Overview
Q*Bird was proud to be part of the Dutch Delegation at GITEX Europe 2026, Europe’s leading technology and startup event, bringing together innovators, policymakers, industry leaders and investors to explore the technologies shaping Europe’s digital future.
Representing Q*Bird, our CTO and Co-Founder, Dr. Joshua A. Slater, and Marketing & Communication Specialist, Milu Sini Lal, joined the Dutch delegation for a high-level reception hosted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Germany, welcomed by Deputy Ambassador Mira Woldberg.
The programme featured an inspiring keynote from Willemijn Aerdts, Minister for Digital Economy and Sovereignty at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, highlighting digital sovereignty as a strategic European choice and the importance of strengthening Europe’s technological resilience through innovation.
📍 Stand No: H4.2-C100, 4.2
🗓 29 June – 01 July 2026
📍 Berlin, Germany
GITEX Europe also marked an important commercial milestone for Q*Bird with the official launch of the Falqon® Key Manager. The Falqon® Key Manager is a standalone quantum key management system designed to enable scalable, interoperable and hybrid quantum secure networks. By combining Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) within a unified key management architecture, the Falqon® Key Manager enables the delivery of QKD keys, PQC keys and hybrid keys across distributed network environments. Together with the Falqon® MDI-QKD Series and Quantum Domain Controller (QDC), the Falqon® Key Manager forms part of Q*Bird’s end-to-end quantum secure networking portfolio, helping organisations deploy, manage and scale quantum secure communications, while delivering crypto-agile and resilient security architectures.
As Europe continues to strengthen its digital sovereignty agenda, resilient communication infrastructure is becoming a strategic capability for governments, defence organisations, telecommunications providers and operators of critical infrastructure. At Q*Bird, we believe Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution (MDI-QKD) provides a foundational security layer for next-generation communications, enabling scalable, interoperable and future-ready quantum secure networks.
We would like to extend our sincere appreciation to RVO, the Netherlands Enterprise Agency and especially Eva, Rik and Maarten, for their excellent organisation, support and the opportunity to represent the Netherlands alongside an outstanding delegation of Dutch innovators on the international stage.
Throughout GITEX Europe, Q*Bird was thrilled to engage with government representatives, policymakers, technology leaders, investors and ecosystem partners to discuss the future of quantum secure communication and the role of European innovation in strengthening cybersecurity, digital sovereignty and trusted critical infrastructure!
