Quantum Industry Showcase 2023

Date and Time
Location
Henley Hall 1010
QIS Flyer

The Quantum Industry Showcase aims to connect our industry partners to the graduate students and postdocs working in quantum materials and technologies, fostering networking, discussion, mentoring, and recruitment in service of the NSF Quantum Foundry's mission to develop a next-generation Quantum Workforce. The QIS event is a collaboration between the Quantum Foundry and the Photonics Society at UCSB, a student-led chapter of Optica, SPIE, and IEEE.

Agenda

8:30am - 9:00am Check-in and Breakfast

9:00am - 9:45am Keynote - Monica Hansen, Google AI

9:45am - 10:00am Coffee Break

10:00am - 11:30am Presentations: Tin Komljenovic, Nexus Photonics Das Pemmaraju, IBM Garrett Cole, Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions

11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch Break and Networking

1:00pm - 2:30pm Presentations: Sam Teicher, Microsoft Makan Mohageg, NASA JPL TBA

2:30pm - 3:30pm Career Panel

3:30pm - 3:45pm Break

3:45pm - 4:45pm Student Posters Session and Company Tabling

4:45pm - 5:00pm Conclusion and Presentation of Poster Awards

 

Friday, April 21

Tours of local companies and 1:1 sessions(Elings Hall rm. 3001 & 3250) with company representatives are open to graduate student and postdoctoral researcher participants. Availability is limited. Selections can be made on the online registration form.

Tours:

Company Time

Asylum / Oxford Instruments

10:00am - 11:00am

Google

1:30pm - 3:30pm; includes mentorship discussion tables

Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Organizations

The 2023 QIS welcomes speakers, researchers, and representatives from these organizations:

  • Bruker Nano Surfaces
  • Google
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprises
  • HRL
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • NASA JPL
  • Newport Corporation
  • Nexus Photonics
  • Northrop Grumman
  • Oxford Instruments
  • Quantopticon
  • Thorlabs Crystalline Solutions