2025 Speakers
Meet the speakers who made Quantum World Congress 2025 a resounding success, below.
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Zulfi Alam
Corporate Vice President
Microsoft Quantum
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Petra Andren
CEO
Quantum Australia
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Dr. Seung-Wook Baek
Director, Division of Quantum Technology
National Research Foundation of Korea
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Dr. Jonathan Bagger
CEO
American Physical Society
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Naftali Bennett
Former Israeli Prime Minister
Board Member, Quantum Source
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Dr. David Berkowitz
Assistant Director for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
National Science Foundation
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Dr. Adam Black
Section Head, Quantum Optics
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
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Dr. Steve Brierley
Founder & CEO
Riverlane
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Dr. Gretchen Campbell
Associate Vice President for Quantum Research and Education
University of Maryland
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Ana Maria Cetto
Research Professor, Institute of Physics
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
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Martin Charbonneau
Head of Quantum-Safe Networks
Nokia
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Dr. Charles Day
Senior Editor
Physics Magazine
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Niccolo de Masi
Chairman & CEO
IonQ
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Donna Dodson
Cybersecurity Technologist and Senior Strategic Advisor
EvolutionQ
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Dr. Marcus Doherty
Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer
Quantum Brilliance
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Dr. JD Dulny
Vice President and Head of Quantum Information Sciences
Booz Allen
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Preston Dunlap
Founder and CEO
Arkenstone Ventures
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Dr. Andrew Dzurak
CEO & Founder
Diraq
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Kinsey Fabrizio
President
Consumer Technology Association
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Dr. Jake Farinholt
Senior Quantum Physicist
Booz Allen
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Elana Fine
Chair of the Board
Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation
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Dr. Jay Gambetta
IBM Fellow and VP
IBM Quantum
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Dr. Erwin Gianchandani
Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships
National Science Foundation
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Dr. Joseph Hagmann
Quantum Physicist
MITRE
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Dr. Michael Hayduk
Deputy Director
Air Force Research Lab
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Rajeeb Hazra
President & CEO
Quantinuum
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Freeke Heijman
Vice President
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)
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Dr. Masahiro Horibe
Deputy Director
G-QuAT
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Dr. Travis Humble
Director of Quantum Science Center
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Dr. Said Jahanmir
Executive Secretary, Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing
National Science and Technology Council
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Dr. Lara Jehi
Chief Research Information Officer
Cleveland Clinic
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Jennifer Jones
CEO
Howard County Economic Development Authority
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Outi Keski-Äijö
Head of Quantum Computing Campaign
Business Finland
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Matthew Kinsella
CEO
Infleqtion
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Kaniah Konkoly-Thege
Chief Legal Officer, SVP Government Relations
Quantinuum
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Michael Kratsios*
President's Science and Technology Advisor
Office of Science and Technology Policy, the White House
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Dr. James Kushmerick
Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Ambassador Vinay Kwatra
Ambassador of India to the United States
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Lisa Lambert
CEO
Quantum Industry Canada
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Edy Liongosari
Chief Research Scientist
Accenture
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Paul Lipman
Chief Strategy Officer
Infleqtion
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Dr. Jay Lowell
Principal Senior Technical Fellow, Chief Scientist for Boeing Disruptive Computing and Networks
The Boeing Company
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Dr. Andre Marshall
Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact
George Mason University
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Pritha Mehra
Chief Information Officer & Executive Vice President
