World Quantum Readiness Day 2026
The quantum shift is coming. Are you ready?
September 17, 2026 • Virtual • Free • Live Q&A
Three regional sessions. One global event.
Join us at World Quantum Readiness Day 2026
This year’s theme—From Blueprint to Build—reflects the shift from quantum awareness to implementation. The question is no longer if organizations should prepare for post-quantum cryptography (PQC). It’s how.
Join DigiCert for the third annual World Quantum Readiness Day to hear how security leaders are assessing cryptographic risk, planning migration, and preparing for the quantum era.
The full agenda and speaker lineup will be announced soon. Secure your spot.
Quantum readiness starts now
Begin your quantum migration
Move beyond awareness with guidance to assess risk, prioritize migration, and plan your transition.
Turn insight into action
Hear how DigiCert and industry experts are preparing for the quantum era with lessons you can apply.
Prepare for what’s next
Understand standards, quantum-safe algorithms, and trends shaping enterprise cryptography.
Featured speakers
Dr. Colin Soutar
Managing Director, Deloitte
Sadaaki Yamazaki
Senior Security Specialist, Digital Solution R&D Department, Daiwa Institute of Research Ltd. (DIR)
Christian Pfister
Lead, Quantum Safe Competence Center, LGT Financial Services Ltd.
John Furrier
Co-Founder & Co-CEO, SiliconANGLE Media, Inc.
DigiCert speakers
Dr. Amit Sinha
CEO, DigiCert
Dr. Amit Sinha is the CEO and visionary leader driving DigiCert into the era of Intelligent Trust—advancing enterprise security, automation, and resilience for the AI and quantum age. Under Amit's leadership, DigiCert delivered its strongest fiscal year to date in 2025. Previously, he was President of Zscaler, where during a 12-year tenure he helped grow the company from a startup to a NASDAQ-100 company—establishing it as a leader in enterprise security. He serves as an independent board member at Zscaler and DataRobot and advises several startups. Earlier, he held CTO roles at Motorola and AirDefense (acquired by Motorola in 2008).
Dr. Sinha earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi, where he graduated summa cum laude and received the President of India Gold Medal. He has authored 25+ papers, contributed to three books, and is the inventor of 39 U.S. patents granted or pending.
Deepika Chauhan
Chief Product Officer, DigiCert
Deepika Chauhan is Chief Product Officer at DigiCert and the architect behind expanding DigiCert ONE, translating Intelligent Trust into platform strategy and execution at enterprise scale. Since joining DigiCert in 2017, she has led customer-obsessed global product and engineering teams driving continued innovation across DigiCert ONE. She oversees product strategy to help organizations deliver trusted security across users, devices, servers, software, and content.
Previously, she led Strategy and Business Operations for Symantec's Website Security business unit and worked at McKinsey & Company in Silicon Valley on strategic initiatives for technology companies. She began her career in product development on Nokia's mobile browser team. Chauhan holds a B.E. from the University of Delhi, an M.S. from the University of Cincinnati, and an MBA from Dartmouth.
Lakshmi Hanspal
Chief Trust Officer, DigiCert
Lakshmi Hanspal serves as DigiCert's first Chief Trust Officer, leading strategy and execution that ensures trust is embedded across its technology, operations, and customer experience as digital and AI ecosystems rapidly evolve. She brings 30+ years of technology and information security experience, including 16 years in financial services and payments. At DigiCert, she oversees regulatory compliance, data protection, and risk management and helps protect the integrity, security, and privacy of customer data.
Previously, Hanspal served as Global CISO for Amazon Devices & Services and held chief security roles at Box and SAP Ariba, with earlier leadership experience at Bank of America and PayPal. She holds a master's degree in computer science from Boston University and serves on boards for mission-driven organizations.
Dean Coclin
Senior Director, Digital Trust Specialist, DigiCert
Dean Coclin brings more than 30 years of business development and product management experience in software, security, and telecommunications to the company.
At DigiCert, Coclin is responsible for representing the company in industry consortia and driving the company's strategic alliances with technology partners. He is also the current chair of the CA/Browser Forum and chairs the ASC X9 PKI Study Group, developing next-generation PKI standards for the finance industry.
Shane Kelly
Principle Crypto Architect, DigiCert
Shane Kelly has worked on solving various software security problems for his customers, from bespoke embedded systems to large-scale cloud-based deployments. Kelly has spent over six years implementing, integrating, and optimizing post-quantum algorithms. He recently spent time working on the cryptographic compliance and auditing team at AWS.
At DigiCert, Kelly provides secure, robust, customer-oriented post-quantum cryptography solutions. His focus is on making the transition from current cryptographic solutions to post-quantum solutions as simple as possible given the enormous challenges involved.
Tim Hollebeek
Industry Technology Strategist, DigiCert
Kevin Hilscher
Product Leader, Device Trust Portfolio, DigiCert
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Agenda
World Quantum Readiness Day
Thursday, September 17, 2026
Introduction and Opening Remarks
Amit Sinha
John Furrier
Start Here: A Quick Win for Quantum Readiness
Inventory and risk assessment are important steps for quantum readiness but many organizations struggle to turn that work into action. This session focuses on your best first move: enabling TLS 1.3 and hybrid key exchange (ML-KEM) on priority endpoints. We’ll explain why this matters, what ML-KEM does and does not solve, and what teams need before they begin.
Christian Pfister
Shane Kelly
What, When, and Why: The Global Regulatory and Standards Landscape
As quantum security moves from research into action, standards will ensure interoperability and governments will add compliance requirements. During this session, experts will summarize the latest developments from global standards bodies, and recent government mandates, including Executive Order 14412. We’ll clarify what is ready to use today, what is still evolving, and what organizations should watch next. We’ll also address Merkle Tree Certificates: where they fit, why they matter, and how they might impact your organization.
Jostein Stokkan
Dean Coclin
Demystifying PQC Complexity
Quantum readiness can stall when teams assume they need every answer before they can act. In this fireside chat, practitioners will unpack common sources of PQC complexity, including algorithm decisions, certificate format questions, and HSM readiness. The discussion will focus on separating real constraints from perceived blockers, identifying practical decisions organizations can make now, and sharing simple strategies for turning early uncertainty into measurable progress.
Dr. Colin Soutar
Sadaaki Yamazaki
Tim Hollebeek
How DigiCert Built Its Readiness Program
Quantum readiness becomes real when organizations assign ownership and start implementing cryptographic changes in production. In this session, DigiCert will share lessons from its internal PQC readiness program, part of its Customer Zero initiative, including how to secure executive sponsorship, form a cross-functional tiger team, manage vendor dependencies, and account for impacts on change management, and certificate lifecycle management. Attendees will learn how to replicate a practical and proven program in their own environments.
Ask the experts
In this audience-driven Q&A, industry experts will answer questions submitted by attendees. Submit your questions when you register to World Quantum Readiness Day.
Closing remarks
Hear from the team who went first
Before helping customers prepare for the quantum era, DigiCert led the way.
Learn from the engineers behind our Customer Zero initiative as they share the lessons, technical decisions, and implementation experience from DigiCert’s own quantum readiness journey.
Today, more than 99% of eligible certificates across DigiCert’s production environment renew through automation.
Watch highlights from last year’s event
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Americas
September 17, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 AM Pacific (USA Pacific)
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EMEA
September 17, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 AM BST (UK)
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