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Event Date | Tue Sep 26 EDT - Thu Sep 28 EDT (about 1 year ago) |
Location |
Capital One Hall
7750 Capital One Tower Rd., Tysons, VA 22101 |
Region | Americas |
It is the premier global quantum conference – connecting the world’s quantum ecosystem, including the brightest researchers, innovators, technology developers, legislators, and industry experts – to accelerate the value of the growing quantum industry.
A premier global event that shapes and drives the transformation towards a quantum-powered future, this highly anticipated conference, exposition, and networking extravaganza will unite visionaries and experts from all corners of the quantum ecosystem.
Together, we will tackle urgent challenges, delve into emerging trends, and exchange valuable insights that will propel the acceleration and commercialization of quantum technologies.
2023 Speakers
ALEXIS BONNELL
Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. David Bray
Loomis Council Co-Chair and Distinguished Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Non-Resident Distinguished Fellow, Business Executives for National Security
Peter Chapman
President & CEO, IonQ
A.C. CHARANIA
Chief Technologist, NASA
Dr. Stacey Dixon
Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Cathy Foley
Chief Scientist, Australia
Jay Gambetta
IBM Fellow and VP of IBM Quantum Computing
DR. ERWIN GIANCHANDANI
Assistant Director for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships, U.S. National Science Foundation
DR. KRISTIN GILKES
Global Innovation Quantum Leader, EY
Ambassador Mikko Hautala
Ambassador of the Republic of Finland to the United States of America
Freeke Heijman
Co-Founder and Director of Ecosystem Development, Quantum Delta Netherlands
Dr. Arthur Herman
Senior Fellow and Director of the Quantum Alliance Initiative, Hudson Institute
Dr. Peter Highnam
Chief Strategy Officer, Office of Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, U.S. Department of Defense
Dr. Lara Jehi
Chief Research Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Dr. Anne Khademian
Executive Director, The Universities at Shady Grove
Dr. Jungsang Kim
Co-Founder and CTO, IonQ
Dr. James Kushmerick
Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dr. John 'jay' Lowell
Principal Senior Technical Fellow, Disruptive Computing and Networks, The Boeing Company
Dr. Bonnie Marlow
Group Leader - Quantum Sensors, The MITRE Corporation
Hiroki Matsuo
Vice-Minister / Secretary General for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Cabinet Office, Japan
Pam Melroy
Deputy Administrator, NASA (Col, USAF, Ret.)
DR. CELIA MERZBACHER
QED-C Executive Director, SRI International
Tom Newby
Head of the Office for Quantum, United Kingdom Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Seizo Onoe
Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Dr. Darryll Pines
President, The University of Maryland
DR. Marco Pistoia
Head of Global Technology Applied Research, JP Morgan Chase
Matthew Scholl
Chief of the Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Technology Laboratory (ITL)
Dr. Anthony Scriffignano
Loomis Council Member & Distinguished Fellow, The Henry L. Stimson Center
Vice Admiral Robert Sharp (Ret.)
Vice Admiral (Ret.), United States Navy
Paul Stimers
Executive Director, Quantum Industry Coalition and Partner, Holland & Knight
Dr. Krysta Svore
Distinguished Engineer, VP Advanced Quantum Development, Microsoft
STU SOLOMON
President & CEO, Connected DMV
Dr. Charles Tahan
Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science (QIS) and the Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office (NQCO), The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
GEORGE THOMAS
Chief Innovation Officer, Connected DMV and Director, Potomac Quantum Innovation Center
Dr. Peter Turner
CEO, Sydney Quantum Academy
DR. GREGORY WASHINGTON
President, George Mason University
Whurley (william Hurley)
Founder and CEO, Strangeworks
Dr. Falecia Williams
President, Prince George’s Community College
BHAVANI AMIRTHALINGAM
Executive Vice President and Chief Customer and Technology Officer, Ameren Services
Inbar Badian
Sr. Strategy & Product Innovation Manager, CTO Office, Microsoft Security
Dr. Gilad Ben-Shach
Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Quantum Machines
Dr. Michael Biercuk
CEO & Founder, Q-CTRL
Dr. Laura Biven
Lead, Integrated Infrastructure and Emerging Technologies, Office of Data Science Strategy, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Dr. Joe Broz
Vice President for Quantum Growth, IBM
Dr. Jeffrey Buchsbaum
Medical Officer and Program Director, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Ebba Carbonnier
Director, Swedish Quantum Life Science Centre, Karolinska Institutet
Vishal Chatrath
CEO and Co-Founder, QuantrolOx
Dr. Lily Chen
