Live Q&A Session – Quantum Safe Cryptography Day 1

Donna Dodson recently joined AWS as a Senior Principal Scientist. Before joining AWS, Donna spent 33 years in the US Federal government working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST (NIST). As the Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, Donna was responsible for NIST’s comprehensive cybersecurity research and development to cultivate trust in information technology for stakeholders and customers nationally and internationally. Donna was the inaugural director of NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence partnering with tech industry innovators. In 2017, Donna was selected to be a NIST Fellow, the highest ranking technical and scientific position at NIST. Donna recently received the Presidential Rank Award and the 2020 Service to America Medal.

Steve Grobman is senior vice president and chief technology officer at McAfee. In this role, he sets the technical strategy and direction to create technologies that protect smart, connected computing devices and infrastructure worldwide. Steve leads McAfee’s development of next generation cyber-defense and data science technologies, threat and vulnerability research, and internal CISO and IT organizations.

Prior to McAfee, he dedicated more than two decades to senior technical leadership positions related to cybersecurity at Intel Corporation where he was an Intel Fellow.

He has written numerous technical papers and books and holds 30 U.S. patents. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer science from North Carolina State University.

Knight is Senior Research Investigator at Imperial College. He retired in 2010 as Deputy Rector (Research) at Imperial but remains an Emeritus Professor. He was knighted in 2005 for his work in optical physics. Knight was the 2004 President of the Optical Society of America and a past President of the Institute of Physics. He is Editor of Contemporary Physics, Chair of the UK National Quantum Technology Programme Strategy Advisory Board, chairs the Quantum Metrology Institute at the National Physical Laboratory, was until 2010 chair of the UK Defence Scientific Advisory Council and remains a UK Government science advisor. His research centres on quantum optics and quantum technology. He has won the Thomas Young Medal and the Glazebrook Medal of the Institute of Physics, the Ives Medal and the Walther Medal and Prize of the OSA, the Faraday Medal of the IET and the Royal Medal of the Royal Society.

Michele Mosca is co-founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo, a Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization of the Faculty of Mathematics. He is a founder of the ETSI-IQC workshop series in Quantum Safe Cryptography, and the not-for-profit quantum safe Canada. He co-founded evolutionQ and softwareQ. His research interests include quantum computation and cryptographic tools designed to be safe against quantum technologies. He is globally recognized for his drive to help academia, industry and government prepare our cyber systems to be safe in an era with quantum computers.