4th DQC Annual Conference

14 - 15 May 2026
170 Queen’s Gate
Imperial College London

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

  • Prof. Mary Ryan, Vice Provost (Research and Enterprise), Imperial College, UK - Opening Speech
  • Prof. Luca Magri, Imperial College, UK - "“Solving” Nonlinear Differential Equations with Quantum Reservoir Computing and Fokker-Plank Embedding"
  • Prof. Joe Cotter, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum Sensing for Inertial Navigation"
  • Prof. Cong Ling, Imperial College, UK - "Quadratic Forms: From the Gougu Theorem to Post-Quantum Cryptography"
  • Prof. Bálint Koczor, University of Oxford, UK - "Theory to Enable Practical Quantum Advantage"
  • Zohim Chandani, NVIDIA, UK
  • Coral Westoby, Nu Quantum, UK - "Towards Fault Tolerant Computers with Entanglement Distribution Networks"
  • Dr Dougal Main, University of Oxford/Oxford Ionics, UK - "Distributed Quantum Computing across a Trapped-Ion Quantum Network"
  • Dr Peter Brearley, University of Manchester, UK - "Non-unitary Quantum Computing via Exponentially Convergent Linear Combinations of Unitaries"
  • Dr Louis Chen, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum ML and AI"
  • Dr Michael Hanks, Imperial College, UK - "Quantum Information Processing and Error Control"
  • Dr Shang Yu, Imperial College, UK
  • Dr 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"

Tentative Conference Schedule

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

Day 1 (14 May 2026)

09:00 - 09:50 Tea/Coffee Reception
09:50 - 10:00 Welcoming Remarks
10:00 - 12:00 Morning Technical Session
12:00 - 12:45 Panel Discussions
12:45 - 14:00 Onsite Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Technical Session
18:30 - 21:00 Dinner

Day 2 (15 May 2026)

09:30 - 10:00 Tea/Coffee Reception
10:00 - 12:00 Morning Technical Session
12:00 - 12:45 Panel Discussions
12:45 - 14:00 Onsite Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 Afternoon Technical Session