The workshop, now in its third year, has previously proven popular with world-leading academics in quantum technologies and this year was no exception. We were pleased to welcome 200 attendees from around the globe who came to participate in  the three-day workshop held in the Wills Memorial Building’s Great Hall.

This free event included keynote talks in areas such as Quantum Algorithms, Quantum Metrology and Sensing, Quantum Communications and Networks, Quantum Computation and Information and Hardware. We also welcomed panellists from key research institutes, government and industry who were keen to provide their opinions on a variety of different subjects including the ethical implications of developing quantum technologies.

BQIT:16 was fortunate to receive sponsorship from several companies for the event, including the IOP who chose our workshop to launch their brand new journal Quantum Science and Technology. We were also pleased to host Microsoft and 1Qbit who both provided demos on their work, including a 90 minute demonstration tutorial from Dave Wecker of Microsoft Research on their new software platform for quantum computing - LIQUi|>.

Details about the programme of this event can be found on our website and we hope to release videos from some of the sessions in the next few weeks. You can sign up online to receive information about next year’s event, which will be held from the 5 – 7th April 2017 in Bristol.

Speakers

Steven Adachi (Lockheed Martin)
Robin Blume-Kohout (Sandia National Laboratories)
Daniel Crawford (1Qbit)
Andrew Dzurak (University of New South Wales)
Chris Erven (University of Bristol)
Andru Gheorghiu (University of Edinburgh)
Paul Knott (University of Sussex)
Thaddeus Ladd (HRL Laboratories)
Seth Lloyd (MIT)
Morgan Mitchell (ICFO)
Andrea Morello (University of New South Wales)
John Morton (University College London)
Sae Woo Nam (NIST)
Rob Thew (University of Geneva)
Dave Wecker (Microsoft Research US)