The 2023
Agenda

12 Noon

The D&I lunch. Old Parlour, Mansion House.

Invitation-only, gender-balanced lunch for 70 chaired by Michael Cole-Fontayn, Chairman of CISI, with the participation of the LSE’s The Inclusion Initiative Professor Grace Lordan and DiviQ’s Denise Ruffner.

Summit in the Egyptian Hall Mansion House

14:00
Welcome

Welcome from Alderman, Professor and future Lord Mayor, Dr Michael Mainelli and Karina Robinson, CEO of Redcliffe Advisory and Founder of The City Quantum Summit. 

14:15
Film Premiere

Film and Music Premiere of Marina Landia’s performance film on Quantum & AI with quantum music by Ilā.
Commissioned by The City Quantum Summit.

14:20
Panel 1: Four Current User Cases for Quantum – from pharma to cybersecurity, comms to finance

Chair Lory Thorpe: Chair of the GSMA Post Quantum Telco Networks.
Nadia Carlsten: VP of Product, SandboxAQ.
Lene Oddershede: Senior VP, Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Georgios Korpas: Senior Research Scientist, HSBC.
Luke Ibbetson: Head of Group R&D at Vodafone Group.

14:55
Panel 2: Financing Quantum – dream or nightmare

Chair Diana Brightmore-Armour: CEO, Hoare & Co.
Candace Johnson: Chair, Seraphim Space Fund Advisory Board.
Ilana Wisby: CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits.
Stuart Woods: Chief Operating & Strategy Officer, Quantum Exponential.
Ekaterina Almasque: General Partner at OpenOcean VC.

15:35
Coffee Break

16:10 
Panel 3: AI and Quantum: today and tomorrow

Chair Julia Black CBE: President British Academy & Member of Prime Minister’s Council on Science and Technology.
Michael Dascal: Director of Quantum Product Management, Fidelity Investments.
Denise Ruffner: President of Women in Quantum.
Scott Faris: CEO, Infleqtion.
Roman Orus: CSO & Founder, Multiverse Computing.

16:50
Panel 4: Cutting Company Carbon Footprints – quantum for good

Chair: William McDonnell: COO of The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero: CEO and Co-Founder of NuQuantum.
Dr Sonali Mohapatra: Quantum Sector Innovation Lead, NQCC.
Matthew Martin: MD, Oxford Instruments.
Mike Short CBE, Chief Architect of Satellite Application Catapult, former Chief Scientist UK Government

17:35
Keynote by the Institute of Physics and Quantum Exponential.

Dr Harriet van der Vliet, Quantum Technologies, Oxford Instruments, launches a call for applications for the 2nd IOP qBIG prize sponsored by Quantum Exponential, with David Woolger, CEO of Cerca Magnetics, awarded the first prize this year. 

17:50 
Closing Remarks

18:00
Panel sessions end

18:30pm 
Sponsored Cocktail, Mansion House

Invitation-only reception with an address by Rear Admiral Nick Wheeler, Director, NATO DS.

19:30pm 
Dinner, Old Ballroom, Mansion House

Invitation-only dinner for only 100 people hosted by Alderman, Professor and future Lord Mayor, Dr Michael Mainelli and Karina Robinson, CEO of Redcliffe Advisory and Founder of The City Quantum Summit.

Conversation between Dame Elizabeth Corley, Chair of Schroders and the Impact Investing Institute, and Jay Lowell, Chief Scientist, Boeing Disruptive Computing & Networks, introduced by Dinner Sponsor Perella Weinberg Partners.

Supported causes:

The Inclusion Initiative at the LSE
DiviQ

Media Partners:

The Quantum Insider
Quantum London

The Summit turbo charged a conversation on deriving value today from awe-inspiring technology. 

The 2023 Summit carried on the conversations from 2021 and 2022 which brought together Founders & CEOs of Quantum Computing companies, along with the CEOs, Chairs and NEDs of banks, investors, insurance firms - those that support them in their journey, and benefit from their work.