Dr. Ini Kong holds a PhD from the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft. Her doctoral research (NWO-funded HAPKIDO project) developed a stage-based growth model for how organizations can achieve quantum safety, with implications for cross-sector and national coordination on post-quantum readiness.

Her research has been recognized with the Best Management Paper Award at the International Conference on Digital Government Research and the Best ESS PhD Paper Award at TU Delft. She has contributed subject-matter expertise to European-level PQC coordination efforts, including the CEPS task force on the EU’s transition to a quantum-safe world, and her work has been cited by the World Bank Group.

She carries this expertise into industry, working in cybersecurity governance for maritime critical infrastructure. She also volunteers with the Skilling and Education team at Women4Cyber Netherlands.

Mark Chang

Mark Chang has a 25+ year career in the space industry, working with major satellite operators, prime integrators, international & national government agencies and private sector SMEs. Over a 10-year period within this, he led a range of activities across the innovative technologies sector, including trials and space qualification of unique cryptographic functions for satellite communication, some in a crypto-agile manner.

Mark spearheads the UK space innovation business for Capgemini. Within that he leads on post-quantum-computing cryptography (PQC) assessments, strategies and specialist advice to public & private sector clients, preparing them for PQC implementation and cryptographic agility appropriate to their needs.

He is a Department of Science, Innovation and Technology Expert Exchange Fellow in the UK Space Agency.

Julian van Velzen is Head of Capgemini’s Quantum Lab, a global network of experts, facilities, and partners.

His work spans three core areas. First, quantum technology advisory, ranging from technical due diligence and strategic investment guidance to the identification and development of emerging applications. Second, quantum safe transformation, covering the full lifecycle from discovery and planning through testing, validation, certification, deployment, and the design of next generation quantum safe architectures. Third, scientific intelligence, combining simulation, AI, and data with advanced computing—leveraging HPC today and quantum over time—in closed-loop workflows tightly integrated with physical experimentation.

Julian oversees both Capgemini’s research agenda in these domains and the delivery of client engagements.

Prokopios Drogkaris holds a PhD in Privacy and Security in e-Government Information Systems from the University of the Aegean.

After a PostDoc position at University of Piraeus, in the Department of Digital Systems, he joined the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).

At ENISA, he works in the areas of Privacy, Data Protection, Cyber Resilience Act and Post Quantum Cryptography as a Cybersecurity expert and deputy Data Protection Office (DPO). Furthermore, he serves as deputy Data Protection Officer (DPO) at the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC).

Dr Bob Oates is a cyber security expert with over a decade of industrial experience, focussing predominantly on safety-critical, operational technologies and critical national infrastructure. He is the technical lead for Cambridge Consultants’ post-quantum cryptography services.

As a technical expert Dr Oates has worked on a number of highly-complex and challenging programmes including the security for the world’s first commercial, remotely operated ship.

As an employee of Rolls-Royce Dr Oates won the Sir Henry Royce award twice, once as part of the team behind remotely operated ships, and once as part of the team behind a cryptographic framework for securing confidential data on remote compute resource for computational fluid dynamics. During his time at the National Grid he predominantly focussed on the impact of OT/IT convergence on threat modelling by demonstrating how controls in one domain could prevent propagation of threats into adjacent domains.

Adrian Neal serves as Senior Director, Post-Quantum Cryptography & Data Security, of Capgemini. A two-time NATO Defence Innovation Challenge winner, he is a globally recognized cybersecurity expert. With an Oxford Master’s degree in Software Engineering, he has 40 years of experience across multiple sectors worldwide.

Simon Etzold has been working at the DLR Project Management Agency for over three years and has been part of the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity (NCC-DE) since the end of 2024. From his time at university, he is very familiar with the process of submitting applications under European funding programs. He now focuses on the European funding landscape from the perspective of funding consultancy in the field of cybersecurity – which naturally includes PQC.

Sjors Kasbergen is an Identity & Access Management specialist at Stedin and chair of the Dutch grid operators’ PQC expert group under Netbeheer Nederland. His work focuses on helping organisations prepare for quantum-safe cryptography and build long-term crypto agility. Sjors is passionate about making complex problems understandable, relatable and actionable. Through practical storytelling and real-world examples, he helps organisations answer a simple question: What is the next logical step we should take?

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 of quantum technologies for secure communications.

Having served as CISO in both the private and public sectors across Europe and the United Kingdom, he is now an advocate for public institutions and critical sectors to prepare for the transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and broader quantum-era cyber risks. Dr. Pavlosoglou combines deep technical expertise with strategic leadership, contributing to resilience frameworks such as CERT-RMM and AI-RMM, and supporting national and European initiatives aimed at strengthening cybersecurity readiness in the face of emerging technologies.

His current work in the crypto-space emphasizes crypto-agility, digital resilience, and the practical adoption of quantum-safe security measures across government and critical infrastructure ecosystems.

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 FIPS 140-2 internal CA, he now aims to create an actionable approach to the PQC challenge.

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 the Western Balkans, the Eastern Neighborhood, Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova, and others)
Since 2025, Panagiotis Marzelas works at the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) as Project Officer and was assigned to contribute to the PQC cluster activities. Most recently, he hosted a panel at the PQC conference “Beyond the Algorithm” in Bucharest.

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 quantum technology on cryptography in time.

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 NCC-DE. PQC plays an important role in the work of NCC-DE, as it represents the future of cryptography and European providers can still play significant roles in this field.

Affiliation: DLR Projektträger | National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity Germany

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 poses significant risks to anything involving cryptography, including the travel documents we use every day.

For his master thesis, theory and field practice have been combined to take the first steps into adding post quantum cryptography into travel documents, specifically for passive authentication: the most important protocol for electronic travel documents used worldwide.

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 for the Belgian public sector.

His current domains are post-quantum cryptography, advanced identifier pseudonymization and fully homomorphic Encryption (FHE). In 2024, he was nominated for the Privacy Professional Award by Belgium’s Cyber Security Coalition.

In 2025 the Blinded Pseudonymization Service he co-developed for Belgium’s eHealth-platform received the runner-up (2nd) Award issued by Cybersec Europe for Best Cybersecurity Innovation Europe.

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 ING, ABN Amro, Achmea, SSC-ICT, the Netherlands Vehicle authority (RDW) and the Dutch Tax office (Belastingdienst) on getting practical experience with the PQC migration.

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 cryptographic protocols, with a particular focus on post-quantum schemes, oblivious pseudorandom functions, and zero-knowledge techniques. Her recent work also investigates the practical deployment of quantum-resistant cryptography in real-world systems.

Webpage: https://www.lre.epita.fr/members/martina-vigorito/