Eighth annual Chicago Quantum Summit to be held November 3 – 4 in downtown Chicago

The 2025 Chicago Quantum Summit will be held November 3 – 4 at Willis Tower in downtown Chicago. 

The eighth-annual event, hosted by the Chicago Quantum Exchange, will convene leading experts in quantum information science and engineering to discuss recent developments and help shape the field’s future. It is being held in a new venue this year to support rising demand and a growing breadth of topics.

Confirmed speakers include:

• Paul Dabbar, former undersecretary for science, US Department of Energy
• Darío Gil, senior vice president, IBM
• Jay Lowell, principal senior technical fellow, Boeing
• Mikhail Lukin, the Joshua and Beth Friedman university professor and co-director of the Quantum Science and Engineering Initiative, Harvard University
• Celia Merzbacher, executive director of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
• Jeremy O'Brien, CEO, PsiQuantum
• Taro Shimada, CEO, Toshiba

Sponsors include Intersect Illinois, Boeing, PsiQuantum, Applied Materials, and OneRegion.

Please watch the CQE website for updates regarding speakers, programming, and submission calls for the Boeing Quantum Creators program and Poster Session. If you are interested in sponsoring the Summit, please contact Andrea Jett. Registration opens in August.

About the CQE

The Chicago Quantum Exchange is an intellectual hub in Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana that advances the science and engineering of quantum information, prepares the quantum workforce, and drives the quantum economy by connecting top universities, national labs, and industry partners. It is based at the University of Chicago and anchored by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Northwestern University, and Purdue University. The CQE community includes more than 50 corporate, international, nonprofit, and regional partners and is one of the largest collaborative teams working on quantum science in the world.