The session is intended to provide a comprehensive view of the industry landscape for quantum cryptography technologies and services. Organized and chaired by Diego López (Telefónica, leading the QNSP work on commercial services), it is structured around the different layers defining the provisioning of quantum crypto services:
- Quantum device manufacturers, considering the two main QKD technology trends: DV and CV, and featuring:
- Jean-Sébastien Pegon (IDQ)
- Vanesa Díaz (LuxQuanta)
- Marco Avesani(ThinkQuantum)
- Key management and crypto service provisioning, featuring:
- Laura Ortiz (QoolNet)
- Applications enabled by quantum crypto, featuring:
- Christoph Pacher (fragmentiX)
- The system-wide approach, with focus on current testing (NOSTRADOMUS) and deployment (EuroQCI) initiatices, featuring:
- Florian Prawits (AIT)
Each participant will provide an overview of the status of their respective activities, and will participate in a panel discussion on the industrial landscape and the prospective for it in the coming years.
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Vanesa Diaz is the CEO of LuxQuanta, bringing to the role over 20 years of expertise in the Telecommunication industry, with the majority of her career focused on developing new markets for the multinational Corning. Diaz’s background is rooted in her MSc in Telecommunications Engineering and a master’s in business and marketing from Griffith University in Australia. Leading her team with vision and determination, Vanesa is propelling the QKD market with LuxQuanta’s team and technology and establishing the young start-up as an industry reference.
After a Master in Physics and a Master in Telecom, Jean-Sébastien Pegon started his career at NIST as a guest researcher in Mobile Ad Hoc Network (MANET) 20 years ago. Back in Europe, he worked in two startup’s developing wireless internet access, fix and mobile services for Swiss enterprises. Then he joined Orange Business Services as a product manager to develop and launch a worldwide digital voice service (SIP Trunking) for Multinational companies, before moving to the business development team promoting digital collaboration solutions, managing the European and Indirect markets. Jean-Sébastien joined ID Quantique in 2018, participating in business development in the Quantum Security division, which develops next-generation Quantum-Safe solutions, and especially quantum key distribution systems. These systems are designed to be safe against the power of quantum computers, which threaten the conventional encryption methods. As Head of telecom and finance market, he addresses Cloud and Telecom service providers to convince them that Quantum Security is a fast moving and key topic in a world driven by the value of our Data.