Masters of Deep Tech

Ilana Wisby is a deep tech entrepreneur, a champion for women in technology and leadership and advisor to the WEF's new Future Council on Quantum. Ilana's vision is a brighter future that includes everyone. She and her team believe that the key to solving our most pressing challenges is to put their quantum computers in the hands of humanity and at the fingertips of our most brilliant minds. Ilana is the CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), the UK's premier player in the quantum revolution. From enabling life-changing drug discoveries to unbreakable cryptography, from unleashing the full potential of AI to unlocking nature's best-kept design secrets, OQC uses the power of quantum to develop technology that will change the world.

Pablos is a hacker, inventor and technology futurist with a unique ability to distill complex technology into practical tools. Pablos helped start the Intellectual Ventures Lab for Nathan Myhrvold to support a wide range of invention projects, including a brain surgery tool; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a nuclear reactor powered by nuclear waste; and a machine that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers - part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates.