Wednesday, April 23, 2025 12:15 pm - 1:20 pm
Quantum technologies are poised to transform our lives: within a decade, we could have quantum sensors capable of detecting disease at the very earliest stages; quantum networks that offer provably secure voting, financial transfers, and medical records; and eventually quantum computers that could, in just minutes, perform analyses that would take today’s supercomputers millions of years — accelerating drug discovery, optimizing supply chains, and advancing the development of new materials. But as the field edges closer to real-world application, critical regulatory questions are emerging, including how leaders should balance the field’s enormous problem-solving potential against the risks that bad actors could use this same technology to snoop undetected on individuals, corporations or governments; manipulate our markets; or develop defense applications that disrupt the global balance of power.
The answers to these questions matter not only to US national security but to our economy and everyday lives: over the next decade, quantum technologies are projected to drive as much as $80 billion in growth into the Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin region alone and nearly $1 trillion globally — assuming that the pace of collaboration and investment continue.
Join world-leading experts on quantum information science and law as they explore issues across a range of legal areas, examine critical challenges, and discuss how law and science can work together to develop a clear framework for balancing conflicting priorities.
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Panel:
- David Awschalom, , the Liew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering and Physics at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering; founding director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange; and senior scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- Aziz Huq, the University of Chicago’s Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law
- Lior Strahilevitz, the University of Chicago’s Sidley Austin Professor of Law
- Robert Karr, Jr., partner, Barnes and Thornburg and co-chair of the firm’s Quantum Technology Industry Group (moderator)