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Events

Ari might have prompted me to share some of my expertise in "quantum" community events😅...

For better or worse, I've gained a rep as the guy in the hat who shows up at all the "quantum" conferences. I'm trying to curtail my travel starting this week, but if I could be anywhere right now, I would have gone to Helsinki (IWQC) or maybe stayed longer in Albuquerque (IEEE/QCE).

I don't really look for events anymore; they tend to find me through my network and recommendation algorithms.

Here are some of my recs:

One of the better lists: https://quantum.info/conf/
2025 is the "International Year of Quantum": https://quantum2025.org/events/
A great way to get involved at the college club level (as Ari could tell you much more than I) are the upcoming IBM Qiskit Fall Fests: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/blog/qiskit-fall-fest-2025. Sadly, the deadline to apply to host an event has passed, but there will be events going on (mostly in October and November) all over the world. So, there will still be ways to get involved. I have to share that I was at lunch on Tuesday at IEEE with some grad students at UT-Austin. It took us a minute, but the person I sat next to was someone I worked with back in 2022 when I did a weekend trip down to UT for their hackathon for Fall Fest; it was great to reconnect with them. Ari got things rolling strong at UW-Madison in 2023 for UW's first Fall Fest, so much so that IBM featured UW-Madison as the model club during the informational sessions last year. This year, I plan to participate in UW's Fall Fest and help coordinate and give a talk with my friends putting events on at some of the Chicago area universities.

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