Quantum Innovation Summit 2025

Mohamed Al Kuwaiti1

H.E. Dr. Mohamed Al Kuwaiti

Head of Cyber Security


United Arab Emirates Government

Dr Abdullah Al Nuami

H.E. Dr. Abdullah Belhaif
Al Nuami

Former UAE Minister of Climate Change and Environment
Chairman

Sharjah Consultative Council

Najwa Aaraj1

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Chief Executive Officer


Technology Innovation Institute

Dr.-Saeed-Al-Dhaheri-lowRes1

H.E. Dr. Saeed K. Aldhaheri

Director, Center for Futures Studies


University of Dubai

Dr. Matthias Troyer

Dr. Matthias Troyer

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President

Microsoft Corporation

Dr. Rajeeb Hazra

President and CEO

Quantinuum

Prof. Elham Kashefi

Prof. Elham Kashefi

Professor of Quantum Computing

Univeristy of Edinburgh and Sorbonne Université

Dr. Nick Fishwick

Dr. Nick Fishwick

Board Member of His Majesty Courts and Tribunals Service

Former Senior Member of the British Foreign Office

Hoda A.Alkhzaimi

Prof. Dr. Hoda A.Alkhzaimi

Director and Founder of EMARATSEC
Associate Vice Provost for Research Translation Innovation and Entrepreneurship

New York University Abu Dhabi

Dr. Walid BENZARTI

Dr. Walid Benzarti

Director for Innovation, Research & Technology

Land and Air Systems Global Business Unit - Thales Group

Petra Florizoone

Director, IBM Quantum Enterprise Global Sales

IBM

Leandro Aolita

Leandro Aolita

Acting Chief Researcher



Technology Innovation Institute

Martin Yates

Martin Yates

Executive Office Government Technology Office

Presight G42

Dr. Nathan Baker

Dr. Nathan Baker

Senior Director, Partnerships for Chemistry and Materials, Microsoft Corp

Microsoft Corp

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Malak Trabelsi Loeb

CEO

Vernewell Group

Frederic

Frédéric Barbaresco

Quantum Algorithms & Computing Segment Leader

THALES

Faisal Hamady

Faisal Hamady

Managing Director and Partner

Boston Consulting Group

Dr. Neil Abroug

Dr. Neil Abroug

Head of Quantum

Inria

Dr. Sana Amairi-Pyka

Dr. Sana Amairi-Pyka

Lead Scientist - Quantum Communications

Technology Innovation Institute

Dr. Helmut Katzgraber

Dr. Helmut Katzgraber

Senior Manager – Advanced Solutions

Amazon Web Services

Elvira Shishenina

Dr. Elvira Shishenina

Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives

Quantinuum

Ambassador Dunston Pereira1

Ambassador Dunston Pereira

CEO

Royal office of H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Faisal Al Qassimi

Dr. Eng Suaad Al Shams

Dr. Eng Suaad Al Shamsi

Aircraft Engineer
Technical Advisor

L2L Consultation Company/ Shehana

Dr. Mohammad Khaled

Dr. Mohammad Khaled

VP. Growth and Transformation

Reach Group

Dino Cataldo Dellaccio

Dino Cataldo Dellaccio

Chief Information Officer


United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

Boshra Alseiari

Boshra Alseiari

Frm. first elected senior female for heading a Research Department in the history of OPEC

OPEC

Nicolas Artelluci1

Nicolas Artelluci

Founder & President


Q. BPO Consulting

Dr. Claudia Pinto

Claudia Pinto

Head of Philanthropy and Sustainability Advisor

Private Office Sheikh Marwan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Chakib Kada Kloucha

