The aim of this website is to list the events organized in France in connection with the quantum year and to list existing French resources for the general public. The site is collaborative but moderated: anyone can suggest an event or a resource.
PQI 2025
PQI 2025 will take place on April 9 & 10, 2025 at the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, PA. This conference is a collaboration between the Pittsburgh Quantum Institute and the Carnegie Science Center in celebration of the UNESCO International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The event features two public lectures from Nobel Prize winner, Professor William D. Phillips, and Director of the Quantum Science Center, Dr. Travis Humble. The event will also include technical sessions, a poster session for graduate students, and a quantum college fair for high school students.
2025 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (Quantum Week)
IEEE Quantum Week — the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE) — bridges the gap between the science of quantum computing and the development of the industry surrounding it. This event brings a perspective to the quantum industry that differs from strictly academic or business conferences.
IEEE Quantum Week is a multidisciplinary venue that gives attendees the unique chance to discuss challenges and opportunities with quantum researchers, scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, developers, students, practitioners, educators, programmers, and newcomers.
The 13th Annual International Hackathon for Social Good (April 25 – 27, 2025)
This year, the NYUAD Hackathon is focusing on one of the most transformative technologies of our time: Quantum Computing (QC), along with the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advancing QC, while addressing the challenges outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
We are proud to take part in the global celebration activities of the UN’s declaration of 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ).
From Classical to Quantum Measurement Systems – IYQ
The event “From Classical to Quantum Measurement Systems” recognizes classical and quantum technology for different applications in measurement technology, including optical sensing and metrology, bioimaging and optogenetics, multimode fiber amplifier, high-speed data transmission, quantum sensing with undetected light, quantum computing, 6G-quantum communication, entangled photons for fiber communication.
2025 UBCQ Career Fair
Celebrate the International Year of Quantum and 100 years of quantum mechanics at the 2025 UBC Quantum Career Fair! Open to all students, attend our event on March 11th, 11:00 am – 3:30 pm, at the Abdul Ladha Science Student Centre at the University of British Columbia for a day of networking, seminars, and panel discussions exploring quantum science and technologies in the real world. Joined by IBM, Amazon, QMI, and many more, come meet the industry leaders and academics at the forefront of quantum research!
Quantum Talks 2025
The first Quantum Talks 2025 will be a day of workshops and panels for discussions on Quantum Technologies and recent advances in the quantum computing industry. The event will have speakers from different areas, including researchers, professionals, developers, and startups in quantum technologies, including cyber, AI, optimization, hardware, and software.
The event will be realized in hybrid mode, from the auditorium of Microsoft Reactor in São Paulo, Brazil, with an audience of 80 people and online attendees.
Quantum Sciences & Technologies: Transforming Chemistry with Quantum, HPC, and AI
The promise of quantum is real, and we are beginning to see where this technology can have the greatest impact. Decades of research and development point to the tremendous impact quantum computing will have on the simulation of quantum systems, especially for chemistry and materials science. As the fidelity and scale of quantum machines improve, we will first see the scientific quantum advantage, solving classes of scientifically interesting and classically intractable problems. As we scale to quantum supercomputers, we will achieve industrial quantum advantage and solve the world’s most pressing challenges through quantum-enabled advances in chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science. Scaled quantum systems won’t exist in isolation but will operate alongside AI and classical supercomputing.
Come join Microsoft for a lecture and workshop to bring together High-Performance Computing, AI, and early quantum systems and learn how it can accelerate scientific discovery.
European Researcher’s Night Slovakia
European Researcher’s Night is the biggest science festival in Slovakia, and it brings news from the world of research and innovation in an inspiring and unique way.
The festival is traditionally held on the last Friday of September in Bratislava, Košice, Banská Bystrica, Žilina, Poprad, and other accompanying locations. The day-long program (9 am to 11 pm) offers a series of scientific presentations, discussions, experiments, workshops, technological attractions and so much more!
What 2025 holds
The scientific community is increasingly confronting the limitations of traditional predictive models and linear approaches in analyzing complex systems. Chaos, once understood as a synonym for disorder, is now seen as an inherent property of dynamic processes, where sensitivity to initial conditions and nonlinearity determine their evolution. Instead of perceiving uncertainty as an obstacle, we can interpret it as a catalyst for scientific discoveries and technological innovations.
Last year’s theme of complexity highlighted the interdisciplinary connections in research. This year, as part of the Night of Science, we will explore chaos as a fundamental mechanism of adaptation, evolution, and transformation in various systems. The event will open discussions on how scientific disciplines approach uncertainty and nonlinearity and what paradigmatic shifts these phenomena imply.
Quantum Physics and Chaos: Uncertainty as an Epistemological and Technological Imperative
At the quantum level, uncertainty is a fundamental property of systems. Quantum fluctuations, state superposition, and wave function collapse challenge classical notions of predictability and deterministic understanding of reality. Quantum physics thus provides a natural link between chaotic phenomena and the emergence of new orders, where uncertainty becomes a source of technological innovations.
The International Year of Quantum Science and Technology 2025 offers a unique opportunity to explore the relationship between chaotic processes and quantum mechanics. Quantum algorithms utilize chaotic behavior to solve nonlinear problems, while quantum communication protocols introduce new standards of security and efficiency in information transmission.
Chaos in Nature and Society: Mechanisms of Stability and Transformation
In natural systems, chaos does not merely represent entropy but also stabilization and emergent organization. From climate processes and ecosystem interactions to neural networks and evolutionary mechanisms – nonlinear dynamics lead to the formation of self-organizing structures and adaptive strategies.
Similar principles apply to social and technological systems. Financial markets, digital networks, and information ecosystems exhibit chaotic behavioral patterns, where even minimal perturbations significantly influence global outcomes. This presents challenges for modeling, regulating, and managing complex systems.
Night of Science 2025 will offer an interdisciplinary perspective on the connection between chaos, quantum technologies, natural phenomena, and social dynamics. We will explore how uncertainty shapes innovation processes and what epistemological and technological implications we can extrapolate for a better future. Chaos is not just a challenge – it represents a potential key to new scientific paradigm shifts.
Quantum under the Big Sky: Introducing QCORE
The Montana Photonics & Quantum Alliance presents Quantum under the Big Sky: Introducing QCORE, a webinar featuring Montana State University’s QCORE. QCORE is a new research and technology development center designed to create the foundations for innovation and advocate for growing the quantum economy in Montana and the surrounding region. Currently, funded efforts are creating an applied quantum testbed that will underpin quantum networking, sensing, and computing capabilities and form the foundation for standards development.
Testbed capabilities build on existing programmatic strength in photonics research at Spectrum Lab and the quantum materials’ foundry MonArk to create synergistic capabilities and demonstrate successful pilot-scale quantum technology innovations and networked systems integration.
Join the Webinar to learn more about QCORE Programmatic Thrust Areas, Including:
- Demonstrations of novel quantum technologies including quantum computing, sensors, and quantum networking;
- quantum materials research;
- cryogenics;
- quantum literacy and society engagement;
- workforce development, training;
- promoting the growth of the quantum innovation ecosystem and global supply chain.