Our impressive line-up 2024 Mario Brandenburg State Secretary Federal Ministry of Education and Research Robert Habeck Vice Chancellor & Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Dr Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic Chief Technology Officer T-Systems International GmbH Benjamin Revcolevschi Deputy CEO OVHcloud Dr Heike Riel IBM Fellow | Head Science of Quantum & Information Technologies IBM Research Dr Volker Wissing Federal Minister for Digital and Transport Nils Aden Managing Director Harren Group Dr Gian-Luca Anselmetti Quantum computing scientist Boehringer Ingelheim Dr Abhishek Awasthi Senior Digitalization Specialist BASF Digital Solutions GmbH Robert Axmann Director Quantum Computing Initiative German Aerospace Center Dr Francesco Bär Development Architect SAP SE Claudia Bechstein Moderator Dr Markus Beckers CEO and Director of Operations ARQUE Systems GmbH and Forschungszentrum Jülich Sebastian Bock Research Associate Fraunhofer FOKUS Francesco Bova Associate Professor / Academic Lead Rotman School of Management / CDL Quantum Marco-Alexander Breit Deputy Director General Aerospace, Maritime Industry, Security and Defence Industries Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action David Bucher Quantum Software Developer Aqarios GmbH Dr André Carvalho Head of Quantum Control Solutions Q-CTRL Lucy Czachowski Policy Officer AI & Cloud Bitkom Magdalena Dellinger Technology & Innovation Manager Giesecke+Devrient GmbH Theodora-Augustina Dragan Research Scientist Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS) Dr Peter Eder Global Head of Strategic Partnerships IQM Quantum Computers Domenik Eichhorn Research Associate / PhD Student Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Tobias Faupel Managing Director DeepTech & Climate Fonds Management GmbH Frederik Fiand Head of Projects & Consulting GAMS Software GmbH Nicola Franco Research Scientist Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS Florian Fröwis Business Development Quantum-Safe Solutions ID Quantique Dr Gernot Füchsel Product Manager Kipu Quantum GmbH Georg Gesek CTO and co-founder QMware Dr Anke Ginter Senior Innovation Developer Bundesdruckerei GmbH Christian Gogolin Head of High Performance & Quantum Computing Covestro Deutschland AG Dr Tobias Grab Chief Strategy Officer Kipu Quantum GmbH Niklas Hegemann co-CEO JoS QUANTUM Dr Sophia Helmrich Senior Scientific Officer Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Projektträger Janine Hilder Co-Founder & CSO neQxt GmbH Dr Caitlin Jones Quantum Machine Learning Specialist BASF Stefan Knipp FPGA Developer Thales Deutschland GmbH André M. König CEO Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC Dr Jasper Krauser Central Quantum Coordinator Airbus Florian Krellner Quantum algorithm developer SAP SE Prof Dr Helena Liebelt Director / Founder Institute Future Technologies Manfred Lochter Principal Advisor BSI Sebastian Luber Senior Director Technology & Innovation Infineon Technologies AG Andre Luckow Head of Innovation and Emerging Technologies BMW Group Dr Michael Mei co-founder & Managing Director Menlo Systems Dr Wolfgang Müssel Desk Officer Federeal Ministry of Education and Research Tra My Nguyen Project Manager Startup Events Get Started | Bitkom e. V. David Niehaus Head of Commercialization Kipu Quantum GmbH Corey O'Meara Chief Quantum Scientist E.ON Digital Technology GmbH Roman Pašek Quantum Community Manager AMIRES s.r.o. Dr Nico Piatkowski Group Lead Fraunhofer IAIS Dr Christian Piltz Senior Quantum Engineer | Site Lead eleQtron Dr Reinhard Ploss Representative QUTAC (Quantum Technology & Application Consortium) Manfred Rieck Head of Quantum