Q-Con Conference: Quantum, Applied. Value, Delivered.
11 September 2026, Gdańsk

Speakers 2026

Heike Riel, PhD

IBM Fellow and Head of Quantum & AI Technologies at IBM Research, and lead IBM Research Quantum EMEA

Andreas Masuhr, PhD

Head of the Quantum Initiative at Swiss Academy of Sciences, Swiss Quantum Commission

Anna Kamińska, PhD

President of Creotech Quantum

Max Haeberlein

Senior Partnership Manager for Software and Ecosystems at IQM Quantum Computers

Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard

CEO of Quantum Security Defence

Tom Gray

Chief Strategy Officer and former CTO at Kainos, Professor of AI & Innovation in the School of Computing in Ulster University

Rafał Duczmal

Chair of EuroHPC Joint Undertaking Governing Board

Philippe J.S. De Brouwer, PhD

Leader at the HSBC service centre in Krakow

Justyna Pelc

Innspace & Space Robotics Society Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer at ResQuant

Adam Gontarz, PhD

Head of Digitalization, Innovation and Technology at Swissmem

Kilian Wasmer, PhD

Head of Anticipation Team at armasuisse Science & Technology

Antonis Argyros

Founder of DeployQuantum and Greek Quantum Gate

Matthieu Osmont, PhD

Attaché for Scientific and Academic Cooperation, French Embassy in Poland

Piotr Kolenderski, PhD

Founder of empiriQa, Professor at NCU in Torun

Giorgos Georgopoulos

Co-Founder of Quantum Foresight

Joe Spencer, PhD

Director at IoniQ Consulting

Magdalena Ostasz, LL. M.

Coordinator of the Legal Counsel Team at AGH University

Jakub Jasiczak, PhD

Chairman at PSC, Leader of #EUInnovateTogether Initiative

Teodor Buchner, PhD

Leader of the Complex Systems Dynamics Group at Warsaw University of Technology (WUT)

Paulina Assmann, PhD

CEO and Co-Founder of SeQure Quantum

Anshu Bansal

Co-Director of the London Quantum Cluster and Commercial Development Project Manager at Imperial College London

Marek Zmuda, PhD

System Security Architect at Intel Corporation

Hugo Lehmann, PhD

Chief Partnership and Technology Transfer Officer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Metrology (METAS)

Mateusz Ozimek, PhD

Head of Space Technologies Team at EXATEL, Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology

Sylwia Mrozowska, PhD

CEO of Univentum Labs

Magdalena Stobińska-Moretto, PhD

Head of QLAB at the University of Warsaw, CEO at levelQuantum

Sebastian Zając, PhD

Quantum Machine Learning Engineer at finQbit, Assistant Professor at the Military University of Technology in Warsaw

Elżbieta Andrukiewicz, PhD, CISSP®, CRISC®, LA27001

Head of Cybersecurity Department at the National Institute of Telecommunications – State Research Institute (NIT)

Cezary Szwed, PhD

Power Sector Expert and Advisor, Assistant Professor at Warsaw University of Technology

Roman Bieda

AI LAW TECH Foundation & Kozminski University

Marcin Pawłowski, PhD

CTSO and Co-Founder at SeQure Quantum & ICTQT

Colin Sullivan

Managing Director of Infleqtion

Marta Reina, PhD

Quantum Application and Algorithm Scientist

Chris Porthouse

Chief Product Officer at Aegiq

Michal Pietrus

CTO of ArgonAUTHs

Krzysztof Kaczurba

Strategy, Development & Innovation Leader, Orange Polska

Marc Bruchez

Chargé d’affaires a.i., Embassy of Switzerland in Poland

Jennifer Tyldesley

Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Warsaw

Prof. Piotr Stepnowski

Rector of the University of Gdańsk

Myles Scullion

Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Kainos

Paweł Gora, PhD

CEO of Quantum AI

Marcin Marciniak, PhD

Dean at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, University of Gdańsk

Patryk Jar

Innovation Tech Lead at Kainos

Miłosz Wojtyna, PhD

Host of the Inspire Stage

Jakub Tomasz Gnyp

Host of the Deep Dive Stage