Mark your calendar for Qubits 2025!
AGENDA
DAY 1
MONDAY, JUNE 17
8:30 AM ET - 5:00 PM ET
In-person breakfast and badge pickup
starts at 7:45 AM
OPENING KEYNOTE:
Dr. Alan Baratz, CEO, D-Wave and Special Guests
Computational Supremacy
Andrew King, Senior Distinguished Scientist, D-Wave
How Tomorrow’s Technologies Will Shape Today's Economy - the Inception of a Global Quantum Hub
Damir Bogdan, CEO, QuantumBasel
Break
Panel Discussion: Quantum Success Journey
Lorenzo Martinelli, Chief Revenue Officer, D-Wave; Steve Flinter, Distinguished Engineer (Senior Vice President), Mastercard; Scott Buchholz, Deloitte, Lindsay Dukowski, Pattison Food Group
Quantum Computing Applications at Retail
Lindsay Dukowski, Director, Data & Analytics, Pattison Food Group
Applications of Quantum Annealing to SAS® Advanced Analytics
Bill Wisotsky, Principal Technical Architect, SAS
Panel discussion: Quantum for the Public Sector
Allison Schwartz, VP Global Government Relations, D-Wave; Rima Ouied, Senior Commercialization Executive, US Dept. of Energy; Elnaz Kanani Partner, Deloitte; Dana Linnet, Senior Executive, Artificial Brain
Lunch
Workshop: Building a Quantum Community
Victoria Goliber, Global Head of Technical Advising, D-Wave
Quantum for National Defense
Dale Moore, President, Davidson Technologies
Towards Material Discovery with Quantum Annealing Hardware
Carleton Coffrin, Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
D-Wave Technology: Advantage2™ System
Trevor Lanting, Chief Development Officer, D-Wave
D-Wave Technology: Hybrid Solvers
Alex Condello, Senior Director of Algorithms, Performance and Tools, D-Wave
D-Wave Technology: Leap™ Cloud Service
Fiona Hanington, VP Program Management, D-Wave
Break
Quantum-Assisted Generative AI for Simulations at the Large Hadron Collider Experiments
Wojtek Fedorko, Deputy Department Head, Scientific Computing, TRIUMF
A Conversation with Zapata AI
Ascent to Quantum GenAI
Ed Heinbockel, CEO, SavantX
DINNER EXCURSION: THOMPSON ISLAND CLAMBAKE!
DAY 2
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
8:30 AM ET - 5:00PM ET
OPENING KEYNOTE: Quantum Trends Powering Organizational Decisions
Brian Lenahan, Chair, Quantum Strategy Institute
Quantum for Climate and Sustainability Challenges
Annarita Giani, Senior Scientist, GE Vernova
Quantum Annealing and Power Consumption - A Case Study in Mobile Telecommunications
Paul Warburton, Professor, University College London
Transforming Airline Operations with Quantum Annealing
Jefferson Smullin, Director of Emerging Technology, Unisys
Break
Exploring the Optimization of Key Business Processes Using Quantum Computing: Survey Results
Bob Sorensen, SVP Research, Hyperion Research
Harnessing D-Wave's Binary Quadratic Model Solver to Deliver Results for Drug Discovery
Bill Shipman, CTO Founder and Maurice Benson, Principal Software Engineer, POLARISqb
Quantum Annealing for Therapeutic Peptide Design
Andrejs Tucs, Researcher, University of Tokyo
Fast Tracking Quantum Journey of Industries : LTIMindtree’s Jumpstart Approach
Vijay Rao, Principal Director- Quantum Tech Incubation, LTIMindtree
Lunch
Meet and Greet with Professional Services
Quantum Application Demo
Catherine Potts, Senior Technical Advisor, D-Wave
Performance of Annealing Quantum Systems: Theory Versus Reality
Catherine McGeoch, D-Wave Principal Scientist Emeritus, D-Wave
Short-Depth QAOA Circuits and Quantum Annealing on Higher-Order Ising Models
Elijah Pelofske, Research Student, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quantum Solutions for You, from Tohoku University
Masayuki Ohzeki, Professor, Tohoku University
Break
Financial Applications for Quantum Computing that can be Instituted Today
Ethan Krimins, CEO, Quantum Research Sciences
GMV leading D-Wave to Space
Ana María Sánchez Montero, Quantum Section Head, GMV
ENDING REMARKS / NETWORKING RECEPTION