EU Edition · Leuven, Belgium · Agenda

The full
programme.

1–2 October 2026 · IMEC Headquarters, Leuven, Belgium. Every session, keynote, panel, and networking break across the summit.

Full Schedule

The full day,
hour by hour.

From 7:30 AM registration to the 9:00 PM dinner reception — every session, break, and transition mapped to its time slot with the speakers taking the stage.

01
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Quantum Architecture, Policy & Infrastructure Stack
  1. 07:30 – 08:30
    ⌁Registration

    Registration & Badge Collection

  2. 08:30 – 08:50
    ◆Opening

    Opening Remarks & Summit Overview

    • Salah Nasri
      Salah Nasri
      CEO and Co-Founder
      ISIG
    • Amy Leong
      Amy Leong
      GQIG Chair, Diraq Head of Commercialization and Partnerships
      Global Quantum Industry Group (GQIG)
  3. 08:50 – 09:00
    ◆Opening

    Welcome Address

    • Dr. Thomas Piliszczuk
      Dr. Thomas Piliszczuk
      Executive Vice-President, Chief R&D Programs and Portfolio Officer
      imec

  4. Quantum Architecture Race to Utility Scale

    09:00 – 09:20
    ★Keynote

    On the scale-up and scale-out of quantum computers

    • Prof. Oskar Painter
      Prof. Oskar Painter
      Director, Amazon Quantum Hardware
      Amazon Web Services
  5. 09:20 – 09:40
    ★Keynote

    Pasqal Vision: Building the Next Generation of Computing

    • Roberto Mauro
      Roberto Mauro
      Chief Product Officer
      Pasqal
  6. 09:40 – 10:00
    ★Keynote

    Scaling Superconducting Quantum Computers Towards Utility

    • Dr. Subodh Kulkarni
      Dr. Subodh Kulkarni
      President & CEO
      Rigetti
  7. 10:00 – 10:20
    ★Keynote

    Semiconductor platforms for scaling quantum technologies

    • Dr. Mihir Bhaskar
      Dr. Mihir Bhaskar
      SVP and GM at Quantum Technologies
      Skywater Technology
  8. 10:20 – 11:20
    ◌Break

    Networking Break & Business Meetings — Slot 1 | IMEC Tour #1

  9. 11:20 – 11:40
    ★Keynote

    Production Quantum: industrial strength through quantum fab, assembly line, and data centers

    • Dr. Jan Goetz
      Dr. Jan Goetz
      CEO & Co-Founder
      IQM Quantum Computers

  10. Policy Leadership in Action — How Europe's Quantum Nations Are Building the Infrastructure Agenda

    11:40 – 11:50
    ▸Talk

    Denmark's international quantum ambitions

    • Louise Lund Henneberg
      Louise Lund Henneberg
      Deputy Director / Techplomacy
      Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
  11. 11:50 – 12:00
    ▸Talk

    Building a quantum-enabled economy and ecosystem

    • Dr. Johann De Silva
      Dr. Johann De Silva
      Head of International, DSIT Office for Quantum
      Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
  12. 12:00 – 12:10
    ▸Talk

    Finland on the way to a leading country in quantum technologies

    • Outi Keski-Äijö
      Outi Keski-Äijö
      Head of Quantum Program
      Business Finland
  13. 12:10 – 12:30
    ▸Talk

    Unlocking Public Funding for Strategic Quantum R&D&I Projects

    • Dr. Marc Isabelle
      Dr. Marc Isabelle
      Founder & CEO
      european economics
  14. 12:30 – 13:30
    ◐Lunch

    Lunch

  15. Quantum Market Intelligence

    13:30 – 13:50
    ▸Talk

    Quantumleap towards the future

    • Dr. Henning Soller
      Dr. Henning Soller
      Partner, Frankfurt
      McKinsey & Company

