Participants
Meet the experts driving this programme forward
Speakers

Luis Barbosa
Defence Industry & Space Tech
European Defence Fund

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

Remi de La Vieuville
Head of Quantum HPC
Alice & Bob

Stephen Duffy
CEO, Digital and Semiconductor BU
TÜV Nord Group

Jouni Flyktman
VP Defense & Security
IQM

Robert Harrison
Strategic Consultant
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)

Michael Hofstetter
Head of Quantum Sensing Initiative
SPRIN-D

Michael Jobst
Investment Partner
Vsquared Ventures

Katrin Kobe
CEO
Bosch Quantum Sensing

Adrian Mahlkow
CEO
OpTecBB

Cecile Perrault
Vice President
European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC)

Jeremy Picot-Clemente
Optics & Optical Systems
EPIC Photonics

Gerrit Rössler
Head of Photonics, Microelectronics & Quantum
Berlin Partner of Economics & Technology

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

Kevin Fuechsel
Managing Director & CEO
Quantum Optics Jena

Olga Fusseder
Head of Sales DACH & CEE
Multiverse Computing

François Hutin
Chief of Staff
Quobly

Philippe Notton
CEO & Founder
SiPearl

Arthur Pathe
Finance & Strategy Manager
OQ Technology

Eda Sorani
Business Development
planqc

Balazs Szekeres
Co-Founder & Managing Director
Perciv AI

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

Maria del Valle Ortega
CEO & Co-Founder
QoolNet

Kadir Durak
Founder & CEO
Qubitrium

Samuel Fernández Lorenzo
CEO & Co-Founder
Inspiration-Q

Christian Freier
Co-Founder and CTO
Nomad Atomics

Jimena Garcia-Romeu
CEO
Alcyon Photonics

Remi Geiger
Founder & CEO
Kwan-tek

Jesper Gretlund
CEO & Co-Founder
Lucore Technology

Laurent Guiraud
CEO
ColibriTD

Ryan Guterman
Founder & CEO
FaradaIC Sensors

Dan Holme
CEO & Co-Founder
Qoro

Alexander Jantzen
CОO & Co-Founder
Aquark Technologies

Carlos Kuchkovsky
CEO
QCentroid

José Llorens
Research Advisor and Founder
g2-Zero

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

Daniel Volz
CEO & Founder
Stealth-Mode Startup

André Xuereb
Founder & CEO
Merqury Cybersecurity

Marco Zimmermann
CTO
MS Nova Technologies
Expert Panel

Jakob Banhardt
Principal
IRIS Capital

Thomas Belaid
Manager Investments
SAFRAN Corporate Ventures

Eric Belhaire
Technical Director, Senior Expert
Thales

Mark Bell
Partner
Dehns

Fabricia Beltramini
Senior Manager Digitalisation & Innovation
TÜV Nord Group

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

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
Investment Manager
Constructor Capital

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

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

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
Expert Guests
