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The DQC Annual Conference aims to engage partners and the broader research community by showcasing the project’s latest research outcomes. Co-organised by the DQC project and the School of Convergence Science (SoCS), this two-day event will be held on 14–15 May 2026 at Imperial College. The conference will feature talks from industrial and academic partners, providing a collaborative forum to exchange ideas on the project's core themes.

Confirmed Speakers & Tentative Talk Titles

Opening and Keynote Speakers

• Mary Ryan, Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise), Imperial College, UK - Opening Speech
• Jonathan Legh-Smith, Executive Director, UKQuantum - Keynote Speech: "UK's Quantum Ecosystem"
• John Fitzgerald, Senior Portfolio Manager, Quantum Technologies, EPSRC - "UKRI Support of the Quantum Research Landscape"

Industry Speakers/Panellists

• Davide Venturelli, USRA/NASA Quantum AI Lab, USA - "Noise-Robust Quantum Heuristic Algorithm Hardware-Software Co-Design"
• Coral Westoby, Nu Quantum, UK - "Towards Fault Tolerant Computers with Entanglement Distribution Networks"
• Dougal Main, University of Oxford/Oxford Ionics, UK - "Distributed Quantum Computing across a Trapped-Ion Quantum Network"
• Zohim Chandani, NVIDIA, UK
• Daniel Mills, Quantinuum, UK
• Alex Jones, ORCA Computing, UK
• Alexei Kondratyev, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, UAE
• Alejandra Beghelli Zapata, BT, UK

Academic Speakers/Panellists

• Luca Magri, Imperial College, UK - "'Solving' Nonlinear Differential Equations with Quantum Reservoir Computing and Fokker-Plank Embedding"
• Joe Cotter, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum Sensing for Inertial Navigation"
• Cong Ling, Imperial College, UK - "Quadratic Forms: From the Gougu Theorem to Post-Quantum Cryptography"
• Bálint Koczor, University of Oxford, UK - "Theory to Enable Practical Quantum Advantage"
• Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, UK - "Recent Directions in Quantum Communications"
• Peter Brearley, University of Manchester, UK - "Non-unitary Quantum Computing via Exponentially Convergent Linear Combinations of Unitaries"
• Louis Chen, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum ML and AI"
• Michael Hanks, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum Information Processing and Error Control"
• Paul Burdekin, Oxford University, UK - "Quantum Memories of Distributed Quantum Computing"
• Felix Burt, Imperial College, UK - "Distributed Fault-Tolerant Logic"
• Marcel Mordarski, Imperial College, UK - "Noisy Universal Approximation Theorem: Predicting Black-Scholes Option Prices with Quantum Neural Networks"
• Shang Yu, Imperial College, UK - "Extensible Universal Photonic Quantum Computing with Nonlinearity"
• Omer Rathore, Durham University, UK
• Felix Tennie, City St George University of London, UK

Tentative Conference Schedule

** Any conference updates will be posted on this page **

Day 1 (14 May 2026)

Day 2 (15 May 2026)