Dr. Anna Kaminska received her PhD from the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw in 2012. In 2017, after several years of research work in the field of particle physics and fundamental interactions at CERN, DESY, University of Oxford and JGU Mainz, she joined the team of Creotech Instruments S.A., a Polish company specialising in advanced electronics and systems. She is involved in business development, shaping and leading projects in the area of quantum technologies, in particular enabling technologies for quantum computing and communications.

Chris, CEO & Co-Founder of KETS, has been building prototype quantum communication systems and exploring their commercial potential for the last 18 years. After starting as a Lecturer in Quantum Engineering at the Quantum Engineering Technology Labs (QETLabs) at the University of Bristol – where he helped to pioneer a next-gen chip-based approach to quantum encryption – he’s now commercialising this approach in the quantum start-up KETS. At KETS, we develop quantum-safe chip-based encryption to protect critical data from all advanced computer attacks. Chris holds a PhD from the Institute for Quantum Computing and a BASc Honours in Systems Design Engineering both from the University of Waterloo.

Dr. Bob Dirks earned a Master’s degree in Applied Physics from the University of Twente in 2002, specializing in High Energy and Particle Physics. He completed his PhD in 2006 at CEA/Saclay and the University of Paris 7, focusing on developing Cd(Zn)Te X- and gamma-ray detectors, which later contributed to the ESA Solar Orbiter's STIX instrument. He then worked on cryogenic detectors at SRON for the Athena and SPICA missions before joining TNO in 2010 as a Systems Architect in Quantum Technology. Dr. Dirks also served as an external advisor to the European Commission and as a quantum security engineer at EUSPA. In June 2024, he co-founded QuDef, offering quantum cybersecurity solutions for integrating quantum communication and computing into classical infrastructure.