Year of Quantum Security 2026.

Kingston, Canada · Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen's University

Canadian national quantum strategy and defence officials joined a cyber centre cryptography briefing on quantum readiness for national security.

Munich, Germany · Quantum Business Network (QBN)

Inaugural meeting ahead of the Munich Security Conference on NATO and EU quantum adoption roadmaps for defence and security.

Munich, Germany · IE University Center for the Governance of Change, at the Munich Security Conference

Roundtable at the Munich Security Conference on quantum sovereignty, defence resilience and coordinated European investment in quantum for cybersecurity.

Stockholm, Sweden · KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Lund University (Digital Futures)

Government, industry and researchers discussed practical post-quantum cryptography deployment, side-channel resistance and PQC transition strategies.

Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China · The Hong Kong Institute of Bankers

Banking cybersecurity forum with sessions on quantum threats, post-quantum cryptography and zero trust in the quantum age.

Taipei, Taiwan · International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)

Applied cryptography symposium with the affiliated RWPQC 2026 workshop on real-world post-quantum cryptography deployment.

San Francisco, United States · RSAC

Post-quantum readiness and crypto-agility featured across cryptography sessions and a dedicated PQC side forum at the largest annual cybersecurity conference.

Paris, France · QSECDEF, at the Upperside World Congress

Symposium on quantum-secure communication and infrastructure for telecom, defence and enterprise networks, including certification frameworks and transition paths.

Paris, France · Upperside Conferences

Covered QKD versus post-quantum cryptography timelines, EuroQCI phase 2 deployments, certification and quantum threats to classical cryptography.

Kobe, Japan · IEEE

Academic conference with a dedicated Quantum Security track and cryptography papers on quantum communication networks.

Saint-Malo, France · IRISA and the PQCrypto steering committee

The main academic conference dedicated to research on cryptography designed to resist quantum attacks.

Arlington, Virginia, United States · ICMC

Cryptographic certification conference focused on the global transition to PQC, with a dedicated PQ preparedness track and FIPS 140-3 guidance.

Basel, Switzerland · Bank for International Settlements, Cyber Resilience Coordination Centre

Central bank seminar with sessions on post-quantum readiness for the financial system, harvest-now-decrypt-later risk and crypto agility.

Singapore, Singapore · Black Hat (Informa Tech)

Briefings included a talk on managing the post-quantum cryptography transition, and the event network was monitored for quantum-safe traffic.

Brussels, Belgium · CryptoExperts and TU/e (PQCSA project)

Examined how the PQC transition affects privacy, store-now-decrypt-later risks, EU policy and data protection authority views.

London, United Kingdom · Infosecurity Europe (Informa)

Keynote programme included a session on preparing for post-quantum cryptography now and reducing long-term cryptographic exposure.

Paris, France · Leloup Partners (QASR events)

Executive summit on securing communications in the quantum era through post-quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution.

Paris, France · France Quantum

France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI announced it will stop certifying security products lacking quantum-resistant encryption from 2027.

London, United Kingdom · Economist Impact

Security discussions stressed the urgency of post-quantum cryptography for financial systems and critical infrastructure.

Ottawa, Canada · ETSI and the Institute for Quantum Computing, hosted by Carleton University

Standards conference on national quantum-safe strategies, cryptographic migration for critical infrastructure and ETSI QKD and quantum-safe updates.

Washington, D.C., United States · Forum Global

Policy forum with themes on post-quantum cybersecurity, quantum-safe security infrastructure and cyber resilience in the quantum era.

Boston, United States · Alpha Events

Industry conference covering quantum security and national security, including a masterclass on NIST PQC standards and crypto-agile migration.

Seoul, South Korea · Ministry of Science and ICT, Republic of Korea

National quantum showcase where telecom operators and ETRI presented quantum cryptography communications technologies.

Hammamet, Tunisia · IACR, University of Tunis and the Tunisian Military Research Centre

Cryptology conference addressing the quantum threat to classical cryptography and the move to PQC standards, preceded by a PQC summer school.

Munich, Germany · Research Institute Cyber Defence and Smart Data (CODE), University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Treated the quantum threat to encryption as a near-term planning issue, with sessions on Germany's post-quantum migration and hybrid architectures.

Seoul, South Korea · KIISC and IRCS

Regional forum on PQC standardization, migration engineering and crypto agility, including post-quantum migration in banking.

Vienna, Austria · Ericsson and the Swedish NCSC, at IETF 126

Governments from the EU, UK, US, Canada, Japan and Australia presented PQC migration timelines and recommendations to industry.

Las Vegas, United States · Black Hat (Informa Tech)

Post-quantum migration, crypto agility and harvest-now-decrypt-later risk featured in sessions and on-site industry discussions.

