Program of the Workshop on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Systems

1st Day Training – September 4th, 2024

 

09:00-09:15 Registration

09:15-09:45 Welcome Remarks
• Athanasios Paliatsos, Ministry of Digital Governance
• Dimitrios Katsianis, Deputy Chairman, Board of Directors, GRNET
• Nektarios Tavernarakis, Chairman, Board of Directors, FORTH
• Dimitris Plexousakis, Vice-Chairman, Board of Directors, FORTH
• Fabiana Da-PIEVE, European Commission

09:45-09:50 Overview of the Two-Day HellasQCI Training
Evangelos Markatos, FORTH

09:50-10:35 Keynote speech
Hannes Hübel, AIT

10:35-10:45 HellasQCI project overview and synergies with EuroQCI
Ilias Papastamatiou, GRNET

 

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

 

11:00-11:20 EuroQCI Projects
PETRUS Ramacher Sebastian, ΑΙΤ
NOSTRADAMUS Hannes Huebel, AIT

11:20-12:20 National QCIs (panel)
Panel Theme: Challenges ahead on the road to EuroQCI
Moderator: George Kanellos, NKUA
• CYQCI, Cyprus Kyriacos Kalli / Konstantinos Katzis
• EstQCI, Estonia, Ingrid Linnas
• PRISM, Malta, Johann Briffa
• PTQCI, Portugal, Catarina Bastos
• RONAQCI, Romania, Alin Bogdan

12:20-12:40 Why QKD?
Harry Manifavas, FORTH

12:40-13:20 Lunch break

13:20-14:10 National QCIs (panel)
Panel Theme: Challenges ahead on the road to EuroQCI
Moderator: Evangelia Athanasaki, GRNET
• QCI CAT, Austria, Sebastian Ramacher
• EuroQCI Spain, Andrea Gorni
• LUX4QCI, Luxembourg, Junaid Ur Rehman
• PIONIER-Q, Poland, Piotr Rydlichowski
• QCIHungary, Hungary, János Mohácsi

14:10-14:30 QKD Architecture: Quantum Layer
Giannis Giannoulis, NTUA

14:30-14:50 QKD Architecture: Key Management Layer
George Kanellos, NKUA

14:50-15:10 QKD Architecture: Application Layer
Homer Papadopoulos, NCSRD

15:10-16:10 Space session (panel)
Panel Theme: Space: the final frontier for QKD?
Moderator: Vassilis Charmandaris, FORTH & UoC & EUC
• Giannis Gianoulis, NTUA
• Kostantinos Katzis, CYQCI
• Menios Tsiganis, AUTH
• Vasilis Varelas, Raymetrics
• Wolf von Klitzing, FORTH
• Manolis Xilouris, NOA

16:10-16:20 Coffee Break

16:20-17:20 Business session / Commercial solutions
Moderator: Konstantinos Tsimvrakidis, Petros Papapetropoulos
• ThinkQuantum, Simone Capeleto
• ID Quantique, Pejman Panahi
• Single Quantum, Aliki Athanasiadou

17:20 End of day 1

 

 

Program of the Workshop on Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Systems

 

09:30-10:00 Introduction to PQC, PQC Transition
Harry Manifavas, FORTH

 

10:00-10:30 Authentication in QKD
Giorgos Nikolopoulos, FORTH

 

10:30-11:15 “Demo of QKD Networks”
Giorgos Kanellos, NKUA (video)

 

11:15-11:30 Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:15 Extracting and Managing Keys from QKD to Enhance Cryptographic
Techniques for File Encryption (Lab)
Homer Papadopoulos, NCSRD (hands on)

 

12:15-13:00 QKD-PQC: Securing Key Transfers for Application Layer Utilization
Homer Papadopoulos, NCSRD

 

13:00-14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00-14:45 Experiment Polarisation-Encoded QKD in Lab
Aristeidis Stathis, NTUA
Argiris Ntanos, NTUA
Kostas Vyrsokinos, AUTH

 

14:45-15:05 Demo of Polarisation-Encoded QKD in (Virtual) Lab
Aristeidis Stathis, NTUA
Argiris Ntanos, NTUA
Kostas Vyrsokinos, AUTH

 

15:05-15:50 HellasQCI Use Cases / Cybersecurity
• Towards Software-Defined QKD Networks
Georgios Gardikis, SPACEHellas
• Quantum Cryptography implementation in Refinery campus
 Dionysios Vythoulkas, Motor Oil Hellas

 

15:50-16:00 End of Day 2

 

17:00 Visit to Skinakas Observatory