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Opening remarks by PUZZLE X leadership and hosted by Markus Pflitsch | Founder, CEO & Chairman | (Terra Quantum AG)
Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker | Director General | (MATTER, Inc.)
John Hoffman | CEO | (GSMA ltd)
Constanti Serrallonga | CEO | (Fira Barcelona)
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Markus Pflitsch | Founder, CEO & Chairman | (Terra Quantum AG)
Dr. Román Orús | Chief Scientific Officer | (Multiverse Computing)
Dr. Henning Soller | Head of Global Quantum Research | (McKinsey & Company)
Tommy Björkberg | Director CTO Group | (ZTE)
Esperanza Cuenca | Head of Strategy and Outreach | (Multiverse Computing)
Dr. Josep Maria Martorell | Associate Director | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Markus Pflitsch | Founder, CEO & Chairman | (Terra Quantum AG)
Fausto Artico | Global R&D Tech Head | (GSK)
Moderator: Nicole Morgan | Consultant | (McKinsey & Company)
Ilyas Khan | CEO | (Quantinuum)
Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker | Director General | (MATTER)
Alberto García García | Quantum Information Scientist | (Accenture)
Dr. Lisa Dyson | CEO | (Air Protein)
Julian Gray | VP of Digital Science and Innovation | (BP)
Jon Hammant | Head of Compute for UK & Ireland | (AWS)
Dr. Celia Merzbacher | Executive Director | (QED-C)
Dr. Richard Murray | Co-founder and CEO | (ORCA Computing)
Moderator: Karina Robinson | CEO | (Robinson Hambro Ltd)
Marielle van de Pol | Quantum Computing Leader | (Roche)
Dr. Wolfgang Klesse | Director of the Atomic-scale Fabrication Program | (Quantum Brilliance)
In collaboration with MRS and ICN2
Dr. Marta Liras Torrente | Senior Researcher | (IMDEA Energy Institute)
Dr. Juan José Vilatela | Senior Researcher and Head of the Multifunctional Nanocomposites Group | (IMDEA Materials Institute)
Dr. Alberto Bollero | Senior Research Professor | (IMDEA Nanoscience Institute)
Dr. Abraham Esteve-Núñez | Associate Researcher | (IMDEA Water Institute)
Moderator: Dr. Eduardo Troche Pesqueira | Head of the Technology Transfer and Innovation Office | (IMDEA Materials Institute)
Hosted by Former Secretary of State of Texas: Ruth Ruggero Hughs | Partner at Kelly Hart & Hallman
Whurley | Founder & CEO | (Strangeworks)
Ross Guieb | Executive Director | (Bush Combat Development Complex)
Jerry Strickland | Executive Director | (FABSS Texas Semiconductor Coalition)
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker | Ranking Member | (U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation)
Dr. Ahmed Al-Ostaz | Director of Center for Graphene Innovation | (University of Mississippi)
UK Trade Commissioner | Chris Barton
Dr. Vladimir Falko | Director of National Graphene Institute | (University of Manchester)
Dr. Andrea Ferrari | Director | (Cambridge Graphene Center)
Neill Ricketts | CEO | (Versarien)
Moderator: Dr. Bonnie Tsim | Director of Communications | (MATTER, Inc.)
Government of Spain
Generalitat of Catalonia
Barcelona City Hall
Spain Chamber of Commerce
Hosted by UK Trade Commissioner, DIT invites you to join this reception celebrating innovation towards sustainability
Dr. Laetitia Gazagnes | Founder | (Impuls'Innov)
Dr. Antonio De Lacy | Founder | (AIS & Hospitals We Deserve)
Montse Guardia Güell | Director | (Digital Future Society)
Ben Nott | Founder | (Blanco Architecture & Design)
Philip Knudsen | CMO | (COBOD)
Bruno Knychalla | Co-founder | (Additive Tectonics)
Celebrate PUZZLE X 2022 at the networking reception with drinks and networking with other thought leaders. This will be paired with the hand://poem demonstration: an interactive glove that helps artists augment their reality including the finalist of the World Trumpet Society, Video Drums, and Augmented Painting demonstration.
A select number of startups will have a chance to pitch in front of an international panel of investors. If you'd like to apply to pitch email pitch@puzzlex.io
Closed-door stakeholder session on semiconductor roadmap. Dialogue on the roadmap and global development, public policy considerations for semiconductor industry.
An interactive discussion and activity to facilitate corporate innovation in Frontier and Deep Tech. The session is aimed at industry leaders exploring topics regarding how corporates can leverage technologies of the future to address industry challenges.
Josemaria Siota | Executive Director | Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center at IESE Business School
An open floor interactive discussion where participants can directly interact with the speakers, ask questions and enter into a personal impactful dialogue. In this session, participants can ask their burning questions about how an investor choose investments, why some startups are more likely to succeed than others in the eyes of an investor, and learn more insights about investing in Frontier Tech.
