The City Quantum & AI Summit

DRAFT 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
Simon Harwood, CTO, Strategy & Technology Director, Leonardo UK
Helsing (speaker 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
James McCafferty, Chief Information Officer, Wellcome Sanger Institute
TBC
TBC

14:55-15:20 
Coffee Break

15:20
SPACE: A conversation, in association with Farnborough International Airshow
Chair: TBC
Ashley Fieglein Johnson, President and CFO, Planet
TBC

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
TBC

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 TBC.
A CONVERSATION: Roman Orus, Co-Founder & CSO, Multiverse Computing and member of the UN Independent Scientific Panel on AI, and Thore Graepel, Distinguished Research Scientist, Google DeepMind, and Chair of Machine Learning, University College London.

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

For Media enquiries contact our Communication Partner, Cardew Group

Ed Orlebar: ed.orlebar@cardewgroup.com

Alexander James: alexander.james@cardewgroup.com