New Delhi, June 2026 - On June 25, 2026, the India International Centre in New Delhi becomes the venue for a summit that goes well beyond the usual orbit of cybersecurity conferences. The Telecom Security in the AI & Quantum Age Summit, organised by the Cyber Security Association of India, is not a preparatory conversation. It is an operational one convened at a moment when the threat environment facing India's telecom infrastructure is shifting faster than most policy frameworks have kept pace with.
Coherent Market Insights participates as Official Knowledge Partner. And the research it brings to New Delhi reflects exactly the weight of that moment.
The Infrastructure That Everything Runs On
India's telecom backbone is no longer simply a communications network. It is the foundational layer on which the country's digital economy sits. Over a billion active mobile subscribers. A rapidly expanding 5G rollout. Critical services — banking, healthcare, emergency response, defence coordination, and the delivery of public programmes under Digital India — all running on the same communication rails.
The concentration of dependency that this creates is not a future risk to be modelled. It is a present-day vulnerability to be addressed. And the nature of the threat has changed in ways that make the urgency acute.
AI-powered cyberattacks are already probing network configurations, identifying vulnerabilities, and automating offensive operations at speeds that outpace human response. Quantum computing — while not yet at the scale required to break current encryption standards — is advancing fast enough that organisations building infrastructure today must make quantum-readiness decisions today, not when the capability arrives. These two forces do not arrive sequentially. They overlap. And the window to prepare is narrower than most current policy discussions acknowledge.
A security gap in this stack is not a technology problem. It is a sovereignty problem.
Research That Matches the Moment
The centrepiece of CMI's participation at the summit is the official launch of a strategic whitepaper: "Securing India's Digital Backbone in the Era of AI and Quantum Computing" — prepared by CSAI in research collaboration with Coherent Market Insights, and formally unveiled by Mr. Mohit Shrivastava, AVP – Research & Consulting, CMI.
The document does not treat AI and quantum computing as distant abstractions. Both are addressed as active variables reshaping the threat environment now — with a structured framework for the sector-specific policy and operational decisions that India's telecom security posture demands.
That sector-specificity matters. Telecom is not generic IT infrastructure. Its attack surface is distinct. Its regulatory environment is distinct. Its role in national security makes it a category that demands dedicated research and dedicated policy attention — not solutions borrowed from adjacent industries and retrofitted to fit.
CSAI, established in 2019 as a multi-stakeholder consortium spanning corporates, government agencies, defence organisations, academic institutions, and cybersecurity professionals, has built its mandate around precisely this conviction. The summit's timing reflects a specific moment in India's digital trajectory — one where the country is simultaneously scaling 5G deployment, expanding its data protection regulatory framework, and positioning itself as a global technology hub. All of this creates both opportunity and exposure in equal measure.
A Role Beyond Partnership
CMI's presence at this summit is consistent with the position the firm occupies across the markets it covers: that informed decision-making requires more than directional data. It requires frameworks that are transparent in design, rigorous in application, and built to hold up under scrutiny — whether the subject is market sizing, competitive strategy, or, as here, national infrastructure security.
As AI and quantum computing reshape the threat landscape at a pace that most institutional responses have not yet matched, CMI's role at this summit is the same as it always is: to bridge the gap between the room where decisions are made and the world that will feel those decisions.
The conversations happening at India International Centre on June 25 are not about preparing for what might come. They are about responding to what is already here.
About the Cyber Security Association of India (CSAI)
CSAI is a national multi-stakeholder consortium bringing together stakeholders across India's cybersecurity landscape from corporate and government agencies to academic institutions, intelligence professionals, and enforcement bodies. CSAI's mandate includes policy advocacy, awareness programs, and research collaboration on emerging cyber threats.
Learn more at www.ncsai.in.
About Coherent Market Insights
Coherent Market Insights (CMI) is a global market intelligence and consulting firm delivering data-driven insights across multiple industries. Headquartered in India, with a presence in the U.S. and strategic partnerships across the U.K. and Japan, CMI supports clients in over 32 countries with 300+ full-time consultants and a global network of domain experts across 24 countries.
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