Mr. Alan Guibord reports

INTEGRATED QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES OPENS VEIL ARCHITECTURE TO GLOBAL KAGGLE HACKATHON

Integrated Cyber Solutions Inc. has provided an update on its global Kaggle hackathon, "Pierce the VEIL: Hack It and Crack It Simulation," which commenced on April 24, 2026.

Kaggle, a Google-owned platform, is widely recognized as one of the world's largest data science and machine learning communities, connecting a global network of developers, researchers and AI (artificial intelligence) practitioners. With over 30 million users worldwide, Kaggle reflects the massive scale and growing influence of the global AI and data science ecosystem.

The competition commenced on April 24, 2026, and will run for approximately one month from launch, providing participants with a defined window to develop and submit their solutions. A total prize pool of $10,000 (U.S.) will be awarded, with $8,000 awarded to the top-performing solution and $2,000 awarded to a secondary qualifying submission, based on the competition's validation criteria.

The competition is a global, open challenge inviting data scientists, cryptographers and AI researchers to attempt full reconstruction of protected data from outputs generated by IQT's proprietary VEIL technology, without access to the original inputs, structure or encoding methods. Participants must submit algorithms that reconstruct original data records from unseen values, directly testing whether such transformations can be reversed.

The company selected Kaggle as the launch platform because it is home to one of the world's largest and most advanced communities focused on AI, machine learning and data science. By opening VEIL to a global network of highly skilled researchers and practitioners, the company believes the competition represents an important step in validating the non-reversibility of VEIL's informationally compressive anonymization (ICA) architecture under real-world conditions. The company views Kaggle as the ideal environment for independent experts to openly test the limits of the technology in a transparent and competitive setting.

"This is a very exciting moment for Integrated Quantum," said Jeremy Samuelson, executive vice-president of AI (artificial intelligence) and innovation. "By inviting the global AI community to try to break VEIL, we are putting the technology to the test in a transparent environment. We believe this challenge is an important step in validating the non-reversibility of the ICA architecture underlying VEIL."

About Integrated Quantum Technologies Inc.

Integrated Quantum Technologies is building quantum-ready infrastructure to help secure and scale artificial intelligence. The company's product offerings include AIQu platform that supports its long-term strategy for privacy-preserving and resilient AI systems, and VEIL is its first commercial product designed to protect sensitive AI data and workflows in enterprise environments. IQT's proprietary technologies address emerging postquantum security risks, growing compute demands and the increasing complexity of deploying AI at scale, complemented by its managed services offering and SecureGuard360 cybersecurity platform for end-to-end AI security and monitoring.

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