International Quantum Cooperation: The Treaty Gaps and Coordination Failures That Security Policy Has Not Yet Fixed
The quantum security challenge is fundamentally an international coordination problem. National strategies exist. Standards are finalised. The layer that is missing is the architecture of bilateral agreements, mutual recognition frameworks, and coordinated incident response protocols that would make those strategies work together. This conversation is for the officials and advisors who are attempting to close those gaps and need a peer-tested view of what cooperation is actually achievable, in what timeframe, and with which partners.
Event Details
- Who else is in the room
- Senior level executive peers, industry leaders, experts in risk, technology and business. Specifically: senior government officials, diplomatic professionals, and policy advisors with active responsibility for quantum technology policy, cyber diplomacy, or critical infrastructure resilience at national or multilateral level.
- 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 conversation is for senior government officials and policy advisors with active responsibility for quantum technology policy, cyber diplomacy, or critical infrastructure resilience at the national or multilateral level. It is relevant to professionals at international institutions, treaty bodies, and think-tanks who brief decision-makers on quantum cooperation. It is not for commercial organisations seeking government contacts. Participants are expected to be working the cooperation problem from the inside, with the authority to inform the frameworks being designed.
About This Conversation
Why this matters now
NATO's Quantum Technologies Strategy (2023) established a framework for member state coordination. Bilateral implementation is running at different speeds across the Alliance. The EU's DORA and NIS2 create compliance obligations that stop at the European single market boundary, leaving third-country critical infrastructure partners operating under no equivalent cryptographic resilience obligation. The interoperability problem is concrete: if a major financial market infrastructure migrates to ML-KEM while its international settlement counterparties do not, cross-border settlement protocols break during the transition window. Export control regimes are being updated for quantum items but at different speeds in the US, EU, and UK, creating jurisdictional gaps.
Outcomes
What you will leave with
- A frank comparative assessment of where multilateral quantum-security cooperation frameworks are functional and where they exist on paper only
- Specific identification of the interoperability gaps that existing bilateral frameworks cannot resolve and where new instruments are needed
- A peer-tested read on which third-country partners represent the highest cooperation risk: where migration timelines diverge most significantly from allied commitments
- Clarity on the disclosure and intelligence-sharing protocols that would need to exist for coordinated response to a quantum-enabled incident on critical infrastructure
- Peer relationships with officials from other jurisdictions who are working the same cooperation problem under different mandates and with different political constraints
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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