World’s Top 50 Innovators 2024

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We are thrilled to invite you to join us at one of the most prestigious events in the tech calendar, the World’s Top 50 Innovators 2024! Get ready to embark on an incredible journey of inspiration, creativity, and breakthrough technologies that will shape the future.

Innovation is the driving force behind progress, and once again it’s time to celebrate the companies that are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. Come and join us to learn what’s on the horizon, understand the bigger picture, and celebrate world-firsts and sensational achievements in the high-tech sectors.

The format will be a series of Codex Talks, each of which is a concise presentation, lasting 15 minutes (or less), in which the speaker addresses a challenging question faced by their technology or industry today, and ends with a bold prediction for the future.

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One Bartholomew, Bartholomew Close, London EC1A 7BL, United Kingdom

08 May 2024 - 10 May 2024

8:15 am - 6:30 pm

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Schedule

8:15 am 8:50 am Registration

8:50 am 9:00 am Welcome

9:00 am 10:30 am Artificial Intelligence

Edward Challis, Head of AI Strategy, UiPath
Dinesh Nayar, Managing Director, Creator Studio | H&M Group
Maryam Fayaz-Torshizi, CEO, DeepSearch Labs

Panel Discussion and Q&A

10:30 am 11:00 am Morning Coffee

11:00 am 12:15 pm Artificial Intelligence

Kurt House, CEO, KoBold Metals
Darko Matovski, CEO, causaLens

Panel Discussion and Q&A

12:15 pm 1:15 pm LUNCH

1:15 pm 2:45 pm Robotics

Codex Talks

Panel Discussion and Q&A

2:45 pm 3:15 pm Afternoon Tea

3:15 pm 5:15 pm Future of Mobility

Hakan Lutz, CEO, Luvly AB

Panel Discussion and Q&A

5:15 pm 5:30 pm Closing Remarks

5:30 pm 6:30 pm Drinks Reception

Speakers

Antony Jenkins CBE
Executive Chairman, 10x Future Technologies

Technology

10x Banking’s (10x) mission is to make banking 10x better for customers, banks, and society.

Founded in 2016, the company’s next-generation core banking platform, SuperCore®, enables banks to launch products and customer experiences faster and more cost-effectively, powered by real-time data.

The platform supports retail, SME, and corporate banking across current and savings accounts, credit cards, lending, and mortgages. Available as a SaaS platform hosted in the public cloud, SuperCore is fully managed by 10x to ensure local and regional compliance, robust security, always-on performance, and operational resilience.

Today, 10x powers some of the world’s leading banks, supporting core migrations, greenfield projects, and banking as a service partnerships.

Biography

Antony Jenkins CBE is the Founder, Chair and CEO of 10x Future Technologies Group, a fintech company that aims to redefine how banks operate and engage with customers. His ambition is to be the global bank operating system of choice by applying cloud native technology to everything from checking accounts to savings to loans.

He is an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee of the Bank of England, and Chair of Currencies Direct—the U.K.’s first non-bank foreign exchange payments specialists. Antony is also a member of the Advisory Board at Palamon Capital Partners.

Previously, Antony led a global FTSE 100 financial services business, holding board leadership positions at Barclays Bank, including the Group Chief Executive (2012-2015). He was also responsible for several large business units at Citigroup (1989-2005).

Additionally, he has chaired Business in the Community and the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical education. He has held board positions at Visa Europe, Absa Group, Barclays PLC, Fannie Mae and Blockchain.com

Raised in the North West, Antony was awarded an MA from the University of Oxford and an MBA from Cranfield University.

Antony was awarded a CBE for services to business in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in June 2021.
Nick Shave
Managing Director, Astroscale

Technology

Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations and is dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.

Founded in 2013, Astroscale is developing innovative and scalable solutions across the spectrum of on-orbit servicing, including life extension, in-space situational awareness, end of life, and active debris removal, to create sustainable space systems and mitigate the growing and hazardous buildup of debris in space.

