2025 Forum Program | QDA Global | Thursday 26 June | London

A forum on building datacenter-scale quantum computers and accelerating the timeline to fault-tolerance.

The QDA will host its Inaugural Forum in London on the 26th June, 2025, an in-person workshop that tackles head-on the path to delivering a commercial quantum computing service at datacenter-scale, exploring topics of scaling, interoperability, benchmarking, and maturing the industry.

QDA Inaugural Forum

26 June 2025

Control Room A, Battersea Power Station

London, UK

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: Applications of FTQC

Speaker TBC

10:05 - 10:25

Invited talk: building paradigm-shifting scientific endeavours

CERN speaker (TBC)

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

Nate Gemelke, Chief Technology Strategist at QuEra
Simon Phillips, CTO 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 moderated by Austin 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
Simon Groeblacher, CEO at QphoX
Additional speaker, IBM

14:00-14:40

Panel discussion

With above speakers

Session Four

The Datacenter: delivering a commercial quantum computing service

How do quantum error correction approaches need to evolve to bring the best performance out of hardware? What role will datacenters play in enabling the integration of quantum computing machines into our digital infrastructure?

14:40-15:20

Flash talks: Distributed Quantum Error Correction

Josiah Sinclair, Postdoctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Coral Westoby, QEC Lead at Nu Quantum
Daryus Chandra, Senior Researcher, Photonic Inc

14:40-15:20

Panel discussion

With above speakers moderated by
‍Maria Violaris, Developer Advocate at OQC and host of the Quantum Foundations Podcast

14:40-15:20

Coffee break

16:10-16:50

Panel discussion: Operating at datacenter-scale, perspectives from DC&HPC

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
2x additional panelists TBC

16:50-17:10

Invited talk: vision of a quantum datacentre

Mark Thompson, CTO at PsiQuantum

17:10-17:20

Closing remarks and QDA governance

Ed Wood, VP Product at Nu Quantum

17:20-18:30

Reception - Drinks and Nibbles

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