Cisco Systems, Inc.

Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson is a Sr. S/W Engineering Leader at Cisco Systems, Inc. Jeff leads the Common Security Module team within Cisco’s Security and Trust Organization which provides foundational security capabilities across Cisco’s portfolio to reduce risk for Cisco and their customers. Jeff’s passion is creating, developing and producing new technologies from inception to production. During his 24+ years at Cisco Jeff has delivered across Cisco’s technology portfolio including networking, collaboration and security products. Currently, his development teams are responsible for creating and maintaining government certified common software technologies. Primary among these technologies is a common cryptography library. This work has led to his teams being recognized as a finalist in Cisco’s Pioneer Award. Jeff’s teams are now challenged to provide production quality post-quantum cryptography across Cisco’s portfolio.

In his spare time, Jeff enjoys traveling with his wife of 45 years and their 2 dogs. Additionally, Jeff cannot get enough time with his family consisting of 2 daughters and 5 grandchildren. An avid motorcyclist, you can find Jeff riding with friends thru the mountains of North Carolina or attending several motorcycle racing events throughout the year.

University of Waterloo

Douglas Stebila

Dr. Douglas Stebila is an Associate Professor of cryptography in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo.  His research focuses on improving the security of Internet communications protocols and developing practical quantum-resistant cryptography. He is the co-founder of the Open Quantum Safe project, an open-source software project for prototyping and evaluating quantum-resistant cryptography.  He holds an MSc from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Waterloo.

Google

Ian Stoba

IBM

Mike Osborne

Mike Osborne is based at the IBM Research Centre in Rüschlikon, Switzerland. Currently, he leads the IBM Research strategy for creating cryptographic foundations for the Quantum Era, together with a global role as Lead for IBM Q Security and Encryption. Current activities include overseeing the development of new cryptographic algorithms and protocols, such as the lattice-based algorithms selected as new NIST standards (ML_KEM, ML-DSA). During his tenure at IBM, Michael has led national identity program rollouts and advised national governments on cryptographic strategies.

Amazon Web Services Inc.

Matthew Campagna

Matthew Campagna is a Sr. Principal Engineer & Cryptographer for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s.  He oversees the design and analysis of cryptographic solutions across AWS. He is a member of the ETSI Security Algorithms Group Experts (SAGE), and Chairman of ETSI TC CYBER’s Quantum Safe Cryptography group.  Previously, Matthew managed Certicom/BlackBerry’s Cryptography Research Group and Pitney Bowes Secure Systems research team. He studied Mathematics at Wesleyan University and Fordham University.

IntellectEU

Dirk Avau

NVIDIA

Yarkin Doroz

Yarkin Doroz is a Product Manager for PQC/FHE libraries at NVIDIA. He is responsible for driving strategies, roadmaps, and priorities to build and continuously improve software products for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). 

 Yarkin holds a PhD in cryptography from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and he briefly worked as a Research Scientist at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Later, he worked as a professor and a co-founded a PQC startup before joining to NVIDIA. 

IBM

Michael (Max)imilien