Panel: Building mature quantum networks

Event
  • Session
  • 13:17 - 13:17
  • Duration: 51 mins
  • Publication date: 20 Jun 2025
  • Location: Riverside 5, IET London: Savoy Place, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Space and Communication week 2025

About the session

Panel: Building mature quantum networks

Conference: Quantum Engineering and Technologies conference

The panel will focus on the government’s mission 2 “By 2035, to deploy the world’s most advanced quantum network at scale, pioneering the future quantum internet.” 

- What are some compelling use cases? - What makes it hard ? - What are the key technologies needed ? - How far could it reach? - How can Universities, companies and individuals take part? - Can the UK pull this off, and what more needs to be done?

Chair: Andrew Lord, Senior Manager of Optical Research, FIEEE and BT Distinguished Engineer, BT Cathy White, Research Manager - Optical & Quantum Technologies, BT, UK 

Ruth Oulton, Professor Quantum Photonics, University of Bristol, UK Petrina Steele, Global Lead - Emerging Technologies, Equinix, UK Simone Eizagirre, Product Manager, Nu Quantum, UK Natalia Herrera-Valencia, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Heriot-Watt University, UK 

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