Read story and see photos from the 2024 Summit.
Read about the five winners of the Chicago Quantum Summit Poster Session and the nine winners of the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize.
Videos of each session will be available soon.
Description: The seventh annual Chicago Quantum Summit was a two-day program that featured dialogue about the growing quantum technology economy, new research initiatives in the field, and efforts to build the quantum workforce. The event included the Boeing Quantum Creators Prize Symposium, which promotes early-career researchers whose work moves quantum science in new directions, and a poster session at which five members of the CQE community received awards. The Chicago Quantum Exchange, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering’s STAGE Center, and partners across the region also hosted a public Quantum Game Night at Bowen High School so members of the community could learn about quantum technologies through family-friendly games.
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Time (CST) |
Event | Speaker(s) |
| 8:45 – 9:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:30 – 9:35 AM | Program Welcome | Paul Alivisatos, President, University of Chicago |
| 9:35 – 9:45 AM | Opening Remarks | David Awschalom, Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago; Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory; Director, Chicago Quantum Exchange |
| 9:45 – 10:15 AM | Keynote | Noel Goddard, Chief Executive Officer, Qunnect |
| 10:15 – 10:45 AM | Keynote | JB Pritzker, Governor of Illinois |
| 10:45 – 11:00 AM | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 AM | Keynote | Joe Altepeter, Program Manager, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Keynote | Pete Shadbolt, Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer, PsiQuantum |
| 12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:30 – 2:30 PM | Panel: Growing Quantum Startups | Mandy Birch, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, TreQ; Berk Diler Kovos, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, SynthBits; Alan Ho, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Qolab Moderator: Karen Kerr, Managing Director, Exposition Ventures |
| 2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break | |
| 2:45 – 3:15 PM | Keynote | Charina Chou, Chief Operating Officer, Google Quantum AI |
| 3:15 – 3:45 PM | Keynote | Matthew Kinsella, Chief Executive Officer, Infleqtion |
| 3:45 – 5:00 PM | Reception | CQE Member and Partner Poster Session |
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Time (CST) |
Event | Speaker(s) |
| 8:45 – 9:30 AM | Registration & Breakfast | |
| 9:30 – 9:35 AM | Day 2 Program Welcome | Eric Perrault, Vice President for Research, Northwestern University |
| 9:35 – 10:55 AM | Boeing Quantum Creators Session 1: Atoms | Aziza Suleymanzade, Postdoc, Harvard University; Hannah Manetsch, Graduate Student, California Institute of Technology; Chengyi Luo, Postdoc, California Institute of Technology; Avikar Periwal, Graduate Student, Stanford University Session Chairs: Hannes Bernien, Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago; Zoe Yan, Assistant Professor, James Franck Institute and Department of Physics, University of Chicago |
| 10:55 – 11:10 AM | Break | |
| 11:10 AM – 12:00 PM | Panel: Government Perspectives on Research-to-Commercialization | Jean-Luc Cambier, Director, Technical Programs, Basic Research Office, OSD (R&E); Rima Oueid, Senior Commercialization Executive, US Department of Energy; Abin Kuriakose, Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer, World Business Chicago; Kristi Dula, Deputy Director, Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity, and lead of Office of Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Technology Moderator: Preeti Chalsani, Chief Quantum Officer, Intersect Illinois |
| 12:00 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 2:00 PM | Boeing Quantum Creators Session 2: Condensed Matter | Patrick Ledwith, Graduate Student, Harvard University; Thomas Wekmeister, Graduate Student, Harvard University; Sara Murciano, Postdoc, California Institute of Technology Session Chairs: Andrew Higginbotham, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Chicago; Ruben Verresen, Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago |
| 2:00 – 2:30 PM | A Conversation on Building the Field | Walter Massey, Senior Advisor to the President, University of Chicago Thomas Searles, Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago |
| 2:30 – 2:45 PM | Break | |
| 2:45 – 3:05 PM | Conversation | Katie Pizzolato, Vice President, Algorithms and Scientific Partnerships, IBM Preeti Chalsani, Chief Quantum Officer, Intersect Illinois |
| 3:05 – 3:45 PM | Boeing Quantum Creators Session 3: Quantum Information Protocols | Yuxin Wang, Postdoc, University of Maryland, College Park; Senrui Chen, Graduate Student, University of Chicago Session Chairs: Jiefei Zhang, Assistant Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory; Valentin Walther, Assistant Professor, Physical Chemistry, Purdue University |
| 3:45 PM | Event concludes |
The Chicago Quantum Summit is organized by the Chicago Quantum Exchange. View past summits here.
Questions regarding the event can be directed to quantum@uchicago.edu.
