Meet the speakers

Staff Product Manager | Q-Ctrl

Rowen Wu

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. 

Professor | Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology

Manish K. Gupta

Manish K. Gupta earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2000 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. He is a professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology in Gandhinagar, India. Gupta is a senior member of IEEE and serves as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. 

Senior Commercialization Executive

Rima Kasia Oueid

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.

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. 

Head Quantum Computing (India) | IBM

Dr. L Venkat Subramaniam

Dr. L Venkata Subramaniam is the Head of IBM Quantum India. He has a PhD from IIT Delhi and an impressive 26-year career in technology, Venkat has secured 34 patents, authored over 150 research papers, and earned the title of IBM Master Inventor. He is also the architect of multiple AI products across industries such as Telecom, Healthcare, and Finance.

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. 

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. 

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.

Managing Partner | Qubits Ventures Fund

Nardo Manaloto

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. 

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. ​

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, 

Founder, Quantica Computacao

Bhagvan Kommadi

Bhagvan Kommadi is the Founder of Quantica Computacao & has around 20 years’ experience in the industry, ranging from large scale enterprise development to helping incubate software product start-ups.