Two tectonic shifts are converging to rewrite the rules of digital security and most organizations are not ready for either.

Quantum computing is advancing toward cryptographically relevant scale, threatening to shatter the RSA and elliptic-curve foundations that protect virtually every digital transaction today. Simultaneously, the rise of Agentic AI is unleashing fleets of autonomous software agents that act, decide, and communicate across systems -none of which have passports, no conventional way to authenticate them, and an attack surface that grows with every delegation chain.

The response to both threats converges on the same two disciplines: cryptography and identity. But traditional approaches designed for human users, static workloads, and long-lived certificates were never built for this world.

This session argues that what we need is not just stronger algorithms, but a fundamental rethinking of how trust works: trust that is algorithm-agnostic (crypto-agile), trust that extends to machine and AI actors, and trust that can be composed, delegated, and revoked across dynamic, multi-party pipelines at machine speed.

We will examine the real threat timelines for quantum cryptographic attacks, the identity and authorization gaps exposed by agentic AI architectures, how modern trust frameworks must evolve to address both simultaneously, and what a practical crypto-agility strategy looks like from NIST PQC algorithm adoption to SPIFFE/SVID-based machine identity and zero-trust policy enforcement.

Attendees will leave with a clear mental model of why these two threats are linked, an architectural blueprint for a post-quantum, agentic-ready trust stack, and concrete steps to begin the migration journey today.