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It was hands-down easily the best quantum conference I’ve been to. The calibre of the speakers was second-to-none and I’m honestly honoured to have been included in amongst such a prestigious line-up.
3rd annual Commercialising Quantum Global 2024
June 5th-6th 2024 | Convene 22 Bishopsgate, London UK
Thank you to our expert speakers, event sponsors, supporters and 783 attendees who made it such a fantastic event! We will be back in June next year.
Over one and half days, the summit featured 111 high-level speakers who shared their experiences and best practices in integrating quantum technology into their businesses. The 50+ sessions explored how organisations should prepare for quantum today and what services are available by the leading service providers.
More than 780 global leaders, policy makers and business executives participated from 33 countries in the Economist Impact’s Commercialising Quantum, held in London. The attendees had the opportunity to network with industry experts and explore potential collaborations and partnerships.
Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Danish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Former prime minister of Israel and board member, Quantum Source
Former prime minister of Israel and board member, Quantum Source
Naftali Bennett became Israel’s 13th Prime Minister in 2021, leading the most diverse government in the nation’s history. Prior to that, he served as Minister of Economy, Minister of Education and Minister of Defense, and is known for his innovations and bold reforms. Before moving into politics, Bennett enjoyed a successful career as a tech entrepreneur. In 1999, he co-founded information security company Cyota and served as CEO until the company was sold to RSA. In 2009, Bennett served as CEO of cloud computing start-up Soluto, which was later sold to Asurion.
Co-founder and venture partner, Amadeus Capital Partners
Co-founder and venture partner, Amadeus Capital Partners
Hermann co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, acquired by Cambridge Display Technology, Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has supported many other start-ups.
Hermann’s successes at Amadeus include CSR plc (LON: CSR); Entropic Research Laboratory, acquired by Microsoft in 1999; Solexa, acquired by Illumina in 2007 and Icera, acquired by Nvidia in 2011. He is currently a non-executive director of XMOS and is the Amadeus representative at Graphcore, the creators of the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor specifically designed for artificial intelligence.
Hermann holds an MA in physics from Vienna University and a doctorate in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an honorary fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough, Anglia Ruskin. Strathclyde, Glasgow and York and was awarded an honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001.
In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business and in 2013 a distinguished fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. In 2015 he was made an honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) for services to engineering and industry and was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Chief research information officer, The Cleveland Clinic
Chief research information officer, The Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Jehi is professor of neurology at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and an epilepsy specialist at Cleveland Clinic since 2006. She is Director of the Outcomes Research program for epilepsy, the Chief Research Information Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Health System, and the Executive Program lead for the Discovery Accelerator focused on artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and data science education.
She is currently spearheading multi-institutional National Institutes of Health-funded grants focused on data science. She has led teams that developed the first nomograms for individualized outcome prediction after epilepsy surgery, and advanced mechanistic understanding of outcomes. Her work was featured by Lancet Neurology in the Top 5 Innovations of 2015, and in the ‘Notables in Healthcare” Award by Crain’s Business in 2021. Her data-driven algorithms for clinical care decision-making are being used, studied and expanded worldwide. Dr. Jehi holds several research leadership roles at Cleveland Clinic. As co-director of Network Capacity for the Clinical and Translational Science Collaborative of Cleveland, her team facilitates multi-center clinical trials through streamlined recruitment efforts, using the electronic health record. She is the principal investigator of Cleveland Clinic’s Biorepository, a role leveraging information technology, enterprise analytics and regulatory support to efficiently scale up and incorporate biobanking efforts within clinical workflow. She is a vice-chair of Cleveland Clinic’s Institutional Review Board.
She chairs several key commissions in the International League Against Epilepsy and the American Epilepsy Society. She has more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, 12 book chapters and is a regular reviewer for NIH study sections, and an invited speaker to international meetings on the topics of epilepsy surgery, outcome prediction, and data science.
Dr. Jehi received her medical degree from American University of Beirut. She completed her residency in neurology and fellowship in clinical neurophysiology at Cleveland Clinic, and holds a Master’s degree in Health Care Delivery Science from Dartmouth College.
