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Speakers

Optica 2026 Quantum Industry Summit - Fifth Edition

16 - 17 June 2026

Scottish Events Campus
Glasgow, UNITED KINGDOM

Stay tuned! Further speakers will be announced soon!

Mihir Bhaskar

IonQ | Senior Vice-President R&D

Elizabeth Iwasawa

Leidos | Director, Quantum Technologies

Rafal Janik

Xanadu | Chief Operating Officer

Jonathan Matthews

PsiQuantum | Director of New Technologies

Andrew Shields

Toshiba Europe | Vice President & Head of Quantum Technology

Russell Stutz

Quantinuum, Sr Director, Product Technologies

Carlos Abellan

QuSide | Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Costantino Agnesi

ThinkQuantum, Co-Founder, Scientist & Product Development

Cesare Alfieri

FEMTOprint SA | Prototyping Manager & Business Developer Quantum

Kasia Balakier (TBC)

European Space Agency (ESA) | Optical & Quantum Communication Technology Manager

Milan Begliarbekov

QCi | Chief Operating Officer

Sebastian Blatt

planqc | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Tom Darras

Weling, CEO and Co-Founder

Timothy Day

Monarch Quantum | Chief Executive Officer & Chairman

Scott Dufferwiel

aegiq | Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Hagai Eizenberg

HEQA Security | Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer

Maël Flament

Qunnect | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Jonas Heidrich

Menhir Photonics | Product Line Manager

Alexander Jantzen

Aquark Technologies | Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Kris Kaczmarek

QDNL Participations | Investment Director

Gordon Keeler

Beacon Photonics | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Claire Le Gall

Nu Quantum | VP of Technology

Gianvito Lucivero

QSENSATO | Chief Executive Officer & Founder

Robert McDougall

Slingsby Partners LLP | Director

Loyd McKnight

Fraunhofer CAP | Head of Centre

Emily Meads

Quantonation | Investment Principal

Alejandro Montblanch

HSBC | Quantum-safe Migration Lead

Mohssen Moridi

Silicon Austria Labs | Executive Senior Director

Pete Mosley

ORCA Computing | Chief Research Officer

Chris Myatt

QPICs Inc. | Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Michele Natrella

Lumino Technologies | Head of Research & Development

Jose Pozo

Optica, CTO

Sujatha Ramanujan

NextCorps | Chief Investment Officer, Luminate | Managing Director

Vikas Remesh

Sparrow Quantum | Senior Scientist Lead

Stephan Ritter

TOPTICA Photonics AG | Senior Director, Quantum Technology Solutions

Döndü Sahin-Boardman

Boeing | Technical Lead, Research & Technology

Ofer Shapiro

Quantum Pulse Ventures, CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder

Sean Sullivan

memQ Inc. | Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Philipp Vorreau

indie Photonics Solutions | VP & General Manager SLEDs

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