The City Quantum & AI Summit

DRAFT 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
Participant 6

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, CIO, UN Joint Staff Pension Fund
Participant 4

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
Sam Kirby-French, Group CISO, 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

17:55
KEYNOTE: tbc

18:05
Closing Remarks

18:10 
DRINKS RECEPTION
Quantum and NATO: Rising to the Challenge
Keynote 

19:45-22:00 
INVITATION-ONLY DINNER IN THE OLD BALLROOM
2 participants in conversation

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

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