IBM fellow and vice-president, IBM Quantum
IBM fellow and vice-president, IBM Quantum
Dr. Gambetta was named as an IBM Fellow in 2018 for his scientific work on superconducting qubits, quantum validation techniques, implementation of quantum codes, improved gates and coherence, and near-term applications of quantum computing—in addition to establishing IBM’s quantum strategy.
Under his leadership, the IBM Quantum team has made a series of major breakthroughs in the quantum industry, starting with launching the IBM Quantum Experience – the world-first cloud-based quantum computing platform for users to access real quantum computers; the IBM Quantum team released Qiskit – an open source software development kit for developing quantum programs; and has deployed the IBM Quantum System One – a family of quantum processors for clients that now includes the 27 qubit Falcon and 65 qubit Hummingbird quantum processors.
IBM Quantum continues to expand in the market by providing 42 quantum systems opened for service over the cloud from anywhere in the world, building the foundations of the quantum industry with a community of partners advancing quantum science and applications.
Dr. Gambetta earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Griffith University in Australia. In 2014, he was named as a Fellow of the American Physical Society and has over 130 publications in the field of quantum information science with over 23000 citations.
Senior vice-president, Nat-Tech, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Senior vice-president, Nat-Tech, Novo Nordisk Foundation
Lene joined the Novo Nordisk Foundation in 2019 to lead activities in the Nat-Tech area covering the natural- and technical sciences, , this including activities relating to quantum technologies. She has a background as a Professor of physics, Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at Copenhagen University (~20 years).
Lene is a physicist, trained also in mathematics. She is an experimentalist and at the Niels Bohr Institute she constructed the first optical tweezers manipulation facility in Scandinavia – the importance of this technology being recognized by the Nobel Prize in 2018. In particular, she is an expert in the interphase between quantum and the life sciences and is key designer of the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme and of the Quantum Foundry. She has been the leader of several interdisciplinary large-scale research projects, including being center leader of a Grundforskningsfond Center of Excellence. She has received several research prizes, e.g., the Danish Optical Society prize for young investigators, the Silver Medal of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, and the Elite Research Prize from the Danish Research Councils, the largest Danish public research prize. Lene Oddershede is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, of the Danish Royal Academy of Sciences and Letters, and of the Global Future Council at the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Lene holds a doctorate in physics from SDU, Odense, Denmark 1998.
Global head and group vice-president, computational science and informatics R&D, Roche
Global head and group vice-president, computational science and informatics R&D, Roche
Christine Bakan is the global head and group vice-president of computational science & informatics R&D responsible for the research & development of AI/ML methods for genomic, digital imaging and protein biomarker based health diagnostics solutions at Roche. She has previously held senior leadership roles in R&D and product management of advanced data analytics software products in the high-tech industry.
Christine holds advanced degrees in computational data science from University of California at Berkeley, in business administration from Stanford University and undergraduate degrees in molecular biology and neuroscience from University of California at Berkeley.
Vice-president R&D, global head of digital & partnerships, Unilever
Vice-president R&D, global head of digital & partnerships, Unilever
Alberto is the Global Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships at Unilever. He leads the Digital Transformation of R&D to maximize the value of data and AI for scientific discovery, process engineering, and new business models. He also leads external ecosystem engagements to accelerate innovation through collaboration.
Prior to Unilever, Alberto set up and led the Digital Innovation Accelerator at Royal Philips to boost innovation and a culture of entrepreneurship. During that period, he chaired the AI Council, providing oversight and steer on company-wide AI-related investments in innovation. Previously, he led the innovation transformation program that delivered the first wave of Philips connected consumer products (IoT) and new business models.
Alberto started his professional career in management consulting, followed by executive roles at NEC, Symbian Software, and Nokia. He graduated in Engineering and Economics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) and holds an MBA from INSEAD (France).
Director of functional neuroimaging, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Director of functional neuroimaging, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)
Dr. Margot J. Taylor received her doctorate from McGill and in 1981 was recruited to The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Neurology as Director of Evoked Potential Labs. In this position, she established a wide range of clinical and research applications of evoked and event-related potentials in paediatrics. She moved to Toulouse, France in 1998 as Directeur de Recherche, CNRS. Dr. Taylor was recruited back to SickKids in 2004 as Director of Functional Neuroimaging in Diagnostic Imaging. Her research centres on the use of MEG, fMRI and MRI to understand the neural bases of cognitive development and includes typical developmental research and clinical populations, such very preterm-born children and young children through to adults with autism.
