Industry, government, and academic members of the Chicago Quantum Exchange community will collectively host the region's first Midwest Quantum Week in conjunction with the 2025 Chicago Quantum Summit. Tickets for the Summit are now on sale.
With the eighth annual Summit as an anchor, Midwest Quantum Week will include a complement of events aimed at engaging a variety of audiences and celebrating the growing strength of the three-state quantum ecosystem.
The Illinois-Wisconsin-Indiana region is a central driver of US leadership in quantum technologies — a sector that is projected to create as many as 191,000 jobs at all different levels and as much as $80 billion in economic impact for the three-state region by 2035.
Midwest Quantum Week events include:
- The Quantum Prairie Economic Symposium — an opportunity for Chicago-area small businesses, nonprofit organizations and municipalities to connect with experts in quantum information science and to learn how they can join the vibrant regional quantum technology community. It is being organized by Argonne National Laboratory and cohosted by the CQE, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
- Quantum Developer Day — aimed at quantum companies, technical professionals with a focus on quantum software, and enterprise leaders interested in quantum technologies. The event, hosted by qBraid and the CQE to kick off the Summit, will provide a highly technical, enterprise-focused forum for quantum software companies to showcase solutions and collaborate with industry peers.
- A series of Midwest Quantum Week events led and co-led by Purdue University Northwest, including Spooky Action Night on Halloween,
- Quantum Computer Cybersecurity Symposium — a two-day event at Northwestern University organized by Professor Jakub Szefer, who leads the University's Computer Architecture and Security Laboratory (CASLAB) and is is pioneering the field of Quantum Computer Security, with extensive prior research on processor securtiy, DRAM security, FPGA security, and Post-Quantum Cryptographic hardware.
Check back — additional Midwest Quantum Week events are in the works.
Summit registration is separate from Midwest Quantum Week events, which are offered individually by their organizers.