Quantum Builders: Fireside chats with quantum experts

Why this conversation matters: Quantum technology is moving from a field dominated by academic research into a global industry involving startups, investors, governments, national labs, and major corporations. But building a quantum industry is not only a scientific challenge. It also requires capital, infrastructure, talent, public policy, patient timelines, and new models for translating laborat...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with Irfan Siddiqi Quantum computing is no longer defined solely by qubits — it’s increasingly shaped by how we measure, control, and integrate entire systems. Many of the breakthroughs driving progress today, from high-fidelity readout to real-time feedback, stem from advances in quantum measurement science. These capabilities are critical to scaling quantum...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with Lieven Vandersypen Semiconductor spin qubits promise scalable quantum computing, blending long-lived spin physics with semiconductor fabrication. Over the past two decades, Lieven Vandersypen has been at the forefront of this journey—pushing qubit control, larger processors, and architecture-aware experiments, while helping Delft become a model quantum e...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with Kyle Serniak Quantum computing progress ultimately depends on the performance of the hardware that powers it. Behind every qubit lies a complex interplay of materials science, device physics, fabrication processes, and subtle noise mechanisms that determine how well quantum systems actually work. In this fireside conversation, Dr. Kyle Serniak of MIT Lin...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with David Awschalom Iiew Family Professor of Molecular Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (University of Chicago); Director of the Chicago Quantum Institute; Founding Director of the Chicago Quantum Exchange (CQE); Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory; and Inaugural Director of Q-NEXT, the U.S. Department of Energy Quantum...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with Charles (Chuck) Black, Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Energy and Photon Sciences Directorate at Brookhaven National Laboratory and Director of the Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA). Quantum technology is rapidly evolving from isolated research projects into coordinated, large-scale national initiatives. National laboratories are at the...

Join us for an exclusive Fireside Chat with Dr. Gretchen Campbell, a national leader who has shaped quantum strategy from the lab bench to the White House. Dr. Campbell—Associate Vice President for Quantum Research & Education at the University of Maryland and former Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at the White House OSTP—will offer a firsthand insights into the rapid evolut...

Join Steven M. Girvin, Sterling Professor of Physics at Yale University, co-developer of the revolutionary Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics (Circuit QED) architecture, and founding director of DOE’s Co-Design Center for Quantum Advantage, for a candid discussion on the foundations and future of superconducting quantum computing. From the original theoretical breakthroughs to the cutting-edge work o...

Insights from Shor's Algorithm creator: Few names are as synonymous with quantum innovation as the world-renowned mathematician and physicist Peter Shor. His invention of Shor’s algorithm, the first quantum algorithm proven to solve integer factorization exponentially faster than classical algorithms, paved the way for modern quantum computing and cryptography as we know it today. In this episode,...

Join us for an in-depth conversation at the intersection of quantum computing and high-performance computing (HPC), where science meets scale. In this session, Daniel Rodan Legrain (Qblox) welcomes Bert de Jong — Department Head for Computational Sciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Director of the Quantum Systems Accelerator.

As quantum computing moves from research demo to real-world infrastructure, engineering challenges, not just scientific breakthroughs, are taking center stage. In this fireside chat, Qblox hosts MIT’s Prof. Will Oliver to explore the evolving challenges and breakthroughs in building scalable quantum hardware. From cryo to control, and from lab-grade setups to deployable systems, we’ll dig into wha...