VERGE | Deep Tech: Beyond the Screen. Into the Bedrock. - HELSINKI

AI agents are beginning to operate real workflows. Quantum teams are working toward practical industrial advantage. Spatial technologies are changing how people understand and control complex environments. At the same time, advances in computing and cryptography are forcing leaders to rethink sovereignty, security, and technological independence. VERGE Deep Tech brings together the builders, researchers, and industry leaders working through these questions now. Over a focused half-day at Epicenter Helsinki, we will examine where the technology is ready, where the difficult questions remain, and what it takes to move from a promising experiment to something organizations can actually use. The program moves across five connected conversations: The race to build sovereign AI infrastructure Quantum computing’s path from research to industrial value What changes when AI moves from assistant to operator Preparing critical systems for the post-quantum security era How AI, quantum, and spatial computing are reshaping the R&D process This is not a conversation about what might happen in ten years. It is a chance to hear directly from people building, testing, and deploying these technologies today. Confirmed speakers AI sovereignty Pekka Manninen, Director, LUMI. CSC – IT Center for Science Quantum computing and industrial R&D Jouni Flyktman, Vice President, Defense and Security, IQM Quantum Computers Himadri Majumdar, CEO, SemiQon Teemu Uotila, Chief Operating Officer, Quanscient From Assistants to Operators Antti Nevalainen, Head of AI, Kaksio Labs Tapio Haaja, Chief Commercial Officer, Intentface Post-quantum security Suvi Lampila, SSH Fellow, SSH Communications Security Erik Hieta-aho, Research Team Leader, Advanced Cybersecurity and Cryptography, VTT Sini Ruohomaa, Cryptographic Signing and PKI Expert, Ericsson Spatial intelligence and the new R&D stack Damon Hernandez, Co-founder and CEO, Mixx Reality Anna Shcherbacheva, PhD, Algorithm Developer, Terrasolid Costantino Carugno, Research Scientist, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Join us on September 29 at Epicenter Helsinki for an afternoon built around practical insight, honest debate, and the people doing the work.