Tech Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn Dr-Ing Anisa Rizvanolli Head of Team "Maritime Scientific Computing and Optimization" Fraunhofer CML Dr Marco Roth Group Lead Fraunhofer IPA Dr Lukas Rybok Senior Technical Manager R&D IONOS SE Jonas Schäfer Systems Engineer Netze BW GmbH Stephan Schenk Product Manager HPC BASF Fritz Schinkel Head of Quantum Computing Consulting Team Fujitsu Germany GmbH Johann Schmidt Scientific Advisor DLR Projektträger Adrian Schmidt Research Scientist Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), KIT Laura Schulz Head of department Quantum Computing and Technologies LRZ Dr Ulrich Seyfarth Manager BearingPoint GmbH Dr Jakob Spiegelberg Research Scientist Volkswagen AG Thomas Strohm Chief Expert for Quantum Technologies Robert Bosch GmbH / European Quantum Industry Consortium e.V. (QuIC) Dr Frederick Struckmeier Head of Quantum Applications Group TRUMPF SE + Co. KG Horst Stühler Zeppelin GmbH Akshat Tandon AI Researcher and QML Lead Airbus Dr Hannah Venzl Head of Department Management of large-scale projects at Fraunhofer Headquarters and Manager of Fraunhofer Competence Network Quantum Computing Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Davide Vodola Quantum computing scientist BASF Digital Solutions GmbH Daniel Volz CEO Kipu Quantum GmbH Dr Vladimir Voroshnin Innovation manager / technology transfer officer HZDR Janine Welsch Telecommunications policy officer Bitkom e. V. Jan Westerhues Investment Partner Bosch Ventures Christian Wiebus Senior Director NXP Semiconductors Germany Gmb Dr Karen Wintersperger Research Scientist Siemens AG Ingolf Wittmann Technology Analyst & Consultant Q.ANT GmbH Dr Mira Wolf-Bauwens Responsible Quantum Computing Lead IBM Franziska-Elisabeth Wolff Lead Quantum Chemist Capgemini Dr Wadim Wormsbecher Senior Innovation Developer - Quantum, AI, Data Science Bundesdruckerei GmbH
Mario Brandenburg State Secretary Federal Ministry of Education and Research Robert Habeck Vice Chancellor & Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Dr Christine Knackfuss-Nikolic Chief Technology Officer T-Systems International GmbH Benjamin Revcolevschi Deputy CEO OVHcloud Dr Heike Riel IBM Fellow | Head Science of Quantum & Information Technologies IBM Research Dr Volker Wissing Federal Minister for Digital and Transport
Nils Aden Managing Director Harren Group Dr Gian-Luca Anselmetti Quantum computing scientist Boehringer Ingelheim Dr Abhishek Awasthi Senior Digitalization Specialist BASF Digital Solutions GmbH Robert Axmann Director Quantum Computing Initiative German Aerospace Center Dr Francesco Bär Development Architect SAP SE Claudia Bechstein Moderator Dr Markus Beckers CEO and Director of Operations ARQUE Systems GmbH and Forschungszentrum Jülich Sebastian Bock Research Associate Fraunhofer FOKUS Francesco Bova Associate Professor / Academic Lead Rotman School of Management / CDL Quantum Marco-Alexander Breit Deputy Director General Aerospace, Maritime Industry, Security and Defence Industries Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action David Bucher Quantum Software Developer Aqarios GmbH Dr André Carvalho Head of Quantum Control Solutions Q-CTRL Lucy Czachowski Policy Officer AI & Cloud Bitkom Magdalena Dellinger Technology & Innovation Manager Giesecke+Devrient GmbH Theodora-Augustina Dragan Research Scientist Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems (IKS) Dr Peter Eder Global Head of Strategic Partnerships IQM Quantum Computers Domenik Eichhorn Research Associate / PhD Student Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Tobias Faupel Managing Director DeepTech & Climate Fonds Management GmbH Frederik Fiand Head