Quantum.Tech 2024

23rd September – Quantum.Tech Cryptography Spotlight Day | 24th – 25th September - Main Conference

Twickenham Stadium, London

Zoran Krunic

Sr Manager, Data Science Amgen

Zoran Krunic joined Amgen R&D in 2018 and since then have worked on applications of Machine Learning to modeling different patient outcomes and clinical trial enrollment based on Electronic Health Records and clinical trial data sets. Since 2019 he led the Quantum Machine Learning initiative in cooperation with the IBM Quantum research team, evaluating machine learning models in the quantum domain on IBM’s Qiskit platform and comparing them to classical machine learning models. Prior to Amgen he spent number of years at Optum, where he worked on creating Machine Learning applications to predict hardware and software failures in enterprise architecture. Prior to that he worked in data engineering, data warehousing and real-time systems development as a consultant for number of large companies – Capital Group, ARCO Petroleum, Southern California Gas company and PacifiCare. Zoran holds Master of Science in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science.

MAIN CONFERENCE AGENDA DAY 1 - Tuesday 24th September

2:00 PM Quantum Kernels & Small Data Sets: Unveiling Variance in Healthcare Context

  • Systematic investigation of EQA – Empirical Quantum Advantage on real-world healthcare data sets 
  • Classical ML to quantum ML – what's the relationship? 
  • Classical support vector machines (SVM) model + RBF kernel vs. quantum models with custom kernels 
  • Pipeline highlights of quantum-classical integration 

2:40 PM How is the pharma industry seeing pragmatic returns on its quantum investments?

  • Is it the pharmaceuticals industry where we will see the big quantum breakthroughs in 2023? 
  • Is QC actually being successfully to advance drug discovery? 
  • Has the hype bubble burst, and if so are pharmaceutical companies having to adjust their expectations? 
  • Is the quantum opportunity being discussed in the boardroom or is it on the periphery? 
  • What R&D breakthroughs have been reached in the past year? 

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Zoran.

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