Dr. Chakib Kada Kloucha

Senior Specialist


ADNOC

Anastasia1

Anastasia Marchenkova

Founder
Physicist
Content Creator

One Quark Media

Thom Murray

Murray Thom

Vice President

D-Wave | Quantum Technology Evangelism

Karina Robinson

Karina Robinson

CEO


Redcliffe Advisory Ltd

Abdalla Kablan

Dr. Abdalla Kablan

Founder and CEO

DELTA Wealth Partners

Oliver Buchmueller1

Dr. Oliver Buchmueller

Professor

Imperial College London and Oxford University

Travis Ramsay

Dr. Travis Ramsay

Senior Specialist

ADNOC

Aurelie Helouis1

Aurelie Helouis

CEO

InfinityQ Technology inc

Aravind Ratnam

Aravind Ratnam

Chief Strategy Officer

Q-CTRL

Valerie HAWLEY

Valerie Hawley

Executive Director

Sorbonne Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Prof.Bob Coecke (1)

Prof. Dr. Bob Coecke

Chief Scientist

Quantinuum

Alawi Al-Saggaf

Dr. Alawi Al-Saggaf

Senior Lecturer

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Artem Nikitin

Artem Nikitin

Head of Sales

Delft Circuits

Rafał Pracht2

Rafał Pracht

Quantum and Quantitative Researcher   
CTO

FinQbit P.S.A.

Dr. Nadia Boutabba

Dr. Nadia Boutabba

Associate Professor

Institute of Applied Technology Fatima College of Health Sciences

Christopher Bishop2

Christopher Bishop

Podcast host, Master of Ceremonies

Inside Quantum Technology

Mrs Irene Corpuz

Irene Corpuz

Cyber Policy Expert, Founding Partner and Head of Governance & Communications

Women in Cyber Security Middle East (WiCSME)

Saavan Patel

Dr. Saavan Patel

Chief Technology Officer

InfinityQ Technologies

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Matt Cimaglia

Founder & Managing Partner

Quantum Coast Capital

Alex Khan

Alex Khan

Principal Consultant and Advisor Quantum Computing

Aligned IT, LLC.

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Prof. Dr. Hichem Eleuch

Professor

University of Sharjah


Ms. Dana M. Linnet, MA

Dana M. Linnet, MA

CEO

The Summit Group DC


Dr. Ibrahim Almosallam

Dr. Ibrahim Almosallam

Advisor

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Prof. Dr. Ernesto Damiani

Prof. Dr. Ernesto Damiani

Dean of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Khalifa University


Prof. Dr. Michael Hilke

Prof. Dr. Michael Hilke

Associate Professor


McGill University

Biliana Rajevic

Biliana Rajevic

Head of Strategy & Corporate Development

Quantum Brilliance

Dr. Mourad Telmini

Dr. Mourad Telmini

Professor and Director of Research Laboratory on Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy & Applications

University of Tunis El Manar

Aleena Taufiq

Aleena Taufiq

Senior Manager - AI Product Development & Innovation

Verizon

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez

Raul Villamarin Rodriguez

Vice President


Woxsen University


Laszlo Bacsardi

Laszlo Bacsardi

Associate Professor
Head of the Mobile Communications and Quantum Technologies Laboratory

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Khwaja Asim Ahmad

Khwaja Asim Ahmad

Cyber Risk Expert


UK Government Department

*All views are personal & not representing UK Gov

Mohamad Toutounji

Mohamad Toutounji

Professor of Quantum Theory


UAE University


Mark Luo

Mark Luo

Co-Founder and CEO

Quantum Brilliance

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Prof. Dr. Ahmed Younes

Professor of Quantum Computing

Alexandria Quantum Computing Group (AleQCG)

DR. Salman Abdullah

Dr. Salman Abdullah

Product Development Lead

QuantLase Lab

Dr. Saloni Jain

Dr. Saloni Jain

Director, Research & Development

Castle Shield

Prof. Dr. Christophe Couteau

Prof. Dr. Christophe Couteau

Professor and Director of the Laboratory Light, Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies - L2n UTT/CNRS EMR7004

University of Technology of Troyes, France

Prof. Dr. Asif Equbal

Dr. Asif Equbal

Professor



NYU Abu Dhabi, Center for Quantum and Topological Systems

Hussam Al Hamad

Dr. Hussam Al Hamadi

Director of the M.Sc in Cyber Security Program


University of Dubai

Kejal Shah

Kejal Shah

Head of Revenue



QuantWare

Prof. Dr. Muhammad Shafique

Dr. Muhammad Shafique

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NYU Abu Dhabi, Center for Quantum and Topological Systems.

