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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

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