Meet the Speakers

2024 Speakers

Clena Abuan

Digital Science Principal
BP

Omar Amer

Quantum Cryptography Research Lead
JP Morgan Chase & Co

Chris Ballance

CEO and Co Founder
Oxford Ionics

Nasser Barghouty

Chief Scientist & Quantum Science and Technology Lead, Space Communications and Navigation
NASA

John Barnes

CEO
Entangled Positions

Milan Begliarbekov

Director of Quantum Foundry
Quantum Computing Inc

Gilad Ben-Shach

Director of Strategy & Partnerships
Quantum Machines

Mihir Bhaskar

Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum
Amazon Web Services

Michael Biercuk

CEO & Founder
Q-CTRL

Christopher Bishop

Chief Reinvention Officer
Improvising Careers

Carsten Blank

Co-Founder and CEO
Q-Alchemy

Yuval Boger

CMO
QuEra Computing

Michael Bogobowickz

Partner
McKinsey & Company

Alexis Bonnel

CIO and Director of Digital Capabilities Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory

Peter Bordow

Distinguished Engineer, Managing Director and PQC/Quantum Systems & Emerging Technologies Leader for Cybersecurity
Wells Fargo

Peter Brereton

Research Physicist, Quantum Sensing Technologies
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Steve Brierley

CEO
Riverlane

John Burke

Principal Director, Quantum Science
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E) for Science and Technology (S&T)

Denise Caldwell

Acting Assistant Director
National Science Foundation

Gretchen Campbell

Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science, and Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office at OSTP
Office of Science and Technology Policy

Robert Campbell

Quantum Safe Project Executive
IBM

Lily Chen

Group Leader, Cryptographic Technology
NIST

Jerry Chow

IBM Fellow and Director - Quantum Systems & Runtime Technology
IBM Quantum

Carleton Coffrin

Staff Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Kevin Coggins

Deputy Associate Administrator
NASA

Laurence Coldicott

Senior Content Director
Quantum.Tech

Stuart Coomber

Global Head of OEM Sales
Covesion

Alex Cronin

Program Director
NSF

Michael Cubeddu

Co Founder
Aliro Quantum

Michael Cuviello

Principal Shareholder
Banner Witcoff

Kimberly D. McGuire

Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA)
Brookhaven National Laboratory

John Devaney

Quantum Standards Manager
NPL

Ann Dunkin

CIO
Department of Energy

Zac Dutton

Lead Scientist
Raytheon BBN Technologies

Rozhin Eskandarpour

Founder and CEO
Resilient Entanglement

Robert Fasano

Portfolio Technical Lead
Infleqtion

Doug Finke

Chief Content Officer
Global Quantum Intelligence

Sydney Freedberg

Contributing Editor
BreakingDefense.com

Sergio Gago

MD Quantum Computing
Moody’s Analytics

Garland Garris

Quantum Lead
Accenture Federal Services

Hrant Gharibyan

CEO and Founder
BlueQubit

Amy Golem

Senior Regional Sales Manager, North America
Pasqal

Anna Grassellino

Senior Scientist, Director of Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center
DOE National QIS Research Center

Saikat Guha

Professor of Optical Sciences Director of the Center for Quantum Networks
University of Arizona

David Gunnarsson

CTO
Bluefors

Dr. Michael Hayduk

Deputy Director, Information Directorate
US Air Force Research Laboratory

Shadab Hussain

Senior Associate
MathCo

Philip Intallura

Global Head of Quantum Technologies
HSBC

Elizabeth Iwasawa

Quantum Technology Lead
Leidos

Xavier Jackson

Digital Graduate
BP

Dr Garfield Jones

Associate Chief of Strategic Technology
US Department of Homeland Security

Alexandra Kelley

Staff Correspondent
Nextgov/FCW

Andre Koenig

CEO
Global Quantum Intelligence

Jasper Krauser

Quantum Technology Central Coordinator
Airbus

James Kushmerick

Director Physical Measurement Laboratory
NIST

Michael Larsen

Quantum Science Architect
Northrop Grumman

Robert Ledoux

Program Director
Department of Energy

Peter Lemke

Senior Digital Science Associate
BP

Jay Lowell

Principal Senior Technical Fellow
Boeing

Tomasso Macri

Executive Account Manager
QuEra Computing

Himadri Majumdar

CEO
SemiQon

Nardo Manaloto

Managing Partner
Qubits Ventures

Denis Mandich

CTO and Co-Founder
Qrypt

Jalal Mapar

Former Sr Advisor for Emerging Technologies
Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate

