April 12-15 | Marriott Downtown at CF Toronto Eaton Centre, Canada

Speakers 2026

Jeff Andersen

Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google

Reza Azarderakhsh

Professor and CEO, PQSecure and Florida Atlantic University

Hunter Barton

Principal Security Analyst, Oracle, United States

Christopher Bell

Security Engineer, Entropy SME, Intertek EWA-Canada

Chahat Bhatia

Acumen Intertek, India

Mojtaba Bisheh-Niasar

Senior Security Engineer, Microsoft

Douglas Boldt

Senior Solutions Architect, AWS, US Federal WWPS – Federal Civilian, US Dept of Commerce

Sameer Boray

Senior Policy Manager – Trust, Data and Technology, Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

Jennifer Brady

Senior Principal Security Analyst, Oracle

Joshua Brickman

Former Senior Director, Security Evaluations (Oracle) | Industry Advisor

Chris Brych

Senior Principal Security Analyst, Oracle

Yasir Emre Bulut

Director, OKTEM Laboratory

Grigori Burlea

IT Security Consultant, atsec information security corporation, United States

Pav C Suriyanarayanan

Governance & Compliance (Certification) Lead, SecurityIP, Synopsys, United States

Blair Canavan

Director Alliances, Thales

Adam Cason

VP, Global and Strategic Alliances, Futurex

Christopher Celi

CAVP Program Manager, ESV Project Lead, ACMVP Project Lead, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Lily Chen

Mathematician, NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Kailai Chen

CMVP Program Manager (Canada), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS)

Chaithanya Chilukuri

Security Engineer II, Intertek Acumen Security

Charles Clancy

General Manager, MITRE Labs, and Senior Vice President, MITRE

Graham Costa

Security and Certifications Manager, Thales

Bruno Couillard

CEO & Co-founder, Crypto4A Technologies

Cristina Dolan

NetWitness: LATAM Managing Director, Head of Americas Channel and Global Alliances, RSA Security, United States

Emmanuelle Dottax

Cryptography and Security Architect, IDEMIA ST

Evgeny Gervis

CEO, SafeLogic

Roberta Faux

US Head of Cryptography and CTO, Arqit Quantum Inc.

Valerie Fenwick

PKCS#11 Technical Committee Co-Chair, OASIS Open

Raoul Gabiam

Principal Cloud and Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE

Shawn Geddis

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Katalyst LLC

Nils Gerhardt

CTO, Utimaco

Jaime Gomez

Global Head of the Santander Quantum Threat Program, Santander Digital Services

Juan Gonzalez

Laboratory Director, Teron Labs

James Goodman

CTO, Crypto4A Technologies

John Gray

Senior Principal Software Applications Developer, Entrust

Morgane Guerreau

Solutions Engineer, PQShield, France

Sylvain Guilley

Co-founder & CTO Secure-IC

Tim Hall

Owner, Consultant

Torben Hansen

Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS), United States

David Hawes

CMVP Program Manager, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Basil Hess

Senior Research Engineer, IBM Research

Joshua Hill

Information Security Scientist, KeyPair Consulting

Timothy Hollebeek

VP, Industry Standards, DigiCert

David Hook

VP Software Engineering, Keyfactor/Legion of the Bouncy Castle

Neil Horman

Software Engineer, OpenSSL Corp.

Russ Housley

Founder and Owner, Vigil Security, LLC

James Howe

Head of Cryptography, SandboxAQ

Anthony Hu

Senior Software Developer, wolfSSL

Tim Hudson

CTO & Technical Director, Cryptsoft

Brent Hyde

Senior FIPS Tester, Lightship Security

Marina Ibrishimova

Principal Entropy Consultant, Lightship Security

Marc Ireland

Security Certification Expert, NXP Semiconductors

Dr. Burt Kaliski Jr.

Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, VeriSign

Andrew Karcher

Software Engineer, Cisco

Merve Hatice Karatas

Consultant/Lead Assessor/Lecturer, Turkey

John Kelsey

Computer Scientist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and COSIC/KU Leuven

Katrina Khanta

Senior Cybersecurity Consultant, The Cyber Doctor, United States

Dusan Kostic

Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Volker Krummel

Chapter Lead PQC, Utimaco

Kris Kwiatkowski

Staff Cryptography Architect, PQShield

Seema Kumar

Director, NPAT Product Management, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) and UI/UX, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Nimisha Limaye

