Kelly Richdale

Venture Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners & Senior Advisor, SandboxAQ

SandboxAQ

Kelly Richdale is an independent Board Director (NED) & Advisor focussing on the intersection between innovative technologies (AI, quantum and blockchain) and risk/ cybersecurity. She is Senior Advisor for SandboxAQ, Alphabet's spin off combining AI + Quantum tech to solve hard problems impacting society. She is a Venture Partner at Amadeus Capital Partners, the European technology investor, where she advises on investment opportunities and supports deeptech portfolio companies. Additionally she serves as a board member of a number of European financial service companies.
Previously Kelly was an Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum focussing on Quantum and AI Tech Convergence. She was on the Innovation Council for Innosuisse, the Swiss federal government's agency for technology innovation, as well as on the Swiss executive team for Libra, Meta’s blockchain-based cryptocurrency project.
Her track record includes strategic leadership, entrepreneurship and building high growth international businesses. She is passionate about social impact and women in STEM, and holds advisory roles in academia. She holds an MBA from INSEAD and a CISSP in Cybersecurity.

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12:00–1:30pmWed 24 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
Roadmap for AI and Quantum

Building Regulatory Maturity: From Quantum Security to Quantum Advantage

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 3, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

To date, regulatory and industry engagement on quantum computing has largely focused on quantum security, with meaningful progress made in raising awareness, developing transition plans, and beginning the migration to post-quantum cryptography.

This roundtable reflects on that momentum and asks a forward-looking question:

What can the quantum security journey teach us about the regulator's role in enabling innovation and quantum applications in financial services?

Starting with the lens of GFIN’s Project Otto – Quantum Maturity for Regulators, this discussion will bring together regulators and industry to:
- Reflect on what has worked well in progressing quantum security from awareness to early implementation
- Discuss the regulatory tools, approaches, and mechanisms that have supported firm engagement and investment
- Explore how these lessons can be applied to support firms in experimenting with, investing in, and ultimately deploying quantum-enabled use cases
- Consider how regulators can balance risk mitigation with enabling growth, ensuring markets are prepared for both the challenges and opportunities quantum technologies present

By connecting lessons and experiences from quantum security to emerging quantum advantage, this roundtable aims to support more coordinated, proactive, and innovation-oriented regulatory approaches to quantum computing in financial services.
3:00–3:35pmWed 24 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Roadmap for AI and Quantum

The Quantum Horizon: Applications, Readiness and What Finance Must Do Next

Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
About this session

Quantum computing is no longer a distant theoretical promise - leading institutions are already running portfolio optimisation, derivatives pricing, and compliance simulations that classical computers cannot match for speed or accuracy. But readiness across the industry remains deeply uneven, the talent gap is acute, and the post-quantum cryptography migration clock is ticking loudly. This session brings together pioneers to map where quantum technology genuinely stands in financial services - and what it will take to move from early advantage to industry-wide transformation.

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Kelly Richdale

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Building Regulatory Maturity: From Quantum Security to Quantum Advantage

The Quantum Horizon: Applications, Readiness and What Finance Must Do Next