INVITE-ONLY EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE

Quantum & AI Trends: Protecting Data at the Crossroads of Two Revolutions

A private executive roundtable for CISOs, CTOs and senior security and risk leaders responsible for protecting enterprise data.

📅 Tuesday, 20 October 2026
⏰ 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM (2 hr discussion and 3-course lunch)
📍 Society Melbourne, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne

How do you protect data amidst two revolutionary trends?

Technology transitions always test security strategies, and AI and quantum computing are creating new, profound strategic imperatives at the same time. These are not future threats. AI-related risks are here today, in the early stages of deployment. Quantum risks might feel more distant, but today's data is already exposed to future quantum attacks through harvest now, decrypt later.

Enterprises need to start treating post-quantum cryptography as a present-day operational programme, not a future migration.

Join a curated group of security leaders for a timely discussion on building resilient data protection strategies that address both immediate AI risk and future quantum threats.

Request Your Seat

Participation is limited to a small group of senior leaders under Chatham House Rules.

  • Tuesday, 20 October 2026

  • 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

  • Society Restaurant, Melbourne

Why This Matters Now

Post-quantum cryptography has moved from a research problem to an execution one, and the timeline is shorter than most transition plans account for.

What leaders are navigating today:

  • AI risk is already here, not on the horizon, and the 2026 OWASP Top 10 for AI and LLMs just reshaped how it's ranked.

  • Harvest now, decrypt later means today's encrypted data is already exposed to tomorrow's quantum capability.

  • Most organisations still don't have a clear starting point for crypto-agility, what to prioritise, what to test first.

  • The Australian Signals Directorate has set clear expectations for when a transition plan should exist, not just the transition itself.

  • By 2030, the bar isn't resilience. It's audit-ready evidence the work was actually done.

This roundtable is designed to move the conversation from awareness to execution, comparing notes with peers navigating the same two-front problem.

This discussion is convened in partnership with Thales, drawing on their frontline work helping organisations navigate post-quantum readiness. The framing is theirs to bring, the room is yours to shape.

What This Discussion Will Cover

The discussion will centre around three core areas:

The AI & Quantum Crossroad
How these two trends are changing the data security landscape at the same time, and where the urgency actually sits. Includes the new 2026 OWASP Top 10 ranking of AI and LLM threats, and what it changes about how these risks are prioritised.

Crypto-Agile Approaches
Post-quantum cryptography is now an execution question. What's the real starting point for crypto-agility, what should be prioritised first, and which systems need testing before the rest?

Future-Proofing the Enterprise
A practical blueprint for operationalising crypto-agility, reducing harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure, and producing audit-ready evidence ahead of 2030.

What You Will Take Away

You’ll leave with:

A clearer view of where the real urgency sits
Separating what's a present-day risk from what's still a future one, across both AI and quantum.

A practical starting point for crypto-agility
What to prioritise first and which systems to test, rather than treating this as one undifferentiated transition.

A sharper read on your harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure
Which data assets carry the most risk today, encrypted or not.

Perspectives from peers
How other senior leaders are actually sequencing this work inside their own organisations.

A path to audit-ready evidence, not just good intentions
What "done" will need to look like by 2030, and how to start building toward it now.

Who Will Be In The Room

The value of this discussion comes from hearing how peers across financial services, insurance, superannuation, energy, utilities and other critical infrastructure sectors are approaching the same problem, not from a single point of view.

A curated group of C-levels, Directors and Heads of, including:

  • CISOs and CTOs

  • CIOs and CROs

  • Heads of Cryptography and PKI Directors

  • Directors of Cyber Risk and Technology Risk Managers

  • Information Security Directors and GRC Directors

Participants are selected to ensure a high-calibre, peer-level discussion under Chatham House Rules.

The Programme

12:00 PM – Arrival and networking

12:15 PM – Welcome and introduction

12:20 PM – Entrée served · Discussion Topic 1: The AI & Quantum Crossroad

12:50 PM – Main course served · Discussion Topic 2: Crypto-Agile Approaches

1:20 PM – Discussion Topic 3: Future-Proofing the Enterprise

1:45 PM – Dessert served · Closing reflections and key takeaways

2:00 PM – Close, coffee and informal conversation continues

(Led throughout by Reinhart Hansen, Director of Technology, Field CTO APJ, Thales Innovation & Strategy.)

Reserve Your Seat

Participation is limited to a select group of senior security, risk and technology leaders to ensure a high-quality, peer-level discussion.

If you're responsible for data security, cryptography, technology risk or enterprise architecture, this discussion will be highly relevant.

Please complete the form below to request your invitation.
If confirmed, you'll receive a calendar invitation and full session details.

To maintain the integrity of the discussion, we ask that confirmed participants make every effort to attend or provide advance notice should their availability change.

📅 Date: Tuesday, 20 October 2026
📍 Location: Society Melbourne, 80 Collins Street, Melbourne
⏰ Time: 11:30 AM – 2:00 PM AEDT