  16. Quantum Architectures, Secure Networks and the Path to Scale

    13:50 – 14:10
    ▸Talk

    Scalable Quantum Computing with Photon-Connected Spin Qubits on Photonic Chips

    • Dr. Ilai Schwartz
      Dr. Ilai Schwartz
      CTO
      NVision Quantum Technologies
  17. 14:10 – 14:20
    ▸Talk

    Secure Hardware's Role in Tomorrow's Post-Quantum Chain of Trust

    • Sean Hackett
      Sean Hackett
      Head of Product for the Silicon Group
      BTQ Technologies
  18. 14:20 – 14:30
    ▸Talk

    Preparing HPC Centres for Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

    • Remi de La Vieuville
      Remi de La Vieuville
      Head of COO Tech Office
      Alice & Bob
  19. 14:30 – 14:40
    ▸Talk

    More qubits - same fridge

    • Dr. Paul Magnard
      Dr. Paul Magnard
      Co-Founder & CEO
      Isentroniq
  20. 14:40 – 15:10
    ◎Panel

    Panel: Quantum Compute & Networks: The Race to Utility Scale

    • Josh Moles
      Moderator
      Josh Moles
      Founder and CEO
      Snoquera
    • Sean Hackett
      Panellist
      Sean Hackett
      Head of Product for the Silicon Group
      BTQ Technologies
    • Charles Foley
      Panellist
      Charles Foley
      Chairman, CEO
      memQ
    • Dr. Claire Le Gall
      Panellist
      Dr. Claire Le Gall
      VP Technology
      Nu Quantum
  21. 15:10 – 16:10
    ◌Break

    Networking Break & Business Meetings — Slot 2 | IMEC Tour #2

  22. Early Adopters — Building Quantum Infrastructure for Real‑World End Users

    16:10 – 16:20
    ▸Talk

    Quantum Computing in the Cloud

    • Julia Thiele
      Julia Thiele
      Sr Go-to-Market Specialist for Amazon Braket
      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  23. 16:20 – 16:30
    ▸Talk

    From Quantum Computers to Quantum Infrastructure: Integrating QPUs into HPC and AI platforms

    • Thuy Truong
      Thuy Truong
      Distinguished Engineer
      Dell Technologies
  24. 16:30 – 16:40
    ▸Talk

    Integrating heterogeneous quantum technologies into HPC environments to support distributed hybrid classical-quantum workflows

    • Aniello Esposito
      Aniello Esposito
      Principal Research Engineer
      Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)
  25. 16:40 – 16:50
    ▸Talk

    Quantum Technologies at HSBC: Risk and Opportunities

    • Dr. Alejandro Montblanch
      Dr. Alejandro Montblanch
      Quantum Safety Lead
      HSBC
  26. 16:50 – 17:00
    ▸Talk

    The QCI's Quantum Computing ecosystem: Pooling quantum computing hardware, applications, infrastructure and services

    • Dr. Karla Loida
      Dr. Karla Loida
      Strategy & Team Lead Quantum Computing Hardware
      DLR German Aerospace Center
  27. 17:00 – 17:15
    ✦Fireside

    Quantum in Practice: The End‑User Fireside Chat

    • Anastasia Marchenkova
      Anastasia Marchenkova
      Co-Founder & CEO
      Marqov
    • Hiroshi Nakata
      Hiroshi Nakata
      Chief Operating Officer (COO) & Board of Member
      JIJ Inc.

  28. Quantum Scale-up: A Look Ahead into Day 2

    17:15 – 17:25
    ▸Talk

    Building The Workflows and Data Pipelines For Scaling Quantum Hardware

    • Vishal Chatrath
      Vishal Chatrath
      Co-Founder & CEO
      QuantrolOx
  29. 17:25 – 17:30
    ◇Closing

    Closing Remarks — Day 1

  30. 17:40 – 18:00
    ⇆Transfer

    Bus Transfer to the Gala venue: De Hoorn

    Shuttle transfers from imec Headquarters to De Hoorn, and return shuttles from De Hoorn to Hotel — refer to your bus instruction email for details.

