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Speakers & panelists

Sir Roger Penrose

Nobel Laureate

University of Oxford

UK

Sir Robin Saxby

Founding CEO & Chairman

ARM

UK

Dr. George Church

Professor of Genetics

Harvard

USA

Nabil Alnuiam

CEO

Aramco Digital

Saudi Arabia

Dr. José Ignacio Latorre

Director Centre for Quantum Technologies

National University of Singapore

Spain

Dr. Johanna Sepúlveda

Chief Engineer

Airbus Defence and Space-Intelligence

Germany

Dr. Andreu Mas-Colell

Founder

Barcelona School of Economics

Spain

Dr. Paul Weiss

UC Presidential Chair & Distinguished Professor

UCLA

USA

Dr. Hyeyoung Kim

Vice President

Hyundai Motor Group

South Korea

Priyanca Ford

Founder

Kronos Fusion Energy

USA

Prof. Bob Coecke

Chief Scientist

Quantinuum

UK

Dr. Chema Alonso

Chief Digital Officer

Telefónica

Spain

Dr. William Phillips

Nobel Laureate in Laser Cooling

NIST

USA

Asier Arranz

Robotics & Embedded AI

NVIDIA

Spain

Oscar Garcia

SVP of Strategy & Technology

NTT

Spain

Jon Hammant

Head of Compute for EMEA

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

UK

Ashish Naik

Senior Specialist - AWS Autonomous Compute

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

UK

Whurley

Founder & CEO

Strangeworks

USA

Markus Pflitsch

CEO and Founder

Terra Quantum AG

Switzerland

Cristina Gallach

Honorable Representative

Ministry of Economy of Spain

Spain

Dr. Melvin Vopson

Associate Professor in Physics

University of Portsmouth

UK

Dr. Rob Carlson

Managing Director

Planetary Technologies

USA

Ricardo Vidal

Head of Innovation

British Airways

UK

Dr. Daniel Crespo Artiaga

Rector

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

Spain

Christian Larsson

Chief Information Officer

UNICEF

Kenya

Miguel Arranz

CTO North Europe

ZTE

Spain

Gina Tost i Faus

Secretary of Digital Policies

Generalitat de Catalunya

Spain

Raül Blanco

President

renfe

Spain

Tracey Forrest

Director, Transformative Quantum Technologies

University of Waterloo

Canada

Gillian Makamara

Project Officer

International Telecommunication Union

Switzerland

Dr. Dina Zielinski

Head of Scientific Partnerships and Innovation

WhiteLab Genomics

France

Dr. Anne Andrews

Professor of Psychiatry and Chemistry & Biochemistry

UCLA

US

Dr. Eduard Vallory

Director-General

BIST

Spain

Dr. Michael Levin

Vannevar Bush Professor

Tufts University

USA

Dr. Christina Yan Zhang

CEO and Founder

The Metaverse Institute

UK

Greg Demchak

Senior Director, Digital Innovation Lab

Bentley Systems

UK

Dr. James Banal

Co-Founder

Cache DNA

USA

Dr. Svitlana Lyubchyk

Co-Founder

CASCATACHUVA Ltd

Portugal

Dr. Eugene Durenard

Founder & CEO

Hyperbolic Holdings

Switzerland

Dr. Vivek Koncherry

CEO

Graphene Innovations Manchester

UK

Dr. Henning Soller

Partner & Head of Global Quantum Research

McKinsey & Company

Germany

Alejandro Carballo Romero

Director Administraciones Públicas en Cataluña y Aragón

vodafone

Stephanie Lynch-Habib

President

euNetworks

France

Jennifer Schenker

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

The Innovator

France

David Brebner

Founder and CEO

Umajin

New Zealand

Ana Maiques

CEO & CoFounder

Neuroelectrics

Spain

Dr. Aranzazu Carmona Orbezo

Founder / CTO

Parallel Carbon

United Kingdom