Bonnie Marlow

Physicist and Quantum Sensors Group Lead
MITRE

Catherine Marsh

Director
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

Brian McDermott

Principal R&D Engineer
Naval Nuclear Laboratory

Celia Merzbacher

Executive Director
QED-C

Brian Miles

Principal Member of Technical Staff
AT&T

Niko Mohr

Partner
McKinsey & Company

Rick Muller

Director
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

Will Oliver

Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Professor of Physics
MIT

Roman Orus

Co-Founder & CSO
Multiverse Computing

Imed Othmani

Industry Partner, Quantum Industry & Technical Services
IBM Quantum

Rima Oueid

Senior Commercialization Executive
US Department of Energy

Vassilios Pantazopoulos

Head of Scientific Computing & HPC
Pfizer

Tony Parrillo

VP, Enterprise IT Global Head of Cyber Security
Schneider Electric

Max Perez

Vice President Strategic Initiatives
Infleqtion

Nicholas Peters

Section Head for Quantum Information Science
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Damien Petty

Partner
Morpheus Ventures

Darryll Pines

UMD President
University of Maryland

Thomas Plumb-Reyes

Policy Advisor, Office of the Special Envoy for Critical and Emerging Technology
US State Department

Nick Polk

Senior Advisor to the Federal Chief Information Security Officer
White House Office of Management and Budget

Aparna Prabhakar

SVP Strategy and Sustainability
Schneider Electric

Tim Prior

Quantum Programme Manager
NPL

Satyam Priyadarshy

Chief AI Officer and Quantum Expert
Reignite Future

Joe Queenan

Executive Director
South Carolina Quantum Association

Carmen Recio

Quantum Computing Engineer & Team Lead, Director
Moody's

Andrew Regenscheid

Supervisor, Cryptographic Technology Group
NIST

Jim Ricotta

CEO and Chairman
Aliro Quantum

Manfred Rieck

Head of Quantum Technologies
Deutsche Bahn

David Rivas

CTO
Rigetti

Karina Robinson

Senior Advisor
Multiverse Computing

Bruno Sanglé-Ferrière

CEO
Carrousel Digital Ltd

Lee Sattler

Fellow, Emerging Technology
Verizon

Jean Sebastien-Pegon

Head of Quantum-Safe Security America
ID Quantique

Geetha Senthil,

Deputy Director, Office of Special Initiatives National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)
National Institute of Health (NIH)

Ben Shapiro

Senior Manager, Cyber and Strategic Risk
Deloitte

Vikram Sharma

Founder and CEO
QuintessenceLabs

Max Sich

CEO and Founder
Aegiq

Marlou Slot

Quantum Materials Physicist at NIST, Quantum Lead
Womanium

Bob Sorensen

Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Analyst for Quantum Computing
Hyperion Research

Paul Stimers

Partner
Holland & Knight LLP

Janette Strasburger

MD, Professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical College of Wisconsin, Attending Cardiologist
Children’s Wisconsin

Steve Suarez

External Advisor
Bain & Company

Bob Sutor

VP and Practice Leader, Emerging Techologies
Futurum Group

Rick Switzer

Director Strategy and Policy — The Office of the Special Envoy for Technology
US Department of State

Chris Teale

Tech Reporter
Route Fifity

Anjolie Tuazon

Quantum Fellow
Womanium

Prachi J Vakaria

Managing Director
Womanium

David Van Zanten

Associate Scientist & Lead Quantum Measurements
Fermilab

Davide Venturelli

Associate Director, Quantum Computing
USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science

Ronald Walsworth

Director, University of Maryland Quantum Technology Center and Founder
Quantum Catalyzer (Q-Cat)

Carl Williams

Principal CEO
CJW Quantum Consulting

Leonard Woody

Senior Product Manager, Quantum Engagement Lead and SME
Microsoft

2024 Speakers

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