New Delhi, India · Future Crime Research Foundation (FCRF)

Included a panel on quantum-safe security, post-quantum cryptography and harvest-now-decrypt-later threats to Indian banks, insurers and defence.

Las Vegas, United States · Quantum Village

Hacker community village with a quantum capture-the-flag contest and talks on PQC, QKD and Q-Day threat modeling.

Ottawa, Canada · University of Ottawa

Leading international research conference on quantum cryptography, including quantum key distribution.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) Saudi Arabia

Panels covered post-quantum cryptography resilience for the Saudi quantum agenda and cybersecurity risk in the financial sector.

Singapore, Singapore · Jicara Media

Executive summit on PQC, QKD, crypto-agility, harvest-now-decrypt-later risk, migration planning and regulatory requirements.

Toronto, Canada · IEEE

Included a full-day workshop on quantum computing security, covering attacks on quantum systems, QKD weaknesses and PQC migration costs.

McLean, Virginia, United States · Post-Quantum Cryptography Coalition (PQCC)

Government, industry and academic leaders discussed the operational challenges of migrating to post-quantum standards.

Washington, D.C., United States · U.S. General Services Administration

Federal summit on post-quantum cryptography migration for U.S. government agencies, held in person and online.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · inD

Dedicated summit on PQC migration, UAE quantum resilience priorities and protecting critical infrastructure before Q-Day.

Online · SecureWorld

Online conference on harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks, Q-Day timelines, QKD deployments, PQC migration tooling and quantum-resilient governance.

Washington, D.C., United States · NATO Transatlantic Quantum Community

Allies discussed how quantum computing could affect secure communications, critical infrastructure, intelligence and crisis decision-making.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · UAE Cyber Security Council (host) and Vernewell Group

Hosted by the UAE Cyber Security Council, with cybersecurity and post-quantum security among its core topics.

Padua, Italy · AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

Progress meeting for EuroQCI and IRIS2 quantum communication infrastructure projects, with QKD, encryptor, cybersecurity and defence stakeholders.

Miami Beach, United States · Swift

Global financial services conference with sessions urging banks to begin the shift to post-quantum cryptography now.

London, United Kingdom · Redcliffe Advisory

Opened with a defence and security session and included a NATO keynote on cyber defence in the quantum and AI era.

Buenos Aires, Argentina · Ekoparty

Latin America's largest hacker conference featured discussion of Q-Day, harvest-now-decrypt-later risk and cryptographic inventories.

Berlin, Germany · Tech Tour, with the City of Berlin and Berlin Quantum

Dedicated track on quantum in defence and security, including quantum cybersecurity, espionage detection and critical infrastructure protection.

Singapore, Singapore · Cyber Security Agency of Singapore

Featured a high-level quantum-safe panel and a quantum-safe roundtable on making cryptographic migration practical.

Prague, Czech Republic · OpenSSL Corporation

Open-source cryptography conference focused on post-quantum internet security and PQC readiness for widely deployed software.

Melbourne, Australia · Australian Information Security Association (AISA)

Program theme on post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic transition planning, including a session on Australia's PQC transition progress.

Sophia Antipolis, France · ETSI

Standards conference with a cryptography and quantum readiness session including the ETSI QKD industry specification group status.

Bastad, Sweden · NATO Science and Technology Organization, hosted by Sweden

Allied research symposium on quantum technology for defence and security, held at up to NATO UNCLASSIFIED level.

Online · ENISA (European Union Agency for Cybersecurity)

EU agency webinar on the coordinated EU PQC roadmap and Estonia's national post-quantum migration plan.

Nairobi, Kenya · Kenya Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy

Continental cybersecurity week whose programme named post-quantum cryptography a particularly urgent focus area.

Melbourne, Australia · Monash University

Forum assessing Australia's readiness for post-quantum cryptography and its implications for national security and critical infrastructure.

Innsbruck, Austria · Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence with ParityQC, Pasqal and Thales

Covers defence, industrial and policy dimensions of quantum computing for European security, including the first European Defence Fund quantum project.

Nanjing, China · Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)

Workshop on post-quantum cryptography migration, especially in the financial industry and large-scale computer networks.

Amsterdam, Netherlands · PKI Consortium

Free hybrid conference with workshops and talks on real-world post-quantum cryptography migration and PKI.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates · GITEX Global

Quantum expo within GITEX Global with post-quantum cybersecurity and quantum cryptography and secure communications as core themes.

Koganei, Tokyo, Japan · National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)

Japan Quantum Week workshop on certifying and deploying quantum cryptography devices in society.