Q-Con Quantum Conference: Deep Tech, Startups & AI Lessons Learnt
29 August 2025, Gdańsk

Schedule

08:30 AM Registration. Tea & Coffee

09:20 AM Welcome
Prof. Marcin Marciniak, Dean at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, University of Gdańsk
Patryk Jar, Innovation Tech Lead at Kainos

09:25 AM Official Opening
Prof. Piotr Stepnowski, Rector of the University of Gdańsk

Mirosław Wróblewski, President of Personal Data Protection Office (Polish DPA)

09:35 AM Keynote: How Can We Build a Quantum Industry in Europe?
Prof. Mohamed Bourennane, Professor at Stockholm University & Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

10:00 AM Keynote: Retrospective Foresight: LLM Bielik’s Story & Lessons for the Quantum Age
Maciej Krystian Szymański, Business Unit Leader at BIELIK.AI (SpeakLeash)

10:25 AM Keynote: Space, Security, and Society: The Dual-Use Backbone of Deep Tech
Justyna Pelc, Innspace & Space Robotics Society Co-founder, Marketing Manager at ResQuant

10:50 AM Keynote: The EU Quantum Strategy and the Post-Quantum Cryptography Roadmap: Legal and Policy Perspectives
Roman Bieda, Koźmiński University & AI TECH LAW Foundation

11:15 AM Debate: Buy off-the-shelf vs. Build in-house. Quantum Technological Independence

powered by Invest in Pomerania

Chair: Dr. Maciej Kawecki (President of the Lem Institute & Science Populariser: This is it | This Is World)
Prof. Wojciech Bożejko (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) and Prof. Michał Tomza (University of Warsaw)

11:45 AM Lunch Break

01:00 PM Navigating GDPR Deregulation: What Startups Need to Know

Mirosław Wróblewski, President of Personal Data Protection Office (Polish DPA)

01:10 PM Startups

levelQuantum (Italy)

Dr. Adam Buraczewski, CTO

ResQuant (Poland)
Sven Zagała, CEO

SequreQuantum (Chile/Poland)
Prof. Marcin Pawłowski, CTSO & Co-Founder

quCertify AB (Sweden)
Prof. Mohamed Bourennane, CEO & Co-Founder

Algorithmiq (Finland)

Prof. Matteo Rossi, CTO & Co-Founder

01:55 PM Invest in Pomerania

Karolina Nawrocka-Mucha, Project Manager – University Relations at Invest in Pomerania

02:00 PM Coffee Break

03:00 PM Fireside Chat: From Idea to Industry: How to Build Companies and Entire Ecosystems

Chair: Tomasz Kowalczyk (Managing Partner at Rebels Valley)

Prof. Matteo Rossi (CTO at Algorithmiq), Akvilė Dobromilskytė (Sector Development Manager at Startup Lithuania), Jon Bradford (Co-founder & Managing Partner of Dynamo Ventures), Jan Wyrwiński (Partner at Alfabeat, CEO and Co-Founder at PilotGo.ai)

03:35 PM Panel: Lessons from Cloud and AI Business for the Quantum Frontier

Chair: Paweł Dudek (University of Warsaw & Koźmiński University)
Prof. Teodor Buchner (Associate Professor at Warsaw University of Technology), Krzysztof Suchomski (Head of Technology for Data&AI at Kainos), Arek Kwoska (Managing Partner at Rebels Valley), Robert Paszkiewicz (VP CEE at OVHcloud)

04:10 PM Introduction: EduRoom Planner. Automate the Educational Spaces

Jan Cudzik, Ph.D. Eng. Arch. (COO at OutlineAI & Assistant Professor, Gdańsk University of Technology)

04:15 PM Panel: It’s Education, Stupid!

Chair: Dr. Akshata Shenoy (Senior Researcher at ICTQT, Co-leader of Q-Camp)
Danielle Keenan (Social Responsibility Manager at Kainos), Dr. Paweł Gora (CEO at Quantum AI Foundation), Dr. Tomasz Miller (Researcher at Jagiellonian University, Science Populariser)

04:50 PM The End

The schedule is subject to minor changes.