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

Mateusz Buczek

Principal Cryptographer at the NATO Headquarters

Anna Kamińska, PhD

President of Creotech Quantum

Andreas Masuhr, PhD

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

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

Max Haeberlein

Senior Partnership Manager for Software and Ecosystems at IQM Quantum Computers

Philippe J.S. De Brouwer, PhD

Leader at the HSBC service centre in Krakow

Adam M. Gontarz, PhD

Head of Digitalization, Innovation and Technology at Swissmem

Kilian Wasmer, PhD

Head of Anticipation Team at armasuisse Science & Technology

Marta Reina, PhD

Quantum Application and Algorithm Scientist

Prof. Marek Żukowski

Director of ICTQT

Maria (Marilena) Longobardi, PhD

Executive Director, NCCR SPIN, University of Basel

Hugo Lehmann, PhD

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

Paulina Assmann, PhD

CEO and Co-Founder of SeQure Quantum

Chris Porthouse

Chief Product Officer at Aegiq

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

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

Vincent Martin, PhD

Technical Sales and Technical Account Manager at Pasqal

Magdalena Stobińska-Moretto, PhD

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

Joe Spencer, PhD

Director at IoniQ Consulting

Justyna Pelc

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

Luca Laloli

Head of Economic, Financial, Scientific and EU-Affairs Swissnex Science Counselor Embassy of Switzerland in Poland

Antonis Argyros

Founder of DeployQuantum and Greek Quantum Gate

Anshu Bansal

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

Bertrand Potier

International Technology and Service-Delivery Leadership

Jakub Jasiczak, PhD

Chairman at PSC, Leader of #EUInnovateTogether Initiative

Sylwia Mrozowska, PhD

CEO of Univentum Labs

Giorgos Georgopoulos

Co-Founder of Quantum Foresight

Magdalena Ostasz, LL. M.

Coordinator of the Legal Counsel Team at AGH University

Teodor Buchner, PhD

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

Marcin Pawłowski, PhD

CTSO and Co-Founder at SeQure Quantum & ICTQT

Piotr Kolenderski, PhD

Founder of empiriQa, Professor at NCU in Torun

Marek Zmuda, PhD

System Security Architect at Intel Corporation

Mateusz Ozimek, PhD

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

Roman Bieda

AI LAW TECH Foundation & Kozminski University

Michał Parniak, PhD

Group Leader in the Centre for Quantum Optical Technologies QOT, University of Warsaw

Krzysztof Kaczurba

Strategy, Development & Innovation Leader, Orange Polska

Michal Pietrus

CTO of ArgonAUTHs

Paweł Gora, PhD

CEO of Quantum AI

Michał Andrzejczak, PhD

Co-founder and CTO of ResQuant

Marco Palumbo

Director for Business Development at Infleqtion

Myles Scullion

Senior Cyber Security Engineer at Kainos

Sebastian Zając, PhD

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

Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, PhD

C4QEC – The Center for Quantum-Assisted Computing CFT PAN

Prof. Piotr Stepnowski

Rector of the University of Gdańsk

Jennifer Tyldesley

Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Warsaw

Michał Szczupaczyński

Vice President of the Management Board at Pomeranian Special Economic Zone

Matthieu Osmont, PhD

Attaché for Scientific and Academic Cooperation, French Embassy in Poland

Marcin Marciniak, PhD

Dean at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics at UG, Q-Con Co-Founder and Curator

Patryk Jar

Innovation Tech Lead at Kainos, Q-Con Co-Founder and Curator

Miłosz Wojtyna, PhD

Host of the Inspire Stage

Jakub Tomasz Gnyp

Host of the Deep Dive Stage

Karolina Nawrocka-Mucha

Project Manager – University Relations at Invest in Pomerania

Łukasz Szpaderski

Chief Operating Officer at ResQuant

Rob Blenkinsopp, PhD

Spinout Manager at Qubis Ltd, Queen’s University Belfast

AstroElektryk Team

AstroElektryk Team

Maciej Kromer

FPGA & Embedded Engineer at Aldec

Tomasz Cwik

Co-founder & CEO at finQbit

Pawel Kowalik

COO/CFO at QUANTUM_B

Nikodem Sarna, PhD

Adam Buraczewski, PhD

CTO at levelQuantum

Rafał Ołdziejewski, PhD

Co-Founder and CEO of QuRA.space