Quantum & AI Convergence: Redefining Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Protection
As the power limitations of classical computing force AI to evolve, quantum technologies are poised to both disrupt and enhance our cybersecurity paradigms. Today’s discussion is about understanding the dual-edged nature of quantum-AI convergence: while offering transformative capabilities, these advancements introduce new compliance challenges and potential threats like difficult-to-detect AI data poisoning and novel AI-powered cryptanalysis. Let’s explore how enterprises can protect their digital ecosystems in a rapidly changing threat landscape.
Qrypt CTO and co-founder, Denis Mandich, focuses on quantum security, R&D, post quantum encryption (PQC) algorithms and standards bodies. He holds several patents in cryptography, cyber technologies and information processing. Denis a founding member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), a founding member of the NSF-funded Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance (MQA), founding member of the Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), advisor to the Quantum Startup Foundry and Board member of quantum chip manufacturer Quside.
Prior to joining Qrypt, Denis served 20 years in the US Intel Community working on national security projects, cyber infrastructure, and advanced technology development. He has degrees in Physics from Rutgers University and speaks native level Croatian and Russian.
André is the publisher of the leading Quantum Tech newsletter, author in a bestselling book on digital transformation, host of Weekly Quantum World Detangled, and frequent speaker on Quantum Tech. He has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Popular Science, live TV and stages from Las Vegas to Seoul with up to 40,000 in the audience.
Since 2018 he is the CEO of Interference Advisors, the leading BI provider in Quantum Tech. The Chairman of OneQuantum, the leading Quantum Tech community globally with 35K+ members. And Managing Partner of Entanglement Capital, an investment fund in Quantum Tech.
With 25 years of business experience, André has been a strategy and technology consultant to many Fortune 500 CEOs in both Europe and the USA. As well as to owners and operators of mid-sized services and manufacturing firms, often leading co-investments, consolidations and turnarounds.
Prior to his current role, he co-founded 3 startups – spanning Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transformation, NeuroHealth and SaaS – and mentored hundreds of others through General Assembly, the German Accelerator New York and other entrepreneurship programs.
André studied Quantum Computing at MIT (certificates) and holds a MBA in Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business as well as a Masters in Business from ICN School of Management.
He speaks English, German, French and poor Italian, has competed in national sailing championships and pursues special combat & martial arts training.
Phil Tee is the EVP & Head of AI Innovations at Zscaler and the former CEO and co-founder of Moogsoft, the pioneer and leading provider of artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps). Phil is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and expert in IT service assurance — a category he was instrumental in shaping through his invention of Netcool (acquired by IBM) nearly 25 years ago. Within 5 years of graduating from Sussex, he co-founded Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. Since then, Phil has led numerous companies to successful exits, including RiverSoft (IPO) and Njini (acquired by Riverbed).
More recently at Moogsoft that he co-founded in 2011, he invented the technology that supports over 200 customers worldwide, including SAP, American Airlines, Yahoo!, Verizon, Outsystems, BNYM and HCL Technologies. Moogsoft has 72 patents and more than two dozen peer reviewed publications covering the technology, many of them authored or co-authored by Phil. Phil holds a PhD in Informatics and is also a Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence.
With an extensive background in complex systems engineering and the application of machine learning for data discovery, Dr Richard Searle is the Chief AI Officer at Fortanix, Inc. – a pioneer of Confidential Computing technology for data and AI security. Richard has previously served as both General Members’ Representative to the Governing Board, and Chair of the End-User Advisory Council, of the Confidential Computing Consortium of the Linux Foundation and regularly contributes thought leadership articles and talks on quantum computing, quantum information security, AI security, and the applications of Confidential Computing. Richard holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from Henley Business School at the University of Reading and he is currently conducting research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems within the context of defense and national security. Richard is the Principal Investigator for Fortanix within the U.S. NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) and the UK Integrated Quantum Network (IQN) Hub.