Ori Sasson | Partner & Investor | Primera Capital
MC: Luca Venza | Founding Partner | Lotus Partners
An open floor interactive discussion where participants can directly interact with the speakers, ask questions and enter into a personal impactful dialogue. In this session, we are joined by an entrepreneur scientist who launched a spin-off from their academic research. Thinking about commercializing your research? This is the time to ask your questions on how scientists can launch their own company and maximize their probability of success.
TBA
MC: Luca Venza | Founding Partner | Lotus Partners
In this session, we are joined by Barcelona Global, a non-profit association composed of Barcelona’s leading companies, research centres, entrepreneurs, business schools, universities, and cultural institutions. Find out more about why Barcelona is booming with opportunity and the people at Barcelona Global that are innovating in Barcelona.
MC: Mateu Hernandez | CEO | Barcelona Global
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An interactive session hosted by McKinsey & Company exploring the future of quantum and how quantum technologies will impact industries.
Henning Soller | Partner Head of Global Quantum Research | McKinsey & Company
Phillip Intallura | Global Business Lead for Quantum Computing | HSBC
TBA
An interactive session hosted by ICFO that will delve into quantum security and how quantum laws can be exploited to design novel protocols for information processing and quantum cryptography.
Carlos Abellán | Co-founder & CEO | Quside
Sebastian Etcheverry | CTO | Luxquanta
Marc Manzano | Cryptography | SandboxAQ
This interactive session hosted by ICFO will explore integrated photonics for quantum computing and quantum communications. Learn about information processing with the quantum coherence in light and matter creating opportunities that are impossible with classical resources.
Hugues de Riedmatten | Group Leader of the Quantum Photonics with Solids and Atoms Group | ICFO
Eleni Diamanti | Permanent Researcher |CNRS
Moderator: Antonio Acin | ICREA Research Professor |ICFO
Quantum physicists stretch the limits of the quantum world and tests the way the universe behaves at the scales of atoms, electronics and photons. In this session, ask your questions to learn insights from the life and work of a quantum physicist.
Quantum computing engineers leverage the possibilities of the quantum physics world to build full-fledged quantum computers that are revolutionizing the very meaning of computing capabilities. In this session, ask your questions to learn insights from the life and work of a quantum engineer in a deep-tech start-up.
Dr. Román Orús | Chief Scientific Officer | Multiverse Computing
Jordi Riu | Quantum algorithm engineer | Qilimanjaro
MC: Carmen G. Almudéver | Distinguished Researcher | Technical University of Valencia
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Quantum computers and quantum internet are two extremes of the wonders of the quantum world. Ask the experts representing national initiatives in these two fields about their interplay and the fertile future field at the halfway.
Alba Cervera-Lierta | "Quantum Spain" Coordinator & Senior Researcher | Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS)
Hugues de Riedmatten | Group Leader of the Quantum Photonics with Solids and Atoms Group | ICFO
MC: Carmen G. Almudéver | Distinguished Researcher | Technical University of Valencia
Join us for drinks and networking. Hosted by the UK Trade Commissioner, DIT invites you to join this reception celebrating innovation towards sustainability.
Dr. Zina Jarrahi Cinker | Chief Creator of PUZZLE X
Montse Guardia Güell | Director | (Digital Future Society)
Alex Sinclair | CTO | (GSMA)
Dr. Chema Alonso | Chief Digital Officer | (Telefónica)
Hans Neff | Senior Director CTO Group | (ZTE)
Dev Singh | GM of Robotics, Drones & Intelligent Machines | (Qualcomm)
Javier Albares | Head of Telco Industry Solutions | (Here)
Adolfo Calvino Asensio | Country Head for Spain and Portugal | (HCLTech)
Dr. Maksym Plakhotnyuk | Founder & CEO | (Atlant 3D)
Phnam Bagley | Partner | (Nonfiction)
Mardis Bagley | Partner & Creative Director | (Nonfiction)
Dr. Mikko Möttönen | Co-Founder | (IQM)
Dr. Ricardo Enriquez | Quantum Lead | (Repsol)
Moderated by Dr. Chris Luebkeman | Advisor to the President | (ETH Zurich)
Dr. Brett Kagan | Chief Scientific Officer | (Cortical Labs)
Hon Weng Chong | Founder & CEO | (Cortical Labs)
Raül Blanco | Secretary of State | (Ministry of Industry of Spain)
Ori Sasson | Partner | (Primera Capital)
Luca Venza | Founding Partner | (Lotus Partners)
Dr. Jean Anne Incorvia | Associate Professor | (University of Texas at Austin)
Moderated by: Hon Weng Chong | Founder & CEO | (Cortical Labs)
Dr. Andreea Danielescu | Director of Future Technologies R&D | (Accenture Labs)
Dr. Daniel Ortmann | Senior Scientist | (bit.bio)
Dr. Jean Anne Incorvia | Associate Professor | (University of Texas at Austin)
Stan Farnsworth | Chief Marketing Officer | (PulseForge)
Dr. Anne Matsuura | Director of Quantum Applications and Architecture | (Intel)
Dr. Bonnie Tsim | Director of Communications | (MATTER, Inc.)