Astroscale is also defining the economics of on-orbit servicing and working with government and commercial stakeholders to develop norms, regulations, and incentives for the responsible use of space.
Jessica Middlemiss
CTO, Matter
Dinesh Nayar
Managing Director, Creator Studio, H&M Group

Maryam Fayaz-Torshizi
CEO, DeepSearch Labs
Carlos Bausa Martinez
Head of Sustainability, Zaha Hadid Architects
Helene Huby
CEO, The Exploration Company

Technology

The Exploration Company’s vision is to ensure an intact and affordable logistics infrastructure in space by building its modular, reusable and sustainable Nyx spacecraft. By 2030 alone, there will be five to seven space stations, at least two of which will be on the moon. At the same time, 150 moon missions are planned. According to calculations, the turnover volume for the space industry will be in the trillions by 2040. Nyx will meet the growing demand for affordable transport solutions.

Nyx is the first modular, refuellable and reusable spacecraft of its type in the world. Nyx uses only environmentally friendly propellants and has a refuellable cryogenic engine with a higher performance level than conventional models.

Biography

Helene is Co-Founder & CEO of The Exploration Company which builds reusable space capsules that carry goods and humans to space stations around the Earth and to the Moon. She has served as an executive at Airbus Defence & Space and Ariane Group both in operational and strategic roles: from starting as Head of Innovation to leading major European space programs.

She is the Founder and Chair of Urania Ventures, a deep tech investment company. She is the Founder and Chairman of The Karman Project, a non-profit foundation which fosters trust, independent dialogue and cooperation between the ones who shape the future of space. She graduated from ENS-Ulm, Sciences-Po Paris and ENA.
Richard Murray
CEO, ORCA Computing

Technology

Headquartered in London, UK, with offices in Toronto (Canada), Krakow (Poland), and Seattle (US), we are a developer and provider of full-stack photonic quantum computing systems to address applications of scientific and economic importance. Founded in 2019 as a spin-out of the University of Oxford, ORCA leverages over 30 years of scientific research and technology breakthroughs by Co-founder Professor Ian Walmsley. The company was established to deliver a completely new approach towards photonic quantum computing.

Since our founding, the company has enjoyed numerous achievements including leading a record £11.6 million Quantum Data Centre of the Future grant from the UK government and deliveries of the PT-1 quantum photonic system to customers around the world. Customers such as the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) have placed their trust in us to begin their quantum journeys.

Biography

Richard co-founded ORCA Computing in 2019. He is an accomplished business executive and technologist with a PhD in quantum atom-optics and over 15 years of experience managing scientific teams working on disruptive early-stage technologies such as quantum, AR/VR and other consumer and industrial applications of photonics. Under his leadership, the company has grown to 35 people, expanded globally and developed a roadmap focused on building a fault-tolerant universal quantum computer. Previously, Richard worked for the UK government alongside Sir Peter Knight creating the £270m UK quantum technologies programme. He was also pivotal in the early stages of the €1 billion EU quantum flagship programme.

Caroline Hoeschle
Team Leader, SPACEWHALE
Jan Goetz
CEO, IQM

Technology

IQM is the European leader in building quantum computers headquartered in Espoo, Finland. IQM provides on-premises quantum computers for supercomputing centres and research labs and offers full access to its hardware.

For industrial customers, IQM delivers quantum advantage through a unique application-specific, co-design approach. IQM’s commercial quantum computers include Finland’s first commercial 54-qubit quantum computer with VTT, IQM-led consortium’s (Q-Exa) HPC quantum accelerator in Germany, and IQM processors will also be used in the first quantum accelerator in Spain. IQM has ~300 employees with offices in Paris, Madrid, Munich, Singapore, and Espoo.

Biography

Jan is a quantum physicist and co-founding CEO of IQM, building next-generation quantum computers. IQM has assembled an exceptional team of international quantum experts developing on-premises systems for HPC and special applications.

IQM has raised €128 million in Series A2 funding (in 2022), largest ever funding round raised by a European quantum computing company. Jan did his doctorate on superconducting quantum circuits at TU Munich and worked as a Marie-Curie Fellow in Helsinki at Aalto University, where he holds the title of docent.

In 2020, Capital magazine selected him as one of 40 under 40 in Germany and he received an entrepreneurship award from the KAUTE Foundation. Jan is in the European Quantum Industry Consortium QuIC, and member of the German Federal Economic Senate as well as a Digital Leader and Global Innovator at the WEF.
Sabrina Maniscalco
CEO, Algorithmiq
Kimberly Washington
Executive Vice President, Deep Space Biology

Subodh Kulkarni
President and CEO, Rigetti
Markus Pflitsch
CEO, Terra Quantum

Technology

Terra Quantum AG is the globally leading quantum technology company, co-headquartered in Germany and Switzerland, focused on providing an end-to-end technology platform delivering real quantum advantage to its customers already today.

