Adopting Quantum-Safe Technologies to Address the Urgency of Securing our Digital Future
Thursday, May 8, 2025 from 8:45 am to 12:45 pm
- In-person event
- 4010, Nicol, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
- Cost: Free
- Contact
- Stoyan Tanev, stoyan.tanev@carleton.ca
The unprecedented advances of Quantum Computing (QC) come with a promise to transform industries and bring in revolutionary applications spanning across drug development, new materials, supply chain optimization, finance, and cybersecurity. QC promises performance advantages that are impossible to achieve with classical computing. However, these performance advantages come with a serious warning. According to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCSC, Feb. 2025) “Your organization’s cyber security is at risk as quantum computing advances. Although quantum computers cannot break cryptography now, a sufficiently powerful device could be available as early as the 2030s.”
The problem is clear. The deadline is fast approaching. Solutions exists and are commercially available. More importantly, Ottawa happens to be at forefront of the development of such solutions.
The question is: What are the factors that can accelerate the adoption of quantum-safe solutions to enable our digital future?
The event will focus on discussing the factors that could accelerate the adoption of quantum-safe technologies such as Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). It will bring together domain experts from both the supply and demand side to discuss how PQC and other quantum-safe technologies can be used to secure businesses and society.
Key messages of the renowned team of Keynote Speakers
- Quantum-safe technologies are a fundamental part of a broader vision for a radically advanced digital world enabled through quantum capabilities
- Advancing quantum technology for the betterment of society cannot be achieved without assuring the quantum-readiness of our digital business and social environments
- The urgency to act unites the QC, cybersecurity, business and innovation communities in accelerating the adoption of quantum safe technologies
The urgency to act requires the engagement of a variety of key stakeholders such as regulatory and standard bodies, vendors and users, the broader business and innovation communities, in making adoption happen.