Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit

Northwest Quantum Nexus Summit

Accelerating Quantum Information Science Momentum in the Pacific Northwest
January 23–24, 2023
Husky Union Building, North & South Ballrooms
University of Washington, Seattle

We invite you to join the Northwest Quantum Nexus in propelling regional quantum momentum with national impact. The 2023 Summit will foster collaboration across industry, academia, and government and provide an inspiring forum for discourse on:
• Quantum technologies, capabilities, and directions
• Workforce nurturing and
• Preparing the quantum ecosystem for quantum at scale.

Enjoy marquee speakers; a robust agenda featuring technical, business, and joined tracks; ample networking and interactive poster board sessions; and the opportunity for undergraduate, graduate, and general STEM communities to participate in the NQN Winter Hackathon starting January 20, with hack orientation sessions hosted earlier in the month!

Register for both the NQN Summit and the Winter 2023 Hackathon by January 13 to reserve your spot.

NQN Winter Hackathon

Register for the Hackathon

Friday, January 20, 3:00–7:00 p.m.

  • Join us in person for the Hackathon kickoff at the University of Washington.
  • The Hackathon will continue over the weekend virtually, with winners announced on Tuesday, January 24th.
  • Challenge: The current quantum devices are still NISQ (noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices), so both the number of the qubits available and the noise introduced during a computation are significant factors you have to consider when running your programs.

 

NQN Summit

See the full 2023 NQN Summit Agenda here

Register for the NQN Summit

Monday, January 23, 8:30–7:00 p.m.

  • Breakfast & registration
  • Welcome, University of Washington Provost Mark Richards
  • Opening Keynote Address, Director of the National Quantum Coordination Office
  • Breakout into Scientific Sessions & Business Sessions
    • Scientific Sessions:
      • Scientific Workloads – Accelerating Chemical & Materials Science Discovery
      • Scientific Workloads – Scientific Workloads in Quantum Machine Learning
      • Scientific Workloads – Toward Quantum Simulation of Fundamental Physics
      • Photonic Technologies
    • Business Sessions:
      • Economic Development Across Quantum Industries
      • Building the Next Generation of Quantum Computers in the PNW: IonQ’s Commitment to Seattle for Future System Production
      • Quantum Startups and Running a Quantum Company
  • Lunch
  • Joint Sessions: Workforce Development in Quantum Technologies, and NQN Momentum & Partner Panel (UW, Microsoft, PNNL, WSU, UO, IonQ, Amazon, Boeing)
  • Closing Keynote, PNNL
  • Reception and Poster Session

Tuesday, January 24, 8:30–7:00 p.m.

  • Breakfast & registration
  • Opening Keynote: Microsoft’s Krysta Svore
  • Breakout into Scientific Sessions & Business Sessions
    • Scientific Sessions:
      • Co-design for Quantum Algorithms & Architectures
      • Fabrication & Characterization to Advance Quantum Computing
    • Business Sessions:
      • Washington State QIS Landscape: WTIA and Moonbeam
      • Top 3 Business Questions about Quantum Computation
      • The Importance of the Research Community to NISQ-Era Quantum Computing
  • Making Quantum Impactful and Accessible for All: A Chat with Matthias Troyer
  • Closing Remarks & Hackathon Recap and Awards

 

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS

Keynotes

  • Mark Richards, UW Provost
  • Charles Tahan, The White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
  • Lou Terminello, PNNL
  • Krysta Svore, Microsoft
  • Matthias Troyer, Microsoft

Scientific Workloads – Accelerating Chemical & Materials Science Discovery

  • Nathan Baker, Microsoft

Scientific Workloads – Scientific Workloads in Quantum Machine Learning

  • Carlos Ortiz Marrero, PNNL

Scientific Workloads – Toward Quantum Simulation of Fundamental Physics

  • Martin Savage, UW

Photonic Technologies

  • Brian Saam, WSU
  • Brian Smith, UO
  • Kirk Madison, UBC
  • David Allcock, UO
  • Sara Mouradian, UW

Economic Development Across Quantum Industries

  • Nirav Desai, CEO, Moonbeam
  • Stephanie Scott, Director, Innovation Cluster Accelerator Program, Washington State Department of Commerce
  • Luke Mauritsen, Founder, Montana Instruments
  • Kannan Krishnaswami, Technology Commercialization Manager, PNNL
  • Kelly Fukai, VP, Government & Community Affairs for Washington Technology Industry Association
  • Nardo Manaloto, Qubits Ventures

Building the Next Generation of Quantum Computers in the PNW: IonQ’s Commitment to Seattle for Future System Production

  • Peter Chapman, IonQ

Quantum Startups and Running a Quantum Company

  • Jordan Shapiro, IonQ
  • Arka Majumdar, UW
  • Justin Ging, Atom Computing
  • Ryan Buckmaster, CoMotion at UW

Workforce Development Session Speakers

  • Mariia Mykhailova, Microsoft
  • Kevin Vixie, WSU
  • Kai Mei Fu, UW
  • Ella Meyer, UBC
  • Charlie Marcus, Niels Bohr Institute, UW
  • Michael Forbes, WSU
  • Ben Koltenbah, Boeing
  • David Steuerman, IonQ

NQN Momentum Speakers

  • Arka Majumdar, UW
  • Sebastian Hassinger, AWS
  • Michael Forbes, WSU
  • Marna Kagele, Boeing
  • David Allcock, UO
  • Nicole Barberis, IonQ

Co-design for Quantum Algorithms & Architectures

  • Yufei Ding, UCSB
  • Olivia Di Matteo, UBC
  • Ang Li, PNNL
  • Yunong Shi, AWS
  • Norman Tubman, NASA

Fabrication & Characterization to Advance QC

  • Charlie Marcus, UW
  • Daniel Higginbottom, SFU
  • Brent VanDevender, PNNL
  • Mark Kuzyk, WSU
  • Kai-Mei Fu, UW

Washington State QIS Landscape: WTIA and Moonbeam

  • Nirav Desai, CEO, Moonbeam
  • Nick Ellington, WTIA

Top 3 Business Questions about Quantum Computation

  • Wim van Dam, Microsoft

The Importance of the Research Community to NISQ-Era Quantum Computing

  • Sebastian Hassinger, AWS