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This Workshop aims to bring together researchers from UK’s Quantum Communication Hub programme and similar initiatives across the world to discuss technological challenges and solutions for creating the next generation of quantum communication networks featuring enhanced operational capabilities to address the requirements for a variety of applications and use cases including quantum key distribution, quantum internet, blind and distributed quantum computing.

### Our speakers and title of talks:

 **Eleni Diamanti**, Trusted and Untrusted Node QKD Networks Leveraging Telecom Technology, Pierre and Marie Curie University & Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, France
 **Sebastian Etcheverry**, CV-QKD driven by QRNG for deployment of secure communication, The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Spain
 **Alessandro Fedrizzi,** Graph state quantum networking, Heriot-Watt University, UK
 **Hannes Hübel**, Field trial of QKD-secured Secret Sharing, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
 **Siddarth Koduru Joshi**, Entanglement based quantum networking, University of Bristol, UK
 **George Kanellos,** Fully Autonomous Dynamic Quantum Networking, University of Bristol, UK
 **Marc Kaplan**, Applications of quantum networks: the short and the long term, VeriQloud, France
 **Elham Kashefi**, Privacy and Security in Quantum Network, University of Edinburgh, UK and CNRS Sorbonne University, France
 **Jake Kennard**, Chip based QKD, KETS Quantum, UK
 **Navin Lingaraju**, Spectral multiplexing and information processing for quantum networks, Purdue University, USA
 **Andrew Lord,** QKD: Evolution from point-point customer solutions to national networks, BT Group, UK
 **Norbert Lütkenhaus**, QKD as performance metric for Quantum networks, University of Waterloo, Canada
 **Roger McKinlay**, *Session Chair*, Innovate UK
 **William Munro**, Architecturing robust quantum networks, NTT Basic Research Lab, Japan
 **Reza Nejabati**, *Session Chair*, University of Bristol
 **Sebastian Neumann**, QUAPITAL: In-fibre quantum key distribution crossing borders, IQOQI-Vienna, Austria
 **Richard Penty**, *Session Chair*, University of Cambridge
 **Stefano Pirandola**, Optimal Quantum Communications, University of York (Quantum Communications Hub), UK
 **John Rarity**, *Closing Remarks*, University of Bristol
 **Andrew Shields**, Extending the performance of quantum key distribution, Toshiba Europe Ltd., UK
 **Tim Spiller**, *Opening Remarks*, University of York
 **Martin Suchara**, Quantum Network Simulations - Towards Reliable, Scalable, and Secure Quantum Network Architectures, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
 **Stephanie Wehner**, Towards a Blueprint for a Quantum Internet, QuTech, TU Delft, Netherlands
 **Adrian Wonfor**, UK Quantum Networks, University of Cambridge, UK
 **Qiang Zhang**, Recent experimental progress in quantum network in China, University of Science and Technology of China, China

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