  31. 18:00 – 21:00
    ◉Reception

    Cocktail Reception, Award Dinner & IMEC Leadership Connect

    • Steven Scheer — Senior Vice President R&D • Paul Heremans — Corporate chief technology officer at imec and senior fellow • Joost Seijnave — Vice President Industry & Consumer

02
Friday, 2 October 2026
Hardware Frontier, Manufacturing & Investor Perspectives
  1. 07:30 – 08:30
    ⌁Registration

    Registration & Badge Collection

  2. 08:30 – 08:40
    ◆Opening

    Opening Remarks — Day 2

  3. The Hardware Frontier: Building the Quantum Infrastructure of the Future

    08:40 – 09:00
    ★Keynote

    Taking qubits and control from the lab to 300 mm industrial fab

    • Dr. Kristiaan De Greve
      Dr. Kristiaan De Greve
      Fellow & Program Director of Quantum
      imec
  4. 09:00 – 09:20
    ★Keynote

    Scaling Quantum Computing Through Photonic Innovation

    • Dr. Ben Bloom
      Dr. Ben Bloom
      Founder & CEO
      Atom Computing
  5. 09:20 – 09:40
    ★Keynote

    From NISQ to FTQC: What Changes for HPC Centres

    • Remi de La Vieuville
      Remi de La Vieuville
      Head of COO Tech Office
      Alice & Bob
  6. 09:40 – 10:00
    ★Keynote

    Toward Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

    • Dr. Heike Riel
      Dr. Heike Riel
      IBM Fellow, Head Quantum & AI Technologies
      IBM
  7. 10:00 – 11:00
    ◌Break

    Networking Break & Business Meetings — Slot 3 | IMEC Tour #3

  8. From Pilot Line to Production – Towards Enabling Quantum Manufacturing in Europe

    11:00 – 11:10
    ▸Talk

    Turning a semiconductor pilot line into a trusted technology service provider

    • Philippe Soussan
      Philippe Soussan
      Technology Portfolio Director
      imec
  9. 11:10 – 11:20
    ▸Talk

    TNO's multi-disciplinary foundations to the quantum ECO-System in Europe

    • Richard Versluis
      Richard Versluis
      Principal Systems Engineer
      TNO (Netherlands)
  10. 11:20 – 11:30
    ▸Talk

    Accelerate Innovation: The Role of high-volume Semiconductor Technology as Scaling Foundation in Quantum Computing

    • Richard Kuncic
      Richard Kuncic
      Senior Vice President & General Manager | Business Line Head
      Infineon Technologies

  11. Cryogenic for Utility-scale Quantum Performance

    11:30 – 11:40
    ▸Talk

    Delivering PsiQuantum's Global Cryogenic Infrastructure

    • Eric Fauve
      Eric Fauve
      VP Cryogenics
      PsiQuantum
  12. 11:40 – 11:50
    ▸Talk

    Building industrial-scale silicon quantum computing through co-development and Delivering the Scalable Quantum Future, Today

    • Maud Vinet
      Maud Vinet
      Co-Founder & CEO
      Quobly
    • Dr. David Gunnarsson
      Dr. David Gunnarsson
      Chief Business Development Officer
      Bluefors
  13. 11:50 – 12:50
    ◐Lunch

    Lunch

  14. The Hardware Enabling Stack – EDA, Control Systems, Cryogenics & Interconnects

    12:50 – 13:00
    ▸Talk

    Cryo-optimized CMOS: Enabling the scale-up of fault-tolerant quantum computers

    • Himadri Majumdar
      Himadri Majumdar
      Co-Founder & CEO
      SemiQon
  15. 13:00 – 13:10
    ▸Talk

    Cooling Modules, Not Cryostats: A Helium-3-Free Path to Deployment-Scale Quantum Systems

    • Dr. Alexander Regnat
      Dr. Alexander Regnat
      Co-Founder & Managing Director
      kiutra
  16. 13:10 – 13:20
    ▸Talk

    Scalable I/O for Quantum Systems: recent progress and a look ahead

    • Daan Kuitenbrouwer
      Daan Kuitenbrouwer
      Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
      Delft Circuits
  17. 13:20 – 13:30
    ▸Talk

