Quantum Australia 2024 - three weeks to go!

Australia's foremost quantum industry event returns in 2024

When: 20-22 February 2024
Where: Winx Stand, Royal Randwick (near UNSW’s Kensington campus), Sydney
Cost: From $765 (see pricing here)

The conference program includes Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic; Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley; U.S. Department of Homeland Security under-secretary Dr Dimitri Kusnezov; Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the £$2.5 billion  UK National Quantum Technology Program, Prof Sir Peter Knight; NSW Chief Scientist and Engineer Prof Hugh Durrant-Whyte; and head of quantum technologies at peak research funder UK Research and Innovation, Roger McKinlay.

Among the leading overseas quantum entrepreneurs at the meeting will be Dr Stephanie Simmons, founder of Canadian quantum computing start-up Photonic Inc; Dr David Gunnarsson, Chief Technology Officer of Finland’s Bluefors; Dr Si-Hui Tan, who heads research at Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing; Dr Chris Wood, Chief Technology Officer of U.S. quantum start-up Infleqtion; and Dr Steve Brierley, CEO & Founder of Riverlane, a UK company developing a self-correcting operating system for quantum computers.

Defence players include Andrew Seedhouse, Chief of Cyber Intelligence & National Security Divisions at Australia's Defence Science and Technology Group; Prof Andre Luiten, Managing Director of Adelaide-based quantum sensing and defence start-up QuantX; Dr Giuseppina Dall’Armi-Stoks, Research Leader Electro Optics Sensing and Electromagnetic Warfare at DSTG; and Prof Brant Gibson, Deputy Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Centre at RMIT University.

There’s also a strong line-up of key Australian quantum entrepreneurs, such as Prof Michelle Simmons, CEO of Silicon Quantum Computing (and 2023 winner of Australia’s Prime Minister’s Prize for Science); Prof Michael Biercuk, CEO of quantum software start-up Q-CTRL; Prof Tom Stace, CEO and co-founder of Analog Quantum Circuits, the Brisbane-based superconducting quantum technology start-up; and A/Prof Chris Ferrie, co-founder of Eigensystems.

Other industry heavyweights speaking include Bill Bartee, co-founder and managing partner of Main Sequence, the deep tech investment fund founded by CSIRO with more than $1 billion invested; Dr Christophe Jurczak, managing partner at Quantonation, the French-American early stage venture capital firm focusing on quantum technologies; and Michael Brett, Seattle-based Worldwide Go-To-Market Strategy Lead for Quantum Technologies at Amazon Web Services.

Learn more: Quantum Australia Conference and Careers Fair presented by Sydney Quantum Academy