of Projects & Consulting GAMS Software GmbH Nicola Franco Research Scientist Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS Florian Fröwis Business Development Quantum-Safe Solutions ID Quantique Dr Gernot Füchsel Product Manager Kipu Quantum GmbH Georg Gesek CTO and co-founder QMware Dr Anke Ginter Senior Innovation Developer Bundesdruckerei GmbH Christian Gogolin Head of High Performance & Quantum Computing Covestro Deutschland AG Dr Tobias Grab Chief Strategy Officer Kipu Quantum GmbH Niklas Hegemann co-CEO JoS QUANTUM Dr Sophia Helmrich Senior Scientific Officer Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt - Projektträger Janine Hilder Co-Founder & CSO neQxt GmbH Dr Caitlin Jones Quantum Machine Learning Specialist BASF Stefan Knipp FPGA Developer Thales Deutschland GmbH André M. König CEO Global Quantum Intelligence, LLC Dr Jasper Krauser Central Quantum Coordinator Airbus Florian Krellner Quantum algorithm developer SAP SE Prof Dr Helena Liebelt Director / Founder Institute Future Technologies Manfred Lochter Principal Advisor BSI Sebastian Luber Senior Director Technology & Innovation Infineon Technologies AG Andre Luckow Head of Innovation and Emerging Technologies BMW Group Dr Michael Mei co-founder & Managing Director Menlo Systems Dr Wolfgang Müssel Desk Officer Federeal Ministry of Education and Research Tra My Nguyen Project Manager Startup Events Get Started | Bitkom e. V. David Niehaus Head of Commercialization Kipu Quantum GmbH Corey O'Meara Chief Quantum Scientist E.ON Digital Technology GmbH Roman Pašek Quantum Community Manager AMIRES s.r.o. Dr Nico Piatkowski Group Lead Fraunhofer IAIS Dr Christian Piltz Senior Quantum Engineer | Site Lead eleQtron Dr Reinhard Ploss Representative QUTAC (Quantum Technology & Application Consortium) Manfred Rieck Head of Quantum Tech Deutsche Bahn Deutsche Bahn Dr-Ing Anisa Rizvanolli Head of Team "Maritime Scientific Computing and Optimization" Fraunhofer CML Dr Marco Roth Group Lead Fraunhofer IPA Dr Lukas Rybok Senior Technical Manager R&D IONOS SE Jonas Schäfer Systems Engineer Netze BW GmbH Stephan Schenk Product Manager HPC BASF Fritz Schinkel Head of Quantum Computing Consulting Team Fujitsu Germany GmbH Johann Schmidt Scientific Advisor DLR Projektträger Adrian Schmidt Research Scientist Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), KIT Laura Schulz Head of department Quantum Computing and Technologies LRZ Dr Ulrich Seyfarth Manager BearingPoint GmbH Dr Jakob Spiegelberg Research Scientist Volkswagen AG Thomas Strohm Chief Expert for Quantum Technologies Robert Bosch GmbH / European Quantum Industry Consortium e.V. (QuIC) Dr Frederick Struckmeier Head of Quantum Applications Group TRUMPF SE + Co. KG Horst Stühler Zeppelin GmbH Akshat Tandon AI Researcher and QML Lead Airbus Dr Hannah Venzl Head of Department Management of large-scale projects at Fraunhofer Headquarters and Manager of Fraunhofer Competence Network Quantum Computing Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Davide Vodola Quantum computing scientist BASF Digital Solutions GmbH Daniel Volz CEO Kipu Quantum GmbH Dr Vladimir Voroshnin Innovation manager / technology transfer officer HZDR Janine Welsch Telecommunications policy officer Bitkom e. V. Jan Westerhues Investment Partner Bosch Ventures Christian Wiebus Senior Director NXP Semiconductors Germany Gmb Dr Karen Wintersperger Research Scientist Siemens AG Ingolf Wittmann Technology Analyst & Consultant Q.ANT GmbH Dr Mira Wolf-Bauwens Responsible Quantum Computing Lead IBM Franziska-Elisabeth Wolff Lead Quantum Chemist Capgemini Dr Wadim Wormsbecher Senior Innovation Developer - Quantum, AI, Data Science Bundesdruckerei GmbH