Dr. Ahmed Busnaina | WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor | (Northeastern University)
Dr. Anirudha Sumant | Group Leader Nanofabrication and Devices | (Argonne National Laboratory)
Dr. Jean Charles Cabelguen | VP of Innovation | (Pasqal)
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Dr. Ming Zhang | Distinguished Architect, Electronic Design Automation Group | (Synopsys Inc)
Dr. Samira Nik | Program Manager for Quantum Tech (European Innovation Council)
Dr. Elena Blokhina | Chief Scientific Officer | (Equal 1 labs)
Artur Garcia | Co-founder & Chief Software Architect | (Qilimanjaro)
Deep Prasad | CEO | Quantum Generative Materials (Genmat)
Moderator: Eduard Alarcon | Professor & IEEE Vice President TA CAS | (UPC Barcelona Tech)
Dr. Carlo Saverio Iorio | CEO | (yourscienceTech)
Lindsay Hanson | Head of Nanotechnology Innovation | (Nicholas Kirkwood)
Dr. Bobby Azarian | Neuroscientist and Author | (The Romance of Reality)
Dr. Hiroshi Ishii | Associate Director | (MIT Media Lab )
Dr. Andreea Danielescu | Director of Future Technologies R&D | (Accenture Labs)
Sir Kostya Novoselov | Nobel Laureate | (National University of Singapore)
Celebrate PUZZLE X 2022, mingle and network with other thought leaders.
This 60-minute event will focus specifically on ‘Building a Culture of Innovation. By joining this session, Puzzle X participants will gain a blueprint for successful development of their innovation culture, allowing them to begin to address the fundamental people barriers holding back commercialization of their technologies. More
Closed-door stakeholder session on the Future of Quantum. The session will unlock and identify quantum insights, and enable stakeholders to co-create and chart the future of quantum enabled by frontier technologies.
Closed-door dialogue among government, industry and academic leaders on the roadmap for the development of 5G/6G and Future G for the next chapter for cities.
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Araceli Venegas-Gomez | Founder and CEO | Qureca
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Starting from the experience of some of the ICN2 spin-off companies currently active, we will discuss about how nanotechnologies developed in the laboratory can be transformed into high value market opportunities.
Dr Pablo Pomposiello | Head of Business and Innovation | ICN2
Miguel Vilaplana | CEO | Graphenica labs.
Dr Claudio Roscini | CEO | Futurechromes
Javier Achiaga | CEO | Cooling Photonics
Sit down in a close and personal conversation with the creators of Brain Cell Pong following the world’s first demonstration of synthetic bio-intelligence live on the PUZZLE X Inspiration Stage.
Cortical Labs’ innovation called DishBrain fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence. Hosted by AIS.
Hon Weng Chong | Founder & CEO | Cortical Labs
MC: Rod Menchaca | CEO | AIS Channel
1.00 PM
Barcelona Deep Tech Fund The Barcelona City Council, through Barcelona Activa, will invest 10 million euros in national or international private venture capital entities, to boost the Deep Tech ecosystem.
Jaume Baró, Director of Business Services of Barcelona Activa
Carlos Trenchs, Co-Founder & Managing Director at Aldea Ventures
Xavier Estaran, Entrepreneurship and Technology Transfer expert
1.30 PM
Metaverse impact to companies Startups’ challenges and steps to make it feasible for the metaverse to come on to the market
Israel Vela, Head of Digital Transformation Projects of Barcelona Activa
Ingrid Ros, Digital Talent Promotion Consultant of Barcelona Activa
Luis Villarejo, CEO Immersium Studio
Patricia M.Val CEO Futura Space
Sit down in a close interactive discussion with Chris Luebkeman and share your vision for what 2040 will look like as humanity faces a climate change emergency.
Coupled with era-changing technologies on the horizon, where will humanity be in the next chapter of civilization? This interactive session with Chris Luebkeman explores where humanity is going at the rate we're going.
Chris Luebkeman | Advisor to the President | ETH Zurich
In this session, TTIP Global Directors, Professor Andy Wynn and Jim Hick, explain the rate determining steps in bringing new technologies to market and what you can do to speed up the process. They will also be launching their new book “Building an Innovation Powerhouse” exploring how organizations can maximize the potential of their people to address the fundamental barriers holding back commercialization of new technologies
Andy Wynn | CEO | TTIP Global
Jim Hick | Global Head of Leadership Development | TTIP Global
Deep tech innovations are often radical and may create new markets or disrupt existing ones. Deep tech companies often address big societal and environmental challenges and have potential impact on future innovation that enables transfomation at previously unimaginable speed and scale.
