Contributors Acknowledgements Community members Ahmad Alabdulkareem Director, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Halah Alasmri Senior Geophysicist, EXPEC Advanced Research Center, Saudi Aramco Bushra AlBlooshi Senior Consultant, Research and Innovation, Dubai Electronic Security Center (DESC) Saad A. Alowayyed Director of Advanced Computing Unit, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution – Saudi Arabia Thierry Botter Executive Director, European Quantum Industry Consortium (QuIC) Joseph Broz Vice President for Quantum Strategy, Growth and Market Development, IBM Giuseppe Bruno Director at Economics, Statistics and Research, Central Bank of ItalyMeghavi Chauhan Director, Technology Innovation, London Stock Exchange Group Reena Dayal Founder and CEO, Quantum Ecosystems and Technology Council of India Marcin Detynieki Head of Research and Group Chief Data Scientist, AXA Scott Faris Chief Executive Officer, Eqlipse Quantum Elena Fedotova Vice President, Secure Power Division, Schneider Electric Tommaso Gagliardoni Lead Researcher in Cryptography and Quantum Security, Kudelski Security – Kudelski Group Ross Grassie Technical Programme Manager, University of Edinburgh Petra S. Haefliger Senior Risk Manager, Swiss Financial Market Authority (FINMA)Lead authors Shreyas Ramesh Innovation Principal Director, Accenture; Quantum Fellow, World Economic Forum Arunima Sarkar Thematic Lead, Quantum Technology, World Economic ForumProject team Laura Converso Thought Leadership Principal Director, Accenture; Quantum Fellow, World Economic Forum Syamasundar Gopasana Data Engineering, Management and Governance Manager, Accenture India; Quantum Fellow, World Economic Forum Maximus Howard Innovation Manager, Accenture; Quantum Fellow, World Economic Forum Special thanks to Sebastian Buckup, Head of Networks and Partnership, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution; Member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, Carl Dukatz, Innovation Strategy Managing Director, Accenture, and Cliff Farah, Accenture Managing Director Global Corporate Strategy and Growth for their ongoing support in initiating and scaling this team’s efforts in quantum technologies for industrial and societal applications. Embracing the Quantum Economy: A Pathway for Business Leaders 47

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