Stephanie Wehner, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft University of Technology and Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing Initiative at QuTech; to Keynote at ‘Quantum Communication Day’ Oct 29 at IQT Europe
(IQT.Europe) Stephanie Wehner, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft University of Technology and Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing initiative at QuTech; will keynote at 15:00 CET (10:00 A.M. EDT) October 29 for ‘Quantum Communications Day’ at IQT Europe.
Stephanie Wehner is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft University of Technology. As Roadmap Leader Quantum Internet and Networked Computing she is responsible for QuTech’s quantum networks objectives. Her passion is quantum communication in all its facets, and she has written numerous scientific articles in both physics and computer science. Stephanie is one the founders of QCRYPT, which has become the largest conference in quantum cryptography, the coordinator of the Quantum Internet Alliance, and has been awarded the KNAW Ammodo Science Award 2019. From 2010 to 2014, her research group was located at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, where she was first Assistant and later Associate Professor. Previously, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology in the group of John Preskill. In a former life, she worked as a professional hacker in industry.
Register for Quantum Communications Day 10/29 at IQT.Europe
(7:30 A.M. EDT)
Speaker: Christopher Bishop – Chairperson, Chief Reinvention Officer, Improvising Careers
(7:35 A.M. EDT)
Speaker: Lawrence Gasman – Inside Quantum Technology, President
(7:40 A.M. EDT)
(7:45 A.M. EDT)
Speaker 1: Taro Shimada — Corporate Vice President and Chief Digital Officer, Toshiba Corporation
Speaker 2: Paul Crane — Converged Network Research Director, BT
(8:15 A.M. EDT)
Moderator: Christopher Bishop
Speaker 1: Mathias Van Den Bossche — Director, Telecommunication and Navigation Systems R&D, Thales Alenia Space
Speaker 2: Saikat Guha — Director, NSF Center for Quantum Networks Associate Professor of Optical Sciences, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Applied Mathematics, University of Arizona
Speaker 3: Prineha Narang — CTO, Aliro Quantum, Evolution of the Quantum Internet
(9:00 A.M. EDT)
Moderator: Lawrence Gasman
Speaker 1: Andrew Shields — Head of Quantum Technology at Toshiba Europe
Speaker 2: Axel Foery — Executive VP Quantum-Safe Security, ID Quantique
(9:40 A.M. EDT)
(10:00 A.M. EDT)
Speaker: Stephanie Wehner — Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor at Delft University of Technology and Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing initiative at QuTech
(10:30 A.M. EDT)
(10:35 A.M. EDT)
Moderator: Jesse Robbers
Speaker 1: Andrew Thain — Quantum Communications Point of Contact, Airbus
Speaker 2: Valerio Pruneri — ICREA Industrial Professor, Corning Inc. chair and Group Leader at ICFO, ICFO
(11:05 A.M. EDT)
Moderator: Jesse Robbers
Speaker 1: Bruno Huttner — Director of Strategic Quantum Initiatives, ID Quantique
Speaker 2: Jaya Baloo — Chief Information Security Officer, Avast Software s.r.o.
Speaker 3: Michele Mosca — Founder of the Institute for Quantum Computing, Professor in the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization at the University of Waterloo
(11:35 A.M. EDT)
Speaker: David Awschalom — Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange
(12:05 P.M. EDT)
Speaker: Christopher Bishop – Chairperson, Chief Reinvention Officer, Improvising Careers
(12:30 P.M. EDT)
