Ilana Wisby

CEO, Oxford Quantum Circuits

Speaker Bio

Dr Ilana Wisby is CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), Europe's leading quantum computing company. Ilana is a deep tech entrepreneur; a champion for women in technology and leadership, and advisor to the WEF's Global Future Council on Quantum Computing and a Schmidt Futures 2023 International Strategy Forum (ISF) Fellow.


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.


OQC delivered Europe's first Quantum Computing-as-a-Service (QCaaS), built entirely using its proprietary technology - the Coaxmon; innovative superconducting quantum hardware spun out of the University of Oxford.