Zach Yerushalmi, CEO, Elevate Quantum

In this episode, host Yuval Boger sits down with Joel Van Dyk, a physicist and longtime Wall Street cybersecurity leader who now consults in the post-quantum cryptography space, including work with Project Eleven on a ground-up PQC key management system and his own quantum proxy venture, PQC Done. Van Dyk argues that while a cryptologically relevant quantum computer could arrive within four to five years, organizations need cryptoagility — the muscle to rapidly rotate algorithms — rather than a one-time fix, and he ranks the quantum threat as second only to AI among CISO priorities. The conversation covers practical guidance on selecting partners, bridging quantum security and quantum computing teams within an enterprise, the role of cloud providers in accelerating migration, and Van Dyk's nuanced take on quantum key distribution.

Yuval Boger interviews Walter Raquet, Chairman and CEO of Symmatrics, a company that has revived the one-time pad symmetric key encryption concept — once used exclusively by US intelligence agencies — and brought it to the modern times. Walter explained how their system eliminates passwords and reusable credentials by wrapping every transaction in unique keys that are used once and destroyed, making it fundamentally different from today's math-based asymmetric encryption. We discussed their key distribution center, their hardware-based "quantum protected network," their ongoing work with NIST to achieve certification ahead of the government's 2027 quantum-resistance deadline, and much more.

Yuval Boger interviews Steve Gibson, President of Americas at JIJ, a Japan-based optimization company whose founders came from Professor Nishimori's lab. Steve shared how JIJ spans the spectrum from classical to quantum-inspired to quantum computing, and discussed how the company is now using AI to make its optimization tools more accessible to customers who lack in-house quantum expertise. They explored the state of quantum readiness, and how organizations should start preparing now for the business and technical changes quantum will require. Steve also outlined his mission to bring JIJ's capabilities and deep research talent from Japan to the US and European markets, provided advice for US executives doing business with Japan, and much more.

Yuval Boger interviews Sumit Kapur, CEO of Zapata Quantum. They speak about the company's remarkable phoenix-from-the-ashes story — surviving a quantum winter and a failed SPAC to rebuild as a focused quantum applications company. They discuss Zapata's partnerships, their landmark cancer research published on the cover of Nature Biotech, and their work on using agentic AI to accelerate quantum resource estimation. Sumit walks us through the quantum journey for enterprises, from Quantum Application Intelligence to Quantum Application Engineering, shares his view on how the challenges in quantum have shifted, and much more.

In this episode, host Yuval Boger speaks with Steve Orrin, Chief Technology Officer for Intel Federal, about the sweeping post-quantum cryptography mandates confronting U.S. government agencies and their supply chains. Orrin breaks down the 2030-2031 migration deadlines, the January 2027 acquisition requirement for national security systems, and why a standard Windows laptop can contain 20,000 crypto assets — not all of which need immediate attention. The conversation covers Intel's multi-generational approach to embedding PQC in silicon, the importance of crypto agility for future algorithm changes, and practical advice for agencies beginning their cryptographic inventory, including the often-missed firmware and peripheral layers beneath the OS.