Mathematician and Project Leader of Cryptographic Technology Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dr. Yoonchae Cheong
Director, Korea-U.S. Quantum Technology Cooperation Center
Joshua Cohen
Director of Cyber Security, Economic and Trade Office, The Embassy of Israel
Jim Cook
Former VP of Strategic Engagement & Partnerships, The MITRE Corporation
Dr. Elif Kiesow Cortez
Researcher, Stanford University & NSF Engineering Research Center for Quantum Networks
Dr. Sebastian Deffner
Associate Professor, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Dr. Tommaso Demarie
CEO, Entropica Labs
Dr. Duncan Earl
President & CTO, Qubitekk
Dr. Rozhin Eskandarpour
Founder and CEO, Resilient Entanglement
Scott Faris
CEO, Infleqtion
Dr. Peter Fisher
Thomas A. Frank Professor of Physics, MIT
Victor Fong
Distinguished Engineer, Dell Technologies
Alexandra Fuentes
Program Manager, STEAM and Computer Science, Fairfax County Public Schools
Jonas Geust
Chief Operating Officer & Deputy CEO, Bluefors
Dr. Hrant Gharibyan
CEO & Founder, BlueQubit
Dr. Pranav Gokhale
Vice President of Quantum Software, Infleqtion
Dr. Joseph Hagmann
Quantum Device Physicist, The MITRE Corporation
Mark Hannum
Director, Quantum Information and Optics Research, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Jani Heikkinen
Head of Business Development, IQM Quantum Computers
Jonah Hill
Co-Founder & Managing Director, The LightBridge Group
Dr. Michael Howard
Chairman of the Board, World Energy Council
Sam Howell
Research Assistant, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security
Dr. Bruno Huttner
Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives, ID Quantique
Jim Ingraham
VP Strategic Research, EPB of Chattanooga
Tahmid Islam
Assistant Vice President, Innovation & Technology, Citi
David Israel
Exploration and Space Communications Projects Division Architect and Principal Investigator for the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chris Janson
Product Marketing Manager - Optical Networking, Nokia
André König
CEO, Global Quantum Intelligence
Chairman, OneQuantum
Kaniah Konkoly-Thege
Chief Legal Officer and Senior VP Government Relations, Quantinuum
Sean Kwak
CEO, Genesis Quantum Inc. & GQT Korea
Dr. Valtteri Lahtinen
Chief Scientific Officer and Co-Founder, Quanscient
John Levy
CEO, Chair, and Co-Founder, SEEQC
Florence Lewine
Policy Advisor, Office of Cyber, Infrastructure, Risk and Resilience Policy (CIRR), U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Christian Lowry
Senior Risk Analyst, National Risk Management Center, CISA
Cathal Mahon
Senior Scientific Lead, Novo Nordisk Foundation and Director, Innovation Center at NATO DIANA
Himadri Majumdar
CEO and Co-Founder, Semiqon
Nardo Manaloto
Managing Partner, Qubits Ventures
Denis Mandich
Chief Technology Officer, Qrypt
Rafael Martin-Cuevas
Senior Consultant, Quantum Computing, EY
Dr. Cezary Mazurek
Director, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center
Corey McClelland
Chief Revenue Officer, Qubitekk, Inc.
Ryan McKenney
Director of Government Relations and General Counsel of Compliance, Quantinuum
Dr. Tyrel McQueen
Professor and Principal Investigator, Institute for Quantum Matter, Johns Hopkins University
Dr. Aaron Miller
Founder & President, Quantum Opus
Dr. Raymond Newell
Research Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Rima Oueid
Senior Commercialization Executive, U.S. Department of Energy
Dr. Hanhee Paik
Senior Research Scientist, IBM Quantum
Kalle Palomäki
Executive Director, Modulight
Simon Patkovic
VP Quantum-Safe Solutions, ID Quantique
Srimaye Peddinti
Student, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology
Jussi-Pekka Penttinen
CEO, CTO, Co-Founder, Vexlum
Dr. Max Perez
Vice President of Strategic Initiatives, Infleqtion
Dr. Nicholas Peters
Section Head & Distinguished Research and Development Staff, Quantum Information Science Section, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Nicholas Polk
Senior Advisor to the Federal Chief Information Security Officer, White House Office of Management and Budget
Pranay Prakash
CEO, Qubrid
Dylan Presman
Director for Budget and Assessment, White House Office of the National Cyber Director
Mika Prunnila
Co-Founder and Chief Research Officer, SemiQon
Dr. Pekka Pursula
Research Manager, VTT
Dr. Jeremy Renshaw
Senior Technical Executive, EPRI
Jim Ricotta
CEO & Chairman, Aliro Quantum
Dr. Albert Rigosi
Deputy Division Chief of the Quantum Measurement Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Juha Riippi
CEO, Quanscient
Buddy Rizer
Executive Director, Loudoun County Department of Economic Development
2023 Sponsors
• EY
• IONQ
• Fairfax Country
• PSI Quantum
• Unicersity of Mary Land
• george Mason
• IBM Quantum
• Microsoft Azure
• Bluefors
• Blue Qubit
• Boeing
• Cleveland Clinic
• Quantum Network
• GSK
• IDQ
• Infleqtion
• Q-CTRL
• Quantinuum
• AEDP
• Prince William
• Virginia
• Atom Computing
• Berlin
• Business Finland
• Sandbox