Q2B Speakers

Tuesday, December 8th

Eric Schmidt

Former CEO and Chairman, Google; Co-founder, Schmidt Futures

Kia Kokalitcheva

Silicon Valley and Tech Reporter

Axios

Bob Sorensen

Chief Analyst for Quantum Computing

Hyperion Research, LLC

Matt Langione

Principal

Boston Consulting Group

Zaira Nazario

Senior Product Manager – Tech

IBM

Ryan Babbush

Head of Quantum Algorithms

Google

Adam Bouland

Technical Advisor, Postdoctoral Researcher

QC Ware, UC Berkeley

Matt Johnson

CEO

QC Ware Corp.

Dr. Christopher Savoie

Founder/CEO

Zapata Computing

Andrew Childs

Professor and Co-Director

Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, University of Maryland

Brian Neyenhuis

Senior R&D Manager

Honeywell Quantum Solutions

Yianni Gamvros

Head of Business Development

QC Ware Corp.

Thomas d'Halluin

Managing Partner

Airbus Ventures

Tomer Diari

Vice President

Bessemer Venture Partners

Andrew Schoen

Principal

NEA

Margaret Wu

Lead Investor

Georgian

Denise Ruffner

Vice President of Business Development

IonQ

Patty Lee

Chief Scientist

Honeywell Quantum Solutions

Jessica Pointing

PhD Student in Physics

University of Oxford

Sophia Chen

Journalist and Science Writer

Faye Wattleton

Co-founder

EeroQ

Kate Weber

Policy Lead for Quantum, Robotics, and Fundamental Research

Google

Jean-Francois Bobier

Partner & Associate Director

Boston Consulting Group

Michael Marthaler

Managing Director

HQS Quantum Simulations GmbH

Dean Takahashi

Lead Writer for GamesBeat

VentureBeat

Christopher Cantwell

CEO

Quantum Realm Games

James Wootton

Qubit Wrangler

IBM Quantum

Prof. Sabrina Maniscalco

Professor, CEO

University of Helsinki , Aalto University , Algorithmiq Ltd

Fabio Sanches

Quantum Computing Services Lead

QC Ware Corp.

Sean J. Weinberg

Quantum Engineer

QC Ware Corp.

Natalie Parham

Quantum Engineer

QC Ware Corp.

Blake Johnson

Control Systems Tech Lead, IBM Quantum

IBM

Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

Associate Director of Quantum AI

Zapata Computing

Wojciech Burkot

Co-Founder, Chief Physics Officer

BEIT

Jules Tilly

Research Scientist

Rahko

Jungsang Kim

CTO & Co-Founder

IonQ

Chris Monroe

Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

IonQ

Alan Ho

Head of Product – Google Quantum AI

Google

Catherine McGeoch

Senior Scientist

D-Wave

Katie Pizzolato

Director, IBM Quantum Strategy and Applications Research

IBM

Bryan Walsh

Future Correspondent

Axios

Ross Duncan

Head of Quantum Software

Cambridge Quantum Computing

Jason Palmer

Host, “The Intelligence” podcast

The Economist

Alexander Condello

Manager, Applications Development Technologies and Tools

D-Wave Systems

Stefan Wernli

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Mark Daly

Associate, Digital Industry

BloombergNEF

Julie Love

Senior Director, Quantum Computing

Microsoft

Wednesday, December 9th

John Preskill

Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Caltech, and Amazon Scholar, AWS Quantum Computing

AWS, Caltech

Jennifer Ouellette

Senior Reporter, Science and Culture

Ars Technica

Matthias Troyer

Distinguished Scientist

Microsoft

Matt Johnson

CEO

QC Ware Corp.

Peter Chapman

CEO & President

IonQ

Anthony Annunziata

Director of IBM Q Network

IBM

Alan Ho

Head of Product – Google Quantum AI

Google

Nadia Carlsten

Senior Product Manager, Quantum Computing

AWS

Ilyas Khan

Director/CEO

Cambridge Quantum Computing

Dr. Christopher Savoie

Founder/CEO

Zapata Computing

Zachary Vernon

Head of Hardware

Xanadu

Tony Uttley

President

Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS)

Jungsang Kim

CTO & Co-Founder

IonQ

Chris Monroe

Chief Scientist & Co-Founder

IonQ

Julian Kelly

Quantum Lead: System Control

Google

Yu Chen

Quantum Lead: Hardware Metrology

Google

Anthony Megrant

Quantum Lead: Devices

Google

Alan Baratz

President and CEO

D-Wave Systems

Annarita Giani

Senior Complex System Scientist

GE Research

Shreyas Ramesh

Senior Manager/Director, North America Quantum Systems Integration Lead, AI Leader, Inventor

Accenture

Thursday, December 10th

Grazia Vittadini

Chief Technology Officer

Airbus

Marc Fischer

Head of Flight Physics, Senior Vice President, Engineering

Airbus

Umesh Vazirani

Strauch Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley and Director of the Berkeley Quantum Information and Computation Center

University of California Berkeley

Scott Aaronson

David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Quantum Information Center

University of Texas at Austin

José Luis Pino

Principal Software Architect, Quantum Engineering Solutions

Keysight Technologies

Eric Holland

Quantum Physicist, Quantum Engineering Solutions

Keysight Technologies

Diego Risté

Quantum Physicist, Quantum Engineering Solutions

Keysight Technologies

Philip Krantz

Business Development Engineer, Quantum Engineering Solutions

Keysight Technologies

Pierre Desjardins

CEO & Co-founder

C12 Quantum Electronics

Matthieu Desjardins

CTO & Co-founder

C12 Quantum Electronics

Stefan Leichenauer

Research Scientist

X, the moonshot factory

Yudong Cao

CTO

Zapata Computing

Travis Scholten

Quantum Computing Applications Researcher

IBM Quantum

Tennin Yan

CEO

QunaSys, Inc.

