Agenda
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2025
QDA Inaugural Forum
The QDA hosted its Inaugural Forum in London on the 26th June, 2025, an in-person workshop that tackled head-on the path to delivering a commercial quantum computing service at datacenter-scale, exploring topics of scaling, interoperability, benchmarking, and maturing the industry.
Time
Section Title
Speakers
08:30 - 09:00
Registration & Coffee
Session One
Scene-setting: finding inspiration from classical compute and other fields
How have monumental scientific and technological feats been realised in the past? Which of these lessons apply in the journey to utility scale quantum computers?
09:00 - 09:10
Opening remarks
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero, CEO at Nu Quantum
09:10 - 09:40
Opening Keynote: Learnings from classical computing
Hermann Hauser, Founder at Amadeus Capital Partners & ARM Co-Founder
09:45 - 10:05
Invited talk: McKinsey's Quantum Technology Monitor 2025 & Quantum For Good
Anna Heid, Associate Partner, McKinsey
10:05 - 10:25
Invited talk: Building paradigm-shifting scientific endeavours
Archana Sharma, Principal Staff Scientist at CERN
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Session Two
Volume: building robust quantum processors at scale
What approaches, opportunities and challenges underpin volume manufacturing, testing and characterisation of quantum processors? Which supply chains are key?
11:00-11:40
Flash talks
Alexander Keesling, Chief Technology Officer at QuEra
Owen Arnold, VP Product Development at OQC
Josh Savory, Director of Offering Management at Quantinuum
Stephan Schaecher, Senior Principal Engineer Trapped Ion QC at Infineon
Owen Arnold, VP Product Development at OQC
Josh Savory, Director of Offering Management at Quantinuum
Stephan Schaecher, Senior Principal Engineer Trapped Ion QC at Infineon
11:45-12:25
Panel discussion
With above speakers, and moderated by Austin S Lin, Quantum Standards at Google
12:30-13:15
Lunch break
Session Three
Scaling out: interconnecting quantum processors
What are the leading approaches to distributing high-quality quantum entanglement between processors? How do we enable scalable solutions for building modular architectures?
13:15-14:00
Flash talks
Claire Le Gall, VP Technology at Nu Quantum
Akihisa Goban, CTO at NanoQT
Rob Stockill, CTO at QphoX
Utz Bacher, Senior Technical Staff, IBM
Akihisa Goban, CTO at NanoQT
Rob Stockill, CTO at QphoX
Utz Bacher, Senior Technical Staff, IBM
14:00-14:40
Panel discussion
With above speakers moderated by Natalia Herrera Valencia, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University
14:40-15:00
Coffee break
Session Four
From hardware to logic: Distributed Quantum Error Correction
How do quantum error correction approaches need to evolve to bring the best performance out of hardware? How do these scale and adapt to different hardware architectures?
15:00-15:40
Flash talks: Distributed Quantum Error Correction
Coral Westoby, QEC Architect, Nu Quantum
Brandon Grinkemeyer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard
Daryus Chandra, Senior Researcher, Photonic Inc
Neil Gillespie, Head of Decoding, Riverlane
Brandon Grinkemeyer, Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard
Daryus Chandra, Senior Researcher, Photonic Inc
Neil Gillespie, Head of Decoding, Riverlane
15:40-16:20
Panel discussion
With above speakers moderated by
Maria Violaris, Developer Advocate at OQC and host of the Quantum Foundations Podcast
Maria Violaris, Developer Advocate at OQC and host of the Quantum Foundations Podcast
Session FIVE
Operating at datacenter-scale
16:20-17:00
Panel discussion: Perspectives from DC, HPC & Cloud
Moderated by Roland Acra, ex-CTO at Cisco, ex-CBO at PsiQuantum
Tom Winstanley, CTO at NTT DATA UK
Luca Della Chiesa, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco
Laura Martin, QCaaS Cloud Engineer at NQCC
Andrés Gómez, Applications & Projects Manager at CESGA
Tom Winstanley, CTO at NTT DATA UK
Luca Della Chiesa, Distinguished Engineer at Cisco
Laura Martin, QCaaS Cloud Engineer at NQCC
Andrés Gómez, Applications & Projects Manager at CESGA
17:00-17:20
Invited talk: vision of a quantum datacentre
Jonathan Matthews, Director of New Technologies at PsiQuantum
17:20-17:30
Closing remarks and QDA governance
Ed Wood, VP Product at Nu Quantum
17:30-18:30
Reception - Drinks and Nibbles
QDA Founding participants
QDA Forum
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2026
Accelerating the timeline to quantum utility for good.
Building datacenter-scale quantum computers capable of tackling the world's most urgent problems is the challenge of our generation. This endeavour requires cross-industry collaboration and alignment across each layer of the computing stack: quantum processors, interconnects, entanglement network, middleware, system integration, software, algorithms, and applications. This endeavour requires cross-industry collaboration and alignment across each layer of the computing stack: quantum processors, interconnects, entanglement network, middleware, system integration, software, algorithms, and applications.
By collecting complementary perspectives from across the ecosystem, the QDA presents an open forum to discuss the opportunities and challenges on the road to building large, scalable, and robust quantum computing services.
Forum Pass
Full-day programme & keynotes
Lunch & evening reception
Alliance briefing pack