EU PQC roadmap milestone, December 31, 2026·CNSA 2.0 acquisition gate, January 1, 2027·US federal PQC deadlines, 2030 and 2031
See the calendar briefingState of Quantum Readiness Summit 2026. December 9, 2026. Arlington, Virginia.
Vendors sell post-quantum products at every conference this year. Nobody audits whether the buyers are ready. The State of Quantum Readiness Summit is the annual convening where CISOs, auditors, and standards editors prove readiness on the record, against a defensible bar. Every attendee leaves with the Quantum Readiness Workbook, built on the free QCI-QS1 standard, not another vendor pitch.
An independent quantum risk advisory and neutral standards body. Publisher of the free QCI-QS1 governance standard.
Read the standardEvery U.S. federal agency, financial institution, and critical-infrastructure operator will replace its cryptographic core between now and 2035. Vendor conferences cover supply. The State of Quantum Readiness Summit is the annual convening for the buyers, auditors, and standards editors who have to prove the work was done. On the record, on schedule, and to a defensible bar.
Track the transition on a real timeline: NIST FIPS 203/204/205 in force, CNSA 2.0 milestones, OMB M-23-02 reporting, and the 2035 federal cut-over. You leave with the dates that constrain your program.
Panels and case studies mapping RSA and elliptic-curve dependencies across HSMs, code-signing, TLS, VPN, S/MIME, PKI, and legacy embedded stacks. Workbook templates you can run internally on Monday.
Every attendee leaves with the Quantum Readiness Workbook aligned to QCI-QS1. Scope, owners, gates, and fallbacks, ready to work through with your team after the summit.
One day. Keynotes, case-study panels, and a working session. Full agenda on the Program page.
QCI is an independent, non-profit quantum risk advisory and neutral standards body. We publish standards commentary, maintain the free QCI-QS1 governance standard, and run the QRS working groups. We do not sell HSMs or attestation services, and we do not accept sponsorship from anyone who does. Diagnosis is free. Judgment is the engagement.
The summit convenes at a Rosslyn conference facility close to federal customers, agency PMOs, and the DC standards community. Full venue address is released to registrants two weeks before the event.
Something else? Write the QCI editorial desk at summit@quantumcoreinstitute.com.
Directors and above with material responsibility for cryptographic assets: CISOs, heads of PKI, cloud security architects, government CIOs, banking and payments risk leads, standards liaisons, and program managers accountable for post-quantum transition milestones. All 200 seats sit in one room with no parallel tracks. Everyone hears everything, and everyone is in the hallway between sessions.
Registration tiers are priced by role, not by add-ons. Practitioner includes access to the full program and the Quantum Readiness Workbook. Leadership adds an eve-of-summit dinner hosted by QCI, an advance copy of the State of Quantum Readiness report ahead of publication, and a members-only post-summit briefing webinar, and is capped at twenty seats. Government and standards seats are complimentary for verified federal, standards-body, and academic-lab attendees, subject to a limited allocation. Sponsor passes are included with sponsor packages. Media credentials are free and require QCI approval. Full pricing and current availability are on the registration page.
Paid tickets refund in full, less processing fees, more than sixty days before the summit. Refunds drop to fifty percent between thirty and sixty days out. Inside thirty days, tickets are non-refundable but transfer once to another attendee at the same organization at no charge. Complimentary tiers carry no charge and no refund. If you cannot attend, please release your seat early so we can offer it to the waitlist. Full terms, including sponsorship and force-majeure provisions, are on the Refunds and Cancellation page.
Clause 3 of the QCI sponsorship charter: sponsors never buy a keynote, a panel seat, or program influence. The program committee is drawn from standards bodies, supervisors, and independent researchers. Sponsor recognition is confined to the presented-by band, the printed program, and the reception area. Never the stage.
The Quantum Core Institute Quantum Standard 1 is a free, openly published governance framework for post-quantum readiness. It defines scope, ownership, exposure inventory, gate criteria, and fallback plans in a format designed to be auditable by regulators and internal risk committees. Every attendee leaves with the QS1-aligned Quantum Readiness Workbook to run against their own program.
Main-stage keynotes, panels, and showcases are recorded on video and audio, and published as edited session replays after the summit. Working sessions marked Chatham House rule and any room marked no recording stay off the record. Request a no-photo lanyard at check-in if you would rather not appear in event photography. Full detail is on the Photography and Recording page.
Chatham House rule means you can use what you heard, but you cannot say who said it. Sessions marked with the rule let attendees and press report the substance of a discussion without attributing any comment to a specific speaker or organization. It applies session by session, not to the summit as a whole. Sessions held on the record are marked separately and can be quoted and attributed normally. Any embargo on-the-record material lifts within twenty four hours of the session.
Association logos and additional partners are added as participation is confirmed. Interested in convening with QCI? Get in touch.