    Scalable Quantum Computing Through Tight Classical-Quantum Integration

    • Dr. Niels Bultink
      Dr. Niels Bultink
      Co-Founder & CEO
      Qblox
  18. 13:30 – 13:40
    ▸Talk

    Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing Is an Industrial Challenge

    • Dr. Claudius Riek
      Dr. Claudius Riek
      Managing Director Germany
      Zurich Instruments

  19. CEO Leadership at the Quantum Frontier

    13:40 – 13:50
    ▸Talk

    Betting on Analog: A Complementary Path to Fault Tolerance

    • Dr. Marta P. Estarellas
      Dr. Marta P. Estarellas
      CEO
      Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech
  20. 13:50 – 14:00
    ▸Talk

    Materials to Enable a Quantum Future

    • Dr. Simon Thomas
      Dr. Simon Thomas
      CEO and Co-Founder
      Paragraf
  21. 14:00 – 14:10
    ▸Talk

    Long-Lived Qubits: A Different Path to Quantum Scale

    • Amado Bautista-Salvador
      Amado Bautista-Salvador
      Founder & CEO
      QUDORA Technologies GmbH
  22. 14:10 – 14:20
    ▸Talk

    A modular, extendible architecture for semiconductor quantum computers in germanium

    • Dr. Anne-Marije Zwerver
      Dr. Anne-Marije Zwerver
      CEO & Co-founder
      Groove Quantum
  23. 14:20 – 15:20
    ◌Break

    Networking Break & Business Meetings — Slot 4 | IMEC Tour #4

  24. Quantum Dealflow Live – Investor and Founder Showcase

    15:20 – 16:20
    ◎Panel

    Six Companies — 10 min each for pitch and Q&A

    • Dr. Steven Konsek
      Panellist
      Dr. Steven Konsek
      Investment Director
      Applied Materials
    • Dr. Owen Lozman
      Panellist
      Dr. Owen Lozman
      Managing Partner
      55 North
    • Ton van 't Noordende
      Panellist
      Ton van 't Noordende
      Founder & General Partner
      Ground State Ventures
    • Dr. Kris Naudts
      Panellist
      Dr. Kris Naudts
      Founding & Managing Partner
      Firgun Ventures
    • Patrick Bore
      Finalist
      Patrick Bore
      CEO
      AQSolotl
    • James Bull
      Finalist
      James Bull
      Co-Founder / CEO
      Dots
    • Sven Ernst
      Finalist
      Sven Ernst
      CEO
      Munich Quantum Instruments GmbH
    • Eric W. Cao
      Finalist
      Eric W. Cao
      Co-founder / CEO
      Qifrost
    • Johannes Jobst
      Finalist
      Johannes Jobst
      Co-founder, CEO
      QuantaMap
    • Arpita Paul
      Finalist
      Arpita Paul
      COO, Quantum Systems Lead
      RexCrux

  25. Turning Semiconductor Success into Quantum Momentum

    16:20 – 16:50
    ◎Panel

    Panel Discussion

    • Oreste Donzella
      Moderator
      Oreste Donzella
      Senior Advisor and Board Member
      International Semiconductor Industry Group (ISIG)
    • Dr. Mihir Bhaskar
      Panellist
      Dr. Mihir Bhaskar
      SVP and GM at Quantum Technologies
      Skywater Technology
    • Dr. Nicholas Sergeant
      Panellist
      Dr. Nicholas Sergeant
      VP Quantum Technology Solutions & New Business Acceleration
      GlobalFoundries
    • Richard Kuncic
      Panellist
      Richard Kuncic
      Senior Vice President & General Manager | Business Line Head
      Infineon Technologies

  26. Summit Closing

    16:50 – 17:00
    ▸Talk

    Award Ceremony: Investor Deal Flow Winners

  27. 17:00 – 17:10
    ◇Closing

    Closing Remarks — Day 2

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