Mervat Sultan12

Mervat Sultan

President


Women in Aviation Middle East Chapter

Robin Wittland

Prof. Dr. Robin Wittland

Chief Commercial Officer


PlanQC GmbH

Dr. May Siksik

Dr. May Siksik

Chief Executive Officer


The Canadian Innovation Network

Selma Coecke (1)

Selma Coecke

Visiting lecturer


King's College London

Janne Hirvimies

Janne Hirvimies

CTO Cybers Security


QuantumGate

Elyes ElAir

Elyes ElAir

Digital & Transformation Leader


EEA & Co

Mohammad HAIDAR

Dr. Mohammad Haidar

Senior Scientist, Former Postdoc in Quantum Computing at Sorbonne University

Sorbonne University

Mr. Mohammed H. AlAbbadi

Mohammed H. Alabbadi

Group CISO (Head of Cybersecurity)

Fertiglobe

Benjamin Delsol1

Dr. Benjamin Delsol

Quantum IP Manager & Strategist
European Patent Attorney
CEO

D.E.L.S.O.L.

Krzysztof Switkowski

Dr. Krzysztof Switkowski

Senior Laser Scientist

Quantlase Research & Development Center

Shoaib Yousuf

Shoaib Yousuf

Managing Director & Partner

The Boston Consulting Group

Rashed Ali Aljasmi

Rashed Ali Aljasmi

Research Assistant

New York University Abu Dhabi

Mara Dimond

Mara Dimond

Head of Global Strategic Partnerships

Pasqal

Prof. Enrique Solano

Prof. Enrique Solano

Co-CEO and Co-Founder

Kipu Quantum GmbH

Dr. Nader Ghazal

Dr. Nader Ghazal

Chairman

The African-Asian Council of AI and Cybersecurity

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Dr. Ahmed Khalid A Alqurashi

IEEE Expert and Business Solution Development Consultant


IEEE & RESEND
Umm Al-Qura University

Hisham Sati

Prof. Hisham Sati

Founding Director of the Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS), Associate Dean of Science at NYUAD

New York University Abu Dhabi

Nujud Senan

Nujud Senan

Quantum Computing Specialist



Saudi Quantum Technology Association

Prof. Hossam Abdelraouf

Prof. Hossam Abdelraouf

Head of Police Sciences Department



Dubai Police Academy

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Previous Speakers

H.E. Tariq AlHashmi

Assistant Undersecretary of Advanced Technology

Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology

Prof. Bob Coecke

Chief Scientist

Quantinuum

Dr. Leandro Aolita

Executive Director - Algorithms Quantum Research Center

Technology Innovation Institute

Dr. Najwa Aaraj

Chief Researcher

Technology Innovation Institute


Dr. Michael J Biercuk

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Q-CTRL

Dana M. Linnet

Chief Executive Officer

The Summit Group DC

Sahar Ben Rached

PhD Candidate

Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Dr. Bruno Huttner

Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives

ID Quantique

Dr. Pramod Kumar

Director of Research & Innovation

QuantLase Laboratory, UAE


Dr. Guanru Feng

Senior Scientist

Shenzhen SpinQ Technology Co., Ltd.

Rafael Willuveit de Oliveira

CTO

TrTec


Jonathan Naoukin

Senior TEX-E Fellow

The University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange for Energy

Naser Ahmed Alrashdi

Chief Executive Officer
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5IR Mangement and Deep-Tech Consulting and Training

Dr. Rene Reimann

Senior Director Quantum Sensing

Technology Innovation Institute

Dr. Niccolo Somaschi

CEO

Quandela

Biliana Rajevic

Head of Strategy & Corporate Development

Quantum Brilliance

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