AI + Quantum: What’s Actually Happening?

Amir Feizpour is the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist at Aggregate Intellect building a generative business brain for service and science based companies. Amir has built and grown a global community of 5000+ AI practitioners and researchers gathered around topics in AI research, engineering, product development, and responsibility. Prior to this, Amir was an NLP Product Lead at Royal Bank of Canada. Amir held a research position at University of Oxford conducting experiments on quantum computing resulting in high profile publications and patents. Amir holds a PhD in Physics from University of Toronto. Amir also serves the AI ecosystem as an advisor at MaRS Discovery District, works with several startups as fractional chief AI officer, and engages with a wide range of community audiences (

Kris Kaczmarek is an Investment Director at QDNL Participations, a venture fund focused on accelerating the quantum revolution by backing next-generation quantum founders. A former quantum scientist and Head of Product at ORCA Computing—where he helped commercialize optical quantum technologies for AI—Kris holds a PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics from the University of Oxford and was recognized on the Forbes Europe 30 Under 30 list for Science & Healthcare.