Workshop on European Efforts for Post Quantum Cryptography Migration and Standardisation in Embedded Systems
WEEPQC Workshop at Embedded Systems Week (ESWEEK) 2026
Friday October 9, 2026
9:00 - 17:00
Barcelona, Spain
With the advent and quick improvement of quantum computers, conventional cryptographic systems will become vulnerable in the near future, creating a high risk in security and privacy. For this reason, post quantum cryptographic schemes have been developed which impose new hardware and software requirements to existing and upcoming hardware. In addition, several government initiatives are under way to implement migration of conventional cryptographic systems to PQC, as well as PQC standardization. In particular, PQC migration is a priority of the European Commission, with several funded projects on this area. The purpose of the workshop is to gather these projects together to exchange and disseminate ideas and project results.
Presentations
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09:00 - 09:15 Opening Remarks
Speakers: Leonidas Kosmidis and Sergi Alcaide, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
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09:30 - 10:30 Keynote: "The post-quantum transition challenge"
Speaker: Úrsula, Centro Criptológico Nacional (CCN)
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11:00 - 11:30 QUBIP: Quantum-oriented Update to Browsers and Infrastructures for the PQ Transition
Speaker: Piedad Brox
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11:30 - 12:00 PQC4eMRTD: Post-Quantum Cryptography for electronic Machine-Readable Travel Documents
Speaker: Leonidas Kosmidis
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12:00 - 12:30 Poster Session
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13:30 - 14:00 Q-FENCE: Securing Tomorrow’s Digital Infrastructure with Quantum-Resistant Cryptography
Speaker: Pablo Navarro
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14:00 - 14:30 SMARTY: Scalable and Quantum Resilient Heterogeneous Edge Computing enabling Trustworthy AI
Speaker: Sergi Alcaide
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14:30 - 15:00 Poster Session
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15:30 - 16:00 Efficient Homomorphic Encryption for Secure Deep Learning Inference
Speaker: Antonio Peña
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16:00 - 17:00 Poster Session and Closing
Organisers
Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Dr. Leonidas Kosmidis is the group leader of the HArdware Dependability for Embedded Systems (HADES) at BSC and faculty member at BSC. He is driving BSC’s efforts in the PQC4eMRTD project, and he is involved in RISC-V standardization, in particular in the PQC Task Group and in several Working Groups of the Security Horizontal Committee of RISC-V (high assurance crypto). He is currently serving as co-chair of the RISC-V RVM Profile TG.
Dr. Sergi Alcaide
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Dr. Sergi Alcaide is senior research engineer at BSC. He is driving BSC’s efforts in the SMARTY project. His research interests include PQC in automotive systems.