The 2023 Summit
The City Quantum Summit Monday October 2nd 2023
Confirmed sponsors to date: National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC), Boeing, Multiverse, Oxford Instruments, Sandbox, Strangeworks, Inflequion, NuQuantum, Perella Weinberg.
Draft Agenda
12 Noon.
The D&I lunch. Old Parlour, Mansion House
Invitation-only, gender-balanced lunch for 40 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 from Alderman, Professor and future Lord Mayor, Dr Michael Mainellli and Karina Robinson, CEO of Redcliffe Advisory and Founder of The City Quantum Summit
14:15
Premiere of Marina Landia’s performance film on Quantum & AI, Commissioned by The City Quantum Summit
14:20
Panel 1: Four Current User Cases for Quantum – from pharma to cybersecurity, retail to finance
Chair TBC
Nadia Carlsten, VP of Product, SandboxAQ
Lene Oddershede, Senior VP, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Georgios Korpas, Senior Research Scientist, HSBC
Another panellists (TBC)
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, Quantum Product Manager, Fidelity Investments
Denise Ruffner, President of Women in Quantum
Dominik Andrzejczuk, Founder & CEO, QDC
Scott Faris, CEO, Infleqion
16:50
Panel 4: Cutting Company Carbon Footprints – quantum for good
Chair: Professor Elham Kashefi, Chief Scientist, National Quantum Computing Centre
Roman Orus, Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing
Jay Lowell, Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing Research and Technology
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, CEO and Co-Founder of NuQuantum
One other panellist (TBC)
17:35
Keynote by the Institute of Physics and Quantum Exponential.
They will be launching a call for applications for the 2nd IOP qBIG prize sponsored by Quantum Exponential, with input from Cerca Magnetics, awarded the first prize.
17:50
Closing Remarks
18:00
Panel sessions end
18:30pm
Sponsored Cocktail, Mansion House
Invitation-only reception with an address by Philip Lockwood, Head of Innovation Unit, NATO
19:30pm
Dinner, Old Ballroom, Mansion House
Invitation-only dinner for only 60 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 quantum legend whurley and Dame Elizabeth Corley, Chair of Schroders and the Impact Investing Institute, introduced by Dinner Sponsor Perella Weinberg Partners.
Supported causes:
The Inclusion Initiative at the LSE
DiviQ
Media Partners:
The Quantum Insider
Quantum London