It provides “Quantum as a Service (QaaS)“ in three core areas, the first one being “Quantum Algorithms as a Service”. Here, customers are provided access to an extensive library of algorithms, such as hybrid quantum optimization and hybrid quantum neural networks, which can be used for solving complex logistics problems or pattern recognition, among other things. Terra Quantum also develops new quantum algorithms for its customers or adapts existing algorithms to their specific needs.

Secondly, through “Quantum Computing as a Service”, Terra Quantum offers its customers access to its proprietary high- performance simulated quantum processing units (QPU), the quantum ecosystem’s physical QPUs, while also developing native QPUs. The third division is “Quantum Security as a Service,” through which Terra Quantum offers its unique solutions for secure quantum and post-quantum communications worldwide.

In a landmark deal in February 2023, Terra Quantum added Investcorp to the existing investor base, which includes Europe’s leading venture capital firm Lakestar and two of the largest and globally renowned German family offices, Terra Quantum has the backing of a truly entrepreneurial investor base with deep roots across pharmaceuticals, logistics, payment, blockchain and the wider cyber security spaces.

World-first – In July 2023, Terra Quantum breaks records in Quantum Key Distribution, paving the way to offering unprecedented security over existing fiber-optic networks globally. Company sends quantum-encrypted data through 1,032-kilometer fiber-optic network at more than 10,000 times previous speed record. Approach utilizes conventional hardware, showcasing potential for unprecedented global long- distance end-to-end security. “This new approach makes it possible to affordably use quantum-secure data transmissions across global networks without requiring specialized equipment.” – Markus Pflitsch, Founder and CEO of Terra Quantum.

Biography

Markus is a dedicated quantum physicist, senior financial executive and deep tech entrepreneur. Since he was 14 years old, Markus has been a quantum physics enthusiast. He built on that passion, studying mathematics and physics at RWTH Aachen, and researched in the area of quantum field theory at CERN. His curiosity drew him to business and finance, and he subsequently joined Boston Consulting Group.

Later on, he assumed management responsibilities as a senior executive in various corporates including Deutsche Bank and UniCredit, as well as positions as Chief Financial Officer in owner-managed digital and high-tech companies. Ultimately, he decided to leverage his expertise in quantum physics, business and finance to become an entrepreneur in the quantum technologies space. In 2018, he founded Terra Quantum AG, a deep tech pioneer commercializing quantum tech application. Markus is senior advisor to private equity funds and member of the “Baden-Badener Unternehmergespräche (BBUG)”.
Rishi Khosla OBE
CEO, OakNorth
Kurt House
CEO, KoBold Metals

Hakan Lutz
CEO, Luvly AB

Technology

Luvly is a Stockholm-headquartered technology company developing ultra-sustainable and community-minded light urban vehicles (LUVs). Luvly LUVs create affordable access to ethical, safe passenger and cargo transport choices, democratising the benefits of a plug-in car with vehicles that are more practical, affordable, and efficient, as well as safer for pedestrians and other drivers than traditional cars.

A unique flatpack transportation solution enables assembly in micro-factories close to the end-user, reducing the carbon emissions and cost of shipping. Luvly’s patented, licensable infrastructure platform and tech development kit enables third-party development and production of LUVs, creating a cost-effective and customisable global solution for brand-new vehicular innovations.

Biography

A visionary in the field of technology and mobility, Håkan Lutz has been at the helm of the mini-mobility movement for nearly 20 years. As the CEO and Founder of Luvly, he is the creative force behind the company’s patented technology, leading the way in sustainable urban transportation solutions.

Holding an MSc in International Economics and Development Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics, Håkan’s unique blend of economic insight and technological innovation has positioned Luvly as a trailblazer in the industry. His commitment to reimagining the way we move within our cities has not only shaped Luvly’s success but continues to inspire a new era of mobility.
Carlos Mira
CEO, Halo Space
Edward Challis
Head of AI Strategy, UiPath
Dr. Wolf Reik
Director, Altos Labs

Carl Gotham
Advanced Design Director, MG Motor Cars