How can we deploy innovation at scale and responsibly?

When the Padlock No Longer Works

January 20, 2026
14:30–15:00 (Europe/Amsterdam time zone)

About this session

Quantum computers threaten to make encryption obsolete, exposing financial systems, state secrets and decades of personal data. The threat is not a distant breakthrough but a slow-burn reality, as information harvested today may be decrypted tomorrow. Who could control the ability to break trust at scale?

Speakers

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Akshay Joshi
Head of the Centre for Cybersecurity, Member of the Executive Committee
World Economic Forum
NM
Niccolo De Masi
Chairman and CEO
IonQ

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