Quantum Risk Across Financial Services: The Executive Briefing for Leaders Who Need the Full Picture Before Setting Priorities
Financial services leadership teams are receiving multiple, sometimes contradictory, briefs on quantum risk: from internal technology teams, from regulators, and from vendors with migration services to sell. The result is often a prioritisation problem dressed up as a knowledge problem. This briefing is for senior executives who need a peer-tested read on what the quantum threat actually means for financial services operations, and in what order the decisions need to be made.
Event Details
- Who else is in the room
- Senior level executive peers, industry leaders, experts in risk, technology and business. Specifically: CEOs, CFOs, CROs, and senior executives at regulated financial institutions, financial infrastructure operators, and major ICT providers to the financial sector.
- Access
- Members only. Bundled with Expert Membership. Included with Expert Member tier
- Sponsor
- Organised by QSECDEF
- Facilitator
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Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard Quantum Security Defence - Rules of engagement
- Chatham House Rule Chatham House Rule. Discussion is on the record; attribution is not. Participants may share what was said but not who said it.
- Format
- Structured Q&A Flexible between roundtable, structured Q&A or in-person hosted dinner
- Who Should Join
- This briefing is for senior executives at financial institutions, financial infrastructure operators, and major ICT providers to the financial sector who have strategic responsibility for operational resilience and cryptographic security. CEOs, CFOs, and CROs at regulated firms who need the full picture to set investment priorities will find it most useful. It is not a technical briefing. Participants who need PQC engineering detail should join the training track instead.
About This Conversation
Why this matters now
DORA's application from January 2025 placed cryptographic resilience inside the regulatory compliance framework for EU-regulated financial entities and their ICT third-party providers. NIST's August 2024 finalisation of post-quantum standards removed the standards-uncertainty argument for deferral. The practical consequence for financial services is a tripartite migration problem: trading infrastructure (low latency, minimal tolerance for cryptographic overhead), payments infrastructure (standards-dependent, shared with counterparties), and long-duration data (custody records, actuarial data, client history with 25-year retention horizons and harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure). Each has a different urgency, a different technical constraint, and a different regulatory obligation attached. The migration planning question is sequencing, not whether.
Outcomes
What you will leave with
- A clear model of the three-layer financial services quantum migration problem: trading, payments, and long-duration data. Each has different urgency and different constraints
- A peer-tested prioritisation framework: where financial services executives who have begun migration planning have chosen to start and why
- Practical framing for the third-party dependency problem: payment infrastructure counterparties, custodians, and ICT providers who are at different points in their own migration, and the interoperability risk that creates
- A shared view of the regulatory enforcement timeline: what DORA compliance auditors are currently asking about cryptographic resilience, and what the standard of evidence looks like
- Peer relationships with financial services executives working the same migration problem in different institutional contexts
Your Facilitator
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard
Founder, QSECDEF
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard has over 15 years of international experience in deep-tech, telecommunications, and defence communications networks. Her expertise spans intellectual property, advanced communications systems, and quantum secure communications. She has lived and worked across Poland, Denmark, the United States, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Germany. Anna holds dual Master of Science degrees in Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Southern Denmark and Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, USA. She is the founder and board member of Quantum Security Defence.
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