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

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 Retrospective Foresight: AI’s Lessons for the Quantum Age
tbc

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: 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
Chair: tbc
Prof. Wojciech Bożejko (Wrocław University of Science and Technology) and Prof. Michał Tomza (University of Warsaw)

11:45 AM Lunch Break

01:00 PM Startups

levelQuantum (Italy)
Prof. Magdalena Stobińska, CEO & Head of the Quantum Technologies Research Group

ResQuant (Poland)
Sven Zagała, CEO

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

02:00 PM Coffee Break

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)

04:15 PM Panel: It’s Education, Stupid!
Chair: Akshata Shenoy (ICTQT)
Danielle Keenan (Social Responsibility Manager at Kainos), Dr. Paweł Gora (CEO at Quantum AI Foundation), Dr. Tomasz Miller (Jagiellonian University)

04:50 PM The End

The schedule is subject to minor changes.