top of page
Home hero1.png

COMING SOON IN CHICAGO

AQC26

Adaptive Quantum Circuits Conference & Expo

AQC25 highlights

155

Participants

From academia and industry

28

Presentations and academic sessions

Keynotes and talks by leading experts, including two physics Nobel Prize laureates.

Poster presentations

Showcasing cutting-edge research

23

13

Exhibiting companies

Presenting their latest innovations

16

Sponsors

Our sponsors play a vital role in enabling this event and fostering collaboration across academia and industry.

2

Nights of networking, good food, and a lot of fun

Starting with a cocktail reception and wrapping up with a lively pizza and beer night and roundtables, bringing the community together

Speakers lineup

After the success of AQC25, AQC26 will elevate the experience with more participants, broader programming, and new opportunities for collaboration.

AgendaAQC25

Day 2

Day 3

  • 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

    Generated Image October 07, 2025 - 3_12PM 1.png

    14:15

    Prof. John Martinis

    Qolab

    How to build a quantum supercomputer: Scaling from hundreds to millions of qubits

    14:45

    Pedram Roushan

    Google Quantum AI

    Visualizing quantum dynamics with superconducting qubits

    Abstract

    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. Charles Marcus

    UW and NBI

    Arrays of Josephson gadgets

    17:00

    Andrew Bestwick

    Rigetti Computing

    Scaling a chiplet-based quantum processor toward fault-tolerance

    17:30

    Jun Fujisaki

    Fujitsu

    Partially fault-tolerant quantum computing: progress and outlook

    18:00

    Prof. William Oliver

    MIT

    Emulating the Bose-Hubbard model with arrays of superconducting qubits

    18:30

    1

    Free Time

    19:00

    1

    Welcome Cocktail Reception

  • 08:30

    1

    Breakfast

    Neutral Atoms & Spin Qubits

    09:20

    Prof. Vladan Vuletić

    MIT

    Neutral-atom arrays for cavity QED and quantum computing

    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

    Coffee Break, Poster Session, Exhibition

    Nobel Keynote & Industry Highlights

    17:30

    1

    Talk by Nobel Prize Winner Michel Devoret

    Generated Image October 07, 2025 - 3_12PM 1.png

    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
    1QBit

    Impacts 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

bottom of page