Senior vice-president, strategy and sustainability, secure power and data centres, Schneider Electric
Aparna Prabhakar is a seasoned senior business executive and change catalyst, specializing in crafting and implementing strategies for sustained growth.
In her current role as Senior Vice President at Schneider Electric, Aparna leads Strategy & Sustainability for Secure Power and Data Center, shaping the organization’s trajectory and defining its sustainability agenda for the long term.
Previously, Aparna drove the global IBM Quantum Computing ecosystem, pioneering market expansion, adoption, and business advancement in the dynamic world of cutting-edge technology. She orchestrated the development of the world’s largest quantum computing network, boasting over 200 partners. Drawing on her background in corporate strategy at IBM, she provided strategic counsel to C-suite leaders on AI, Quantum computing, High-performance computing systems, and Cloud Computing.
Aparna’s contributions to the electronics and infrastructure industry have earned her accolades, including her induction into the prestigious IBM Industry Academy in 2021, honoring her as one of the top 300 industry luminaries worldwide. She holds numerous patents and publications, has been lauded as one of IBM’s three most dynamic technical women, and has been honored with the Rising Technical Star Award by the Women of Color organization.
Aparna holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an MS from Louisiana State University. Committed to giving back, she dedicates her time as an advisory board member for the Guidance Center of Westchester, advocating for STEM opportunities for disadvantaged youth. Based in New York, she enjoys family time with her husband and two boys.
Chief technology officer, Boehringer Ingelheim
Chief technology officer, Boehringer Ingelheim
Clemens is the CTO and Chief Architect of Boehringer Ingelheim, a global, family owned, researching Pharmaceutical.
Deputy editor, The Economist
Deputy editor, The Economist
Tom Standage is deputy editor of The Economist and editor of The World Ahead, its future-gazing franchise. He also oversees the newspaper’s digital strategy and the development of new products. He joined The Economist as science correspondent in 1998 and was subsequently appointed technology editor, business editor and digital editor. He is the author of seven history books, including “Writing on the Wall” (2013), “The Victorian Internet” (1998) and the New York Times bestsellers “A History of the World in 6 Glasses” (2005) and “An Edible History of Humanity” (2009). His latest book, “A Brief History of Motion”, was published in 2021. Tom studied engineering and computer science at Oxford University and has written for other publications including the New York Times, the Guardian and Wired, taking a particular interest in technology’s social and historical impact.
Founder and chief executive, Q-CTRL
Founder and chief executive, Q-CTRL
Michael J. Biercuk is the founder and chief executive of Q-CTRL and a Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology at the University of Sydney where he also serves as Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. Through these roles he has become a globally recognized pioneer in the discipline of quantum control engineering, seeking to make quantum systems perform useful work. Michael earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters and PhD from Harvard University. He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder, and has served as a full-time technical consultant to DARPA, helping to steer government investments in quantum information and advanced computer architectures. Michael is a SXSW and TEDx speaking alumnus and has won multiple awards for research, innovation, and commercial technology development.
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It was hands-down easily the best quantum conference I’ve been to. The calibre of the speakers was second-to-none and I’m honestly honoured to have been included in amongst such a prestigious line-up.
The event was excellent, the agenda was jam-packed, a good mix of individual presentations, fireside chats and longer panel sessions. The networking breaks were great to re-energize and make new contacts.
We would like to express our gratitude for the exceptional organisation of the conference. The event was truly outstanding, and we would like to thank The Economist team for your tireless efforts in ensuring its success
Quantinuum is one of the world’s largest integrated quantum computing companies, formed by the combination of Honeywell Quantum Solutions’ world-leading hardware and Cambridge Quantum’s class-leading middleware and applications. Science-led and enterprise-driven, Quantinuum accelerates quantum computing and the development of applications across chemistry, cybersecurity, finance, and optimization. Its focus is to create scalable and commercial quantum solutions to solve the world’s most pressing problems in fields such as energy, logistics, climate change, and health. The company employs over 480 individuals, including 350 scientists, at nine sites across the United States, Europe, and Japan.
