Quantum Security Awareness (Telecommunications Edition): PQC for 5G/6G and Roaming Trust – Core Latency, Secure Elements, and Standards-Led Migration

About This Event

This complimentary webcast is designed for telecom security leaders who need a clear, no‑nonsense understanding of the quantum threat – and what to do about it now. The session skips generic “PQC 101” and goes straight to the telecom reality: global interoperability, five‑nines availability, tight control‑plane latency budgets, and identity anchored in secure elements at massive scale.

Telecom has a uniquely hard problem because you can’t “modernize crypto” inside one domain and declare victory. Your cryptography spans multiple planes and multiple supply chains: core network service interfaces (mTLS and certificate lifecycles), management APIs, roaming and interconnect trust, lawful intercept / regulatory interfaces, and the SIM/eSIM/UICC ecosystem that anchors subscriber identity and provisioning. And unlike many enterprise environments, telecom change isn’t just “push a new library” – it’s a choreography across vendors, partners, and standards, with a continuous service obligation.

That’s why telecom quantum readiness is, by default, standards‑led. 3GPP has an active study specifically on transitioning to PQC in 3GPP systems (TR 33.703), signalling where future releases are heading and what will likely become “normal” expectations for network equipment and software. In parallel, ETSI TC SET has analysed the impact of PQC on secure element specifications – a practical bottleneck for SIM/eSIM ecosystems where compute, memory, certification, and lifecycle constraints dominate. The ITU‑T work programme also includes a technical report work item on guidance for advanced cryptography based on PQC, explicitly referencing future 5G/B5G environments.

Regulation reinforces the urgency. In the EU, NIS2 explicitly brings providers of public electronic communications networks and services into scope as part of “digital infrastructure,” with board‑level accountability and incident/risk management expectations that make “we’ll deal with crypto later” a weak posture.

This is an engineering‑grounded awareness session: you will leave with a telecom‑specific way to think about where the PQC transition will pinch first, how to align internal roadmaps to standards timelines, and how to pressure‑test vendor claims so “PQC‑ready” becomes a measurable plan rather than a slide.

Format: Free live webcast (multiple sessions available)

Duration: Awareness-level briefing – 1.5 hours

Cost: Free

What Will You Learn

• A telecom trust map: how crypto responsibilities split across core, roaming, interconnect, OSS/BSS, and secure elements – and where “hidden” dependencies live.
• Why secure elements are often the long pole: what PQC means for SIM/eSIM/UICC constraints, certification cycles, and operational rollout timelines.
• How to treat this as a standards programme (not a one‑off project): what 3GPP’s PQC transition work implies for vendor roadmaps and interoperability planning.
• How to protect the performance envelope: where hybrid approaches are realistic, where they’re risky, and how to avoid breaking control‑plane / handshake budgets.
• How to run “credible” PQC readiness conversations with vendors and partners: what to ask, what artifacts to demand (supported profiles, timelines, failure modes), and how to prevent fragmentation across roaming/interconnect ecosystems.
• What progress looks like in 6–12 months: the minimum set of decisions and visibility that make a telecom roadmap real (inventory, dependency mapping, partner pilots, vendor gating).

Who Should Attend

CISOs and cyber leaders in telecom operators and carriers, including:

• Core network and platform security architects (5G core, IMS/voice, service mesh / mTLS domains)
• Roaming/interconnect and peering security leads
• SIM/eSIM/UICC lifecycle and secure‑element supply chain owners
• PKI, IAM, KMS/HSM owners supporting OSS/BSS and network operations

Prerequisites

General awareness of quantum security risk, PQC basics, and typical migration challenges is helpful – but not required. For a primer-style session, attendees may optionally join the introductory briefings we regularly provide: see Applied Quantum Events. 

This Session

Wednesday, 29 Apr 2026

• Time: 3:00 PM CEST | 2:00 PM BST | 0:00 AM EDT | 6:00 AM PDT | 5:00 PM GST | 6:30 PM IST | 9:00 PM SGT

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