October 26-28, 2026 | Chicago
AQC26
Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference & Expo
Agenda
10:00
1
Conference Registration
12:00
1
Lunch & Exhibition
Foundational Physics & Quantum Dynamics
13:30
1
Quantum Machines Opening Remarks
13:40
1
A Conversation with John Martinis and Pedram Roushan
14:15
Prof. John Martinis
Qolab
How to build a quantum supercomputer:
Scaling from hundreds to millions of qubits
14:45
Prof. Charles Marcus
UW and NBI
Arrays of Josephson gadgets
15:15
Prof. Ehud Altman
UC Berkeley
Machine learning the
effects of many quantum measurements
15:45
1
Coffee Break & Exhibition
Advanced Superconducting Systems & Applications
16:30
Prof. William Oliver
MIT
Emulating the Bose-Hubbard model with arrays of superconducting qubits
17:00
Pedram Roushan
Google Quantum AI
Visualizing quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits
17:30
Jun Fujisaki
Fujitsu
Partially fault-tolerant quantum computing: progress and outlook
18:00
Andrew Bestwick
Rigetti Computing
Scaling a chiplet-based quantum processor toward fault-tolerance
18:30
1
Free Time
19:00
1
Welcome Cocktail Reception
08:30
1
Breakfast
Neutral Atoms & Spin Qubits
09:20
Prof. Vladan Vuletic
MIT
Keynote - Neutral Atoms
10:00
Prof. Mark Saffman
UW-Madison
Parsimonious with photons for fast neutral atom quantum computing
10:30
Adi Pick
The Hebrew University
of Jerusalem
Scalable adiabatic quantum algorithms for MIS
11:00
1
Coffee Break & Exhibition
11:30
André Saraiva
Diraq
Quantum/classical integration when
your qubits are fast
12:00
Holly Stemp
MIT
Remote coupling of quantum dot spin qubits via a superconducting qubit coupler
12:20
1
Lunch & Exhibition
Advanced Control, Calibration & Machine Learning
13:45
Assoc. Prof.
Morten Kjaergaard
Niels Bohr Institute
Parameter estimation, gate calibration and performance benchmarking
on millisecond timescales with superconducting qubits
14:15
Prof. Daniel Lidar
USC
Characterizing and suppressing noise in superconducting qubits and qudits
14:45
Murphy Niu
Google Quantum
AI and UCSB
Quantum signal processing for near-term application: optimal quantum
learning and feedback based algorithms
15:15
Benjamin Lienhard
WMI
Overcoming readout and control bottlenecks in superconducting quantum processors
15:45
1
Coffee Break, Poster Session, Exhibition
Nobel Keynote & Industry Highlights
17:30
1
Talk by Nobel Prize Winner Michel Devoret
18:00
Prof. Britton Plourde
UW-Madison and
Qolab
Mitigating effects of ionizing radiation impacts on superconducting qubit arrays
18:20
Peter Komar
AWS
Quantum computing at AWS
18:40
James Brown
QBraid
Decreasing the rate of undetectable errors in the generalized superfast encoding with Clifford noise reduction
19:00
1
Free Time
19:30
1
Roundtables, Pizza & Beer Night
08:00
1
Breakfast
Scalable Architectures: From HW to QEC
09:00
Blake Johnson
IBM Quantum
Real-time processing in quantum
execution: Dynamic circuits and qLDPC decoding
09:40
Shane Caldwell
Nvidia
Accelerated computing for the QPU
10:10
Masoud Mohseni
HPE
Adaptive high-performance quantum classical computing
10:40
Pranev Mundada
Q-CTRL
Achieving computational gains with
quantum error correction primitives
11:00
1
Coffee Break & Exhibition
11:30
Yonatan Cohen Quantum Machines
Hybrid control unlocking quantum supercomputers
12:00
Pooya Ronagh
1QBitImpacts of decoder latency on utility-scale quantum resource estimates
12:30
Prof. Rob Schoelkopf
Yale and QCI
Error detection and error correction with superconducting dual-rail qubits
13:10
1
Quantum Machines Closing Remarks
13:15 - 14:30
1Qolab
Lunch & Exhibition