VERGE | Deep Tech: Beyond the Screen. Into the Bedrock. - HELSINKI
EPICENTER VERGE | Deep Tech: Beyond the Screen. Into the Bedrock. - The Physics of Intelligence
Digital intelligence is moving into physical systems. That changes the stakes.
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.