Gerardo Adesso is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Nottingham. He holds an ERC Starting Grant "Genuine Quantumness in Cooperative Phenomena", to help identify and exploit useful quantum resources in unexpected conditions, e.g. in noisy and complex systems. The long-term impact of this research is to accelerate the development of future generations of quantum technologies.

Dr Michael Barnes is a Reader in Bioinformatics at Queen Mary and Director of the Centre for Translational Bioinformatics and a Turing Fellow. He is an investigator at the London Farr Institute and serves on the board of eMedLab (emedlab.ac.uk), a cloud computing facility funded by the MRC. The talk 'Machine learning and AI in Precision Medicine" will be co-presented by PhD Student David Watson.

Jacob Biamonte is a physicist, quantum computer scientist and Associate Professor at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and Lead of Skoltech’s Deep Quantum Labs. He has made several contributions to the theory and implementation of quantum computers. Biamonte was employed as one of the world’s first quantum software programmers at D-Wave Systems Inc. in Vancouver.

Sougato Bose is Professor of Physics at University College London and his research focusses on Quantum Computers. Quantum Computing when realised, holds the promise of speeding up the solution of certain problems perceived as difficult on a classical computer, and particularly enabling the controlled simulations of the behaviour of complex many-body quantum systems.

Gunnar Carlsson is a mathematician, working in algebraic topology. He is known for his work on the Segal conjecture, and for his work on applied algebraic topology, especially topological data analysis. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at Stanford University. He is the founder and president of the predictive technology company Ayasdi.

Leigh Chase is a Computer Scientist in Emerging Technology at IBM Research. Leigh is a Technical Leader and his specialisms are information security, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and scientific computing. He leads the use of universal fault-tolerant quantum machines in the field of complex analytics and modelling.

Jens Eisert is a physicist, ERC fellow, and Professor at the Free University of Berlin. He is notable as one of the co-pioneers of quantum game theory with Maciej Lewenstein and PhD advisor Martin Wilkens. He is also known for his research in quantum information science and related fields. A characteristic of his work is the combination of the rigor of mathematical physics with physically motivated applicability.

Norman Fenton is Professor of Risk Information Management at Queen Mary and is also a Director of Agena, specialising in risk management for critical systems. Norman is a mathematician by training who now works on quantitative risk assessment. Norman has a special interest in raising public awareness of the importance of probability theory and Bayesian reasoning.

Trevor Graham originally obtained his interdisciplinary PhD in Mathematical Biology from University College London (2009). As a postdoc he worked in Nick Wright's lab at the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute studying clonal expansions in human tissues, and Carlo Maley’s lab at UCSF looking at the pattern of clonal evolution in human cancers. He joined Barts Cancer Institute in 2013 as Professor of Cancer Evolution.

Lord Clement-Jones, CBE, FRSA is a Liberal Democrat Peer in the House of Lords and a consultant of the global law firm DLA Piper. His former positions held include London managing partner (2011–2016), head of UK government affairs, chairman of its China and Middle East Desks, international business relations partner and co-chairman of global government relations. He is chair of Council at Queen Mary.

William Marsh is a member of the Risk and Information Research Group at Queen Mary and works on decision support problems using Bayesian networks, with applications in health. He is currently working on a number of collaborative projects, a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science and Principal Investigator on 'Knowledge Discovery from Health Use Data' a research project funded by the Alan Turing Institute.

Valentina Parigi is Associate Professor in the Quantum Optics group at LKB, working in the Multimode Quantum Optics team at the Sorbonne Universite, France. She is currently involved in the implementation of complex quantum networks in a multi-mode continuous-variables scenario and she has been recently awarded with an ERC Consolidator Grant. Her interests include quantum mechanics through to experimental implementation of basic tools for quantum information technologies.

Jyrki Piilo is Adjunct Professor, university researcher and group leader of Non-Markovian Processes and Complex Systems Group in the Turku Centre for Quantum Physics at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include Non-Markovian processes, Monte Carlo methods, open quantum systems, stochastic processes, quantum optics, complex socio-economic systems, econophysics and network theory.

Dr Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh is a Reader in Computer Science at UCL. With an interest in Natural Language Processing, her research is focusses on developing high-level logical and mathematical models, learning their parameters from data, and automating reasoning using proof theoretic and algebraic tools.

Professor Shmuel Weinberger is the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Chicago. Most of his work has been in topology and geometry, with applications to other areas of mathematics and outside of it. He is the founding editor in chief of the Journal of Applied and Computational Topology.

Benjamin Werner is Group Leader in the Centre for Cancer Evolution and Computational Biology at the Barts Cancer Institute. His work focuses on somatic evolutionary processes. He is especially interested in the theoretical aspects of these evolutionary processes and how these theories combined with experimental/clinical data allow a better understanding.

Roberta Zambrini obtained her PhD in Physics at the Universitat de les Illes Balears. In 2006 she was awarded a Ramon y Cajal fellowship and from 2008 she is tenured researcher ("Cientifico Titular") of the Spanish research council CSIC at IFISC. Her research interests are Complex and Open Quantum Systems, Synchronization, Quantum Networks/Optics and Quantum Machine Learning.

Gilles Zémor holds a PhD in computer science from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris (1989). He is a Professor at the Mathematics Institute of Bordeaux University. His interests include combinatorial mathematics, coding theory, quantum codes, additive combinatorics, and cryptography.