2025 Speakers

Keynote Speaker

Matthias Troyer

Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President of Quantum

Keynote Speaker

Amir Karamlou

Research Scientist at Google Quantum AI | MIT ’18 PhD ’23, USA

Amal Kasry

Chief of Section, Basic Sciences & Engineering Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO, Paris

  • Arlie Petters, NYUAD Provost
  • Heike Rill, Head of Science & Technology and Lead of IBM Research Quantum Europe, Switzerland
  • Terri Burns, Type Capital / @tcburning and a member of the NYU Board of Trustees , formerly Google Ventures, USA
  • Prince Koree Osei, Lead Scientist, Quantum Leap Africa, African Institute for Mathematical Science, Ghana
  • Julia Theodora Thiele, EMEA SARL Account Manager, Germany Amazon Web Services
  • Kaoutar El Maghraoui, Principal Research Scientist and Technical Leader, IBM Research AI, USA
  • Martin Gastal, Open Quantum Institute - Partnership and Engagement Lead CERN Adviser for MENA region, Switzerland
  • Javad Shabani, Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Information Physics at New York University, New York, USA
  • Davide Fanciulli, Assistant Program Management Officer, The Beyond Lab at UN Geneva, Switzerland
  • Hisham Sati, Director of the NYUAD Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS)
  • Aziza Almanakly, Graduate Research Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  • Nouhaila Innan, Postdoctoral Associate at CQTS
  • Paweł Gora, Scientist (PhD), Entrepreneur, Philanthropist & Consultant, Chairperson of the Board of QWorld
  • Souhaib Benbouazza, Data Scientist specialized in AI and Machine Learning
  • Ioannis Theodonis, Physics Research and Teaching Staff at National Technical University of Athens
  • Aniruddha Sen, Computer Science PhD, UT Austin
  • Benjamin Hall, Senior Quantum Software Engineer, Infleqtion
  • Zakaria Dahbi, Research Fellow, King’s College London
  • Sama Kanbour, AI & Lean Program Director, GE Aerospace
  • Ricky Young, Quantum Software Engineer, qBraid
  • Amro Saidelahel, NYUAD Stern Student and Previously Resident at SandboxAQ
  • Alberto Marchisio, Postdoctoral researcher, NYUAD
  • Akash Kant, Quantum Cloud Architect, Qbraid
  • Yousra Farhani, Quantum Machine Learning and Optimisation Researcher at INSA Lyon, Founder of Quantum Africa
  • Tamara Hamad, Student at Ajman University, UAE
  • Priya Aswani, Engineering & Product Manager | Principal Full Stack Engineer | Faculty in Computer Science UAE
  • Yafa Jaradat, Student, Palestine Polytechnic University
  • Nathan Jones, Southeast Quantathon Grand Prize
  • Mohammadsaleh Naghdi, Student, Caltech