United States Postal Service
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Oded Melamed
CEO
Quantum Source
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Dr. Celia Merzbacher
Executive Director
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
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Governor Wes Moore
Governor of Maryland
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Dr. MICHELE MOSCA
Co-Founder, President & CEO
EvolutionQ
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Rima Oueid
Senior Commercialization Executive
Department of Energy
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Dr. Darryll Pines
President
University of Maryland
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Curtis Priem
Co-Founder & Inventor
NVIDIA
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Governor JB Pritzker
Governor of Illinois
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Anthony Pugliese
Chief Commercial Officer & Director
Office of Technology Commercialization, US Department of Energy
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Minister Sakari Puisto
Minister of Economic Affairs Finland
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James Quigley
Commissioner & Chairman of the Board
Fairfax County Economic Development Agency
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Buddy Rizer
Ecxecutive Director
Loudoun County Economic Development Authority
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Dr. Michael Rosenblatt
Director of the Federal Science and Technology Policy Directorate and National Quantum Strategy (NQS) Secretariat
Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada
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Dr. Robert Rudnitsky
Division Chief, Strategy and Planning, Office of Advanced Manufacturing
National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Pallabi Saboo
Founder, Harmonia Holdings Group
Trustee, Connected DMV
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Ambassador Jarmo Sareva
Consul General, Ambassador
Consulate General of Finland in New York
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Dr. Shintaro Sato
Fellow, Head of Quantum Laboratory
Fujitsu Research
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Dr. Martin Schmidt
President
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Sean Silbert
Senior Advisor, Innovation, Technology & Science
Embassy of the Kingdon of the Netherlands
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Stu Solomon
Chair
Connected DMV
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Paul Stimers
Partner
Holland & Knight
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Ebony Stocks
Interim President & CEO
Prince George's Economic Development Corporation
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Dr. Bob Sutor
CEO & Founder
Sutor Group
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Dr. Charles Tahan
Partner
Microsoft Quantum
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Paul Terry
CEO
Photonic
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George Thomas
President & CEO
Connected DMV
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Don Upson
Founder & Chairman
Government Business Executive Forum
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Bill Vass
Chief Technology Officer
Booz Allen
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Dr. Yaakov Weinstein
Chief Scientist, Quantum Technologies
MITRE
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Dr. CARL WILLIAMS
CEO
CJW Quantum Consulting
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Jason Zander
Executive Vice President
Microsoft
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Dr. Michael Descour
Senior Manager
Sandia Labs
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Jeff McKay
Chairman
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
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Dr. Dustin Moody
Researcher/Mathematician
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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Dan Storck
Supervisor
Fairfax County Board of Supervisors
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Dr. Sristy Agrawal
CEO & Co-Founder
Mesa Quantum
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Rima Alameddine
Chief Revenue Officer
IonQ
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Dr. Ona Ambrozaite
US East Coast Director
UK Science & Technology Network
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Faiyaz Amin
Quantum Policy Lead
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT)UK Embassy
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Dr. Boulat Bash
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Arizona
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Dr. Felix Beaudoin
CEO
Nanoacademic Technologies
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Ivana Bertozzi
Principle, Brand and Content Strategy
Across the Pond
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Charles Beyrouthy
Managing Partner & Founder
Forma Prime
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Ditte Bjerregaard
Deputy Tech Ambassador
Embassy of Denmark
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Dr. Brad Blakestad
Director
National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO)
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Yuval Boger
Chief Commercial Officer
QuEra Computing Inc.
