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
Scientific Workloads – Scientific Workloads in Quantum Machine Learning
- Carlos Ortiz Marrero, PNNL
Scientific Workloads – Toward Quantum Simulation of Fundamental Physics
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
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
The Importance of the Research Community to NISQ-Era Quantum Computing