Dr. Patricia “Patty” Lee of Quantinuum accepted the 2025 Industry Pioneer in Quantum award at Quantum World Congress, highlighting the global teamwork driving record-breaking advances in trapped-ion computing.

Regional leaders from Fairfax, Montgomery, Howard, Loudoun, and Prince George’s outline how Greater Washington’s shared assets, policy proximity, and talent pipelines are propelling the region from the Potomac to the world as a global quantum hub.

Four quantum hubs—Greater Washington, Australia, Waterloo, and the Netherlands—share what’s working: global challenges, industry days, and talent exchanges that turn demand signals into deployments.

Ambassador Vinay Kwatra outlined India’s National Quantum Mission and a step-by-step, partnership-driven strategy to ensure quantum’s benefits reach citizens and industry alike.

Accenture’s Edy Liongosari makes the case for quantum that works: earn public trust, prove value with real applications, and get serious about post-quantum readiness.

RPI’s Martin Schmidt and NVIDIA co-founder Curtis Priem share a blueprint for scaling quantum: durable architectures, real hardware access for students, and a regional ecosystem built to move fast.

At #QWC2025, Boeing’s John “Jay” Lowell outlined the path from an entanglement source on the ISS to next year’s Q4S satellite, which will demonstrate entanglement swapping in orbit—a step toward building global quantum networks that span borders and serve science and public good.

IBM’s Jay Gambetta told #QWC2025 that the field has crossed a threshold: we now have true quantum computers—not just devices—able to run beyond classical brute force. His mission: prove verifiable advantage and stay on track for fault tolerance by 2029.

In a keynote that blended physics fluency with policy pragmatism, Puisto outlined how Finland is knitting together research excellence, startup dynamism, and trusted international partnerships to build a “quantum nation.”

Infleqtion CEO Matthew Kinsella and CTO Pranav Gokhale show how neutral atoms are moving quantum from promise to product.

IonQ President & CEO Niccolo de Masi took the stage to share how the company is moving beyond quantum computing into a fully integrated platform of computing, networking, and sensing.

Jonathan Bagger, CEO of the American Physical Society, marked the UN-declared International Year of Quantum at QWC 2025, calling for sustained funding, global mobility, and public–private partnership to power the “second quantum revolution.”

CEO Rajeeb Hazra delivered the keynote speech at Quantum World Congress 2025 on Wednesday, during which he highlighted Quantinuum’s progress since last year’s event.

The governor announced a new quantum research center at the University of Maryland, yet another investment in the technology this year.

At Quantum World Congress, experts from IBM, Microsoft, NIST, and CJW Quantum Consulting came together for the Fault-Tolerant Future panel to revisit the timelines for quantum’s economic impact and cryptographic risk.

What will it take to build a quantum computer that delivers real commercial value? At Quantum World Congress, Microsoft’s Matthias Troyer outlined a blueprint: focus on high-impact problems, design for hybrid AI-HPC-quantum workflows, and adapt proven lessons from classical computing to scale faster.

At Quantum World Congress 2025, Jason Zander (EVP, Strategic Missions & Technologies) and Dr. Charles Tahan (Partner, Microsoft Quantum) laid out Microsoft’s case for a partnership-first path to a useful, fault-tolerant quantum computer—and for building the ecosystem that will make it matter in the real world.

At Quantum World Congress 2025, Maryland Governor Wes Moore delivered an inspiring vision for making Maryland the global capital of quantum.

At Quantum World Congress 2025, University of Maryland President Darryll J. Pines delivered a clear message: quantum isn’t a promise on the horizon—it’s here now, and Maryland’s ecosystem is built to turn breakthrough science into deployment.

U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, addressed attendees of Quantum World Congress (QWC) 2025 with a stark message: quantum technology is America’s “Sputnik moment” — and it is not a race the United States can afford to lose.