Pasqal is a deep-tech company at the forefront of full-stack quantum computing. Founded in 2019, Pasqal is built from a decade of countless achievements within the realm of quantum engineering. This has established its position as a leading manufacturer of quantum processors using ordered neutral atoms. Founded by Georges-Olivier Reymond with Alain Aspect, 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics; Christophe Jurczak; Antoine Browaeys and Thierry Lahaye, the company now works with 30 clients from across the globe such as BMW, Thales, Airbus, EDF, Siemens, and Johnson & Johnson.
Striving to bring practical quantum advantage to customers to address real-world problems, Pasqal, with now over €140 million in funding and over 250 employees around the globe, is aiming to change the world, one industry at a time.
Riverlane’s mission is to make quantum computing useful, sooner. This will transform the future of computing and start an era of human progress as significant as the digital and industrial revolutions. Achieving this requires a 10,000x reduction in the system errors that quickly overwhelm all quantum computers, today. Riverlane is building the quantum error correction (QEC) technology (the ‘QEC Stack’) that solves this problem in all types of quantum computer. The QEC Stack is powered by a new class of patented semiconductors designed and built by Riverlane.
Nu Quantum is building the quantum networking infrastructure essential to scaling quantum computers. Quantum computers must go from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of qubits in order to achieve transformational impacts. Our approach is to interconnect many smaller cores using a Quantum Networking Unit (QNU) capable of efficiently scaling discrete Quantum Processing Units (QPU) to form a larger and more useful quantum computer. We are creating full hardware solutions to create entangled qubit networks, including a unique high-speed computer network interface, photonic switching fabric, and control systems to build towards multi-core quantum supercomputers and quantum data centres. Partnering with leading quantum companies, governments and research groups, we are accelerating quantum out of the lab and into real world use.
Founded in 2018, Nu Quantum is a spin-out of the University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory. In November 2023, the company raised a £8.5M pre-series A round from main investors Amadeus Capital Partners, Expeditions Fund, and IQ Capital.
PQShield is shaping the way the digital world is protected against tomorrow’s threats. Our expertise, clarity, and care have enabled us to deliver new global standards alongside real-world, post-quantum hardware and software upgrades – modernizing the vital security systems and components of the world’s technology supply chain.
Q-CTRL is a global pioneer with unmatched commercial traction in the emerging quantum technology industry – a sector poised to transform everything from finance and pharma through to logistics and defense.
Q-CTRL is a category defining business leading the development of quantum infrastructure software, delivering globally unique technology to accelerate the pathway to the world’s first useful quantum computers. This same foundational technology also underpins Q-CTRL’s development of novel “software-defined” quantum sensors for defense and intelligence.
Deloitte provides industry-leading audit, consulting, tax and advisory services to many of the world’s most admired brands, including nearly 90% of the Fortune 500® and more than 8,500 U.S.-based private companies. We leverage our unique blend of business acumen, command of technology, and strategic technology alliances to advise our clients across industries as they build their future.
In an era in which business and technology are inseparable, the Deloitte Quantum Team brings a diverse and comprehensive understanding of quantum computing to the table. Comprised of a multidisciplinary and experienced skillset, we work to connect the capabilities of our ecosystem partners and academic institutions to help address the business problems of our clients in an evolving technology landscape.
The full potential of quantum computing will be unlocked with a large-scale computer capable of complex, error-corrected computations. Google Quantum AI’s mission is to build best-in-class quantum computing for otherwise impossible problems. Our roadmap is focused on advancing the capabilities of quantum computing and enabling meaningful applications.
QuEra Computing is the leader in commercialising quantum computers using neutral atoms, which is widely recognised as a highly promising quantum modality. Based in Boston and built on pioneering research from nearby Harvard University and MIT, QuEra operates the world’s largest publicly accessible quantum computer, available over a major public cloud and for on-premises delivery. QuEra is developing large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers to tackle classically intractable problems, becoming the partner of choice in the quantum field.
