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Welcome to the News pages for the Virtual IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE20) or IEEE Quantum Week, October 12-16, 2020.

Job Seekers: Check out the exciting quantum jobs available from our QCE20 supporters!

Now On-Demand IEEE Quantum Week until Nov 30

The QCE20 Final Conference Program is now published. We are thrilled to inform you that 800+ quantum enthusiasts are registered for IEEE Quantum Week.

A big thank to all authors, organizers, presenters, and attendees for all your help, patience, and support in making QCE20 a success! We are thrilled to engage with you in this highly interdisciplinary and inaugural IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE20).

October 2020

• QCE20 In the News
  • IEEE Quantum Podcast Series: A Conversation with Travis Scholten
  • Architectural Guidelines and Best Practices for Scalable Circuit QED Quantum Computing
  • ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology
  • IEEE Technology and Management Engineering Society
  • Quantum Computing Entrepreneurship
  • IEEE Computer Society – Region 5
    
    
• The recordings of QCE20 are now available on-demand on the virtual platform at https://qce20.hubb.me/schedule-builder/home

  Registered QCE20 attendees can watch and play the recordings of 270+ hours of IEEE Quantum Week Keynotes, Tutorials, Workshops, Technical Paper presentations, Poster presentations, Panel & Birds-of-Feather discussions until the end of November. We are thrilled to inform you that 850+ quantum enthusiasts registered and attended the live event.

• If you missed the live event, it is not too late!
  You can enjoy 270 hours of IEEE Quantum Week programming ON-DEMAND until Nov 30, 2020 at reduced registration rates.

• Register for the On-Demand IEEE Quantum Week — QCE20 Now at reduced registration rates.

• The IEEE Quantum Week Virtualization platform is now live for duly registered participants at https://qce20.hubb.me/schedule-builder/home
• We are thrilled to inform you that 850+ quantum enthusiasts registered for the live event of IEEE Quantum Week.

September 2020

• IEEE Quantum Experts Podcast — Episode 3: A Conversation with Travis Scholten, Quantum Computing Applications Researcher, IBM Quantum
• QCE20 Full Program V80
• QCE20 Sessions Explorer
• IEEE Hyderabad Section — Quantum Week Satellite Event
• Final Digital Recording and Uploading Guidelines
• Please consider attending the Women in Quantum Summit II on Tue, Sep 29-Fri, Oct 2, 2020 sponsored by QCE20 Platinum Sponsors IBM Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions
• CMC Microsystems signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• IEEE Computer Society welcomes members of the Media to QCE20
• Jobs Board — Check out the exciting jobs available from our QCE20 supporter
• Oxford Instruments signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Attendee Onboarding to virtual platform starts: Mon, Sep 28
  
• Uploading of Tutorials, Papers, Workshops, Panels, and Posters materials including videos, slides, and release forms starts: Mon, Sep 21
• QCE20 Presentation Consent and Release for Tutorials, Papers, Workshops, Panels, and Posters: Download
• Author registration deadline: Extended to Wed, Sep 30
• Advance registration deadline: Extended to Wed, Sep 30
• Call for Birds-of-Feather Sessions deadline Sep 28
• Onboarding for registered organizers, presenters, and attendees to QCE20 Virtualization Platform Hubb.me starts Mon, Sep 28
• Advance registration deadline Sep 12
• QDevil signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Geosync Microwave signed up as QCE20 Supporter
• ??? IBM Blog Post on IEEE Quantum Week by Travis Scholten

August 2020

• QCE20 Full Program Online V46
• seeQC signed up as QCE20 Bronze Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Harrisburg University signed up as QCE20 Supporter
• NetLabs signed up as QCE20 Bronze Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Pasqal signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Author registration deadline Aug 15
• Aug 12 Press Release
• Accepted posters announced
• Preliminary Digital Presentation Guidelines posted for all program categories — Keynotes, Technical Papers, Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, Posters — Please visit these pages for more instructions as we transition to the digital platform. Thank you very much for all your help and support in making Digital QCE20 a great success
• Panel by Microsoft on Bringing Quantum Programming into Quantum Computing Education
• Panel by Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C) on Enabling and Growing the Quantum Industry
• QCE20 Posters Submissions are open until August 4.

