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World Quantum Cannes Festival

Name: World Quantum Cannes Festival
Start: 2026-11-17
End: 2026-11-18
Location: Palais des Festivals et des Congrès

Hosted by EuropIA Institute

17 – 18 November 2026
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The World Quantum Cannes Festival is a global gathering where leaders, investors, pioneers, and policymakers shape the future of quantum technologies. It provides an arena for sharing experiences, advancing concrete applications, and addressing industry-scale challenges. It is organised by the EuropIA Institute and produced by Valuexchange, with the City of Cannes and the Alpes-Maritimes department as partners.

Conference theme

From Vision to Scale: Accelerating Business Impact in Quantum Technologies

Objectives

To turn breakthrough science into real-world impact, shape policy dialogue, link world champions with global investors, build alliances across the ecosystem, and celebrate innovation.

Who should attend

Business leaders, investors, researchers, enterprise end-users, policymakers, and quantum specialists.

Organising Committee

Alain Aspect - President of the Honorary Committee, Nobel Prize Winner, Physicist, Academic Rainer Blatt - Professor, University of Innsbruck Jim Al-Khalili - Professor, University of Surrey Frank Backes - CEO / President of Space Infrastructure, Capella Space / IonQ Amado Bautista - CEO, Qudora Technologies Alexandra Beckstein - CEO & General Partner, QAI Ventures HQ Joseph S. Broz - Vice President, US Government Quantum Business Development, IBM Tommaso Calarco - Professor, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH Paul Chammas - Co-Founder, Managing Partner, QuRisk Brian Chol Soo Standen - Global Head of Digital Innovation, BASF Diederick Croese - Director, Center for Quantum and Society Tomasz Cwik - CEO & Co-founder, finQbit.tech Derrick de Kerckhove - Sociologist, Media Duemila Eleni Diamanti - Head of Research, CNRS Kristine Helen Falgren - Managing Director, Danish Quantum Community Joe Fitzsimons - CEO, Horizon Quantum Kathrin G. Kind - Chief Quantum Officer, QubitNexus AI Philipp Harbach - Chief Science & Technology Officer, Merck Gruppe Marin Ivezic - CEO, Applied Quantum Rebecca Krauthamer - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, QuSecure Martin Laforest - Managing partner, Quantacet Owen Lozman - Managing Partner, 55 North Ventures Management ApS Nardo Manaloto - Managing Partner, Qubits Ventures Sabrina Maniscalco - Co-founder and CEO, Algortithmiq Shane Mansfield - Chief Research Officer, Quandela Lionel Martellini - Founding Director, Edhec Quantum Institute Lisa Matthews - Chief Executive Officer, KETS Quantum Security Mark Mattingley-Scott - Chief Revenue Officer & General Manager EMEA, Quantum Brillance Joseph Mikael - President, Le Lab Quantique Nir Minerbi - Co-Founder and CEO, Classiq Simone Montangero - Professor of Quantum Physics, Università di Padova Mehdi Namazi - Co-Founder and CSO, Qunnect Marta Pascual Estarellas - CEO, Qilimanjaro Quantum Tech Ekaterina Polyakova - CEO and Co-Founder, G2Q Computing Naz Pourmalek - Managing Director, Quantum Valley Lower Saxony Viviane Reding - Former European Commissioner - IQM Quantum Council Member, European Commission Georges-Olivier Reymond - Co-fonder & Chief of strategic Alliances Officer, Pasqal Michael Schlagmüller - CEO and Co-Founder, Swabian Instruments Iris Schwenk - Co-founder and COO, HQS Quantum Simulations Johanna Sepulveda - Senior Expert on Quantum Secured Communications, Airbus Vikram Sharma - Founder & CEO, QuintessenceLabs Kurt Stokbro - CEO, Sparrow Quantum Thomas Strohm - Chief Expert/President, Bosch / /European Quantum Industry Consortium e.V. Sébastien Tanzilli - Director of the French Research Program on Quantum Science & Technologies, CNRS - Université Côte d'Azur Olivier Tonneau - Partner, Quantonation Matthias Troyer - Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Clemens Utschig-Utschig - CTO & Chief Architect, Boehringer Ingelheim Ton Van'T Noordende - General Partner, Ground State Ventures

Scientific Committee

Rainer Blatt - President of the Scientific Committee, Professor, University of Innsbruck Robin Kaiser - Research Director, CNRS Sébastien Tanzilli - Director of the French Research Program on Quantum Science & Technologies, CNRS - Université Côte d'Azur Matthias Troyer - Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Maud Vinet - CEO & Co-founder, Quobly

Keynote speakers

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Alexandra Beckstein, Joseph S. Broz, Tommaso Calarco, Massimiliano Dispenza, Joe Fitzsimons, Philipp Harbach, Loïc Henriet, Shane Mansfield, Nir Minerbi, Carlos Moreira, Andrea Orzati, Grégoire Ribordy, Johanna Sepulveda, Olivier Tonneau, Maud Vinet, Romina Yalovetzky

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