Dr Cecilia Tham

CEO

Futurity Systems

Spain

Ron Chrisley

Co-founder

Tenyx

UK

Maurizio Rossi

European Digital Leader

World Economic ForumWorld

Italy

Anders Indset

Author

The Quantum Economy

Germany

Olivia Avalos Villar

Innovator

TKS

Switzerland

Lorenzo Di Pietro

Director General

Barcelona Activa

Spain

Dr. Stefanos Chaitoglou

Marie Curie post-doc fellow

University of Barcelona

Spain

Théo Duarte

PhD Student

University of Technology of Troyes

France

Dr. Iftikhar Ali

Research Assistant

University of the West of England

United Kingdom

Paula González Saiz

Postdoctoral Researcher

UPV/EHU

Spain

Roberto Pezone

PhD Student

Technische Universiteit Delft

Netherlands

Yarrow Kramer

Founder / CEO

HATCH & H360.ai

USA

Zeynep Korutürk

Executive Director

Goldman Sachs

UK

Matias Figliozzi

CEO & Co-founder

Unibaio

Argentina

Dr. Joseph Niemela

Scientist Emeritus

ICTP-UNESCO

Italy

Yekaterina Tskhe

PHD Candidate

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

Teodora Faraone

Ph.D. Student

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

Lisa Lavelle

Director of Nursing

Avista CLG

Ireland

Kilian Pschierer

Maths Students

Technical University of Munich

Germany

Robert Dahlstrom

Chief Executive Officer

Apellix

United States of America

Liseth Victoria Pasaguayo Báez

Doctoral Researcher

FEMTO-St Institute

France

Ashima Vashistha

PHD Student and Photonics Research Engineer

WOODOO

France

Andriy Lyubchyk

Chief Executive Officer

CASCATACHUVA LDA

Portugal

Alexander Orlov

Student Research Assistant

TUM Think Tank

Germany

Miguel Ridao

CEO

Sensing Tex

Spain

Tomoyo Matsuoka

Chief operation/business officer

QunaSys

Japan

Camila Tomas

VP Innovation & Technology

Puig

Spain

Albert Forn

Director mSchools

GSMA

Spain

Dr. Ahmed Busnaina

WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor

Northeastern University

USA

Alejandro Cavazos

Founder & COO

ADDITIVE SPACES

Spain

Dr. Hiroshi Ishii

Associate Director

MIT Media Lab

USA

Alex Inman

Research Assistant

Drexel University

US

Anca Albu

CMO

QAI Ventures

Switzerland

Dr. Bruno Scocozza

Co-founder

Esencia Foods

Germany

Dr. Gerard Cadafalch Gazquez

CTO/Co-founder

Flexiramics

Netherlands

Dr. John Barnes

Founder CEO

Entangled Positions

Englanad, UK

Mr. Manel Villalante

General Director of Strategy & Development

Renfe

Spain

Dr. Sheida Shahi

Co-Founder & CEO

Adaptis

Canada

Lingyi Bi

Graduate student

Drexel University

USA

Petr Chizhov

AI researcher, Data Analyst & Engineer

ALVI labs

Georgia

Nicolás Sánchez Berardo

Co-founder

Hynts

Spain

Oriol Sanchez

CEO

Folgrid Technologies SL

Spain

Mariam Brian

CEO

Holo Art

Canada

Dr. Roozbeh Jafari

Tim and Amy Leach Professor

Texas A&M University

USA

Fabienne Marco

Research Assistant

TUM

Germany

Dr. Lukasz Miroslaw

Sr. EMEA HPC & AI Specialist

Microsoft

Switzerland

Pol Hortal

Director

Collider

Spain

Reyda Akdemir

Business Developer

ICMAB

Spain

Dr. Christian Reitberger

Managing Partner

Matterwave Ventures

Germany

Dr. Paul F. Smith

Chief Operating Officer

Perimeter Institute

Canada

Fernando Dominguez Pinuaga

Vice President

SandboxAQ

USA

Fui-Meng Liew

Chief of Digital Centre of Excellence

UNICEF

Kenya

Amir Alexander Karim

Head of Communication

HSU

Spain