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Sameer Boray
Senior Policy Manager - Trust, Data and Technology
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
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Charlie Brock
CEO
Chattanooga Quantum Collaborative
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Troy Campbell
Principal Technology Leader - Emerging and Transformational Initiatives
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Dr. Rickey Carter
Faculty
Mayo Clinic
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Ben Castanon
COO
Unitary Foundation
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Kerry Chin
Principal Investor
Booz Allen Ventures
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Dr. Justin Cohen
Program Manager, Microsystems Technology Office
DARPA
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Dr. Emily Conover
Senior Writer, Physics
Science News
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Jim Cook
Chair, Center for Responsible Quantum and AI
Connected DMV
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Michael Cubeddu
Co-Founder; VP of R&D
Aliro Quantum
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Lloyd Dabbs
Director, Public Sector Business Development
SandboxAQ
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Dr. Kaushik Datta
Quantum Research Lead
Noblis
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Royal Aubrey Davis III
Assistant Professor of Law and Emerging Technology
U.S. Air Force Academy
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Barak Dayan
Chief Scientist, Quantum Source
Head of the Quantum Optics Group, Weizmann Institute
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Greg Dick
CEO
Open Quantum Design
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Carl Dukatz
Global Lead of Quantum Program
Accenture
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Troy Dunn
Member of the Board
Quanta Standard
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Bernard Duval
CEO
Numana
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Dr. Michael Eggleston
Research Group Leader
Bell Labs
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Adriane Fang
Associate Professor of Dance
University of Maryland
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Mael Flament
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Qunnect
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Jouni Flyktman
Vice President, Defense and Security
IQM Quantum Computers
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Alexandra Fuentes
Senior Manager, STEAM & Computer Science
Fairfax County Public Schools
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Dr. Erik Garcell
Director of Quantum Enterprise Development, North America
Classiq Technologies
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Rebekka Garreis
Quantum Ecosystem Coordinator
Swiss Quantum Initiative
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Bill Genovese
Global Quantum Consulting Lead
Kyndryl
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Richard Givhan
Co-Founder & CEO
Haiqu
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Dr. Shaun Gleason
Director, Partnerships
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Dr. Jan Goetz
CEO & Co-Founder
IQM Quantum Computers
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Dr. Joonas Govenius
CEO
Arctic Instruments
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Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern
Fellow, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
University of Maryland
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Esther Han
Professional Services Consultant
Deloitte
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Dr. Nicholas Harrigan
Quantum Computing
NVIDIA
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Ryan Harring
Director, Partnerships & Alliances
IonQ
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Dr. Erik Hieta-Aho
Senior Scientist
VTT
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Dr. Jesse Holmes
Principal Nuclear Engineer & Physicist
Naval Nuclear Lab
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Dr. Michael Howard
Chair
World Energy Council
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Dr. Jianying Hu
IBM Fellow & Global Science Leader of AI for Health
IBM
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Dr. Justin Huneault
Cryogenics Team Lead
Anyon Systems
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Matt Jaksic
VP, Sales and Partnerships
EvolutionQ
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Dr. Yoann Jestin
CEO
Ki3 Photonics
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Johna Till Johnson
CEO and Founder
Nemertes Research
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Dr. No-Weon Kang
Director, Policy & Technology Services
Korea Research Insitute of Standards and Science (KRISS)
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Dr. Hannu Kauppinen
Co-Founder & CEO
QMill
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Craig Kier
Director, Arts for All
University of Maryland
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Dr. Brad Kim
Chief Quantum Officer
MegazoneCloud
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Dr. Andrew King
Senior Distinquished Scientist
D-Wave
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Natasha Kovacs
Director of Corporate Strategy
SDT, Inc.
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Ethan Krimins
CEO
Quantum Research Sciences
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Dr. Valtteri Lahtinen
Co-Founder & Chief Scientist
Quanscient
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Ryan Lafler
President & CTO
Quantum Corridor
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Gwen Leifer
Senior Quantum Systems Engineer
Lockheed Martin
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Katie Levkoff
Senior Manager of Engagement
South Carolina Quantum
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John Levy
Co-Founder & CEO
SEEQC
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Dana Linnet
Chief Strategy Advisor
Artificial Brain
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Dr. Anjul Loiacono
Chief Commercial Officer
Elevate Quantum
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Dr. Jie (Roger) Luo
President & Founder
Anyon Computing
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Dr. Jayson Lynch
Research Scientist, Future Tech Lab
MIT
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Dr. Himadri Majumdar
CEO
SemiQon
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Tasia Malakasis
