Future of Encryption and Quantum Technologies

Senior security consultant • Adnovum

Sonia Duc is a senior security consultant at Adnovum. Her interests are both in applied & theoretical cryptography. In particular, she enjoys assessing the correct use of cryptography in various applications. More generally she is interested in all topics related to information security. Prior to her work in industry, she obtained her Master in Computer Science from EPFL in 2012 and her PhD degree in Cryptography from the LASEC laboratory of EPFL in 2017. Her research focused on the post-quantum cryptography and on homomorphic encryption. «Sonia Duc is a senior security consultant at Adnovum. Her interests are both in applied & theoretical cryptography. In particular, she enjoys assessing the correct use of cryptography in various applications. More generally she is interested in all topics related to information security. Prior to her work in industry, she obtained her Master in Computer Science from EPFL in 2012 and her PhD degree in Cryptography from the LASEC laboratory of EPFL in 2017. Her research focused on the post-quantum cryptography and on homomorphic encryption.

Chief Operating Officer & Co-founder • CyferAll

Vice President Quantum Safe Solutions • ID Quantique

CEO • Trust Valley

Lennig Pedron has expertise in cybersecurity and emerging technologies applied to the digital trust economy. She works in particular for the EPFL Innovation Park Foundation and is CEO of the Swiss initiative Trust Valley, the center of excellence in digital trust and cybersecurity. She is co-founder and president of the NGO iCON, representing an international community of over 100 digital trust experts. Lennig Pedron represents iCON at the Council of Europe. She has been Data Protection expert for the Swiss Confederation. She provides advice and training to different audiences such as the police, prosecutors or banks. She has been a judge for the 9/12 geopolitical challenge of the GCSP for 4 years and she has spoken at the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Lennig Pedron is the co-author of the book "The Fundamentals of Cyber ​​Crisis Management" published by Ellipses in June 2022.

Co-founder • ZT Spice

Sriram Vishwanath received the B. Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India in 1998, the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology (Caltech, Pasadena USA in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA in 2003. Over the past 20 years, he is a Professor in the Chandra Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, and recently, a Technical Fellow for Distributed Systems and Machine Learning at MITRE Labs. Sriram’s research is in the domains of blockchain systems, machine learning/AI and information & coding theory. He has over 250 refereed research papers, and multiple research awards. He works across a diverse set of areas and specializes in bringing the gap between theory and practice. In particular, he has been involved in multiple spinouts from The University of Texas (as well as startups independent from The University of Texas). Most recently, he is the President of ChainHub, an incubator in Web3/blockchain domains. He is a co-founder of ZT Spice, which enables flexible, zero-trust, quantum-safe security as a service. He is a co-founder of Symmetry Systems, a company that specializes in intrinsic security solutions for databases, microservices and data-in-motion systems. He is also the co-founder of GenXComm, a company focused on the development of 5G telecommunications systems. He has also co-founded Accordion Health (acquired by Evolent Health), Lynx Laboratories (acquired by Occipital) and M87 Inc (acquired by XCOM). He focuses on research that can be translated to products, and has considerable experience as CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering at startup companies. He has multiple patents and has developed software solutions that are both copyrighted and open sourced. He has taught multiple entrepreneurship classes at The University of Texas, Austin. Sriram received the NSF CAREER award in 2005 and the ARO Young Investigator Award in 2008. He was the 2014 UT faculty entrepreneur of the year and was honored in the Reuters list of highly cited researchers in 2014 and 2015. Sriram is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.