2022 Speakers

Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology

National Security Council
The White House

Governor

State of Maryland

President

University of Maryland

Director

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Director of Research

National Security Agency

Assistant Director, Quantum Information Science

Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Chief Scientist

Australia

MITRE Fellow, Lead of Quantum Moonshot Program

The MITRE Corporation

Executive Director

Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

Director

Chicago Quantum Exchange

Founder and Chief Scientist, IonQ

Fellow, JQI and QuICS

Director of the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology

Australian Research Council

Chief Science Officer, Riverlane

Fellow, NIST and JQI

Chief Scientist

Boeing Disruptive Computing and Networks

Senior Vice President, Natural & Technical Sciences; Professor

Novo Nordisk Foundation

Vice President of Research

National Research Council of Canada

Head of the French National Quantum Strategy

General Secretariat for Investment, France

CEO

Sandbox AQ

Founder & CEO

Strangeworks

Vice President of Quantum

IBM

CEO

ColdQuanta

Professor and Director

Maryland Quantum Materials Center, University of Maryland

President and Chief Operating Officer

Quantinuum

Vice President and Chief Quantum Advocate

ColdQuanta

Director

Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (EQUS)

Quantum Technologies Future Science Platform Lead

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

Chief Research Information Officer

Cleveland Clinic

Former U.S. Senator

Tennessee

Mayor

City of Chattanooga, Tennessee

Founder & President

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Johns Hopkins University

President

Prince George’s Community College

Head of Academic Engagement

Swissnex in Boston and New York

Advisor for Quantum Technologies and Quantum Computing

Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Republic of Germany

Senior Policy Analyst, Federal Science and Technology Policy

National Quantum Strategy Secretariat, Government of Canada

Reporter

Politico

Vice President, Strategic Engagement & Partnerships

The MITRE Corporation

President and CEO

Connected DMV

Director, Potomac Quantum Innovation Center

Chief Innovation Officer, Connected DMV

Chancellor

University of Tennessee Chattanooga

Chief Program Operations Officer

TEDCO (Maryland Technology Development Corporation)

Vice President, Development & Workforce Initiatives, NEXTversity Initiative Lead

Connected DMV

Technical Program Manager

Intel

Associate Director of Research for Systems

Naval Research Laboratory

Counselor │ Head of Office of Science and Innovation

Embassy of Sweden in Washington D.C.

Director, Division of Physics, Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences

National Science Foundation

Curriculum and Education Partnership Liaison

Chicago Quantum Exchange

Chief Innovation Officer and Associate Vice President for Innovation and Economic Development

University of Maryland

Korea-US Quantum Technology Cooperation Center

Director of Algorithms, Performance, and Tools

D-Wave Quantum Inc.

Partner

Airbus Ventures

Executive Director, Washington Metropolitan Quantum Network Research Consortium (DC-QNet)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

CEO

Switzerland Innovation

Fellow

Institute for Quantum Computing

Partner

11.2 Capital

Quantum Program Lead, Principal Director

Accenture

President and Chief Technology Officer

Qubitekk

Program Director, Condensed Matter Physics, Division of Materials Research

National Science Foundation

Executive Director and Lead

Illinois Quantum Information Science and Technology Center, University of Illinois

Associate Director & Branch Chief for Quantum Sciences

Army Research Laboratory

Deputy Director

Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

Managing Editor

Quantum Computing Report

President & CEO

Jobs for the Future

Manager, STEAM & Computer Science

Fairfax County Public Schools

EVP, Global Technology

In-Q-Tel

CEO

Qunnect

Senior Policy Advisor, Science and Innovation

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, British Embassy

Quantum Materials Physicist

The MITRE Corporation

Dean of Academic Affairs

The University of the District of Columbia Community College

K-12 Program Manager

American Association of Physics Teachers, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology

Associate Research Professor, School of Public Policy; Director, GoTech; Senior Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies

University of Maryland

Deputy Director, Information Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)

Director

Quantum Alliance Initiative

Hudson Institute

Associate Professor

Albany Law School

Secretariat of Science, Technology and Innovation Policy, Cabinet Office

Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives, Quantum Key Distribution Evangelist

ID Quantique SA

Assistant Professor of Law; Founder and Executive Director, National Security Institute; Director, National Security Law & Policy Program

George Mason University

Founder and Managing Partner

Quantonation

CEO

QuEra

Research Assistant Professor and Acting Director, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

George Mason University

Founder & Chairman

OneQuantum

Chief Legal Officer

Quantinuum

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist

Quantropi Inc.

Director

Quantum Startup Foundry, University of Maryland

Director of the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML)

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Partner

Boston Consulting Group

President

The Brookings Institution

VP of Quantum Signal Processing

ColdQuanta

Professor & Associate Dean, Department of Physics

University of Maryland

Chief Technology Officer

Qrypt

Quantum Sensors Group Leader

The MITRE Corporation

Vice President, Research, Innovation, and Economic Impact

George Mason University

Director - Internal Innovation & Intrapreneurship

FedTech

CEO & Co-Founder

BEIT Inc.

Associate, Privacy and Technology Transactions

Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP

Founder and Chair

NEXT powered by Shulman Rogers

Co-Founder, President & CEO

evolutionQ Inc.

Senior Policy Analyst, Center for Data Innovation

Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF)

Commercialization Executive, Office of Technology Transitions

U.S. Department of Energy

Vice President Quantum Safe Solutions

ID Quantique SA

VP of Research and Security Solutions

ColdQuanta

Co-Founder and Chief Learning Officer

National Quantum Literacy Network

Section Head & Distinguished Research and Development Staff, The Quantum Information Science Section

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Managing Director, Head of Global Technology Applied Research

JP Morgan Chase

President & CEO

Safe Quantum, Inc.

Director of Advanced Research Programs

Atom Computing

Research Manager

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

Research Fellow

Center for International and Security Studies, The University of Maryland

Chief Technology Officer

Quantropi Inc.

CEO and Chairman

Aliro Quantum Technologies

Associate Professor; Director of Education, Quantum Science and Engineering Center

George Mason University

Founder & President

Women in Quantum

Executive Director, Deep Tech Ventures

Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Chicago

Founder & CEO

Zapata Computing, Inc.

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance; Director, Strategic Research Initiatives

University of Maryland

Chief Human Resources Officer and Vice President of Operations

Quantinuum

Global Government Relations & Public Affairs Leaders

D-Wave Quantum Inc.

Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer

PsiQuantum

Founding Director

The Optics Institute of Southern California

Head of Government Solutions

IonQ

Quantum Materials Physicist

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Sr. Policy Advisor for the National Quantum Coordination at the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP)

The White House

CEO

Quantum Catalyzer (Q-CAT)

Founder & Executive Director

Quantum Industry Coalition

President

Quantum Futures

CEO

Sydney Quantum Academy

Co-Founder

Womanium

Director of Government Affairs

SandboxAQ

Associate Professor and Director, Quantum Science and Engineering Center

George Mason University

President and CEO

Chattanooga Electric Power Board

Co-Founder

Quantum Catalyzer (Q-CAT)

Interim Global Lead for Emerging Technology Policy

Google

Chief Scientist for Quantum Technologies

The MITRE Corporation

Partner

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Founder & Host

The Big Idea CONNECTpreneur Forum

Director, Cleveland Clinic

IBM Partnership, Cleveland Clinic