The City Quantum & AI Summit

AGENDA Wednesday, 7 October 2026

12:15-13.00
Guests arrive and light lunch

13:00 
Welcome: Alderman and future Lord Mayor (subject to election) Bronek Masojada

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

13:20 
DEFENCE – Safety and Security in Troubled Times
Chair: Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, GBE, KCB, former Chief of the Defence Staff
Enrique Lizaso, Co-Founder and CEO, Multiverse Computing
Tony Lowe, CEO, Delta.g
TBC

14:00 
QNOTE: Jean-Charles Ellerman Kingombe, Assistant Secretary General, NATO, on “Cyber Defence in the Quantum/AI era”.

14:10
LIFE SCIENCES: The Search for Advantage through Quantum & AI 
Chair: TBC
Dr Lara Jehi, MD, MHCDS, Chief Research Information Officer, Cleveland Clinic
Sergii Strelchuk, Associate Professor, University of Oxford, Lead Researcher on quantum at Wellcome Sanger Institute
Anthony Rowe, VP Onyx research, GSK

14:55-15:20 
Coffee Break

15:20
SPACE: A conversation, 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, Commercial Lead in Aerospace Satellite and Defence, AWS

15:55 
FINANCING INNOVATION
Chair: Kevin Parry, OBE, Chair of Nationwide
Emily Turner, CEO, HSBC Innovation Bank UK
Dame Julia Hoggett, DBE, Chief Executive, London Stock Exchange
TBC
TBC

16:55 - 17:20 
Coffee Break

17:20
ENTANGLED EXCHANGE
Gerald Mullally, CEO, OQC
Nic Harrigan, Quantum Manager, Nvidia

17:35 
QNOTE: TBC

18:10-18:15
Closing Remarks

18:25 
DRINKS RECEPTION: SURPRISE EVENT
Sir Peter Knight, FRS, Chair of the Advisory Board to the UK National Quantum Technology Programme
Tom Adeyoola, Executive Chair of Innovate UK

19:55-22:00 
INVITATION-ONLY DINNER IN THE OLD BALLROOM
Hosted by Clifford Chance
A CONVERSATION: Chaired by Jonathan Kewley, Chair of the 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, former Distinguished Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Chair of Machine Learning, University College London.

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

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