​Startup Meetup: Quantum & Space

​Quantum isn't waiting. Neither is the ecosystem.

​Ahead of Q-Con Quantum Conference 2026, founders, investors, researchers and ecosystem builders come together in Gdańsk for an evening focused on the conversations that matter.

​Expect practical conversations, new connections and different parts of the ecosystem coming together to tackle shared challenges.

​If you are building, investing in or helping shape the future of quantum and space, you will want to be in the room.

​Agenda

​18:00 - 18:15 · Opening remarks

​A short welcome to the evening and to Q-Con week. What the night is about, who is in the room, and how to make the most of it.

​18:15 - 19:00 · Inspire

​🛰️ Space, Quantum and the Race for Strategic Infrastructure
Who is buying today, which applications are reaching commercial scale, and where the money is still public.

Justyna Pelc - CMO, ResQuant · co-founder, New Space Marketing
Nikodem Sarna - Kozminski Centre for Space Studies · New Space Marketing

​⚛️ The Quantum Time: What Where and When Will Happen
The most popular quantum technology, computing, awaits its breakout moment. Predicting, preventing, and preparing for these hard times in cybersecurity is a real challenge now.

Paweł Kowalik - COO/CFO, QUANTUM_B

​🚀 Reality Check: From Technology to Business Readiness
Technological readiness is not business readiness. A practitioner's perspective on patience, structure and credibility in quantum and space.

Anna Kamińska, PhD - CEO, Creotech Quantum S.A.

​19:00 - 19:45 · Grill starts

​Food, drinks and open conversation. The networking part of the evening begins here and runs until the end.

​19:45 - 20:30 · Discussion panel

​🤝 Ready for Orbit: From First Contact to First Contract

​Every deep tech founder eventually hits the same wall: the most important customer is an institution, and institutions do not buy like companies do. How agencies build their programmes, how a public buyer actually finds and tests companies, and what it takes to get in. Two countries, two very different institutional routes, one problem.

​Adrianna Bocheńska - Polish Space Agency (POLSA)
Valentin Huber - Swiss Innovation Forces (SI4)
Gustavo Lima, PhD - Sequre Quantum · moderator

​20:30 - 22:00 · Informal part

​The grill stays open and the conversations continue.