Sumit Kapur

CEO Zapata Quantum

Sumit Kapur is Chief Executive Officer of Zapata Quantum, a hardware-agnostic quantum software company focused on enabling real-world applications of quantum computing. He leads the company's strategy to help enterprises identify which quantum applications to pursue, and determine how and when to build them to deliver measurable business value. Zapata's platform enables enterprises to evaluate application feasibility, benchmark performance, and map viable pathways to implementation as hardware evolves. This addresses a key industry bottleneck: not access to quantum technology, but the ability to systematically decide where it will create value and how to build toward it. The company has worked with Fortune 500 enterprises and government agencies across industries including chemicals, finance, and manufacturing, and is the only company to have participated across all technical areas of the DARPA Quantum Benchmarking Program. Sumit has scaled technology businesses across fintech, AI, and enterprise software, with prior leadership roles including 3Degrees and Morgan Stanley. He speaks frequently on how enterprises move from quantum experimentation to real-world application and value.

DAY 2 FRIDAY JUNE 26TH

11:15 AM Quantum Drug Discovery and Beyond: From Algorithms to Validated Applications

Quantum computing holds long-term promise for drug discovery, but the near-term opportunity is more grounded: identifying where quantum methods can be embedded into existing computational workflows to create measurable value.

This keynote will anchor the discussion in recent work on KRAS, featured in Nature Biotechnology, where hybrid quantum-classical approaches were applied to a biologically relevant target in collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, University of Toronto, and Insilico Medicine.

From there, we will expand to quantum application opportunities across pharma and adjacent domains, spanning different time horizons—from nearer-term use cases such as patient selection for trials, anomaly detection in medical imaging, or manufacturing and cold supply chain optimization, to longer-term opportunities like simulation use cases that emerge with more powerful hardware. Across these examples, we will highlight how applications are not just designed, but implemented—through orchestration of classical and quantum resources, iterative testing, and alignment with accelerating hardware capabilities.

The key takeaway is that progress in quantum applications (regardless of industry) will be driven not by algorithms or hardware alone, but by the ability to systematically determine which applications matter, and how and when to build them into real enterprise workflows.

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

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