CEO
The Company Lab
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Dr. John Malcomb
Chief Technical Product Officer
Multiverse Computing
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Denis Mandich
CTO
Qrypt
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Luke Mauritsen
Founder & CEO
Quantum Strategix
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Farai Mazhandu
Founder
Africa Quantum Consortium
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Ryan McKenney
Director of Government Relations and General Counsel of Compliance
Quantinuum
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Dr. Kenneth Merz
Principal Investigator
Cleveland Clinic
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Dr. Carl Miller
Co-Director, Joint Center for Quantum Information & Computer Science; Mathematician
University of Maryland & NIST
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John Miller
Senior Vice President of Policy for Trust, Data, and Technology & General Counsel
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
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Zia Mohammad
Senior Technical Product Manager
Amazon Web Services
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Dr. Masoud Mohseni
Cofounder and Head of Emergent Machine Intelligence
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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Harvey Morrison
Co-Founder & CEO
Marion Square
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Dr. Rick Mukherjee
Director, Chattanooga Quantum Center
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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Lalitha Nallamothula
Founder
QuantumAstra
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Terje Nilsen
Director, Disruptive Technologies
Kongsberg Discovery
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Ross Nodurft
Executive Director
Alliance for Digital Innovation
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Mikko Nurminem
Chief Sales Officer
Bluefors
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Simon Patkovic
Vice President, Quantum Safe Solutions
ID Quantique
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Fabijan Pavosevic
Principal Quantum Chemist
Algorthmiq
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Heling (Alex) Pu
Business Development Lead
Quantum Bridge Technologies
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Aravind Ratnam
Chief Strategy Officer
Q-CTRL
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Janet Rehberg
President, Strategic Services
EPB
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Dr. Jeremy Renshaw
Executive Director - AI & Quantum
EPRI
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Dr. Kristine Rezai
Technical Presales Engineer
IQM Quantum Computers
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Charles Robinson
Public Sector Leader
IBM Quantum
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Dr. Jessica Rosenberg
Director of Education, Quantum Materials Center & Professor of Phyics and Astronomy
George Mason University
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Anurag Saha Roy
Chief Product Officer
Qruise
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Dr. Alan Salari
Founder
Quaxys
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Dr. John Sawyer
Executive Director
Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance
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Dr. Travis Scholten
Technical Lead, Public Sector
IBM
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Tom Scott
Interim Deputy Head, Office for Quantum
Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, UK Quantum
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Alex Shih
VP of Product
Q-CTRL
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Patrick Shore
Director of Strategy, Government
QuSecure
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Dr. Manish Singh
Co-Founder & CEO
MemQ
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Dr. Joe Spencer
Key Account Manager
GQI
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Ben Stein
Managing Editor, Public Affairs
NIST
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Michael Tarino
Founder & CEO
Stealth Mode Startup
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Tom Touchet
CEO
Smart City Media
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Dr. Matthias Troyer
Corporate Vice President, Technical Fellow
Microsoft Quantum
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Anjolie Tuazon
Founder
Q^3 Initiative
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Dr. Constanza Vidal Bustamante
Fellow, Technology and National Security
Center for New American Studies (CNAS)
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Dr. Kate Weber
Head of Governance and External Affairs
Google Quantum AI
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Nick Werstiuk
CEO
Quantum Valley Ideas Lab
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Leopold Wildenauer
Policy Director of Federal Cybersecurity, Supply Chain, and Emerging Tech
Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)
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Jon Wingborg
Project Manager
Chalmers Industriteknik
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Charles Wood
President & CEO
Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce
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Leonard Woody
Senior Director, Customer Success
IonQ
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Dan Woolley
Managing Director and Founder
Ponderosa Management Group
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David Yiptong
Manager
QAI Accelerator at the University of Calvary
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Gavin Brown
CEO
Dynamic Predictive Engineering
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Lincoln Carr
Professor
Colorado School of Mines
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Dave Diaz
Senior Business Development Officer
Loudoun Economic Development
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Doug Finke
Chief Content Officer
GQI
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Jaegyoon Hahm
KISTI
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Kayla Lee
Global Lead, IBM Quantum Ecosystem Growth
IBM
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Jasmine Schlichting
Head of Quantum, Go To Market
Keysight Technologies
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Emily Violi
Program Manager, Quantum Legal & Policy
Microsoft