The 2024 Summit

AGENDA

12:15-13.00
Light lunch and guests arrive

13:00
Welcome speech by Lord Mayor Elect Alastair King

13:10
Words of welcome from Karina Robinson, Redcliffe Advisory

13:20
THE LORD MAYOR’S COLLOGUY: QUANTUM & AI FOR GOOD

Chair: Bruce Beckloff, CEO, Bloc Ventures & Yellow Dog
Elham Kashefi, Chief Scientist and Head of Quantum Software Lab,
National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)
Julia Sutcliffe, Chief Scientific Adviser, Department of Business and Trade
Hans Henrik Knudsen, Co-Founder & CEO, Kvantify
Steve Suarez, Founder & CEO, HorizonX Consulting and External Advisor, Bain
Ala Alenazi, Investment Manager, Kinnevik

14:20
SPACE PANEL: To infinity and beyond - advances in space

Chair: Lord Willets, Chair, UK Space Agency
Julie Holt-Jones, Co-Founder, Space4Sight
Jay Lowell, Principal Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing 
Kata Escott CB, UK Managing Director and Head of Country, Airbus Defence and Space Ltd.

15:05-15:30
Coffee Break

15:30
DEFENCE PANEL: Bringing Quantum & AI innovation to the fore in a hostile world

Chair: Major General James Chiswell CB, CBE, MC, Managing Partner, High Tor Capital and former Director, Special Forces
Rear Admiral Nick Wheeler, Director, NATO Digital
Enrique Lizaso, Co-Founder & CEO, Multiverse Computing 
Dr Gillian Marshall, Head of Quantum Technologies & Fellow, Qinetiq

16:15
FINANCE PANEL: Transforming the bottom line through Deep Tech

Chair: Colin Bell, CEO, HSBC Bank plc and HSBC Europe
Alexandra Mousavizadeh, CEO, Evident 
Sholthana Begum, Head of Data, Financial Conduct Authority
Ramy Shelbaya, CEO & Co-Founder, Quantum Dice
Jeff Roney, Founder & CEO, Castle Shield

17:00 - 17:25
Coffee Break

17:25
FIRESIDE CHAT: Correlation and causation in Quantum & AI

Jon Hammant, Specialist Lead UK & Ireland, AWS
Roman Orus, Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing 

17:45
FIRESIDE CHAT: Quantum & AI, parallel workings

Elica Kyoseva, Director of Quantum Algorithm Engineering, Nvidia
Malak Trabelsi Loeb, Founder, Quantum Innovation Summit, Dubai

18:05
Closing Remarks

18:10
DRINKS RECEPTION
Quantum and NATO: Rising to the Challenge

Matija Matoković, Deputy Head, NATO Innovation Unit

19:45-22:00
INVITATION-ONLY DINNER
Deep Tech’s Impact on Healthcare, today and tomorrow

Dame Anne Richards DBE, Vice Chair, Fidelity International, in conversation with Kasim Kutay, CEO of Novo Holdings, the holding company for Novo Nordisk & Novozymes, on Quantum & AI’s transformation of healthcare

For more information, please send an email to Karina Robinson.

Hear from scientist & Lord Mayor of the City of London Michael Mainelli here.