Global investment companies in those fields increased more than 20% a year from 2015, and reached almost $40 billion in 2021
The demand for huge early-stage funding for R&D prototype development and lengthy life cycle deep tech startups are forced to abandon the established funding process.
Plug and Play (Globally), Nara Capital(Catalunya) will speak about investment & building the ecosystem. Greehill being a successful deeptech young company that has grown in the last 3 years to 50 employees will talk about their experience
Omeed Mehrinfar | Managing Director | Plug and Play
Josep Magdalena | Private Equity Partner | NARA Capital
Natalia Olson | Director of Government Partnerships | Plug and Play
Gabor Goertz | CEO and Cofounder | Greehill
A series of conversations with architects, innovators, and designers on the future of living and designing a sustainable future.
MC: Ben Nott | Founder | Blanco-ad
Jonelle Simonich | Content + Operations; Founding Member | ([y]our 2040)
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Join us for a Q&A with Dr. William Phillips, the Nobel Laureate in Laser Cooling.
A creative format where a surprise speaker will appear on the stage and engage with participants in an intimate and interactive way.Speakers will be world-leading figures in design, science, metaverse technology, matterverse innovation, and more.
Núria Marín | Honorable Mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Sir Ronald Cohen | Chair | (The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment)
Andres De Leon | CEO | (Hyperloop Transportation Technologies)
Ramon Betaloza | Senior Advisor | (BP Energy Partners)
Dr. Max Mundt | Vice President Of Business Development | (Insempra)
Dr. Aubrey de Grey | President | (LEV Foundation)
Dr. José Navarro Betancourt | Scientific Director & Partner | (quadraScope)
Generoso Ianniciello | Senior Global Director | (Dante Labs)
Moderator: Dr. Jose Luis Cordeiro | Vice President | (Humanity Plus)
Dr. Shideh Kabiri Ameri | Assistant Professor | (Queens University)
Dr. Nuria Oliver | Chief Scientific Advisor | (Vodafone Institute)
Dr. Bobby Azarian | Neuroscientist and Author | (The Romance of Reality)
Dr. Kostas Kostarelos | Professor | (University of Manchester)
Dr. Jonathan Levine | CEO & Co-Founder
Dr. Daniel Crespo | Rector | (UPC)
Dr. Josh Gladden | Vice Chancellor for Research | (University of Mississippi)
Soraya Hidalgo | Head of Strategic Partnerships & Institutional Fundraising | (UPC)
Moderator: Cristina Gallach | Honorable Representative | (Ministry of Economy of Spain)
Dr. Arben Merkoçi | ICREA Professor & Group Leader | (ICN2)
Uyen Tran | Founder and CEO | (TômTex Co.)
Nicholas Kirkwood | CEO & Founder | (Nicholas Kirkwood)
Dr. Bonnie Tsim | Director of Communications | (MATTER, Inc.)
Carolina Aguilar | CEO & Co-Founder | (INBRAIN Neuroelectronics)
Dr. Satyam Priyadarshy | Managing Director - IC and Technology Fellow and Chief Data Scientist | (Halliburton)
Sebastian Etcheverry | CTO | LuxQuanta
Moderator: Paula Pardo | Investor & Corporate Innovation Manager | (Plug and Play Tech Center)
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This session will explore the concept of safe and sustainable design. It will introduce the Materials 2030 Road Map and explore how humanity can make the planet a safer place by designing safe and sustainable materials and chemicals.
Amaya Igartua | Co-Secretary | European Materials Platform
Christian Seitz | Senior Manager Public Funds for Structural Materials R&D | BASFI
Sit down with Aubrey De Grey in this fireside chat after the “Will Human Live Forever?” panel on the PUZZLE X Inspiration Stage. Here, we get a closer look into whether immortality is possible with nanotechnology, CRISPR, genetic engineering and rejuvenating technologies, and what Aubrey’s take is.
Aubrey De Grey | Futurist & Co-Founder | LEV Foundation
MC: Jose Luis Cordeiro | Vice President | Humanity Plus
Jessica Fernández | Director of Master Engineering Program | Elisava
Marta Gomez | Engineer | Elisava
Gemma Morell | Engineer | Elisava
Marta Portalés | European Project Coordinator | Mobile World Capital Barcelona
TBD
A creative format where a surprise speaker will appear on the stage and engage with participants in an intimate and interactive way.Speakers will be world-leading figures in design, science, metaverse technology, matterverse innovation, and more
