Women in Quantum Panel @Quantum Latino 2022

Women in Quantum Panel
Denise Ruffner
"Denise is the Chief Business Officer at Atom Computing, a growing start-up company building quantum computers out of optically trapped neutral atoms. As Chief Business Officer, Denise is responsible for the company’s strategic customer and partner ecosystem and business development engagements. Denise serves as the President of Women In Quantum, a rapidly growing organization dedicated to highlighting and creating a community for women in the quantum field. Denise previously led business development at IonQ where she was responsible for all customer development and corporate sales strategy worldwide. Prior to that, she was the Chief Business Officer at Cambridge Quantum Computing. Recognized for innovation, sales leadership and strategic planning, Denise held a variety of leadership roles at IBM, including being part of the IBM Systems Quantum computing team where she developed and headed the IBM Q Startup Program and led the worldwide IBM Quantum Ambassador team. Denise has a Master’s in Neurobiology and Molecular Biology from the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences from UC Irvine."
Karen Hallberg,
"Professor Karen Hallberg holds a PhD in Physics from the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche. She is Principal Researcher of the Argentine Council for Science and Technology working at the Bariloche Atomic Center and is a Professor at the Balseiro Institute. Her research topics include the development of state-of-the-art computational approaches to understand the physics of quantum matter and nanoscopic systems. She is actively committed to reducing the gender gap and increasing awareness of ethical considerations in science. She was awarded several prizes and recognitions such as the 2019 L'Oreal-UNESCO International Award For Women in Science (for Latin America), honorary doctorates at the National University of Jujuy and at the University Siglo XXI, Honorary Fellowship of the IAEA Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship, the 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and was an Aspen Ideas Festival Scholar and several honorary mentions awarded by the Argentine Congress (upper and lower chambers)..."
Vanessa Hernandez Mateos,
"Vanessa has more than 18 years of experience in customer facing technical roles, starting as a Service Management Specialist, and then developing a career as Cloud Solutions Architect, currently attending public sector accounts at AWS Mexico. She worked previously for the IBM Cloud unit, participating in the deployment of strategic initiatives with customers from Banking, Retail, Telco, among others. She received the “Best of IBM” award in 2016 for contributing to the success of her customers in Mobile Enterprise Strategy Projects...."
Sara Rodriguez Villalgordo,
Passionate of today's world transformation and creativity, where new technologies and science continually evolve reality, industry and society. MSC Computer Engineering, she has developed most of her work related to financial entities. Since 2011, she has been part of the BBVA team where she has held different functions in technology and business. Always linked to digital transformation and data driven, both in corporate and investment banking, as well as retail, promoting the generation of new digital businesses and new business models, originating from the disruption of science and technology in the financial world. Currently, she leads and coordinates the innovation strategy in the BBVA Engineering area, where the acquisition of criteria and knowledge in technologies such as quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, etc. will play a very important role in the future of financial services and society.
Samurai Brito,
Samuraí Brito is a Quantum Technologies researcher and is interested in Quantum Computing, Quantum Communication, Quantum Internet, Quantum Random Number Generators, Post-quantum Cryptography, Quantum Key Distribution and more. She has a PhD in physics, working on Statistical Mechanics and Complex Networks. In the past four years she acted as a postdoc researcher in quantum information theory. In January of this year she joined the Emerging Technologies Team at Itaú. She is also interested in creating educational material to disseminate knowledge of the quantum world to everyone, regardless of academic background.
Laura Gatti
Engineer in telecommunications, candidate for a PhD in quantum computing engineering at the polytechnical university of Madrid. Laura is currently leading the investigation and research division of the Quantum South startup, aiming at promoting the industrial use of quantum technologies at regional and international levels.

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