Participants

Meet the experts driving this programme forward

Partners & Leadership

Fabricia Beltramini

Senior Manager Digitalisation & Innovation
TÜV Nord Group

Robert Harrison

Strategic Consultant
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)

Adrian Mahlkow

CEO
OpTecBB

Gerrit Rössler

Head of Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology
Speakers

Luis Barbosa

Defence Industry & Space Tech
European Defence Fund

Remi de La Vieuville

Head of Quantum HPC
Alice & Bob

Stephen Duffy

CEO, Digital and Semiconductor BU
TÜV Nord Group

Benoît Fosseprez

General Partner
AVP Capital

Michael Hofstetter

Head of Quantum Sensing Initiative
SPRIN-D

Michael Jobst

Investment Partner
Vsquared Ventures

Katrin Kobe

CEO
Bosch Quantum Sensing

Cecile Perrault

Vice President
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)

Jeremy Picot-Clemente

Optics & Optical Systems
EPIC Photonics

Olivier Rousseaux

Director Venture Development
imec

Enrique Sanchez Bautista

Secretariat of HL Board of Quantum
Quantum Flagship

Stephan Schulze

Investment Director
IBB Ventures

Johanna Sepulveda

Senior Expert Quantum-Secured Communications
Airbus Defence and Space

Petra Söderling

Head of Government & Consortium Relations
Quantum Strategy Institute

William Stevens

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Tech Tour Europe

Christian Trefzger

Quantum Tech & High Performance Computing
European Commission, DG CNECT

Simon Ulmer

Managing Director TÜVIT
TÜV Nord Group

Nils Wuytens

Program Director
VITO
Scale-Up Speakers

Carlos Abellan

CEO & Co-Founder
Quside

Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaard

Chief Commercial Officer
Sparrow Quantum

Jouni Flyktman

VP Defense & Security
IQM

Kevin Fuechsel

Managing Director & CEO
Quantum Optics Jena

Olga Fusseder

Head of Sales DACH & CEE
Multiverse Computing

Philippe Notton

CEO & Founder
SiPearl

Arthur Pathe

Finance & Strategy Manager
OQ Technology

Enrique Solano

CEO
Kipu Quantum

Eda Sorani

Business Development
planqc

Balazs Szekeres

Co-Founder & Managing Director
Perciv AI

Maud Vinet

CEO & Co-Founder
Quobly

Leah Wiedenmann

PR & Communications Lead
NVision Quantum Technologies
Pitching Start-UPs

Garrelt Alberts

Executive Director
OrangeQS

Benito Alén

Acting CEO & Co-founder
g2-Zero

Richard Aurelius

Technical Product & Project Manager
Cavero Quantum

Julia Beck

Chief Growth Officer
eleQtron

Yaron Ben Schlusch

VP Sales
CyberRidge

Vicente Carbon

CEO
Rhonexum

Andrei Dragomir

Founder & CEO
Aquark Technologies

Kadir Durak

Founder & CEO
Qubitrium

Christian Freier

Co-Founder and CTO
Nomad Atomics

Jimena Garcia-Romeu

CEO
Alcyon Photonics

Remi Geiger

Founder & CEO
Kwan-tek

Laurent Guiraud

CEO
ColibriTD

Ryan Guterman

Founder & CEO
FaradaIC Sensors

Carlos Kuchkovsky

CEO
QCentroid

Junaid Malik

Founder & CEO
Quantatrace

Alexandre Papa

Founder & CEO
Spectral Flow

Justyna Pelc

CMO
Resquant

Ville Polojärvi

Founder & CEO
Winse Power

Roberto Siagri

CEO
Rotonium

Robin Sterling

CEO
Coherence Engine

Steve Stoffels

Co-Founder & CEO
Aluvia Photonics

Daniel Vajner

COO & Head of Quantum
AQLS

André Xuereb

Founder & CEO
Merqury Cybersecurity

Marco Zimmermann

CTO
MS Nova Technologies
Expert Panel

Ekaterina Almasque

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
BlankPage Capital

Xavier Aubry

Founder
ZAZ Ventures

Jakob Banhardt

Principal
IRIS Capital

Thomas Belaid

Manager Investments
SAFRAN Corporate Ventures

Eric Belhaire

Technical Director, Senior Expert
Thales

Mark Bell

Partner
Dehns

Silvia Bensel

Senior Innovation Manager Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology

Mike Beunder

Managing Partner & Founder
TD Shepherd & Co.

Jose Brito

Coordination Quantum Technologies
OpTecBB

Quentin Calleja

Principal
Atlantic VC

Claas Carsten Kohl

Partner
European Dual-Use & Defense Tech Growth Fund (E2D)

Olga Chabr Grillova

General Partner
Luminova Ventures

Richard Clarke

Director General
PHABULOuS Pilot Line

Mike Collet

Managing Partner
Promus Ventures

Marco Cravetto

DeepTech Venture Capital
LIFTT

Lorenzo De Angeli

Principal
Matterwave Ventures

Klaas de Boer

Chairman
QFWventures

Jean-Michel Deligny

Chair, Investment Committee
Triple B

Franz Derler

Venture & Growth Capital, Senior Investment Advisor to the EIC Fund
European Investment Bank

Kevin Donnelly

Entrepreneurship Manager
Enterprise Ireland

Quentin Dupraz

Partner
Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital

Ted Elvhage

Founding Partner
Expansion Ventures

Marcus Erken

Founding Partner
Sunfish Partners

Julie Forel

Investment Manager
Speedinvest

Jerome Foret

Managing Director
Quantum Launchpad

Alexander Galitsky

Managing Partner
Almaz Capital

Estelle Godard

Principal
Red River West

Joe Graziano

Director, Deep Tech Practice
Sheffield Haworth

Ion Hauer

Principal
APEX Ventures

Guillaume Haviland

Co-Founder
Edge.40

Tom Haywood

Partner
24Haymarket

Claas Heise

Executive Director
NRW Bank

Isabella Hermann-Schoen

Managing Partner
Round2 Capital Partners

Thomas Heurung

Technical Director EMEA
Siemens EDA

Oliver Kahl

Principal
MIG Capital

Takenori Kumagai

Senior Manager Tech Scouting
JX Advanced Metals Corporation

Petri Laine

Managing Partner
Innovestor Ventures

Jerome Leclanche

Managing Partner
Seven Capital

Flemming Lentfer

Director
FLOET Consulting

Jose Luis Gomez

Principal
Bullnet Capital

Willi Mannheims

Managing Partner
eCapital Entrepreneurial Partners

Laura Mendera

Director Business Development
CLEAR Corporate Finance
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