Practical Quantum Computing:
Day 1
December 10, 2019
Bootcamp
This educational day is ideal for business professionals with limited or no understanding of quantum computing. The objective of this bootcamp day is to provide a high level overview of quantum computing and its use cases, potential industry impact, time horizon, and market size.
7:30 AM - 8:55AM | Registration Opens - Breakfast
8:55 AM - 9:00 AM | Welcome
Matt Johnson
CEO
QC Ware Corp.
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | Introduction to quantum computing
William Oliver
Associate Professor of EECS, Professor of the Practice of Physics, Lincoln Laboratory Fellow, Associate Director of the RLE
MIT
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | Market overview
Bob Sorensen
Vice President of Research and Technology, HPC
Hyperion
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | The business potential of quantum computing - When and how to play
Philipp Gerbert
Senior Partner and Managing Director
BCG
Matt Langione
Project Leader
BCG
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM | Networking Break - Refreshments and Snacks
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM | Impact, applications, and recommendations for the chemicals industry
Daniel Volz
Senior Management Consultant Chemicals and Quantum Computing
McKinsey & Company
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Quantum algorithms landscape
Adam Bouland
Advisor – Quantum Algorithms Research
QC Ware Corp.
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM | Quantum machine learning review
Iordanis Kerenidis
Head of Quantum Algorithms – International
QC Ware Corp.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM | Lunch
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM | Quantum computing success stories and engagement methodology
Yianni Gamvros
Head of Business Development
QC Ware Corp.
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | IBM Quantum Applications Outlook
Katie Pizzolato
Director, IBM Quantum Strategy and Client Research
IBM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | Achieving quantum impact with partners and customers
Ben Porter
Director, Business Development for Microsoft Quantum
Microsoft
Elisa Anzano
Startup Lead, Microsoft Quantum Network
Microsoft
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | Quantum Applications Development at Google
Ryan Babbush
Head of Quantum Algorithms
Google
End of Day 1
Day 2
December 11, 2019
Main Day
Major announcements, new offerings, and thought leadership by hardware vendors. US government presentations and panel discussion. Happy hour and networking.
7:00 AM - 8:40AM | Registration Opens - Breakfast
8:30 AM - 8:45 AM | Welcome
Matt Johnson
CEO
QC Ware Corp.
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM | What's Next After Quantum Supremacy?
John Preskill
Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics
Caltech
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Quantum Information Science at AFRL
Dr. Michael Hayduk
Deputy Director, Information Directorate
Air Force Research Laboratory
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor
John Martinis
Chief Scientist, Quantum Hardware
Google
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Networking Break - Refreshments and Snacks
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | IBM's Hardware-focused collaborative Quantum network
Anthony Annunziata
IBM Q Network Global Lead
IBM
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Experiencing Quantum impact with Microsoft today
Julie Love
Senior Director, Quantum Computing at Microsoft
Microsoft
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Shaping the future of quantum computing
Tony Uttley
President
Honeywell Quantum Solutions
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Full-stack quantum with superconducting qubits
Chad Rigetti
CEO
Rigetti
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Photonic Quantum Computers: Using light to solve real-world problems in the near term
Zachary Vernon
Head of Hardware
Xanadu
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Quantum Computer Buyer's Guide
Peter Chapman
CEO
IonQ
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Networking Break - Refreshments and Snacks
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM | Practical Quantum Computing
Mark Johnson
Vice President, Processor Development and Quantum Products
D-Wave Systems
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | Emerging Players
The Fast Lane to Quantum Advantage with True-Q Technology
Joseph Emerson
CEO and Chief Scientist
Quantum Benchmark Inc.
Road ahead towards programming and running useful quantum algorithms
Dr. Itamar Sivan
Co-Founder & CEO of Quantum Machines
Quantum Machines
4:45 PM - 5:30 PM | US Government Representatives: Panel Discussion
Joseph Broz (Moderator)
Executive Director and Governing Board Chairman, The Quantum Economic Development Consortium, and VP Strategy and Applied Sciences Department Head, SRI International
QED-C
Carl Williams
Acting Director, Physical Measurement Laboratory Fellow, Joint Quantum Institute and QuICS
NIST
Rupak Biswas
Director, Exploration Technology Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jalal Mapar
Sr. Advisor for Future Technologies
Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Geetha Senthil
Program Director
National Institute of Health
William Vanderlinde, PhD
Acting Director, Advanced Computing Technology Division Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Department of Energy
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM | Happy Hour and Networking
End of Day 2
Day 3
December 12, 2019
Applications and Research
The latest developments in applications, research, and software. Specialized talks on Optimization, Machine Learning, and Chemistry Simulation. Discussions among industry leaders in Finance, Aerospace, Automotive, Pharmaceuticals, and Materials.
7:00 AM - 8:40 AM | Registration Opens - Breakfast
8:40 AM - 8:45 AM | Welcome
Matt Johnson
CEO
QC Ware Corp.
