Christian Fischer works at the DLR Project Management Agency for four years, where he works for the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (NCC-DE). He is an expert on European funding programmes, particularly the Digital Europe Programme, acts as a funding adviser for start-ups and SMEs in the cybersecurity sector, and organises various events for… Read more »

Siebren Lepstra is currently working as Enterprise Architect PKI and chip technology at the Judicial Information Service as part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice and Security. For the last ten years Siebren is involved in the field of PKI, chip technology, applied cryptography and, more recently, quantum technology. Quantum technology is evolving fast and… Read more »

Kristof obtained a PhD in engineering sciences at the KU Leuven with research on cryptographic protection of privacy with anonymous credentials and zero-knowledge proofs. In this context, he won the best paper award at the International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT). In 2011, he joined the research department of Smals, an IT service provider… Read more »

Ir. Manon de Vries is an Applied Cryptography researcher at TNO. She has over 10 years of practical security and cryptographic experience, which includes teaching courses on Cryptography and PKI.She led the PQC Benchmarking project within the PCSI (Partnership for Cyber Security Innovation) and participates in the PCSI PQC Workgroup, where TNO works together with… Read more »

Martina Vigorito received her PhD in Algebra from the University of Salerno in 2025. She is currently an Associate Professor at EPITA and a researcher at the EPITA Research Laboratory (LRE) in Paris. Her research interests include post-quantum cryptography, cryptanalysis, secure protocols, and privacy-preserving cryptographic constructions. She works on the design and security analysis of… Read more »