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18:00 

Optional Welcome Reception

Welcome Reception joint with Quantum 2.0

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Events & Presenters

Venue

8:00-9:00

Networking Breakfast

 Scottish Events Campus
 Glasgow, UK

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Speakers

Job title & Affiliation

9:00-9:15
 

 Welcome & Opening  Remarks

• Jose Pozo
   

• Chief Technology Officer, Optica

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Speakers

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9:15-10:00
 

Joint Keynote Session 

• Andrew Shields
   

• Vice President, Tobshiba Europe Ltd

As quantum technologies mature, understanding the needs and priorities of end users is essential for guiding innovation and adoption. This session brings together industry leaders to share how they are approaching quantum from an operational and strategic standpoint.

Speakers will discuss real-world requirements for quantum computing, communications, and sensing across aerospace, telecommunications, and enterprise networks. The panel will explore how end users evaluate emerging solutions, balance performance with integration challenges, and work with technology providers to align roadmaps. Attendees will gain valuable insight into the business drivers, application opportunities, and procurement considerations shaping the demand side of the quantum ecosystem.

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Events & Presenters

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Keynote
 

• Elizabeth Iwasawa
  
  
   

• Director of Quantum Technologies, Sr Principal Scientist, Technical Fellow, Leidos
   

• Döndü Sahin

• Technical Lead, Boeing

• Alejandro Montblanch

• Quantum-safe Migration Lead, HSBC

12:00-13:15

Lunch

Networking

Photons offer unique advantages as qubits—low noise, room-temperature operation, and the ability to travel long distances—making them a compelling platform for scalable quantum computing. This session gathers industry leaders to discuss the latest breakthroughs and roadmaps in photonic quantum technologies.

Speakers will explore advances in single-photon sources, integrated photonic circuits, and error correction strategies, as well as progress toward full-stack photonic quantum systems. The session will also address commercialization pathways, from cloud-based quantum access to industry-specific applications, and examine how photonic platforms can integrate with other quantum technologies. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of where photonic quantum computing stands today, the engineering challenges ahead, and the opportunities for early adopters.

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Events & Presenters

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13:15-15:00

Speakers

• Rafal Janik
   

• Chief Operating Officer, Xanadu
   

• Peter Mosely
   

• Chief Research Officer, ORCA Computing

• Scott Dufferwiel

• Chief Executive Officer, Aegiq

• Ofer Shapiro

• Chief Executive Officer, Quantum Pulse Ventures

• Jonathan Matthews

• Director of New Technologies, PsiQuantum

Behind every quantum breakthrough lies a suite of enabling technologies that make it possible to prepare, manipulate, and measure quantum states with precision. This session brings together innovators to showcase the critical components and tools driving progress across the quantum ecosystem.

Speakers will discuss advances in single-photon sources, ultra-low-noise detectors, time-tagging electronics, quantum-safe cryptography, and laser-based nanofabrication. The panel will explore how these technologies integrate into diverse quantum platforms—from photonics and trapped ions to superconductors—and the role of supply chain collaboration in scaling quantum solutions. Attendees will come away with a deeper appreciation of the often-unseen innovations that underpin quantum research, development, and commercialization.

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Events & Presenters

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15:45-17:15

Speakers

• Timothy Day
   

• Chief Executive Officer, Monarch Quantum

• Gordon Keeler

• Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Beacon Photonics

• Philipp Vorreau
   

• VP & General Manager SLEDs, Photonics Division, Indie

• Jonas Heidrich
   

• Product Line Manager, Menhir Photonics

• Vikas Remesh
  
   

• Senior Scientist Lead, Sparrow Quantum
   

As quantum technologies move closer to commercial reality, intellectual property (IP) and investment strategy are becoming tightly intertwined. This session will open with an expert overview of the IP landscape—covering patent strategies, freedom to operate, licensing models, and how companies can protect and position their innovations in a rapidly evolving field.

The session will then transition into a panel discussion featuring investors and industry leaders, focusing on how capital is being deployed across the quantum landscape. Panelists will explore what investors look for in quantum technologies today—from technical differentiation and scalability to timelines, market readiness, and team execution—and how these factors shape funding decisions and company valuations. The discussion will also examine ecosystem positioning, partnerships, and pathways to commercialization, offering insight into how investors are navigating risk, identifying opportunities, and supporting the transition of quantum technologies from research to viable businesses.

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17:15-18:45

Speakers

• Robert McDougall

• Director, Slingsby Partners

• Valentino Jadriško

• Investor, Constructor Capital

• Sujatha Ramanujan
   

• Chief Investment Officer, NextCorps & Managing Director at Luminate Accelerator and Investment

• Emily Meads

• Investment Principal, Quantonation

• Hugh Bowen

• Investor and Portfolio Lead, SOSV

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8:15-9:00

Networking Breakfast

While photonic qubits are attracting significant attention, many of today’s most advanced quantum processors rely on non-photonic approaches - ranging from trapped ions and neutral atoms to superconducting circuits and novel emerging platforms. This session features experts representing these approaches to provide a comprehensive view of progress across these leading architectures.

