The City Quantum & AI Summit

AGENDA Wednesday, 7 October 2026

10:00-10.30
Guests arrive and refreshments

10:30
Welcome: Alderman and Sheriff, The Hon. Tim Levene

10:40
Welcome: Karina Robinson FCSI (Hon), CEO, Redcliffe Advisory and Founder, The City Quantum & AI Summit

10:50
QNote: Maharashtra’s Quantum Leap — Building the Next Frontier of Innovation
Kaustubh Dhavse, Chief Advisor to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Investments & Strategya

11:00
The Future of Quantum in Maharashtra: From National Mission to Global Partnership
Chair: Vikram Bharwani - Director GIBC, CTO NTT DATA
Kaustubh Dhavse, Chief Advisor to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Investments & Strategy
Dr. P. Anbalagan, IAS, Principal Secretary, Industries, Investment & Services Department, Government of Maharashtra
Sir Peter Knight, FRS, Chair of the Advisory Board to the UK National Quantum Technology Programme
Tanya Suarez, Founder & CEO, IOT Tribe & BluSpecs
Jonathan Legh-Smith MBE, Executive Director, UKQuantum

12:00
COGNITION AI’s GROWTH STORY
Jonathan Kewley, Partner & Chair of the Global Tech Group, Clifford Chance
Aman Thind, Field CTO, CognitionAI

12:15 - 13:20
Light lunch

13:20 
DEFENCE – Safety and Security in Troubled Times
Chair: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, GBE, KCB, former Chief of the Defence Staff
Alberto Reguera Guerrero, Head of Defence, Multiverse Computing
Tony Lowe, CEO, Delta.g
Ned Baker, Managing Director UK, Helsing
Jeanette van Halteren, Managing Consultant, Thales & former Director of ICTM, NATO

14:00 
QNOTE: Quantum and AI in the Age of Technological Darwinism.
Jean-Charles Ellerman Kingombe, Assistant Secretary General - Cyber and Digital Transformation, NATO

14:10
LIFE SCIENCES: The Search for Advantage through Quantum & AI 
Chair: Tom Dibble-Burge, CCO & Co-founder, Dot Collective
Dr Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS, Chief Research Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Sergii Strelchuk, Co-founder & CSO, Quantum Genomics
Anthony Rowe, VP Onyx research, GSK
Dr. Caterina Minelli, CPhys, FInstP, Science Area Leader, National Physical Laboratory 

14:55-15:20 
Coffee Break

15:20
SPACE: Space and Sovereignty: Investment, Security and Innovation in the New Space Age, in association with Farnborough international Airshow
Chair: Gareth Rogers, CEO of Farnborough International
Ashley Fieglein Johnson, President and CFO, Planet
Will Whitehorn OBE, Chair, Seraphim Space Investment Trust PLC
Phil Cooper, Global Geospatial Lead, AWS Public Sector

15:55 
FINANCING INNOVATION
Chair: Kevin Parry, OBE, Senior FS Adviser, Rothschild, former Chair of Nationwide, Founder of an int’l bank startup
Emily Turner, CEO, HSBC Innovation Bank UK
Dame Julia Hoggett, DBE, CEO, London Stock Exchange
Luke Pappas, Partner, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

16:55 - 17:20 
Coffee Break

17:20
ENTANGLED EXCHANGE
Gerald Mullally, CEO, OQC
Dr. Nicholas Harrigan, Quantum Computing Marketing Leader, Nvidia

17.35
QNOTE: Financing British Innovation at Scale
Stephen Welton, CBE, Chair, British Business Bank

17.50-18.05
QNOTE: Maharashtra’s Quantum Moment — From Ambition to Global Partnership
Dr. P. Anbalagan, Principal Secretary for Industries, Government of Maharashtra

18:05-18:10
Closing Remarks

18:25 
DRINKS RECEPTION: SURPRISE EVENT
Sir Peter Knight, FRS, SAB Chair, UK National Quantum Technology Programme
Tom Adeyoola, Executive Chair, Innovate UK

19:55-22:00 
CLIFFORD CHANCE AI & QUANTUM DINNER
THE NEXT ERA OF GROWTH: Chaired by Jonathan Kewley, Partner & Chair, Global Tech Group, Clifford Chance with Roman Orus, Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing and member of the UN Independent Scientific Panel on AI, and Thore Graepel, Chair of Machine Learning, UCL, and former Distinguished Research Scientist, Google DeepMind.

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