Agenda
19:00 - Event start with introductions
19:10 - Speaker - Dr Mark Tehrani
19:40 - Speaker - Tim Williams
20:10 - Q&A
20:30 - Event close
Synopsis
You cannot protect — or migrate — what you cannot see. The third evening of the Summer of PQC series turns from why and who to what and where: the practical work of finding vulnerable cryptography and modelling how an adversary would actually exploit it.
About the speakers
Dr Mark Tehrani is founder and CEO of CyberseQ(cyberseq.io) and co-founder, with Professor Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE, of LatticeGuard.io. A serial founder and former George Washington University adjunct professor, he researches quantum cybersecurity analytics at Edinburgh Napier University and GWU. CyberseQ'sPostQplatform acts as a system of record for enterprise PQC migration - discovering cryptographic assets, prioritising risk and executing a structured migration plan against the NIST FIPS 203–206 standards.
Tim D. Williams (FBCS CITP, MCIIS, MIET, CISSP-ISSAP-ISSEP-ISSMP, ORCID 0000-0002-1788-5736) is co-founder and CTO of ProteQC PQC Advisory Limited and a consultant in the financial services sector. He sits on the BCS ISSG committee. Two of his papers have been accepted for Cyber Science 2026 at Royal Holloway, extending Anderson's security economics framework to PQC and arguing that quantum vulnerability constitutes a financial impairment triggering event. He is currently preparing a PhD by Published Works portfolio.
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