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM | Computational probes of Hilbert Space
Umesh Vazirani
Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Director, Berkeley Quantum Computation Center, University of California Berkley
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM | Benchmarking Experiments on IBM’s 20-Qubit Poughkeepsie
Daniel Koch
Research Postdoc
Air Force Research Laboratory
9:45 AM - 10:15 AM | International Government Panel
Christophe Jurczak
General Partner
Quantonation
Tommaso Calarco
Director of the Institute of Quantum Control, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Chair of the Quantum Flagship Community Network
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Freeke Heijman
Director strategic development at QuTech in Delft and special advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy on Quantum Technologies
Ichiro Hashimoto
Consul (Science and Technology Attaché), Consulate-General of Japan in San Francisco
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM | Networking Break - Refreshments and Snacks
Optimization Research – Regency Ballroom
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Towards quantum heuristics for robust network design and aerospace applications
Stuart Hadfield
Associate Scientist, USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science, NASA Quantum AI Lab (QuAIL)
NASA
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Quantum speedup of branch-and-bound algorithms
Ashley Montanaro
Reader in Quantum Computation, University of Bristol
Co-founder, PhaseCraft
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Option Pricing using Quantum Computers
Nikitas Stamatopoulos
Vice President – Quantitative Research/Quantum Computing
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
12:15 - 13:45 | Lunch
Optimization Applications – Regency Ballroom
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Finance Industry Panel
Richard Waters – Moderator
West Coast Editor
Financial Times
Ning Shen
Managing Director, Quantitative Research
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Paul Burchard
Head of Research in R&D and Managing Director
Goldman Sachs
Bill Hartnett
Managing Director
Citigroup
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM | Aerospace Industry Panel
Emil Protalinski – Moderator
News Editor
Venture Beat
John (Jay) Lowell
Chief Engineer, Senior Technical Fellow Disruptive Computing & Networks
Boeing
Thomas Ohki
Quantum Engineering and Computing
Group Leader
Raytheon BBN Technologies
Steve Adachi, Ph.D.
Lockheed Martin Fellow, Advanced Technology Center
Lockheed Martin
Marc Fischer
Senior Vice President, Head of Flight Physics Centre of Competence
Airbus
Machine Learning Research – Gold
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Quantum Convolutional Neural Networks
Iris Cong
Graduate Student
Harvard
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Tensor Networks
Guifre Vidal
Senior Staff Researcher Scientist
X, The Moonshot Factory
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Applications and training of quantum generative models
Xiaodi Wu
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QulCS)
University of Maryland, College Park
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch
Machine Learning Applications – Gold
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Machine Learning on near-term quantum computers
Yudong Cao
Co-founder and CTO
Zapata Computing
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | Quantum Machine Learning and Quantum Advantage in the Financial Sector
Mattia Fiorentini
Head of Machine Learning and Quantum Algorithms
Cambridge Quantum Computing
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Automotive Industry Panel
Jonathan Vanian – Moderator
Writer
Fortune Magazine
Oliver Wick
Open Innovation / Technology Scouting – Quantum Computing Lead
BMW Group
Dr. Florian Neukart
Director, Advanced Technologies and IT Innovation
Volkswagen
Takanori Ide
Chief Researcher/Quantum Computing
AISIN Group
Chemistry Simulation Research – Crystal
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Using as Little Quantum Computing as Possible for Quantum Chemistry
Bill Huggins
Graduate student
UC Berkeley
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Resource Efficient Ansatz for Quantum Variational Algorithms
Linghua Zhu
Postdoctoral Researcher
Virginia Tech
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | TBD
Edward Hohenstein
Senior Staff Scientist
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch
Chemistry Simulation Applications – Crystal
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM | Pharmaceuticals and Life-Sciences Industry Panel
Alex Knapp – Moderator
Associate Editor for Science
Forbes
Christian Baber
Head of Scientific Informatics
Takeda Pharmaceuticals
Ross Walker
Global Head of Scientific Computing
GSK
Xinjun Hou
Director, Computational Chemistry
Pfzer
2:30 - 3:15 | Material Design Industry Panel
Dr. Celia Merzbacher – Moderator
Associate Director
Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)
Yu-ya Ohnishi
Deputy General Manager, Materials Informatics Initiative
JSR
Robert Ashcraft
Sr. Manager – Open Innovation and Strategy
Samsung
Robert Visser
Managing Director, Advanced Chemistry and Materials
Advanced Technology Group
Applied Materials, Inc.
Jose Gamez
Multiscale Material Simulation Expert
Covestro
Software & Applications – Atherton
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM | Qiskit Open Pulse: Building quantum applications from the ground up
Nate Earnest-Noble
Quantum Computing Applications Researcher
IBM
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM | Quantum Solutions Today
Helmut Katzgraber
Director, Quantum-Inspired Solutions & Senior Principal Research Manager
Microsoft
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Solving large problems with small quantum computers
Mike Foss-Feig
Principle Theoretical Physicist
Honeywell Quantum Solution
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM | Lunch
Software & Applications – Atherton
1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | Applications of Quantum Supremacy
Alan Ho
Head of Product and Business Development
Google
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | From queues to qubits: compiling classical code for quantum processors
Joe Fitzsimons
CEO
Horizon Quantum Computing
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM | Computing with the TensorNetwork Library
Stefan Leichenauer
Research Scientist
X, the Moonshot Factory
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM | Networking Break - Refreshments and Snacks
~All Tracks return to main sessions~
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM | Ask Me Anything with a Quantum Computing Superhero
Jessica Pointing – Moderator
Stanford University
Scott Aaronson
David J. Bruton Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Quantum Information Center, University of Texas at Austin
Chief Scientific Advisor, QC Ware Corp.
4:45 PM - 5:00 PM | Conference Wrap-Up
Matt Johnson
CEO
QC Ware Corp.