Speakers will discuss recent advances in scaling qubit numbers, improving coherence times, enhancing gate fidelities, and integrating error correction. They will also examine how photonics—through optical control, readout, and long-distance entanglement distribution—is becoming an essential enabler for scaling these platforms beyond the confines of a single cryostat or vacuum chamber. This includes integrated photonic delivery of laser light for trapped ions and neutral atoms, and microwave-to-optical transduction for superconducting and emerging topological qubits.

9:00-10:15

Speakers

• Mihir Bhaskar

• SVP R&D, IonQ

• Sebastian Blatt

• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, planqc

• Russell Stutz
   

• Sr Director, Product Technologies, Quantinuum

Quantum sensing and timing are among the earliest quantum technologies to transition from the laboratory into real-world deployment, with applications spanning navigation, communications, defence, and critical infrastructure. This session brings together technology developers, system integrators, and enabling platform providers to explore how these systems are moving toward practical, scalable use.

Speakers will share insights across the value chain—from ultrastable laser systems and atomic platforms to integrated sensing architectures and advanced microfabrication techniques.

The discussion will examine the challenges of translating high-performance laboratory systems into robust, field-deployable technologies, including size, weight and power constraints, environmental stability, manufacturability, and system integration. Panelists will also explore the role of photonics in enabling next-generation quantum sensors and optical clocks, and how collaboration across the ecosystem is accelerating progress.

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11:00-12:15

Speakers

• Stephan Ritter
  
   

• Sr Director, Quantum Technology Solutions, TOPTICA

• Alexander Jantzen
   

• Founder & Chief Operating Officer, Aquark

• Gianvito Lucivero
   

• Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Qsensato

• Loyd McKnight
   

• Head of Centre, Fraunhofer CAP

• Cesare Alfieri

• Prototyping Manager & Business Developer Quantum, FemtoPRINT

As quantum technologies transition from lab prototypes to scalable products, both chip fabrication capabilities and advanced materials platforms are becoming critical enablers. This session brings together leading foundry and materials experts to share insights from the manufacturing front line.

Speakers will explore the challenges and opportunities in producing quantum-grade photonic, superconducting, and hybrid chips—highlighting how material choices such as superconductors, thin-film lithium niobate, silicon, and emerging platforms impact device performance, yield, and scalability. Topics will include process integration, defect control, yield optimization, packaging considerations, and supply chain readiness.

The panel will also examine how foundries are evolving to support new material stacks, and how closer collaboration between materials scientists, design teams, and fabrication partners can accelerate innovation and reduce time to scale.

Attendees will gain a rare, inside view of how materials and manufacturing together are shaping the next generation of quantum hardware.

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13:30 - 14:30

Speakers

• Mohssen Moridi
   

• Executive Senior Director, Silicon Austria Labs

• Milan Begliarbekov

• Chief Operating Officer, QCi Foundry

• Chris Myatt

• Founder & Chief Executive Officer, QPICs

• Daniel Brau

• Chief Executive Officer, Miraex

As quantum systems scale, the ability to connect, distribute, and store quantum information is becoming a defining challenge for the industry. This session brings together leading innovators working across quantum networking, memory, and interconnect technologies to explore how we move from isolated processors to connected quantum systems.

Speakers will share perspectives spanning entanglement distribution, quantum memories, photonic interconnects, and network architectures.

The session will explore the technical and system-level challenges of building scalable quantum networks, including loss, synchronisation, interfacing between platforms, and the integration of quantum memory with communication links. It will also examine how these technologies can enable distributed quantum computing, secure communications, and new classes of quantum-enabled infrastructure.

Attendees will gain insight into how the ecosystem is evolving from point-to-point demonstrations toward deployable quantum networking systems, and what is required to build reliable, scalable, and commercially viable quantum interconnects.

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 14:30-15:30

Speakers

• Mael Flament
   

• Chief Technology Officer, Qunnect

• Sean Sullivan
   

• Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, memQ Inc.

• Claire Le Gall
   

• VP of Technology, Nu Quantum

• Thomas Nieddu

• Senior Business Developer in Quantum Technologies

Quantum communications are evolving from terrestrial fiber-based quantum key distribution (QKD) networks toward satellite-enabled quantum links capable of global coverage. This session will explore how the field is progressing from metropolitan and long-haul fiber deployments to space-based infrastructure that can extend secure connectivity across continents and oceans.

Discussion will examine the technical and commercial realities of this transition — including fiber QKD architectures, trusted nodes, satellite QKD, ground-station integration, atmospheric transmission challenges, payload constraints, and interoperability between terrestrial and free-space links. Speakers will also address the performance trade-offs between fiber and satellite approaches, and what it takes to build reliable, scalable quantum communication networks.

Attendees will gain insight into how quantum communications are moving from regional fiber networks to hybrid terrestrial-space infrastructure, and what this shift means for long-term investment, partnerships, and deployment strategies.

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Events & Presenters

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 16:15-17:45 

Speakers

• Hagai Eizenberg
   

• Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, HEQA Security

• Kasia Balakier (TBC)

• Optical & Quantum Communication Technology Manager, ESA

• Carlos Abellan

• Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, QuSide

• Michele Natrella
   

• Head of Research & Development, Lumino Technologies

• Costantino Agnesi
   

• Co-Founder, Scientist & Product Development, ThinkQuantum

Closing Comments

 

• Jose Pozo

• Chief Technology Officer, Optica