Ctrl/shift Summit 2026 to tackle post-quantum crypto risk

The Ctrl/shift Summit 2026 will run June 13-15 at Villa Doria d’Angri in Naples. The three-day event brings together researchers, developers, financial institutions and policy makers and includes a program focused on post-quantum security for blockchain networks and digital asset infrastructure.

One featured session, Security in a Post-Quantum World, will be led by Sohil Tiwari, CEO and co-founder of Quantum Qustody. Tiwari worked nearly two decades at Mastercard and American Express, including roles as Asia-Pacific CFO and Canada CFO at Mastercard. His presentation will outline implications for digital asset holders, custodians and financial firms.

Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, PhD, a crypto protocol expert at Bitcoin Suisse, will present The Road to Post-Quantum Bitcoin. That session will assess the current state of the Bitcoin protocol and examine options to increase its resistance to quantum attacks.

Fabrizio Romano Genovese, who holds a PhD in quantum information theory from the University of Oxford, will present a talk titled “(Almost?) Practical Public-Key Quantum Money With Low Quantum Resources.” He will review the technical requirements and remaining bottlenecks for quantum money systems.

Andrea Paesano, event lead at ctrl/shift, described the purpose of the program: “Quantum security is a good example of why ctrl/shift was created. The questions are technical, financial, and institutional at the same time. They cannot be addressed by one community working in isolation. Bringing researchers, builders, and decision-makers into the same room allows the conversation to become more practical.”

The European Commission’s roadmap asks EU member states to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography by the end of 2026. In March, Google Quantum AI published updated estimates indicating that potential attacks on elliptic-curve cryptography could require fewer quantum resources than previously estimated.

The wider summit program will address institutional access to digital assets, tokenization, exchange-traded funds and products, AI-driven financial systems, self-custody and regulation. Panels announced so far include a discussion on ETF, ETP and institutional access with Luisa Fischietti, Fabio Massellani and Marcello Coppo, and a session on tokenization with Chiara El Rikabi of 21Shares, Damiano Bonazzi of Diaman Partners and Antonio Annino, coordinator of the technical working group of the Italian Parliamentary Intergroup on Digital Assets, Blockchain and Bitcoin.

Ctrl/shift Summit 2026 is powered by NapulETH. The event’s full agenda and ticket information are available on the summit’s official website.