Finnish Quantum Days 2025

Peter Knight

Professor | Imperial College London

Keynote Speaker

Jerry Chow

Director, Quantum Hardware System Development | IBM

Keynote Speaker

Ilkka Niemelä

President | Aalto University

Invited Speaker

Erja Turunen

Executive Vice President, Digital technologies | VTT

Invited Speaker

Elham Kashefi

Professor | NQCC (UK)

Invited Speaker

Sakari Puisto

Minister of Economic Affairs | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (TEM)

Invited Speaker

Stuart Parkin

Director | Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

Invited Speaker

Jukka Pekola

Director | InstituteQ

Professor | Aalto University

Invited Speaker

Nikolai Kiesel

Associate Professor | University of Vienna

Invited Speaker

Per Öster

Director, Advanced Computing Facility | CSC

Invited Speaker

Mika Sillanpää

Professor | Aalto University

Event Chair

Mikael Fogelström

Director | Nordita

Professor | Chalmers

Invited Speaker

Ville Mäkinen

Senior Advisor | Nordic Innovation (Nordic Council of Ministers)

Contributing Speaker

Mikko Uusitalo

Head of Research Department, Wireless Advanced Technologies | Nokia Bell Labs

Contributing Speaker

Peter Liljeroth

Director | Finnish Quantum Flagship

Professor | Aalto University

Invited Speaker

Janne Peltola

Director of Unit, Technology Policy | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (TEM)

Invited Speaker

Francesco Massel

Professor | University of South-Eastern Norway

Contributing Speaker

Ilya Moskalenko

Postdoctoral Researcher | Aalto University

Contributing Speaker

Jan Goetz

CEO & Co-Founder | IQM

Contributing Speaker

Luca Magazzù

Postdoctoral Researcher | Aalto University

Contributing Speaker

From Vision to Action: Aligning Quantum Policy Across Borders

Janne Peltola

Director of Unit, Technology Policy | Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (TEM)

Moderator

Hannu Kauppinen

CEO & Co-Founder | QMill

Invited Panelist

Quantum Ecosystem: Innovation, Cross-Sector Collaboration, and Commercialization

Pekka Pursula

Director, Quantum research | VTT

Moderator

Inka Mero

Founder & Managing Partner | Voima Ventures

Invited Panelist

Himadri Majumdar

CEO & Co-Founder | SemiQon

Invited Panelist

Gudmund Høst

Special Adviser | Nordforsk

Invited Panelist

Peter Knight

Professor | Imperial College London

Invited Panelist

Quantum Literacy and Education

Ismo Koponen

Professor | University of Helsinki

Invited Panelist

Tzula Propp

President | Diversity in Quantum

Invited Panelist

Jani-Petri Martikainen

Lecturer | Aalto University

Invited Panelist

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