Staff ASIC Digital Design Engineer, Synopsys, United States

Courtney Maatta

Senior Customer Solutions Manager, AWS

Smita Mahapatra

Senior Security Industry Specialist, AWS

Ganesh Mallaya

Distinguished Architect and Technical Evangelist, AppViewX, United States

Yi Mao

CEO and Managing Director, atsec information security corp

Jacob Maynard

Director of Engineering, SafeLogic, United States

Kevin Micciche

Senior Manager, Product Trust and Assurance, Aruba

Matt Mickelson

Lead Coordinator, Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition (PQCC), MITRE

Phillip Millwee

Lead Cloud Engineering, The MITRE Corporation

Johannes Mittmann

Mathematician, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)

Dustin Moody

Mathematician, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Michele Mosca

Co-founder and CEO, evolutionQ, and Co-founder, Institute for Quantum Computing

Nicky Mouha

Cryptography and Security Expert, KeyCryptic

Tomáš Mráz

Chief Technology Officer, OpenSSL Foundation

Stephan Mueller

Principal Consultant, atsec information security

Seamus Mulready

Cryptographic Security Tester (FIPS), Lightship Security

Bill Newhouse

Cybersecurity Engineer, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Dr. Seth Nielson

Founder and Chief Scientist, Crimson Vista

Wil Oxford

Founder and CEO, Anametric

Marcos Portnoi

Lab Director & CISO, atsec information security corp

Jordi Prieto Gallego

Cryptography Evaluator & Entropy Analyst, jtsec Beyond IT Security, Spain

Xin Qiu

Head of Aurora Networks’ PKI Center and Security Solutions

Lisa Rabe

Security Research Engineer, Cisco Systems

Nithya Rachamadugu

VP Cybersecurity Certification, DEKRA

James Ramage

Lab Manager, Lightship Security

Steve Ratcliffe

Security Research Engineering Technical Leader, Cisco Systems, Inc

Pavan Reddy

Principal Software Engineer, AutomataSecure

Robert Relyea

OASIS PKCS #11 Co-chair, Red Hat

Joost Renes

Cryptographer and Security Architect, NXP Semiconductors, United States

Simon Rix

FIPS Lab Manager, Intertek EWA-Canada

Kurt Rohloff

Co-Founder, OpenFHE, CTO & Co-Founder, Duality Technologies

Jon Rolf

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant | Former Director, NSA NIAP (United States)

Leonard Rosenthol

Chair, C2PA Technical Working Group, Senior Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems

Joe Salowey

Co-Chair Transport Layer Security (TLS) Working Group, Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Principal Software Security Engineer, Palo Alto Networks

Werner Schindler

Section Head, Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)

Loren Shade

VP of Marketing, Allegro Software

Ted Shorter

Chief Technology Officer, Keyfactor

Hamilton Silberg

Computer Scientist, NIST

Jonathan Smith

Senior FIPS Tester, Dekra

Vladimir Soukharev

VP of Cryptographic Technology, InfoSec Global

Meltem Sonmez Turan

Mathematician, NIST

Simo Sorce

Distinguished Engineer, Red Hat

Murugiah Souppaya

Distinguished Technologist, HP Security Lab

Alicia Squires

FIPS Security Industry Principal, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Jeff Stapleton

Executive Director Cybersecurity Researcher, Wells Fargo

Jade Stewart

NIAP Portfolio Manager, National Security Agency (NSA)

Nick Sullivan

Co-Chair, Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG), Co-Chair, Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) and Principal, Cryptography Consulting

Joshua Sylvester

Researcher at the Darwin Deason Institute for Cyber Security, Southern Methodist University, United States

Nazanin Takbiri

Principal Security Silicon Architect, Microsoft, United States

Matthew Titcombe

President Peak InfoSec, United States

Sean Turner

President, sn3rd

Swapneela Unkule

CST Lab Manager, atsec information security corp

Manish Upasani

Head of Products, Utimaco

Praveen Kumar Vadnala

Principal Product Security Analyst, PQShield, Netherlands

Joachim Vandersmissen

IT Security Consultant, atsec information security corporation

Yash Vasani

Security Engineer II, Intertek

Apostol Vassilev

Research Supervisor, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Tomas Vavra

Engineering Manager, OpenSSL Corporation

Kyle Vitale

Senior Cyber Security Engineer, The MITRE Corporation

Yathiendra Vunnam

Sr Application Engineer, Secure-IC

Richard Wang

FIPS Lab Manager, Gossamer

Bas Westerbaan

Principal Research Engineer, Cloudflare

Steve Weymann

Co-Founder, KeyPair Consulting Inc.

Trish Wolff

Security Research Engineer, Cisco

Panasayya Yalla

Principal Security Analyst, Keysight Riscure Security Solutions