July 2020

• Bluefors signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Elyah signed up as QCE20 Bronze Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• QCE20 Accepted Technical Papers have been posted.
• QCE20 Accepted Panels have been posted.
• Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation and as of July 14, 2020, the IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE20) or IEEE Quantum Week, October 12-16, 2020 cannot be held in Broomfield, Colorado and, thus, will be held as a virtual or digital-only conference.
• QCE20 registration fees have been simplified and reduced due to being a digital-only conference.
• QCE20 hotel reservations are closed now due to the COVID-19 situation.

June 2020

• Yu Chen, Google AI Quantum signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• QCE20 Poster submission deadline July 31
• Zapata Computing signed up as QCE20 Gold Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Quantropi signed up as QCE20 Gold Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing (TQC) signed up as QCE20 Supporter

May 2020

• Alexander Condello, D-Wave Systems signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• QCE20 Technical paper submission deadlines extended to May 22
• Second QCE20 Press Release
• Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) signed up as QCE20 Supporter
• Register for QCE20 Tutorials
• Register for QCE20 Workshops
• QCE20 Registration Open
• QCE20 Hotel Reservations Open

Apr 2020

• Delft Circuits signed up as QCE20 Bronze Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• QCE20 Tutorials Program published
• QCE20 Workshops Program published
• QCE20 Keynote Speakers

Mar 2020

• Tutorial and workshop proposal submission deadlines extended to April 3 due to coronavirus
• QCE20 COVID-19 Alerts
• Patty Lee, Honeywell Quantum Solutions signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Xanadu signed up as QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Extended QCE20 Full Tutorial Proposal submission deadline to April 3
• Extended QCE20 Full Workshop Proposal submission deadline to April 3
• QCE20 Virtual Program Board Meeting, March 12

Feb 2020

• TQE — IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering — signed up as a QCE20 Exhibitor
• Toptica signed up as a QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• Honeywell signed up as a QCE20 Platinum Exhibitor and Corporate sponsor
• ColdQuanta signed up as a QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate sponsor
• NC State up as a QCE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• IEEE Quantum Week 2020 progress report presented to the IEEE Future Directions Committee in Orlando
• Registration website published
• QCE20 submissions via EasyChair are open

Jan 2020

• Microsoft Research signed up as second QCE20 Platinum Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• First TQE Issue published — IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering
• QCE20 submissions via EasyChair are open — Tutorial & Workshops proposals, Technical Papers
• Jerry Chow, IBM Research signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• 1st Anniversary of IEEE Quantum

Dec 2019

• IBM Research — IBM Q Experience signed up as the first QCE20 Platinum Exhibitor and corporate Sponsor
• Q-CTRL signed up as the first QE20 Silver Exhibitor and Corporate Sponsor
• EasyChair submissions for technical papers, posters & tutorial, workshop, panel proposals set up
• EasyChair Call for Papers published
• Krysta Svore, Microsoft Quantum signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Jake Taylor, Assistant Director for Quantum Information Science at OSTP signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Kae Nemoto, National Institute for Informatics (NII), Japan signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Michelle Simmons, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Call for exhibitors and supporters published
• Call for technical papers and posters published
• Call for tutorial proposals published
• Call for workshop proposals published
• Call for panel proposals published

Nov 2019

• First keynote speakers signed up
• Alán Aspuru-Guzi,University of Toronto signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• Anne Matsuura, Intel Labs signed up as QCE20 keynote speaker
• TQC and TQE journal venues for best QCE20 papers approved
• IEEE Quantum Week 2020 progress report presented to the IEEE Future Directions Committee in Boston
• QCE20 Conference hotel contract between IEEE MCE/CS & Omni Interlocken Denver-Broomfield, Colorado signed
• Quantum Week Twitter account launched
• First press release and publicity blitz launched

Oct 2019

• IEEE Quantum Week 2020 website qce20.quantum.ieee.org launched
• QCE20 Conference EDI statement published
• IEEE Computer Society conference management team onboarded
• Site visit at conference hotel Omni Interlocken Denver-Broomfield, Colorado
• IEEE Quantum Week 2020 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by IEEE Financial Co-Sponsors (FCS) — IEEE Quantum Initiative, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Photonics Society, IEEE Council on Superconductivity

Sep 2019

• First call for contributions and participation published
• Executive organizing team & their roles defined
• Eight technical program tracks defined

Aug 2019

• IEEE Quantum Week Design Document Version 22 published

June 2019

• IEEE Quantum Week Design Document Version 1 published

May 2019

• The idea of IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE) or IEEE Quantum Week is born

Jan 2019

• IEEE Future Directions Quantum Initiative launched