This schedule is based on Central European Time (UTC + 01:00).

Quantum Industry Summit at LIGENTEC

 

Tuesday, 14 November

Day two and three of the Summit takes place at the Starling Hotel Lausanne, an exquisite event space with views of Lake Leman and the Alps. Networking breaks, lunches, and dinners, and a technical tour round out this valuable summit. 

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
8:00 - 9:00	Registration	Starling Hotel Lausanne, at EPFL Campus
9:00	Welcome Jose Pozo	Optica, CTO
9:00 - 9:40	Welcome Anna Fontcuberta	EPFL, Associate VP
	Thomas Hessler	LIGENTEC, CEO
	Michael Geiselmann	LIGENTEC, President & CCO

Keynote Session

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
9:40 - 10:10	Keynote Session 1:
	Mark Thompson	PsiQuantum, CTO
10:10 - 10:40	Keynote Session 2
	Scott Faris	Infleqtion, CEO
10:40 - 11:25	Networking Break

 

Session 1 — Photonic Quantum Computing

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
11:25 - 12:40	Heike Riel	IBM Research, IBM Fellow and Executive Director
	Scott Dufferwiel	Aegiq, Co-founder & CTO
	Valerian Giesz	Quandela, Co-founder & CEO
	Bob Coecke	Quantinuum, Chief Scientist
	Claire Le Gall	Nu Quantum, CTO
12:40 - 14:00	LUNCH

 

 

Session 2 — Quantum Computing with Ions and Superconductors

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
14:00 - 15:45	Ish Dhand	QC Design, Co-founder & CEO
	Carmen Recio Valcarce	Moody's Analytics, Quantum Computing Engineer
	Chris Ballance	Oxford Ionics, Co-founder & CEO
	Alireza Najafi-Yazdi	Anyon Systems, CEO
	Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian	XeedQ , CEO
	Zak Romaszko	Universal Quantum, Head of Quantum Chips
	Mafalda Jotta Garcia	Qblox, Quantum Application Engineer
15:45 - 16:30	Networking Break

 

Session 3 — Quantum Sensing

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
16:30 - 17:15	Daniel Brau	Miraex, CEO
	Alexander Stark	Qnami, Co-founder
	Ward Hendriks	ALUVIA, CTO
17:30 - 18:00	Wrap up
18:00 - 18:30	Departure to reception dinner	Bus Transfer
18:30 - 22:00	Reception	Restaurant Brasserie Le Vaudois

 

Wednesday 15, November

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
8:00 - 9:00	Coffee and networking	Starling Hotel Lausanne, at EPFL Campus
9:00	Welcome Jose Pozo	Optica, CTO

 

Session 4 — Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Internet

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
9:00 - 10:45	Marc Nikles	ID Quantique, CMO
	Alberto Comin	Airbus, Leading Research in quantum communication
	Thomas Roger	Toshiba Europe, Team Lead for Satellite QKD
	Maël Flament	Qunnect, Co-founder & CTO
	Jerome Prieur	Aurea Technology, CEO
	Marc Kaplan	VeriQloud, CEO
10:45 - 11:30	Coffee Break

 

Session 4 — Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Internet - continuation

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
11:30 - 12:45	Jim Ricotta	Aliro Quantum Technologies, CEO & Chairman
	Carlos Abellan	Quside, Co-founder & CEO
	Tommaso Occhipinti	QTI, Co-founder & CEO
	Costantino Agnesi	ThinkQuantum, Co-founder
	Vanesa Diaz	LuxQuanta, CEO
12:45 - 14:15	LUNCH

 

Session 5 — Quantum Devices and Other Systems

Time	Events & Presenters	Affiliations & Program Notes
14:15 - 15:15	Andrei Dragomir	Aquark Technologies, Founder & CEO
	Ashley Montanaro	Phasecraft, Co-founder & CEO
	Sadik Hafizovic	Zurich Instruments, Co-founder & CEO
	Khaled Karrai	attocube systems, Co-founder and Scientific Director
15:15 - 15:30	Closing Discussion