Voices shaping
quantum infrastructure.

Led the IBM Quantum team that built IBM Quantum System Two — the first modular quantum computer — and delivered IBM Quantum Heron and Nighthawk processors. PhD Physics, Yale. Forbes 30 Under 30 (2012).

25+ years in quantum computing. Joined Google Quantum AI in 2020 as the lead of Quantum Engineering hardware, owning the roadmap for Google's large-scale quantum computers. Previously at D-Wave through five product generations.

Researched superconducting qubits since the mid-1980s. Led Google's quantum supremacy experiment in 2019. London Prize 2014, John Stewart Bell Prize 2021. Co-founded Qolab in 2023. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025.

CEO of Quantum Motion — developing silicon-based qubit architectures compatible with standard CMOS fabrication. PhD in Quantum Physics from Imperial College London. ERA Fellow.

Physicist by training and vocation. PhD ENS Lyon. Bit-flip-protected qubit work published in Nature Physics (2020). Co-founded Alice & Bob to build error-corrected quantum computers (FTQCs).

Building next-generation visual AI hardware and software for satellites and machines. Former MIT researcher. Author of the annual MIT Quantum Index Report.

20 years in solid-state physics. Key role in advancing silicon-based quantum computing worldwide, collaborating with qubit developers across four continents.

CRO at Infleqtion — global leader in atom-based quantum computing and sensing for commercial and government applications. Stanford MBA, BSc Physics, Manchester.

Leveraging Intel's transistor manufacturing expertise toward commercial quantum systems. Device lead on Intel's 22nm FinFET prototype. 395 US patents. PhD Princeton.

Product manager for NVIDIA NVQLink — accelerating every QPU and helping the quantum industry integrate with the supercomputing environment.

Department Head for Computational Sciences at LBNL. Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator (National Quantum Initiative). Leads MACH-Q error-aware software stacks for hybrid quantum computing.

Co-founder of OrangeQS. Launched the first publicly accessible European quantum computer at QuTech Delft in 2020. End-to-end solutions for testing quantum chips.

Deep expertise across chip design, RF, algo and full-system architecture. Previously at Broadcom, Intel, Mobileye. Inventor on 40+ patents. Intel Achievement Award 2021.

Serial deep-tech entrepreneur. CEO of Oxford spin-out QuantrolOx — Quantum EDGE measurement and automation platform for quantum hardware, plus VIDYAQAR superconducting quantum systems.

Executive Director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium. Two decades in government-industry partnerships. Member of the Quantum 100. US delegate to the NATO Transatlantic Quantum Community and G7 Quantum Working Group.

Cum laude MSc Applied Physics, TU Delft. Early team member at QuantWare — the world's highest-volume QPU supplier, with the VIO QPU architecture targeting MegaQubit-scale processors.

Appointed CTO of Rigetti in February 2023. Previously SVP Systems and Services. Earlier at Sun Microsystems, Nokia, Bolt Threads, Stage 3 Systems. BS/MS UC San Diego.

PhD UC Berkeley. Author of "Introduction to Quantum Computing" and "Quantum Computing Architecture and Hardware for Engineers". Co-founded the MS Quantum Technology programme at SJSU. NSF CAREER Award.

PhD Theoretical Physics, UC Berkeley. Founding member of the Sandbox team at Alphabet. Building Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) — first-principles AI systems.

Leads work on quantum, neuromorphic and energy-efficient computing at NY Creates Albany. Former IBM Research, SEMATECH. PhD Materials Science, MIT.

30+ years of leadership across HP, Agilent, and Keysight. Domain depth in quantum computing, aerospace and defence, wireless infrastructure, and semiconductor ecosystems.

CTO of Applied Materials and President of Applied Ventures (the company's VC fund). World-renowned materials scientist. Elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2017. 180+ papers, 120+ patents worldwide. Former NYSTAR Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer.

Drives strategic growth at Bluefors — bridging cryogenic technological innovation with business objectives. PhD from Chalmers. Previously at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.

CTO of GF since 2022. Leads GF Labs — silicon photonics for the data centre, advanced packaging, and quantum computing. 25 years at Freescale and Motorola previously.

PhD Electrical Engineering, Stanford. Proximus Chair in Quantum Science and Technology at KU Leuven. Former Harvard physics fellow. Responsible for imec's strategy in quantum technologies.

Joined Keysight in 2020 via the Labber acquisition (MIT spin-off for instrument control). PhD Chalmers. First author of the highly cited "A Quantum Engineer's Guide to Superconducting Qubits".

20+ years across semiconductor integration, advanced lithography, metrology, and now integrated photonics and photonic quantum computing.

Leads SEEQC's R&D toward chip-based quantum computing systems. Former associate VP at HFC Semiconductor, formerly led Nanoelectronics at IBM TJ Watson Research Center. PhD Stanford. 200+ US patents.

CEO of SkyWater since 2017. Drove the company's transformation to a US-based pure-play foundry and led its successful 2021 IPO. Previously at AMD, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and Rudolph Technologies.

Leads ULVAC's Semiconductor & Electronics Business Development. Former CEO of ULVAC KIKO and ULVAC CRYOGENICS. Spearheaded the strategic development of ULVAC's Dilution Refrigerator for quantum computing.

Quantum physicist and deep-tech entrepreneur. 15 years in quantum technology — Georgia Tech, University of Maryland JQI, Lawrence Berkeley, Bleximo. Co-founder of Marqov compute orchestration platform.

Sr. Principal at HPE Quantum (Emergent Machine Intelligence team, HPE Labs). Adjunct Associate Professor at University of Maryland. Former Sr. Scientist at NASA Ames Quantum AI Lab and Director of Technical Product Management at D-Wave.