PsiQuantum is a quantum computing company, founded in 2015 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The company’s only mission is to build and deploy the world’s first useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer. Many teams around the world today have demonstrated prototype quantum computing systems, but it is widely accepted that much larger systems are necessary in order to unlock transformational applications across drug discovery, climate technologies, finance, transportation, security & defense and beyond. PsiQuantum’s photonic approach enables rapid scaling via direct leverage of high-volume semiconductor manufacturing and cryogenic infrastructure. The company is partnered with the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University and Sci-Tech Daresbury in the United Kingdom.
Learn more at www.psiquantum.com.
The Quantum Communications Hub aims to deliver future-proof, practical, secure communications with commercialisation potential, by developing existing prototype quantum secure technologies beyond their current limitations; to thus contribute to the establishment of quantum communications technology industries in the UK; and to feed their future expansion, competitiveness, diversification and sustainability. The Hub is funded through the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme.
To find out more visit: https://www.quantumcommshub.net/
ORCA Computing, headquartered in London, UK with offices in the United States and Canada, is a leading developer and provider of full-stack photonic quantum computing systems. Established in 2019 and originating from the University of Oxford, the company provides an innovative approach to delivering quantum capabilities. Anchored in a modular optical fiber-based architecture, ORCA’s proprietary methods of manipulating the time, frequency and switching of single photons paves the way for quantum computing using significantly fewer components. ORCA Computing has successfully delivered numerous on-premises quantum computers to leading customers including the UK Ministry of Defence and the Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center.
Founded in 2020, Quantum Dice is an award-winning spinout from the University of Oxford’s world-renowned quantum optics laboratory.
Quantum Dice offers a Quantum Random Number Generator product-set that is capable of market-leading generation rates as well as live continuous quantum entropy verification. Its technology can be used for cybersecurity applications as well as enhancing stochastic modelling.
Its mission is to provide trusted and secure randomness leveraging the unique properties of quantum systems along with its patented DISCTM protocol.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Denmark is a globally operating organisation. We work for Denmark’s interests and values in relation to the surrounding world in a manner that furthers the freedom, security and welfare of Danes in a more peaceful and just world, with development and economic growth for all.
The NQCC is the UK’s national centre for quantum computing, dedicated to accelerating the development of quantum computing by addressing the challenges of scaling up the technology. The centre is working with businesses, government, and the research community to deliver quantum computing capabilities for the UK and support the growth of the emerging industry.
The NQCC’s programme represents a £93m investment and is being delivered jointly by the research councils, EPSRC and STFC, as part of UKRI.
The centre will be headquartered in a purpose-built facility on STFC’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site at the Harwell Campus in Oxfordshire, which is due for completion in 2024.
The NQCC is part of the National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP), which involves the delivery of £1 billion of public and private sector investment over 10 years (2014-2024), to develop and deliver quantum technologies across the areas of sensing, timing, imaging, communications and computing.
Classiq is a leading quantum computing software company. With deep technology at the intersection of quantum computing and classical computer science, Classiq is revolutionizing quantum computing software. Classiq does this by simplifying the development of quantum algorithms for any gate-based quantum computer, integrating quantum software with HPC for advanced hybrid computation and enabling quantum hardware providers to get the most out of their machines.
With deep-tech compilation technology, a GUI IDE and Python SDK Classiq offers accessible, future-proof high-level quantum computer programming for newcomers and experts alike.
The Classiq platform offers an innovative low-code quantum developer environment that automates hardware-aware compilation of high-level functional models into optimized quantum circuits, ready for execution on any quantum hardware. This abstracts away the complexity of quantum programming. The Classiq platform enables researchers and developers to focus on solving real-world problems, ranging from finance and chemistry to optimization and beyond, with unprecedented speed and efficiency.
Whether you’re aiming to push the boundaries of scientific research or seeking competitive advantage in your industry, Classiq provides the tools to harness the transformative power of quantum computing today, preparing you for any quantum future.
Quandela is a French startup specializing in photon-based quantum computing and cloud solutions. Quandela’s ambition is to create the world’s first practical quantum computer and enable organizations to achieve Quantum Transformation globally. Positioned as a leading light in the tech world, Quandela is located in Paris-Saclay, at the heart of a science and technology hub recognized among the most powerful innovation centers globally. With around a hundred employees, Quandela is a worldwide leader in driving Quantum Transformation.
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