You are invited to an intimate, hosted breakfast discussion focusing on one of today’s most important questions for financial markets: how quantum computing may affect cryptography, digital assets, blockchain systems and financial services infrastructure. Due to space limitations, we are reviewing all interested registrations.
The session will focus on what banks, asset managers, custodians, exchanges, tokenization platforms and other market participants should be doing now to assess exposure, prepare migration plans and build post-quantum readiness into governance, diligence and risk management.
Featured participants include Silence Laboratories, with additional perspectives from leading voices in banking and digital assets.
Our Ashurst Perkins Coie Fintech team will be joined by speakers from across the industry, including:
- Hadley Stern, Founding President, Fidelity Digital Assets; former Global Head of Digital Asset Custody, BNY Mellon
- Vitaliy Dorum, Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets Platform, Wells Fargo
- Jay Prakash, CEO, Silence Laboratories
- Abhi Shelat, Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University and Engineer at Google
- Akshay Thakur, Director of Product Management, BitGo
- Cristina Dolan, Cybersecurity Pioneer and Thought Leader
- More speakers to be announced
The discussion will be conducted under Chatham House Rule.
What we will cover
- Why quantum risk is a board-level, strategic and existential issue, and why assessment, planning, and action should begin now.
- “Harvest now, decrypt later” and “trust now, forge later” risks currently facing banks, asset managers, custodians, exchanges, digital-native businesses and the public sector.
- The migration gap: Why transition timelines for cryptographic systems may exceed threat timelines.
- Board oversight, disclosure obligations and the evolving regulatory landscape: How governance expectations and regulatory scrutiny may develop.
- Vendor, M&A and third-party diligence: What post-quantum readiness may mean for transactions, partnerships and critical vendors.
- Breach liability and the erosion of the “it was encrypted” defense: How quantum risk may challenge traditional views of encrypted data, incident response and loss allocation.
