A forum on building datacenter-scale quantum computers and accelerating the timeline to fault-tolerance.
QDA Inaugural Forum
26 June 2025
Control Room A, Battersea Power Station
London, UK

- 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? - 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? - 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? - 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?
Our Speakers and Moderators

Nate Gemelke
Chief Technology Strategist
,
QuEra Computing

Josh Savory
Director of Offering Management
,
Quantinuum

Simon Phillips
Chief Technology Officer
,
OQC

Stephan Schaecher
Head of Business/Senior Principal Engineer Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
,
Infineon

Akihisa Goban
Chief Technology Officer
,
NanoQT

Claire Le Gall
VP Technology
,
Nu Quantum

Josiah Sinclair
Postdoctoral Fellow
,
MIT
Luca Della Chiesa
Distinguished Engineer, Optical Systems and Optics
,
Cisco

Tom Winstanley
Chief Technology Officer
,
NTT DATA UK

Coral Westoby
QEC Lead
,
Nu Quantum

Simon Groeblacher
Chief Executive Officer
,
QphoX

Austin Lin
Quantum Standards
,
Google

Hermann Hauser
Co-founder and Venture Partner
,
Amadeus Capital