Speakers

Ilyas Khan is the Founder, Vice Chairman, and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum, the world’s largest quantum computing company. 

Ilyas served as the founding Chairman of The Stephen Hawking Foundation. He is recognized globally as a leading figure in the quantum computing industry. As the founding Chairman of the Topos Institute, a nonprofit based in Berkeley focused on advancing technology for the public good, he is a leader in public dialogues on Ai.

Quantinuum is the second company Ilyas has founded. He previously founded techpacific (a ‘unicorn’ start-up).

At the University of Cambridge, Ilyas serves as a Leader in Residence and Fellow at the Judge Business School, where he helped establish the prestigious Accelerate Cambridge program supporting early-stage deep-tech ventures. He is also a fellow of St Edmund’s College. 

Ilyas is a founding shareholder and non-executive board member of Fortaegis and Moth Quantum, which focus on advanced semiconductors and quantum technologies for the creative industries respectively.

He actively supports academic and philanthropic efforts through his foundation, funding science, philosophy and theological research, as well as open-access scientific journals and is a published author of books and academic papers.