Jeannette (Jamie) Garcia

Senior Manager of Quantum Algorithms, Applications and Theory

IBM

Ciaran Ryan-Anderson

Advanced Physicist

Honeywell Quantum Solutions (HQS)

Freeke Heijman

Founder and Director

Quantum Delta Netherlands

Brian Martin

Head of AI, Research Fellow, R&D Information Research

AbbVie

John Wise

Business Development Consultant

Pistoia Alliance

Celia Merzbacher

QED-C Deputy Director

SRI International

Alex Knapp

Senior Editor, Science & Healthcare

Forbes

Martin Strahm

Head of Data Science (pRED)

Roche Innovation Center Basel

Emir Roach

Head of Emerging Technologies and Data

Takeda Pharmaceuticals

Govinda Bhisetti

Principal Investigator & Head of Computational Chemistry

Biogen

Benno Broer

CEO

Qu&Co

Carl Dukatz

Principal Director

Accenture

Mark Fingerhuth

Co-Founder and Head of R&D

ProteinQure

Hans Melo

CEO

Menten AI, Inc.

Richard Waters

West Coast Editor

Financial Times

Joydip Ghosh

Quantum Computing Project Lead

Research & Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Co.

Will Zeng, PhD

Head of Quantum Research

Goldman Sachs

Dr. Andrea Cadarso Robolledo

Team Lead of Quantitative & Business Solutions in Global Markets, Mexico

BBVA Mexico

Carlos Kuchkovsky Jimenez

Global Head of Research and Patent Office Board Member: Alastria, INATBA and Strategy Advisory Board EU Quantum

BBVA Mexico

Escolástico Sánchez

Research & Patents – Discipline Leader

BBVA Mexico

Oliver Wick

Technology Scouting

BMW

Florian Neukart

Director, Volkswagen Group Data Lab

Volkswagen

Jay Lowell

DC&N Chief Engineer and Quantum Portfolio Manager

Boeing

Thomas Ohki

Lead Scientist

Raytheon Technologies

Thierry Botter

Head of Airbus Blue Sky

Airbus

Clara Moskowitz

Senior Editor

Scientific American

Christian Gogolin

Expert for Advanced Concepts in Computational Chemistry and Quantum Computing

Covestro Deutschland AG

Qi Gao

Principal Scientist, Materials Design Laboratory

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Science & Innovation Center

Dr. Thomas Eckl

Chief Expert

Robert Bosch GmbH

Amy Herhold

Director, Physics and Mathematical Sciences, Corporate Strategic Research

ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company

Richard Debney

Technology Director

British Petroleum

Clena Abuan

Senior Technology Associate

British Petroleum

Corneliu Buda

Molecular Modeling Research Scientist

British Petroleum

Jhonathan Romero Fontalvo

Quantum Research Scientist

Zapata Computing

Takanori Ide

Chief Researcher

AISIN Group

Alexey Gorshkov

JQI Fellow, QuICS Fellow

NIST, University of Maryland

Stefan Woerner

Quantum Applications Research & Software Lead

IBM Quantum

Eleanor G. Rieffel

Senior Research Scientist and QuAIL Lead

NASA

Patrick Coles

Staff Scientist

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Sonika Johri

Senior Quantum Applications Research Scientist

IonQ

Iordanis Kerenidis

Head of Quantum Algorithms, International

QC Ware

Gavin Jones

Manager, Quantum Applications

IBM Quantum

Zhang Jiang

Research Scientist

Google

Nick Rubin

Research Scientist

Google

Bob Coecke

Professor, Senior Scientific Advisor

University of Oxford, Cambridge Quantum Computing

Frederic Lardinois

Writer and News Editor

TechCrunch

Pascal Maillot

Deputy Head of Unit HPC and Quantum Technologies Unit

European Commission

Thomas F. Russell

Senior Technical Advisor

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science

Dr. Michael Hayduk

Deputy Director, Information Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Brigadier General Heather L. Pringle

Commander

Air Force Research Laboratory

Mr. Jack L. Blackhurst

Executive Director

Air Force Research Laboratory

Carl Williams

Deputy Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory

NIST

Tommasso Calarco

Director, Institute of Quantum Control

Peter Grünberg Institut

Dr. Kohei Itoh

Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology; Program Director, Quantum Information Technology, MEXT Quantum Leap Flagship Program

Keio University

Dr. Koji Yasui

Senior Chief Technologist, Sub Program Director of SIP, Cabinet Office/MEXT/QST