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Meet the speakers

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Staff Product Manager | Q-Ctrl

Rowen is a product manager focused on building next-generation technology and applying it to real-world applications. She is passionate about solving the world's toughest challenges, such as climate change, and I see technology as one of the most promising means to do so. 

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Founder & CEO at Girls in Quantum |

Elisa Torres Durney

Elisa founded the organization Girls in Quantum in 2022 when she was 16 years old, in order to help students from all around the world develop their talents and get ready for the next wave of the quantum workforce. 

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Uintary Fund

Misty Wahl

Misty Wahl is a Member of the Technical Staff at Unitary Fund, a non-profit organization helping create a quantum technology ecosystem that benefits the most people. She is a lead developer of the quantum error mitigation (QEM) software package Mitiq and a researcher in quantum error mitigation. Since joining Unitary Fund, 

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Managing Partner | Qubits Ventures Fund

Nardo Manaloto is a healthcare and deep tech industry veteran with over 25 years of management experience in solving healthcare challenges using innovation, user-centered design, data ecosystems, enterprise architecture, and new technologies. 

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Senior Commercialization Executive

As a commercialization executive, Rima enjoys connecting the dots where others overlook. She combines her experience in market development, finance, strategy, and policy to facilitate public private partnerships and leverage diverse capital sources across an array of stakeholders to create new business models and help commercialize deep tech.

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Associate Professor, Mahindra Univ 

Jayasri Dontabhaktuni

Dr. Jayasri Dontabhaktuni is Associate Professor in Department of Physics, Mahindra University. She obtained her Ph.D in Computational Physics from University of Hyderabad in 2009. She pursued her post-doctoral research with prestigious Marie Curie fellowship at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia during 2009-2011. 

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Quantum Educator | IBM Qiskit Advocate 

Jayakumar Vaithiyashankar , PhD

Dr. Jayakumar Vaithiyashankar serving as IBM Quantum Educator and IBM Qiskit Advocate Mentor. He is actively building a Quantum Community in India. 

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Founder  & CEO | QECTI 

Reena Dayal

Reena Dayal Yadav is an innovation management expert and the founding Chairperson of the Quantum Ecosystems, World Economic Forum (Global Futures Council on Quantum) and Technology Council of India (QETCI). She is also the CEO and Partner of Benzaiten Advisors and serves on several quantum technology-related committees. 

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Quantum Information Scientist | AWS

Grant Salton

Grant Salton is a quantum information scientist with broad research interests ranging from quantum error correction, quantum algorithms, and applications of near-term quantum computers, to machine learning, optimization, and even quantum gravity.

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Interested in speaking?

Seeking knowledgeable speakers proficient in the field of quantum computing for our upcoming events. Please reach out if interested.

Make a quantum difference.

This summer June & July 2024 join the middle and high school summer camps on Quantum Computing 2024 taught by IBM Certified Instructors.

More details will be released on April 11th, with enrollment information.

Limited seats! Pre-book your spot by adding yourself to the interest list.

Information Session

May 4th 2024, 9-9:45am PST

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