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See the calendar briefingThe State of Quantum Readiness Summit. Readiness, audited.
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.
Working sessions to enumerate RSA and elliptic-curve dependencies across HSMs, code-signing, TLS, VPN, S/MIME, PKI, and legacy embedded stacks. Templates you can run internally on Monday.
Every attendee produces a signed readiness memo aligned to QCI-QS1 — scope, owners, gates, fallbacks — reviewed by two working-group chairs before you leave the hall.
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, migration consulting, or attestation services — and we do not accept sponsorship from anyone who does. That independence is the reason the room trusts what happens in it.
No parallel tracks. No breakouts running against the main stage. The program is designed so that legal, technical, investor, and regulatory voices sit through the same brief — and can be held to the same record afterwards.
“The main stage is editorial. QCI and invited neutral authorities only. Sponsors never buy a keynote.”
Framing the day. Why the buyers, auditors, and standards editors — not the vendors — set the pace of this transition.
The editorial keynote from QCI's chair. What defensible readiness looks like on paper, and what the room will produce by 17:00.
A neutral regulatory briefing on the deadlines that now bind procurement, audit committees, and CISOs across jurisdictions.
Off-the-record read of standards-body and supervisory posture heading into 2027. Chatham House rules for the room.
Contract clauses, liability transfer, and disclosure timing when cryptographic assumptions become unenforceable.
What actually gets migrated in a fiscal year. Program shapes, staffing, and the delivery risks nobody puts in a deck.
Where capital is going, what it's underwriting, and the exposures LPs are starting to ask about by name.
Curated, non-commercial round-robin: standards editors, open-source maintainers, and public-interest labs.
The whole room runs a single incident: a treasury-adjacent PKI compromise with quantum-adjacent disclosure obligations. Facilitated by QCI staff; two working-group chairs adjudicate.
Every attendee leaves with a one-page board memo template, populated from the day's decisions and reviewed by two chairs.
Our stage features regulators, standards authorities, and neutral experts. No vendor keynotes. Speakers are selected by QCI's program committee and confirmed on the record; the featured keynote is held under Chatham House rules until the week of the summit.
A senior standards and supervisory voice.
Neutral authority · Chatham House rules
Chief Cryptographer
Quantum Core Institute
Deputy Director, Standards
National Institute for Cryptographic Assurance
Head of Post-Quantum Working Group
European Cyber Standards Body
Partner, Financial Regulation
Ashworth & Vale LLP
Managing Director
Meridian Assurance Advisory
General Partner
Northline Deep-Tech Capital
Editor, QCI-QS1 Standard
Quantum Core Institute
Head of Cyber Range
Quantum Core Institute
Senior Advisor, Critical Infrastructure
Independent
A single-day, single-room summit. No parallel tracks. Government and standards seats are held under Chatham House rules.
Seats are released in cohorts. When the counter reaches zero, registration closes and a waitlist opens.
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Four editorial-safe tiers. Delegate passes, showcase footprint, and moderated panel seats scale with tier. The stage does not. Sponsors earn showcase space, panel seats, and access to the room — the editorial program is out of scope, by policy and by charter.
Signature partner of the 2026 edition.
Anchor sponsor on the governance track.
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Tell us which tier you're considering and what your team wants to accomplish at the summit. We reply within two business days with current availability, placement options, and the sponsor data covenant.
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. The room is deliberately capped at 240 seats to keep the working sessions substantive.
Full one-day program (main-stage keynotes, panels, and two working exercises), continental breakfast, seated lunch, mid-afternoon reception, printed program with the annotated deadline calendar, and a signed copy of your readiness memo aligned to QCI-QS1.
Full refund up to 60 days before the summit (Oct 10, 2026). 50% refund up to 21 days before (Nov 18, 2026). After that, registrations are transferable to a colleague at your organization at no cost; email registration@quantumcoreinstitute.com.
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 — 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. The summit produces one signed QS1-aligned memo per attending organization.
Keynotes and panels are recorded and released to attendees within 14 days. Working sessions are held under Chatham House rules and are not recorded — the point is candid discussion between practitioners.
Association logos and additional partners are added as participation is confirmed. Interested in convening with QCI? Get in touch.