The City Quantum & AI Summit

AGENDA Wednesday, 8 October 2025

12:15-13.00
Light lunch and guests arrive

13:00 
Welcome speech by the Rt Hon. The Lord Mayor Alastair King DL

13:10 
Words of welcome from Karina Robinson FCSI (Hon), CEO, Redcliffe Advisory and Founder, The City Quantum & AI Summit

13:20 
GROWTH – the Lord Mayor’s Panel on unleashing the power of Deep Tech, Defence and Finance
Chair: Sir Edward Braham, Chair, M&G, NED of HM Treasury
Nadia Carlsten, CEO, Danish Centre for AI Innovation
Louis Mosley, Executive Vice President UK & Europe, Palantir
Bill Dobie, Founder & CEO at Sedna
Michael Cuthbert, Director, National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC)
Chris Lay, CEO, Marsh McLennan UK
Hans Henrik Knudsen, Senior Advisor, Partisia Quantum

14:20 
RESILIENCE: International cooperation in Deep Tech 
Chair: Emmanuel Cassimatis, Locally Hosted AI & Special Partnerships, SAP
Martin Chen, General Manager, AhP-Tech Inc, Taiwan
Kelly Richdale, Senior Advisor, Sandbox AQ & Quantum Fellow, World Economic Forum 
Daniel Twitchen, Chief Technologist, Element Six
Lory Thorpe, Quantum Safe Industry Lead, IBM

15:05-15:30 
Coffee Break

15:30 
FINANCE: Leveraging Quantum & AI for peak performance in Financial Services
Chair: Ian Stuart, CEO, HSBC UK
Carmen Recio Valcarce, Director, Quantum Computing, Moody’s 
Carolina Dolan Chandler, CTO, Globant
Dino Cataldo Dell’Accio, Deputy Chief Executive of Pension Administration, UN Joint Staff Pension Fund
Fern Watson, Manager for Emerging Tech & Research, FCA

16:15 
DEFENCE: Bringing Quantum & AI to the fore in a hostile world
Chair: General Sir Patrick Sanders, KCB, CBE, DSO, former Chief of the General Staff
Enrique Lizaso, CEO & Co-Founder, Multiverse Computing 
Andrei Dragomir, Founder & CEO, Aquark Technologies
Rob Flanders, Head of Threat and Incident Response, BAE Systems
Edwin Bowden-Peters, UK Technology Watch Lead, MBDA

17:00 - 17:25 
Coffee Break

17:25
FIRESIDE CHAT: the Quantum AI prototype on the edge
Roman Orus, CSO & Co-Founder, Multiverse Computing in conversation with Olivier Tonneau, Founder & Partner, Quantonation

17:45 
KEYNOTE: Powering Growth through Deep Tech
Alison Kay, Managing Director, AWS UKI & member of the UK Investment Council

18:00-18:05
Closing Remarks

18:15 
DRINKS RECEPTION

19:45-22:00 
INVITATION-ONLY DINNER IN THE OLD BALLROOM
Hosted by Alderman & Sheriff Robert Hughes-Penney
A NATO conversation: Professor James Bergeron, Political Advisor to the Commander, NATO Allied Maritime Command, with Rhys Roberts, NATO Diana

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

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