The 2024 Summit

AGENDA

12:15-13.00
Light lunch and guests arrive

13:00
Welcome speech by Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli

13:10
Words of welcome from Karina Robinson, Redcliffe Advisory

13:20
THE LORD MAYOR’S COLLOGUY: QUANTUM & AI FOR GOOD

Chair: Bruce Beckloff, CEO, Bloc Ventures & Yellow Dog
Elham Kashefi, Chief Scientist, National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)
Others TBC

14:30
SPACE PANEL: To infinity and beyond - advances in space

Chair: Lord Willets, Chair, UK Space Agency
Enrique Lizaso, CEO, Multiverse Computing 
Julie Holt-Jones, Co-Founder, Space4Sight
Jay Lowell, Principal Senior Technical Fellow, Boeing 
Kata Escott CB, UK Managing Director and Head of Country. Airbus Defence and Space Ltd.

15:05-15:25
Coffee Break

15:25
DEFENCE PANEL: Bringing Quantum & AI innovation to the fore in a hostile world

Chair: Major General James Chiswell CB, CBE, MC, Managing Director of Sormland and former Director, Special Forces
Rear Admiral Nick Wheeler, Director, NATO Digital
TBC
TBC

16:10
FINANCE PANEL: Transforming the bottom line through cybersafety and optimisation

Chair: Colin Bell, CEO, HSBC Bank plc and HSBC Europe
Alexandra Mousavieh, CEO, Evident 
Others TBC

16:55
FIRESIDE CHAT: Correlation and causation in Quantum & AI

Jon Hammant, Specialist Lead UK & Ireland, AWS
Roman Orus, Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing 

17:15
FIRESIDE CHAT: Quantum & AI, parallel workings

Tim Costa, Head of HPC & Quantum, Nvidia
Denise Ruffner, Co-Founder, DiviQ

18:30
DRINKS RECEPTION
Quantum and NATO: Rising to the Challenge

Matija Matoković, Deputy Head, NATO Innovation Unit

19:45-22:00
INVITATION-ONLY DINNER
Deep Tech’s Impact on Healthcare, today and tomorrow

Keynote from Kasim Kutay, CEO of Novo Holdings, the holding company for Novo Nordisk & Novozymes

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For more information, please send an email to Karina Robinson.

See a short film on what to expect here.

Hear from scientist & Lord Mayor of the City of London Michael Mainelli here.