Q-Day Ready: Building Quantum-Safe Payments That Work
Quantum risk is no longer abstract: financial infrastructures must transition while keeping latency low, reliability high, and standards intact. This session draws on hands-on delivery experience from central bank innovation programmes, including work conducted under BIS Innovation Hub initiatives and the Swiss National Bank.
The session focuses on what worked in practice: applying hybrid cryptography in real systems, navigating engineering trade-offs under regulatory constraints, and exploring pathways from pilot environments toward production readiness — without disrupting existing payment rails, standards, or governance models.
Speaker
Animesh Ghosh
Session Questions
What does “Q-Day readiness” actually mean for payments and financial market infrastructures — not in theory, but in practice?
How can institutions add quantum-safe protections without slowing payments, breaking user experience, or disrupting interoperability?
What is the safest migration path: starting hybrid today or waiting — and how do organisations avoid costly dead ends?
Where do systems tend to break first when moving to post-quantum security—keys, performance, infrastructure, or operations?
How do you measure whether “quantum-safe” is truly working in production, not just on paper?
How can quantum-safe trust be introduced while staying aligned with existing governance, regulation, and standards such as ISO 20022?
Session II
16:00 – 16:45
Post-Classical Systems
Post-classical systems describe the shift beyond traditional computational and cryptographic models. This theme explores how quantum-era approaches challenge classical assumptions around computation, privacy, and trust, and what these changes mean for real-world systems already in use today.
Speakers
David Chaum
Naresh Singh
Session Questions
How do post-classical systems challenge classical computation and cryptography?
What is already practical today versus still theoretical?
How do these shifts impact privacy, trust, and security?
Which signals indicate credible post-classical adoption?
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