Speak & moderate
Keynotes, firesides, panels and conversations that connect technical progress to markets, policy and people.
Science · strategy · stories
I’m Cierra Lunde: a founder, science communicator, journalist and global speaker working across quantum technology, AI, scientific discovery and public understanding.
Published and speaking as Cierra Lunde, Cierra Choucair and Cierra Lunde Choucair.

Ways to work together
I work with conference organizers, executives, institutions, founders and technical teams who need rigorous ideas communicated with energy, precision and a genuinely global lens.
Keynotes, firesides, panels and conversations that connect technical progress to markets, policy and people.
Interactive sessions for leadership teams, researchers, communicators and emerging quantum communities.
Evidence-led perspectives on quantum readiness, ecosystem development, commercialization and scientific intelligence.
Articles, reports, executive narratives and marketing assets with technical rigor and a point of view.
Workshops & executive sessions
Available as 60–90 minute workshops, half-day working sessions, executive briefings or custom programs built around your audience.
Leaders · investors · communicators
A practical framework for interrogating quantum claims, separating evidence from implication and asking what would change the decision.
Executives · boards · innovation teams
An executive briefing on where quantum fits, where it does not, what readiness means now and which signals deserve attention.
Founders · researchers · marketing teams
Turn technically complex work into stories that build understanding and trust without flattening uncertainty or manufacturing hype.
Industry · government · research institutions
Move from an exciting problem statement to a credible classical baseline, quantum hypothesis, evidence plan and next decision.
Cities · regions · universities · communities
Map local capabilities, problem owners, workforce needs and partnership pathways—then translate the map into programs and action.
Watch
Talks, interviews and global conversations spanning quantum communication, ecosystems, careers, policy and the human questions underneath technical progress.
Host · AI for Good × ITU · 2026
Speaker · AI for Good × ITU · 2025
Interview · Fem w STEM · 2025
Public archive
Speaking record
Available for keynotes, panels, fireside conversations, moderation, media interviews and private briefings—in person or online.
What I’m building
Scientific intelligence infrastructure that structures problems, use cases, tools, evidence and readiness signals. We develop data systems, ecosystem maps, reports and decision tools—and host hackathons and community challenges.
A research-driven alliance for human-centered quantum and AI learning, connecting education, mentorship and innovation across disciplines and borders.
A mentorship and legacy-building initiative designed to help the next generation of women find their place, people and path in quantum technology.
A global ITU partnership exploring how countries translate quantum ambition into research, workforce, policy, startups and real ecosystem capacity.
An independent publication looking at frontier technology through the lenses of science fiction, public imagination and the human future of emerging systems.
My founder-led strategy and communications practice for people building consequential technologies—the missing dimension between vision and execution.
About Cierra
I moved from data analysis into quantum journalism, then into building the systems, programs and narratives I believed the field needed. I created The Daily Qubit, led strategic editorial work at The Quantum Insider and now lead strategic content for quantum clients at HKA.
Today, I am co-founder and CEO of Universum Labs, host of the Quantum World Tour in partnership with the ITU, creator of Android Dreams, co-founder of QUALIA and QPLI, and an advisor to Girls in Quantum. I’m also pursuing graduate study in artificial intelligence.
“Access to science and discovery is a fundamental right. My work is about making complex systems more understandable, more connected and more useful to the people who will shape what comes next.”Read my Quantum 100 profile
Opportunities & collaborations
Tell me what you are building, who needs to understand it and what you want the opportunity to make possible.