On 14 March 2025, the National Quantum Office (NQO) hosted its second Quantum Industry Day 2025. This event brought together 219 local and international attendees. Building on NQO’s inaugural Quantum Industry Day (QID) 2023, QID 2025 focused on quantum-safe technologies and quantum computing applications. The main objective of the event was to raise awareness of current industry developments, addressing challenges in transitioning to quantum-safe systems, identifying organisational strategies for adoption, and exploring market solutions to bridge existing gaps.
Along with our partners Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA), National Quantum Computing Hub (NQCH) and National Quantum-Safe Network (NQSN), QID 2025 helped increase industry awareness of the impact of quantum computing, informed the industry of the importance of transitioning to a quantum-safe environment and its applications in identified high-impact sectors, with finance serving as an exemplary industry.
Opening the plenary was our Guest-of-Honour, Mr David Koh, Chief Executive, CSA, who delivered the opening speech and Mr Keok Tong Ling, Executive Director of NQO, who shared upcoming plans in Singapore’s National Quantum Strategy. Mr Ling also represented NQO in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with SGInnovate, represented by Ms Juliana Lim, Executive Director of Talent and Community, to collaborate and strengthen Singapore’s position as a leader in quantum technologies and deep tech innovation.
The keynote panel, moderated by Mr Rodney Tan, Director, Cybersecurity Engineering Centre, CSA, pulled together panellists from across the industry to facilitate dialogue to unpack these concerns and questions relating to the quantum threat and offer insight on practical steps that can be taken to navigate the transition. We thank Dr Robert Bedington, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SpeQtral, Dr Teik Guan Tan, Chief Executive Officer of pQCee, Mr Alexey Bocharnikov, Director at Accenture and Dr Shivam Bhasin, Principal Research Scientist and Programme Manager, (Cryptographic Engineering), Centre for Hardware Assurance, Temasek Laboratories, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, for their contribution to the discussions.
We were also privileged to have speakers like Mr Wee-Sain Koh, Director of Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and Dr Su Yi, Lead Principal Investigator at NQCH and Executive Director at Institute of High Performance Computing (A*STAR IHPC), to share their expertise about building a Quantum-Safe Infrastructure with NQSN+ and introduce NQCH and Hybrid Quantum-classical Computing (HQCC) to our audiences.
Dr Su Yi also moderated a panel discussion titled ‘Quantum Computing in Finance: State of Play, Challengers, and Roadmap to Adoption’. We are thankful for our panellists Ms Mayda Lim, Head of Business Management in Group Operations & Technology at OCBC, Prof Simone Severini, Director of Quantum Computing at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Dr Nash Palaniswamy, Chief Commercial Officer at Quantinuum, for their expertise about transitioning quantum computing from research to real-world deployment.
QID 2025 also featured a Quantum for Finance Roundtable attended by a curated group of 84 attendees comprising senior representatives from 13 financial institutions, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Quantum Hardware and Software companies, Academia and Research Institutes, public agencies and regulatory bodies which discussed developments in Quantum technologies in Finance.
NQO would like to thank our supporting partners, Accenture, AWS, IMDA, NTU, OCBC, pQCee, Quantinuum, RAQS Consulting, Softserve and SpeQtral for their contributions to make QID 2025 a huge success.
